rates in adult ADHD are very high with substance abuse, antisocial behaviour, affective disorders and personality disorders. Compared to the general population adults with ADHD have lower educational status [...] patients with ADHD). In childhood ADHD pharmacotherapy and to a limited extent psychotherapy are well established and evaluated therapeutic options. In most cases psychotropic medication with psychostimulants [...] 09/2006-12/2012. Abstract Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a serious mental disorder with a persistent pattern of severely impaired attention and concentration, hyperactive and impulsive behaviour
sophisticated brain mechanisms for spatial navigation, combined with a genetically-based tendency for social cooperation. Much later, with the invention of agriculture and farming, the geographic settlement [...] nary research problem. Oxytocin modulates neural activity in the hippocampus Our brain is endowed with a core system, centred in the hippocampus, rich in spatially-selective neurons that respond to space [...] potential oxytocin treatment of alterations in individual territorial positioning occurred in patients with autism spectrum disorders, borderline personality disorder, major depression, and other psychiatric
show higher social competence and an altered brain structure in a part of the frontal lobe associated with resilience and risk for mental illness. The findings emphasize the importance of social contact in [...] better A team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Dr. Heike Tost and Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg , with significant participation by Dr. Gabriela Gan and Ren Ma , all from the Department of Psychiatry and [...] case the ability to seek social support in stressful situations and to be agreeable when interacting with others. “In addition, we were able to show for the first time that people who benefit more from social
funded project will work with healthy participants in order to gain a fundamental understanding of memory processes during sleep. On the other hand, key questions will also be tested with depressed people in [...] previously during subsequent sleep. This consolidates the memory and links newly learned information with old knowledge, thus transforming it. Despite enormous progress, this finding has not yet been used [...] research has made considerable progress over the past two decades, but this has largely been achieved with the help of relatively simple learning tasks. A decisive innovation in the funded project is the learning
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like ketamine. Genetic models sustain the hypothesis, mice with reduced NMDA receptor expression displaying a schizophrenia-like phenotype, with hyperactivity, stereotypies, and strong social and sexual [...] encephalitis. Described only recently in 2007, it occurs especially in young woman with ovarian teratoma, presenting initially with psychotic symptoms very similar to schizophrenia, and only later followed by [...] striking clinical analogy with schizophrenia supports a common mechanism. Remarkably, anti-NMDA receptor antibodies were reported also in a significant number of patients with schizophrenia. AMPA receptors
of affective disorders. This will be achieved by correlating these factors with each other, with categorial diagnoses, and with endophenotypes. The latter will be assessed in magnetic resonance imaging [...] of affective disorders. This will be achieved by correlating these factors with each other, with categorial diagnoses, and with endophenotypes. The latter will be assessed in magnetic resonance imaging [...] regulatory systems, which, in many cases, overlap with stress-response systems. EMBED will identify informative DNA methylation differences associated with prenatal psychological and metabolic stressors in
individuals with mental illness. I am also grateful to the many gifted and dedicated scientists who I have had the good fortune to have worked with throughout my career and who share this honor with me, including [...] of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches and thus sustainably improved the lives of many people with mental illnesses,” said Wolfgang Pföhler, Chairman of the Heinrich Lanz Foundation, at the award ceremony [...] Weinberger, the Central Institute also stands for innovative approaches in research that benefit people with mental illness in the form of new treatment approaches. Daniel Weinberger is both a role model and
scientists to conduct research with the collected data, an IT infrastructure is being set up at the CIMH to store and evaluate the broad consent data in compliance with data protection regulations. The [...] correlations between symptoms and biological patterns, as much clinical data as possible from people with mental illnesses is required. This is why the clinical-scientific characterization of all patients [...] what data is collected during their treatment and how they can voluntarily support medical research with their data. In addition, broad, standardized diagnostics are carried out in which data is collected
