Tanja Jaeckle

Tanja Jaeckle is a researcher with a focus on major depressive disorder and clinical psychiatry. Her work emphasizes neurocognitive mechanisms, treatment outcomes, and diagnostic tool development. She has collaborated on studies exploring self-blame biases, validation of assessment instruments, and long-term pharmacological treatments.

Research Interests

• Major Depressive Disorder pathophysiology and recurrence prediction
• Psychometric validation of clinical assessment tools (e.g., MM-PHQ-9)
• Neuroimaging correlates of emotional processing in depression

Publications span cognitive neuroscience and psychiatric research, with contributions to journals like Biological Psychiatry and the British Journal of Psychiatry Open. She completed her doctoral thesis examining neurocognitive treatments for self-blaming biases in depression under supervisors Roland Zahn and Sarah Williams.