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Dr Anne-Kathrin Fett

Senior Lecturer

School of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Psychology

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Dr Anne-Kathrin Fett City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

I investigate the social cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie social functioning in healthy individuals and individuals with schizophrenia. In my research I use neuroimaging and experience sampling methods to study the link between social brain mechanisms and real world social functioning.

After completing my PhD on the cognitive and brain mechanisms of social functioning in schizophrenia at the VU Amsterdam and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London in 2012 I worked at both institutes as post-doctoral researcher . In October 2017 I started as lecturer in Psychology at City University.

I contribute to UG teaching in Biological Psychology (PS1005), Cognitive Psychology (PS2003) and Clinical Psychology (PS3018). I am personal tutor and supervise research students on undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Enquiries for PhD and internship positions are welcome.

Qualifications

  1. PhD, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sep 2012

Employment

  1. Senior Lecturer, City University of London, May 2019 – present
  2. Lecturer, City University of London, Oct 2017 – Apr 2019

Languages

Dutch; Flemish, English and German.

Publications

Featured publications

  1. Velthorst, E., Fett, A.K.J., Reichenberg, A., Perlman, G., Van Os, J., Bromet, E.J. … Kotov, R. (2017). The 20-year longitudinal trajectories of social functioning in individuals with psychotic disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(11), pp. 1075–1085. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.15111419.

Publications by category

Chapter

  1. Palmier-Claus, J., Korver-Nieberg, N., Fett, A.-.K. and Couture, S. (2019). Attachment and social functioning in psychosis. Attachment Theory and Psychosis Current Perspectives and Future Directions Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-35251-8.

Conference papers and proceedings (32)

  1. Antoniades, M., Nenadic, I., Kircher, T., Krug, A., Fornito, A., Dannlowski, U. … Grp, E.N.I.G.M.A.S.W. (2020). Neuroanatomical Correlates of Psychotic-Like Experiences Assessed in 2,695 Individuals via the ENIGMA Consortium.
  2. Kirschner, M., Hodzic-Santor, B., Kircher, T., Nenadic, I., Fornito, A., Green, M. … Grp, E.N.I.G.M.A.S.W. (2020). THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRONTAL CORTICAL VOLUME AND STRIATAL DOPAMINE SYNTHESIS CAPACITY IN PSYCHOSIS.
  3. Antoniades, M., Nenadic, I., Kircher, T., Krug, A., Meller, T., Grotegerd, D. … Modinos, G. (2020). CORTICAL NEUROANATOMICAL SIGNATURE OF SCHIZOTYPY IN 2,695 INDIVIDUALS ASSESSED IN A WORLDWIDE ENIGMA STUDY.
  4. Lemmers-Jansen, I., Fett, A.-.K., Os, J.V., Veltman, D. and Krabbendam, L. (2019). O7.8. TRUST AND THE CITY – LINKING URBAN UPBRINGING TO NEURAL MECHANISMS OF TRUST IN PSYCHOSIS.
  5. Antoniades, M., Fornito, A., Green, M., Pantelis, C., DeRosse, P., Debbané, M. … Modinos, G. (2019). O11.8. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHIZOTYPY AND SUBCORTICAL BRAIN VOLUMES IN 1084 INDIVIDUALS VIA THE ENIGMA CONSORTIUM.
  6. Fett, A.-.K., Mouchlianitis, E., Gromann, P., Vanes, L., Shergill, S. and Krabbendam, L. (2019). 5.1 The Neural Mechanisms of Social Reward in Early Psychosis.
  7. Velthorst, E., Fett, A.-.K., Reichenberg, A., Ruggero, C., Callahan, J., Bromet, E. … Janecka, M. (2018). F213. Eighteen-Year Course of Cognitive Functioning in Psychotic Disorders.
  8. Anne-Kathrin, F., Velthorst, E., Reichenberg, A., Ruggero, C., Callahan, J., Bromet, E.J. … Kotov, R. (2018). EIGHTEEN-YEAR COURSE OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS: FINDINGS FROM THE SUFFOLK COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH LONGITUDINAL STUDY.
  9. Hanssen, E., Fett, A.-.K., White, T., Caddy, C., Reimers, S. and Shergill, S. (2017). SU21. Reduced Inclination to Cooperate During Group Interactions in Schizophrenia.
  10. Velthorst, E., Fett, A.-.K., Reichenberg, A., Ruggero, C., Callahan, J., Bromet, E. … Kotov, R. (2017). 18-Year Course of Cognitive Functioning in Psychotic Disorders.
  11. Mouchlianitis, E., Vanes, L., Fett, A.-.K. and Shergill, S. (2017). GLUTAMATERGIC NEUROTRANSMISSION MODULATES CORTICO-STRIATAL REWARD NETWORKS DIFFERENTIALLY FOR TREATMENT-RESISTANT AND TREATMENTRESPONSIVE SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS: EVIDENCE FROM A MULTIMODAL FMRI AND 1H-MRS STUDY.
  12. Robberegt, S., Hanssen, E. and Fett, A.-.K. (2017). SOCIAL REWARD LEARNING DEFICITS IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA.
  13. Lemmers-Jansen, I., Fett, A.-.K. and Krabbendam, L. (2017). URBAN UPBRINGING INFLUENCES RESPONSE TO SOCIAL FEEDBACK.
  14. Castien, N., Hanssen, E. and Fett, A.-.K. (2017). REAL-WORLD SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT, TRUST, AND ATTACHMENT IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: REDUCED TRUST IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS.
  15. Hanssen, E., Fett, A.-.K., White, T., Caddy, C., Reimers, S. and Shergill, S. (2017). REDUCED INCLINATION TO COOPERATE DURING GROUP INTERACTIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA.
  16. Lemmers-Jansen, I.L.J., Krabbendam, L., Veltman, D.J. and Fett, A.-.K.J. (2017). Boys vs. girls: Gender differences in the neural development of trust and reciprocity depend on social context.
  17. Robberegt, S. and Fett, A.-.K. (2017). M21. Social Reward Learning Deficits in Patients With Schizophrenia.
  18. Lemmers-Jansen, I. and Fett, A.-.K. (2017). SU120. Urban Upbringing Influences Response to Social Feedback.
  19. Hanssen, E., van Atteveldt, N., Robberegt, S. and Fett, A.-.K. (2017). IMPAIRED PROCESSING OF SOCIAL CONTEXT DURING INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA.
  20. Fett, A.-.K., Gonzalez Berdugo, C.I., Kooijmans, E.M.E., Lermmers-Jansen, I., Shergill, S.S. and Krabbendam, L. (2015). THE DETECTION OF INTENTIONAL CONTINGENCY IN EARLY PSYCHOSIS.
  21. Fett, A.-.K., Gromann, P.M., Shergill, S.S. and Krabbendam, L. (2015). TRUST VS. PARANOIA: THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EARLY AND CHRONIC PSYCHOSIS.
  22. van der Gaag, M., Velthorst, E., Smit, F., Meyer, C., Koeter, M., Fett, A.-.K. … de Haan, L. (2014). The battle for ameliorating negative symptoms has a restart.
  23. Fett, A.-.K., Shergill, S., Korver-Nieberg, N., Gromann, P. and Krabbendam, L. (2014). Trust and attachment in early psychosis.
  24. Fett, A.-.K.J., Shergill, S.S., Joyce, D.W., Gromann, P.M. and Krabbendam, L. (2012). Poster #54 TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST: THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN EARLY PSYCHOSIS.
  25. Maat, A., Fett, A.-.K., Derks, E. and Investigators, G.R.O.U.P. (2012). Poster #241 SOCIAL COGNITION AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA.
  26. Gromann, P.M., Shergill, S.S., Heslenfeld, D., Fett, A.K., Joyce, D.W. and Krabbendam, L. (2011). TRUST VS. PSYCHOSIS: ELUCIDATING THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS OF DISTURBED SOCIAL REWARD LEARNING.
  27. Fett, A.K., Joyce, D.W., Strobel, M., Riedl, A., Gromann, P.M., Shergill, S. … Krabbendam, L. (2011). PARANOIA VS. TRUST: EVIDENCE FOR A REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO SOCIAL REWARD IN NON-AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS.
  28. Fett, A.-.K., de Gracia Dominguez, M., Viechtbauer, W., Penn, D., van Os, J. and Krabbendam, L. (2010). A META-ANALYTIC STUDY ON COGNITION AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME IN NON- AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS: MUCH VARIANCE LEFT UNEXPLAINED.
  29. Fett, A.-.K., Akdeniz, A. and Krabbendam, L. (2010). SOCIAL COGNITION AND PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS.
  30. Fett, A.-.K., van Os, J., Myin-Germeys, I. and Krabbendam, L. (2009). NEUROCOGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AND SYMPTOMS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: AN ANALYSIS OF FAMILIAL LIABILITY.
  31. Lattimore, P., Roefs, A., Jansen, A., Lau, A., Fett, A.K. and Geschwind, N. (2008). Body mass index and dietary restraint moderate the effect of food intake and food cue exposure on body image satisfaction.
  32. Fett, A.-.K., Reininghaus, U., Fink, T., Stubenvoll, M., Haasen, C. and Schaefer, I. (2007). Early traumatization and Post traumatic stress disorders fro alcohol dependent patients - Differential effects on symptoms and course.

Journal articles (41)

  1. Blankenburg, M., Kovesdy, C.P., Fett, A.-.K., Griner, R.G. and Gay, A. (2020). Disease characteristics and outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes: a matched cohort study of spironolactone users and non-users. BMC Nephrology, 21(1). doi:10.1186/s12882-020-01719-7.
  2. Gurholt, T.P., Lonning, V., Nerland, S., Jørgensen, K.N., Haukvik, U.K., Alloza, C. … Agartz, I. (2020). Intracranial and subcortical volumes in adolescents with
    early‐onset
    psychosis: A multisite
    mega‐analysis
    from the
    ENIGMA
    consortium.     Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.25212.
  3. Fett, A.K.J., Velthorst, E., Reichenberg, A., Ruggero, C.J., Callahan, J.L., Fochtmann, L.J. … Kotov, R. (2020). Long-term Changes in Cognitive Functioning in Individuals with Psychotic Disorders: Findings from the Suffolk County Mental Health Project. JAMA Psychiatry, 77(4), pp. 387–396. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.3993.
  4. Lemmers-Jansen, I.L.J., Fett, A.K.J., van Os, J., Veltman, D.J. and Krabbendam, L. (2020). Trust and the city: Linking urban upbringing to neural mechanisms of trust in psychosis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 54(2), pp. 138–149. doi:10.1177/0004867419865939.
  5. Hanssen, E. and Fett, A.-.K. (2020). An ecological momentary intervention incorporating personalised feedback to improve symptoms and social functioning in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Psychiatry Research, 284. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2019.112695.
  6. Krabbendam, L., Van Vugt, M., Conus, P., Söderström, O., Abrahamyan Empson, L., Van Os, J. … Fett, A.K.J. (2020). Understanding urbanicity: How interdisciplinary methods help to unravel the effects of the city on mental health. Psychological Medicine. doi:10.1017/S0033291720000355.
  7. Blankenburg, M., Fett, A.-.K., Eisenring, S., Haas, G. and Gay, A. (2019). Patient characteristics and initiation of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in patients with chronic kidney disease in routine clinical practice in the US: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Nephrology, 20(1). doi:10.1186/s12882-019-1348-4.
  8. Hanssen, E., Krabbendam, L., Robberegt, S. and Fett, A.K. (2019). Social and non-social reward learning reduced and related to a familial vulnerability in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Schizophrenia Research. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2019.10.019.
  9. Halverson, T.F., Orleans-Pobee, M., Merritt, C., Sheeran, P., Fett, A.K. and Penn, D.L. (2019). Pathways to functional outcomes in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Meta-analysis of social cognitive and neurocognitive predictors. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 105, pp. 212–219. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.07.020.
  10. Fett, A.-.K.J., Mouchlianitis, E., Gromann, P.M., Vanes, L., Shergill, S.S. and Krabbendam, L. (2019). The neural mechanisms of social reward in early psychosis. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi:10.1093/scan/nsz058.
  11. Lemmers-Jansen, I.L.J., Fett, A.K.J., Shergill, S.S., van Kesteren, M.T.R. and Krabbendam, L. (2019). Girls-Boys: An Investigation of Gender Differences in the Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Trust and Reciprocity in Adolescence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2019.00257.
  12. Gromann, P.M., Heslenfeld, D.J., Fett, A.K., Joyce, D.W., Shergill, S.S. and Krabbendam, L. (2019). Erratum: Trust versus paranoia: Abnormal response to social reward in psychotic illness (Brain (2013) 136 (1968-1975) DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt076). Brain, 142(8). doi:10.1093/brain/awz166.
  13. Fett, A.K.J., Lemmers-Jansen, I.L.J. and Krabbendam, L. (2019). Psychosis and urbanicity: A review of the recent literature from epidemiology to neurourbanism. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 32(3), pp. 232–241. doi:10.1097/YCO.0000000000000486.
  14. Lemmers-Jansen, I.L.J., Fett, A.K.J., Van Doesum, N.J., Van Lange, P.A.M., Veltman, D.J. and Krabbendam, L. (2019). Social mindfulness and psychosis: Neural response to socially mindful behavior in first-episode psychosis and patients at clinical high-risk. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2019.00047.
  15. Hanssen, E., Fett, A.K., White, T.P., Caddy, C., Reimers, S. and Shergill, S.S. (2018). Cooperation and sensitivity to social feedback during group interactions in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 202, pp. 361–368. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2018.06.065.
  16. Bell, V., Robinson, B., Katona, C., Fett, A.K. and Shergill, S. (2018). When trust is lost: The impact of interpersonal trauma on social interactions. Psychological Medicine. doi:10.1017/S0033291718001800.
  17. Lemmers-Jansen, I.L.J., Fett, A.-.K.J., Hanssen, E., Veltman, D.J. and Krabbendam, L. (2018). Learning to trust: social feedback normalizes trust behavior in first-episode psychosis and clinical high risk. Psychological Medicine pp. 1–11. doi:10.1017/S003329171800140X.
  18. Anne-Kathrin, F., Velthorst, E., Reichenberg, A., Ruggero, C., Callahan, J., Bromet, E.J. … Kotov, R. (2018). 24.3 EIGHTEEN-YEAR COURSE OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS: FINDINGS FROM THE SUFFOLK COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH LONGITUDINAL STUDY. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 44(suppl_1). doi:10.1093/schbul/sby014.098.
  19. Kotov, R., Fochtmann, L., Li, K., Tanenberg-Karant, M., Constantino, E.A., Rubinstein, J. … Bromet, E.J. (2017). Declining Clinical Course of Psychotic Disorders Over the Two Decades Following First Hospitalization: Evidence From the Suffolk County Mental Health Project. The American journal of psychiatry, 174(11), pp. 1064–1074. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16101191.
  20. Mouchlianitis, E., Vanes, L., Fett, A.-.K. and Shergill, S. (2017). 146. Glutamatergic Neurotransmission Modulates Cortico-Striatal Reward Networks Differentially for Treatment-Resistant and Treatment-Responsive Schizophrenia Patients: Evidence from a Multimodal fMRI and 1H-MRS Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43(suppl_1). doi:10.1093/schbul/sbx021.204.
  21. Oorschot, M., Fett, A.K.J. and Velthorst, E. (2017). The 20-year longitudinal trajectories of social functioning in individuals with psychotic disorders. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 161(47).
  22. Fett, A.K.J., Shergill, S.S., Korver-Nieberg, N., Yakub, F., Gromann, P.M. and Krabbendam, L. (2016). Learning to trust: Trust and attachment in early psychosis. Psychological Medicine, 46(7), pp. 1437–1447. doi:10.1017/S0033291716000015.
  23. Fett, A.K.J., González Berdugo, C.I., Hanssen, E., Lemmers-Jansen, I., Shergill, S.S. and Krabbendam, L. (2015). I spy with my little eye - The detection of intentional contingency in early psychosis. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20(6), pp. 473–481. doi:10.1080/13546805.2015.1088824.
  24. Fett, A.K.J., Shergill, S.S. and Krabbendam, L. (2015). Social neuroscience in psychiatry: Unravelling the neural mechanisms of social dysfunction. Psychological Medicine, 45(6), pp. 1145–1165. doi:10.1017/S0033291714002487.
  25. Velthorst, E., Koeter, M., Van Der Gaag, M., Nieman, D.H., Fett, A.K.J., Smit, F. … De Haan, L. (2015). Adapted cognitive-behavioural therapy required for targeting negative symptoms in schizophrenia: Meta-analysis and meta-regression. Psychological Medicine, 45(3), pp. 453–465. doi:10.1017/S0033291714001147.
  26. Kooijmans, E., Fett, A.-.K. and Krabbendam, L. (2014). Sociale cognitie en psychose. Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychiatrie en Gedragsneurologie, 2(1), pp. 21–30. doi:10.1007/s40533-014-0004-3.
  27. Fett, A.K.J., Shergill, S.S., Gromann, P.M., Dumontheil, I., Blakemore, S.J., Yakub, F. … Krabbendam, L. (2014). Trust and social reciprocity in adolescence - A matter of perspective-taking. Journal of Adolescence, 37(2), pp. 175–184. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.11.011.
  28. Fett, A.K.J., Gromann, P.M., Giampietro, V., Shergill, S.S. and Krabbendam, L. (2014). Default distrust? An fmri investigation of the neural development of trust and cooperation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(4), pp. 395–402. doi:10.1093/scan/nss144.
  29. Gromann, P.M., Shergill, S.S., De Haan, L., Meewis, D.G.J., Fett, A.K.J., Korver-Nieberg, N. … Krabbendam, L. (2014). Reduced brain reward response during cooperation in first-degree relatives of patients with psychosis: An fMRI study. Psychological Medicine, 44(16), pp. 3445–3454. doi:10.1017/S0033291714000737.
  30. Korver-Nieberg, N., Fett, A.K.J., Meijer, C.J., Koeter, M.W.J., Shergill, S.S., De Haan, L. … Krabbendam, L. (2013). Theory of mind, insecure attachment and paranoia in adolescents with early psychosis and healthy controls. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 47(8), pp. 737–745. doi:10.1177/0004867413484370.
  31. Gromann, P.M., Heslenfeld, D.J., Fett, A.K., Joyce, D.W., Shergill, S.S. and Krabbendam, L. (2013). Trust versus paranoia: Abnormal response to social reward in psychotic illness. Brain, 136(6), pp. 1968–1975. doi:10.1093/brain/awt076.
  32. Fett, A.K.J. and Maat, A. (2013). Social cognitive impairments and psychotic symptoms: What is the nature of their association? Schizophrenia Bulletin, 39(1), pp. 77–85. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbr058.
  33. Derks, E., Cahn, W., Kahn, R.S., Linszen, D.H., Van Os, J., Wiersma, D. … Fett, A.K. (2012). Social cognition and quality of life in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 137(1-3), pp. 212–218. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2012.02.017.
  34. Fett, A.K.J., Shergill, S.S., Joyce, D.W., Riedl, A., Strobel, M., Gromann, P.M. … Krabbendam, L. (2012). To trust or not to trust: The dynamics of social interaction in psychosis. Brain, 135(3), pp. 976–984. doi:10.1093/brain/awr359.
  35. Fett, A.K.J., Viechtbauer, W., Dominguez, M.D.G., Penn, D.L., van Os, J. and Krabbendam, L. (2011). The relationship between neurocognition and social cognition with functional outcomes in schizophrenia: A meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35(3), pp. 573–588. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.07.001.
  36. Schäfer, I., Burns, T., Fleischhacker, W.W., Galderisi, S., Rybakowski, J.K., Libiger, J. … Naber, D. (2011). Attitudes of patients with schizophrenia and depression to psychiatric research: A study in seven European countries. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 46(2), pp. 159–165. doi:10.1007/s00127-010-0181-7.
  37. Fett, A.K., Lattimore, P., Roefs, A., Geschwind, N. and Jansen, A. (2009). Food cue exposure and body image satisfaction: The moderating role of BMI and dietary restraint. Body Image, 6(1), pp. 14–18. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.08.005.
  38. Geschwind, N., Roefs, A., Lattimore, P., Fett, A.K. and Jansen, A. (2008). Dietary restraint moderates the effects of food exposure on women's body and weight satisfaction. Appetite, 51(3), pp. 735–738. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2008.05.057.
  39. Smeets, T., Jelicic, M., Merckelbach, H., Peters, M., Fett, A., Taverniers, J. … Dautzenberg, J. (2006). Enhanced memory performance on an internal-internal source monitoring test following acute psychosocial stress. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120(6), pp. 1204–1210. doi:10.1037/0735-7044.120.6.1204.
  40. Hanssen, E., Krabbendam, L., Robberegt, S. and Fett, A.-.K. Social- and non-social reward learning reduced and related to a familial vulnerability in psychosis. Schizophrenia Research.
  41. Fett, A.-.K. Neural, behavioural and real-life correlates of social context sensitivity and social reward learning during interpersonal interactions in the schizophrenia spectrum. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.