Research Focus

Psychiatry

Area of Research

Psychotic disorders are characterized by perceptual and thought disturbances such as hallucinations and delusions. The main focus of the Translational Psychiatry Lab is to improve the understanding of the neuronal mechanisms giving rise to psychosis using state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and EEG as well as psychophysics, eye tracking, transcranial magnetic stimulation and computational modelling.

Approved Research Projects

• IMBALANCE - A neurocomputational biomarker assay for schizophrenia based on E/I-balance (ERA-NET NEURON)
• ChangePDD - Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) vs. Behavioral Activation (BA) bei stationären Patienten mit persistierend depressiven und therapieresistenten Störungen: Wirksamkeit, Moderatoren und Mediatoren der Veränderung (DFG funded)
• Perceptual decision making under changing prior beliefs (DFG funded)

Collaborations

National Collaborations

• Georg Keller, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel
• Matthias Liechti, Universitätsspital Basel

International Collaborations

• Jaime de la Rocha, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
• Tobias Donner, Universitätskrankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
• Srdjan Ostojic, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, France
• Predrag Petrovic, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
• Peter Uhlhaas, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Ongoing Research Projects

• E/l balance in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder