trauma experience) will be enhanced by including participants with moderate to high levels of social and trait anxiety, as well as individuals with adverse childhood experiences. In addition, an intensified [...] physiological responding were observed. In healthy participants, these biases showed high covariance with self-reported social and trait anxiety. The second funding period will focus on the role of threat-related [...] face perception and social learning. Taken together, a dimensional transdiagnostic approach is chosen with a focus on threat-related biases in person perception – from healthy functional to the anxiety disorder
I have to shape working conditions together with my colleagues and to develop new concepts that focus on both employees and patients. I like working with my great team and other professional groups and [...] nursing is right for them? Anyone who wants to work very closely with other people, who wants to and who can have a relationship with the patient that is only for a fixed period of time, who is interested [...] sector has developed significance that does justice to its importance. We have also aligned ourselves with general nursing training. The change you mention, though, also includes the change in needs of employees
the lives of many people with mental illness in the long term," said Wolfgang Pföhler, Chairman of the Heinrich Lanz Foundation, at the award ceremony. Scientific symposium with renowned international experts [...] site in the middle of the city,” said Specht. The decision in favor of the city center was in line with the reform psychiatric concept: mentally ill people should receive help where they live. The continuous [...] "The CIMH is the core of a close-knit support network for mentally ill people in our city. Networking with non-clinical services and institutions for mentally ill people is of great importance for the citizens
three steps: 1) A prospective cohort study, comparing the activity of the centres endowed with a typical SCU-B with that of the other participating centres lacking this facility; the efficacy and the cos [...] quality of life of persons with dementia, lessening caregivers' burden, possibly delaying institutionalisation 2) A conference aiming at adapting the SCU-B model in accordance with the results of the cohort [...] will be to assess the effectiveness of an intervention, the special medical care unit for patients with BPSD (SCU-B), that, albeit already implemented in some European countries, is not widespread and has
context conditioning and that larger amygdala volume is associated with better cue conditioning, whereas cue conditioning is reduced with larger hippocampal volume. We also found that polymorphisms related [...] been associated with high risk for schizophrenia and memory disturbance, was found to predict hippocampal activation during context conditioning. In addition, traumatized persons with and without PTSD [...] stress analgesia in the patients with PTSD and this was linked to enhanced activation in the rostral anterior cingulate. We also observed better second order conditioning with trauma cues as unconditioned
the Child Protection Association. The study is being carried out together with the Infratest dimap polling institute. Contact with the selected persons is made by written mail. They can decide individually [...] a “mental health crisis” (EU Parliament), as early stress experienced is also crucial for dealing with these crises. Funding acquired In addition to the funds provided by the participating institutions
in adult patients with alcohol addiction, (iv) to expand the NGFNplus sample by including a new set of healthy subjects with high genetic risk (1st degree relatives of patients with alcohol addiction) [...] characterize longitudinal outcomes in patients with alcohol addiction (5 years following our index session) and to complement the NGFN-sample with an add-on study with 1st degree relatives that will allow us [...] reduce cognitive deficits and substance craving in individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) of different kinds. In individuals with SUD, functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological tasks have
in adult patients with alcohol addiction, (iv) to expand the NGFNplus sample by including a new set of healthy subjects with high genetic risk (1st degree relatives of patients with alcohol addiction) [...] characterize longitudinal outcomes in patients with alcohol addiction (5 years following our index session) and to complement the NGFN-sample with an add-on study with 1st degree relatives that will allow us [...] namely a preclinical multicenter placebo controlled trial in rats with a step-wise translation into a naturalistic pilot trial with ambulatory assessment in alcoholic patients. As a comparator, we will
of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim. The Supervisory Board has decided to continue to entrust him with this position, which he had already assumed on an interim basis following the departure of Dr. Matthias [...] facing exciting challenges. I am very much looking forward to tackling these diverse tasks together with Professor Meyer-Lindenberg and all employees. At the CIMH, we have great innovative strength and an
cerebral cortex is a highly organized structure, with layers and folds, which are formed in still little-understood ways. Malformations associated with defects in human cortical development (MCD) can result [...] Human pluripotent stem cells cultured as 3D aggregates in a petri dish with nutrient liquid have the capacity to self-organize and develop into so called brain organoids. Under the microscope, these brain [...] result in disorganization of the cortex with severe consequences including epilepsy and intellectual disability. Using brain organoids as a model of human brain development, scientists at the HITBR in
