Natalia Chechko
Natalia Chechko’s research group investigates neuroscientific and bioscientific aspects of various psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and autism spectrum disorder.
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RWTH Aachen
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Thomas Frodl
Thomas Frodl is a prominent neuroscientist and psychiatrist affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
Ute Habel
A02: Context effects on threat processing in dependence of testosterone levels
A04: Implicit chemosensory threat signals as stimulators of amygdala hyperresponsiveness in AMD
Q01: Recruitment and biotyping transdiagnostic risk mechanisms for aggressive behaviors in mental disorders across the life span
Q04: Central coordination
Principal investigator
Spokesperson
Steering committee member
Management board member
RWTH Aachen
Research Center Jülich (FZJ)
Professor Ute Habel is a distinguished academic at RWTH Aachen University, renowned for her expertise in neuropsychology.
Kerstin Konrad
A06: Decoding dynamic reciprocal neural mechanism underlying reactive aggression: Insights from fMRI and fNIRS hyperscanning
Q01: Recruitment and biotyping transdiagnostic risk mechanisms for aggressive behaviors in mental disorders across the life span
Principal investigator
RWTH Aachen
Research Center Jülich (FZJ)
Kerstin Konrad is affiliated with the RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich, where she specializes in developmental psychology and neuroscience.
Klaus Mathiak
B03: A process-based brain-computer interface to modulate aggressive behavior – a real-time fMRI neurofeedback study
C02: Aggressive decisions in social conflicts: Neuro-cognitive models for healthy individuals and psychiatric patients with high scores of aggression
Q02: Data management for computational modelling
Principal investigator
Research data committee member
RWTH Aachen
Klaus Mathiak is a professor at RWTH Aachen University, specializing in psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Marc Spehr
Lichtenberg-Professor (Full Professor, W3) for Chemosensation, Department of Biology II, RWTH Aachen University
Carmen Weidler
Carmen Weidler is a neuroscientist whose research primarily focuses on the neural underpinnings of aggressive and impulsive behavior.
A01: The neural code of stimulus-triggered territorial aggression
A unique experimental model will be used to study the neurobiological basis of aggressive animal behavior and translate novel findings about its cellular and circuit underpinnings into human phenotypes of pathological aggression.
A02: Context effects on threat processing in dependence of testosterone levels
The focus will be on the influences of a provocative context on social threat processing in AMD under different testosterone levels.
A04: Implicit chemosensory threat signals as stimulators of amygdala hyperresponsiveness in AMD
We make use of threat-related chemosensory stimuli, namely body odor, acquired during aggressive behavior (boxing) and unconsciously perceived, to investigate heightened amygdala responses to threat stimuli in aggressive patients.
A06: Decoding dynamic reciprocal neural mechanism underlying reactive aggression: Insights from fMRI and fNIRS hyperscanning
The project employs fMRI and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning techniques to explore how brain-to-brain synchrony and dynamic processes within peer dyads facilitate or inhibit aggressive behavior under diverse levels of provocation in adolescent patients and controls.
A08: The metabolic lung-brain axis in aggressive behavior in patients with AMD
Beta-hydroxy-butyrate (BHB), a ketone body, is negatively associated with aggressive behavior.
B01: Neurobehavioral effects of repetitive prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on pathological aggression
TDCS will be used as an interventional tool to decrease aggression.
B03: A process-based brain-computer interface to modulate aggressive behavior – a real-time fMRI neurofeedback study
Probe the self-regulation of CS networks in adults and adolescents diagnosed with mental disorders related to frequent stress-associated affective outbursts and aggressive symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and BPD.
B04: Investigating psychological and neural correlates of intimate partner violence
Focus on the neural correlates of characterizing cognitive control deficits during conflict situations.
C02: Aggressive decisions in social conflicts: Neuro-cognitive models for healthy individuals and psychiatric patients with high scores of aggression
Develop virtual scenarios to assess decision strategies in cartoon-like and naturalistic contexts.
Q01: Recruitment and biotyping transdiagnostic risk mechanisms for aggressive behaviors in mental disorders across the life span
Tobias Banaschewski
Thomas Frodl
Sabine Herpertz
Andreas Reif
Christine Margarete Freitag
Ute Habel
Kerstin Konrad
Service project
RWTH Aachen
Central Institute of Mental Health
Heidelberg University
Goethe University Frankfurt
Biological Psychiatry
Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The central recruitment platform for collecting and curating a longitudinal dataset for studying individual aggression dynamics related to the neural, cognitive-emotional, neurobiological, psychopathological and environmental factors in patient groups.
Q03: Integrated Research Training Group (RTG)
Bundle all training and mentoring activities in a research training group (RTG) for the young researchers participating in this collaborative research center.
Q04: Central coordination
Governance, and communication among participating researchers and the public.