took part in the project. "It's important to us that the objects we make have a practical use and are meaningful," says Peter Volkmar. This was also the case when building the nesting boxes: the children
often target very small areas in the brain, the high-resolution imaging is an important advantage. “We are very grateful to the Klaus Tschira Foundation for its funding, which enables us to continue our ambitious [...] significantly stronger magnetic fields (9.4 Tesla) for imaging. Again, anatomy, function and biochemistry are being studied. For molecular imaging, the CIMH also installed a combined positron emission/magnetic
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better treatments and prediction approaches that can be easily translated into the clinical situation are warranted. One major hypothesis in alcohol research is that chronic alcohol intake leads to neuroi [...] Better treatments and prediction approaches that can be easily translated into the clinical situation are warranted. In our e:Med funded SysMedAlcoholism consortium we have identified early warning signs and [...] system in alcoholic patients suggesting OXY as a candidate medication to reduce relapse. Here our Goals are (i) to demonstrate the clinical applicability of OXY and (ii) to computationally predict elapse and
human population, but treatment options are very limited. Rational strategies for design and development of novel, evidence based therapies for alcohol addiction are still missing. Alcohol dependence is [...] unrewarded information. The present research aims to show that, during learning, mesolimbic reward signals are bound to hippocampal memory representations of events and actions that led to rewards and that, during [...] ng between cultures gains tremendously in importance. Recent studies, however, showed that people are better in understanding emotions and mental states of people from their own than from another culture
Psychotherapy of the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim ( Dr. Claudia Schilling ) are contributing their respective expertise to better understand the mechanisms underlying fatigue in [...] also be systematically examined for objectifiable cognitive and affective impairments. Both projects are funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg. Post-Covid Outpatient
Zur Forschung Experiences are imprinted into synaptic connections during postnatal development. This experience-dependent synaptic wiring appears to develop on the background of genetically-determined
People with disabilities are often particularly affected by mental illness. This was one of the reasons why the Federal Government Commissioner for Matters relating to Persons with Disabilities, Jürgen
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than a clinic during their stay of several weeks. They spend most of their time in the community and are exposed to intensive social contacts. Patients receiving CBT will be visited at home and treated by