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Research Profile

• • Translational Neuroscience
  • Imaging in Psychiatric Disorders (MRI and digital histological image analysis)
  • Genetic Animal Models of Psychiatric Disorders
  • Small Animal Imaging (structural and functional MRI)
  • Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Neuroinformatics and Computational Psychiatry
  • Research on Gene-Environment Interactions in the Development and Progression of Mental Disorders
  • Early Detection of Psychosis
  • Psychoimmunology
  • Development of Diagnostic & Prognostic Blood and CSF Biomarkers
  • Neurohistological and Immunohistochemical Basic Research on Brain Correlates of Schizophrenic and Bipolar Disorders
  • Epigenetics of Affective Disorders, Borderline Disorder, and Trauma-Related Disorders
  • Dementia Research
  • Brain Stimulation, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), and Neuroplasticity
  • Forensic Neuroscience

Services

• • Supervision of medical and scientific dissertations, master's theses
  • Early career research mentoring
  • Guidance and support in research proposal planning and writing
  • Scientific mentoring through our U.S. collaboration partners
  • Supervision and support for habilitation projects
  • Facilitating contacts and referrals to university institutes
  • Assistance in placing interns and doctoral students
  • Organization of academic events
  • Training of standardized patients for medical education
  • Review of scientific papers
  • Review of research proposals

Methods

• • Laboratory for Translational Psychiatry (translational imaging, spatial transcriptomics, animal models of psychiatric disorders, neuroinformatics)
  • Specialized Neurohistology Laboratory and Magdeburg Brain Bank
  • Laboratory for Functional and Structural Imaging
  • Electrophysiology Laboratory
  • Machine Learning Applications

Equipment

• • EEG/EP 96-channel system
  • FACS system, BD Celesta
  • tDCS - Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Further Information in the Research Portal Saxony-Anhalt

Link: Research Portal Saxony-Anhalt - KPSY

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Publications

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