About Hana

I am interested in the neurohormonal basis of human motivation in social environments. My aim is to contribute to the understanding of how brain processes social rewards (e.g. social approval or reputation gain) and how steroid hormones affect these processes. More specifically, I examine the mechanisms of human prosocial behaviors by exploiting computational and neuroimaging tools as well as approaches from behavioral economics and psychoneuroendocrinology. 
​My PhD at the NBU is funded by a three-year Uni:docs fellowship.

Background

Before joining the NBU I graduated from the University of Geneva, Switzerland with an interdisciplinary Master´s degree in Neuroscience. In my master’s thesis, I examined the effects of individual goals and motivations on the amygdala activation and its connectivity to the striatal reward regions when processing self-relevant information.
I originally come from Slovakia, where I also completed my Bachelor studies in Psychology at the Comenius University.
Previously I worked at the Geneva University Hospitals, where we investigated the effects of maternal violence-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on brain and HPA-axis activity in mother-child interactions.

Publications

Lauring,J.O., Ishizu, T., Kutlikova, H.H., Dörflinger,F., Haugbøl,S.,  Leder, H., Kupers, R., & Pelowski, M. (2019) Why would Parkinson’s disease lead to sudden changes in creativity, motivation, or style with visual art?: A review of case evidence and new, contextual, and genetic hypotheses, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, (In press). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.12.016


Moser, D.A., Aue, T., Suardi, F., Kutlikova, H ., Cordedo, M.I., Rossignol, A.S., Favez, N., Rusconi
Serpa, S., & Schechter, D.S. (2014) Violence-related PTSD and neural activation when seeing
emotionally charged male-female interactions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 5, 645–653. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu099​