Research profile
Research profile
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- translational neurosciences
- imaging in psychiatric disorders (MRI and digital histological image analysis)
- genetic animal models of psychiatric disorders
- small-animal imaging (structural and functional MRI)
- spatial transcriptomics
- neuroinformatics and computational psychiatry
- research into environment–gene influences on the development and course of mental disorders
- early detection of psychoses
- psychoimmunology
- development of diagnostic & prognostic blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers
- neurohistological and immunohistochemical basic research into the brain-biological correlates of schizophrenic and manic-depressive illnesses
- epigenetics of affective disorders, borderline personality disorder and trauma-related disorders
- dementia research
- brain stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and neuroplasticity
- forensic neurosciences
Services offered
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- medical and scientific doctoral theses, master's theses
- early career research mentoring
- guidance and support in planning and writing research proposals
- scientific mentoring by our US-American cooperation partners
- guidance and support towards habilitation
- establishing contacts and forwarding enquiries to university institutes
- support in placing interns and doctoral students
- organisation of events
- training of simulated patients (actors) for medical studies
- review of scientific papers
- review of research proposals
Methods
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- Nickl-Jockschat Lab (translational imaging, spatial transcriptomics, animal models of psychiatric disorders, neuroinformatics)
- Laboratory for Translational Psychiatry
- Neurohistological special laboratory and Magdeburg Brain Bank
- Laboratory for functional and structural imaging
- Electrophysiology laboratory
- machine learning
Devices / Equipment