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Last week, 130 researchers of the #SFBTRR393 & invited guests gathered at Kulturrathaus Dresden for an inspiring retreat. 4 days of sharing recent results, discussing new directions, and strengthening collaborations across sites. More & more difficult to get everyone into one photo, but we managed!
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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During last week's retreat, we awarded #posterprizes to the best 3 of ~70 excellent #ECR posters.

🎉 Congratulations to winners Vera Ludwig, Alina Nostadt, Claudia Förster Ribet, Tung Anh Nguyen & Theresa Kolb - thank you to all ECRs for presenting your research and engaging in lively discussions!
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🧠 Our CRC/TRR 393 consortium outlines key mechanisms of affective disorders — focusing on emotion regulation, expectation, social cognition, and cognitive-behavioral rhythms.

Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
@kanske.bsky.social @markuswohr.bsky.social @lisaleehr.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social
Key mechanisms of affective disorders - Der Nervenarzt
Background Although affective disorders are a major driver of disability worldwide, there is a lack of understanding of the mechanisms and modulating factors involved in the long-term disease trajecto...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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📣 The ENIGMA study “Regional brain morphology and current antidepressant use” explores how antidepressant medication correlates with structural brain differences in Major Depressive Disorder across age and sex, drawing on data from 32 international cohorts. 🧠
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
Regional brain morphology and current antidepressant use: findings from 32 international cohorts from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Regional brain morphology and current antidepressant use: findings from 32 international cohorts from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A new publication, “Transdiagnostic alterations in white-matter microstructure associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours consortium”, by ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts & Behaviours Consortium (Translational Psychiatry www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
Transdiagnostic alterations in white matter microstructure associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours consortium - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Transdiagnostic alterations in white matter microstructure associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours consortium
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November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🧩 New article!
Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated to treatment outcome in anxiety disorders

Now published in Behaviour Research and Therapy:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

#AnxietyDisorders #Expectancy
Redirecting
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October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
😊 New publication!
Joy Beyond Fear: Positive Emotions After Exposure in Patients with Anxiety Disorders and Their Link to Threat Expectancy and Treatment Outcome

Now out in Behaviour Research and Therapy:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

#AnxietyDisorders #ExposureTherapy #PositiveEmotions #Expectancy
Redirecting
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October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🧠 New paper investigated how childhood maltreatment shapes structural brain connectivity across affective and psychotic disorders.

Now out in European Neuropsychopharmacology:
🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

#Neuroscience #Psychiatry #BrainConnectivity #ChildhoodMaltreatment
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October 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
September 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The CRC/TRR 393 aims to unravel trajectories of depression & bipolar disorder by combining mobile assessments, neuroimaging, -omics & interventions in >1500 participants.

A 12-year effort to decode mechanisms of recurrence & remission.

Overview:
🔗 rdcu.be/eGtBy
The SFB/TRR 393 Collaborative Research Centre: trajectories of affective disorders
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September 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🥳 Our study led by @edwardody.bsky.social from the @tnm-lab.bsky.social is published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. Take a look if you are interested in action-perception transition, readiness potential, and voluntariness of action!

📍https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.70236
September 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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🎥 LOEWE DYNAMIC in 2 ½ min

Not brand new, but still relevant: In this video introduction, Winfried Rief explains what the LOEWE Research Center DYNAMIC is all about – and how dynamic networks can help improve treatments.

▶️Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6F... (English subtitles available)
August 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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🧠 New paper out!
Rashid, Kircher & Straube (2025) investigate temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active vs. passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder.

📄 Schizophrenia:
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder
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August 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
@tnm-lab.bsky.social Kausalitätswahrnehmung, Erwartungen & fMRT begeistern dich?
Bewirb dich auf die Promotionsstelle (3 Jahre, 75%) in Marburg (www.theadaptivemind.de) bis zum 17.08.:
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/1...
#Job #Promotion #fMRI #Psychologie
Homepage
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July 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM
🧠🗣️ I’m co-editing a Neuropsychologia Special Issue:
“Language in Psychosis – A Multidisciplinary Approach”

We welcome contributions on:
• neural mechanisms
• predictive processing
• cognitive, computational & clinical perspectives

📅 Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Read the latest articles of Neuropsychologia at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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July 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Feeling excluded can distort your decisions!

New study shows tDCS can buffer against the effects of social exclusion on decision-making.

🔗 academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
#neuroscience #tDCS #socialexclusion #mentalhealth
Transcranial direct current stimulation alleviates the negative impact of immediate and chronic social exclusion on intertemporal decision-making
Abstract. Social exclusion impairs decision-making, affecting social functioning. This study examines how social exclusion, in both immediate, experimental
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June 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas SA Wallis, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @tsawallis.bsky.social
Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas S...
When interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will bec...
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July 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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New manuscript! Together with Junqing Huang & @straubeb.bsky.social, we used an innovative paradigm & DDM to show that gesture's processing hierarchy from a behavioral perspective!

Gestures are visual—but they’re also layered, structured, and unfold like language. 🧠🖐️

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June 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
May 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🧠✨ New publication in Brain Communications!
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders & motor preparation:
Aberrant pre-movement fMRI patterns in insula, putamen, cerebellum & angular gyrus
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/brai...
#Schizophrenia #fMRI #ActionAwareness #CognitiveNeuroscience #Psychiatry
Aberrant preparation of hand movement in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: an fMRI study
Rashid et al. investigated preparatory neural processes in schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) during active and passive hand movements using functional
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May 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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🚨 New in Molecular Psychiatry 🚨
DNA methylation as a potential marker for anxiety disorders & psychotherapy response:
Longitudinal EWAS reveals epigenetic signatures linked to disease risk and CBT outcomes.
📖 doi.org/10.1038/s413...
#Anxiety #Epigenetics #CBT #Psychiatry #PrecisionMedicine
Epigenetic markers of disease risk and psychotherapy response in anxiety disorders – a longitudinal analysis of the DNA methylome - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Epigenetic markers of disease risk and psychotherapy response in anxiety disorders – a longitudinal analysis of the DNA methylome
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May 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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How do patients with schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder perceive causality? We show altered reliance on spatial vs. temporal cues—and a growing bias to repeat prior choices over time.
➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Schizophrenia #Perception #Cognition #Neuroscience
Choice- and trial-history effects on causality perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Choice- and trial-history effects on causality perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder
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April 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM