Weaving the (neuronal) web: Fear learning in spider phobia. - Jan Schweckendiek; Tim Klucken; Christian Josef Merz; Katharina Tabbert; Bertram Walter; Wolfgang Ambach; Dieter Vaitl; Rudolf Stark (NeuroImage, 2011)

Cortisol disrupts the neural correlates of extinction recall. - Valerie L. Kinner; Christian Josef Merz; Silke Lissek; Oliver T. Wolf (NeuroImage, 2016)

When gut feelings teach the brain to fear pain: Context-dependent activation of the central fear network in a novel interoceptive conditioning paradigm. - Adriane Icenhour; Liubov Petrakova; Nelly Hazzan; Nina Theysohn; Christian Josef Merz; Sigrid Elsenbruch (NeuroImage, 2021)

The cerebellum contributes to context-effects during fear extinction learning: A 7T fMRI study. - Giorgi Batsikadze; Nicolas Diekmann; Thomas Michael Ernst; Michael Klein; Stefan Maderwald; Cornelius Deuschl; Christian Josef Merz; Sen Cheng; Harald H. Quick; Dagmar Timmann (NeuroImage, 2022)