Joseph King

Joseph King is a Researcher at the Technical University of Dresden's Faculty of Medicine, affiliated with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences. His work focuses on cognitive control mechanisms and psychiatric disorders, utilizing advanced neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI, structural MRI, and TMS. He holds a Dr. rer. nat. (2016) from TU Dresden, following postdoctoral research at Duke University and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Research Interests: King explores neural correlates of decision-making in anorexia nervosa, ADHD, and cognitive control deficits. His studies employ functional and structural MRI to investigate brain structure-function relationships, with an emphasis on cortical thinning and neural efficiency in clinical populations. He also investigates priming effects and error-related neurophysiological adjustments.

• Education:
  • PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), TU Dresden (2016)
  • Dipl.-Psych., Humboldt University Berlin (1997)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, San Francisco State University (2005)

Scientific Contributions: His research bridges clinical psychiatry with cognitive neuroscience, particularly in pediatric populations. The 2013 Poster Prize from the German Society for Psychiatry highlights his impactful work on anorexia nervosa's neural mechanisms.