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Research at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy focuses on several core activities:
I.) Psychotherapy research on Borderline Personality Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Eating Disorders, Somatoform Disorders and Social Phobia.
Here we use a broad spectrum of psychotherapy research methods: Analyses of needs for care, development of new psychotherapy treatments, treatment evaluation (process research, small-n-designs, controlled randomized trials), cost-effectiveness analyses and implementation of treatment methods in the health care system.
II.) Investigation of neurobiological and neuropsychological correlates of the disorders mentioned above focusing on emotion regulation and self-representation.
III.) Investigation of the interaction between psychotherapeutic and neurobiological processes.
Our methods comprise experimental neuropsychology, functional and structural neuroimaging as well as molecular genetics. These research programs are carried out in close cooperation with the other research departments at the Central Institute of Mental Health.
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