Position:
Postdoctoral researcher
Bio:
2025. Doctoral degree in psychology @ Jaume I University (Spain)
2021. Master's degree in neuroscience @ Jagiellonian University (Poland)
2019. Bachelor's degree in neuroscience @ Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Research Interests:
Social and affective cognition with the focus on:
influence of circadian rhythmicity and insufficient sleep
role of neuromodulatory transmitters, such as dopamine and noradrenaline
alterations in the cognitive processes present in mood and anxiety disorders
MR Zareba, T Davydova, MA Palomar-Garcia, J Adrian-Ventura, V Costumero, M Visser (2025) Subjective sleep quality in healthy young adults moderates associations of sensitivity to punishment and reward with functional connectivity of regions relevant for insomnia disorder. Sleep Medicine. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106527
P Ariño-Braña, MR Zareba, MI Montolio, M Visser, M Picó-Pérez (2025) Influence of the HPA axis on anxiety-related processes: an RDoC overview considering their neural correlates. Current Psychiatry Reports. doi: 10.1007/s11920-025-01633-5
P Scislewska, MR Zareba, J Lengier, A Schirmer, P Bebas, I Szatkowska (2025) Eveningness and distinctness of the circadian rhythm in men are related to altered neural responses to gain and loss. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-07049-8
P Scislewska, MR Zareba, J Lengier, A Schirmer, P Bebas, I Szatkowska (2025) Circadian rhythmicity and reinforcement processing: a dataset of MRI, fMRI, and behavioral measurements. Scientific Data. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-05173-8
MR Zareba, I Gonzalez-Garcia, MI Montolio, RJ Binney, P Hoffman, M Visser (2025) Subclinical anxiety is associated with reduced self-distancing and enhanced guilt-related connectivity between anterior temporal and subgenual cingulate cortices. Submitted. doi: 10.1101/2025.09.20.677492
MI Montolio, M Visser, MR Zareba (2025) Socio-emotional difficulties observed in alexithymia reflect altered interactions of the semantic and monoaminergic neuromodulatory brain networks. Submitted. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.23.655721
MR Zareba, K Bielski, V Costumero, M Visser (2024) Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsae092
MR Zareba, P Ariño-Braña, M Picó-Pérez, M Visser (2024) Noradrenergic and Dopaminergic Neural Correlates of Trait Anxiety: Unveiling the Impact of Maladaptive Emotion Regulation. Submitted. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.23.604801
MR Zareba, M Fafrowicz, T Marek, H Oginska, E Beldzik, A Domagalik (2024) Tracing diurnal differences in brain anatomy with voxel-based morphometry - associations with sleep characteristics. Chronobiology International. doi: 10.1080/07420528.2024.2301944
MR Zareba, P Scislewska, M Fafrowicz, T Marek, H Oginska, I Szatkowska, E Beldzik, A Domagalik (2023) The subjective amplitude of the diurnal rhythm matters - chronobiological insights for neuroimaging studies. Behavioral Brain Research. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114640
MR Zareba, W Furman, M Binder (2022) Influence of age and cognitive performance on resting-state functional connectivity of dopaminergic and noradrenergic centers. Brain Research. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148082
MR Zareba, M Fafrowicz, T Marek, E Beldzik, H Oginska, A Beres, P Faba, J Janik, K Lewandowska, M Ostrogorska, B Sikora-Wachowicz, A Zyrkowska, A Domagalik (2022) Neuroimaging of chronotype, sleep quality and daytime sleepiness: Structural T1-weighted magnetic resonance brain imaging data from 136 young adults. Data in Brief. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.107956
MR Zareba, M Fafrowicz, T Marek, E Beldzik, H Oginska, A Domagalik (2021) Late chronotype is linked to greater cortical thickness in the left fusiform and entorhinal gyri. Biological Rhythm Research. doi: 10.1080/09291016.2021.1990501