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Katharina Förster
@katfoerster.bsky.social
Juniorprofessor of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy @ UHH & Research Group Leader of the Interpersonal Dynamics in Early Affective Disorders (IDEA)-Lab at TU Dresden, cognitive-behavioral therapist for children, adolescents and adults, 🥍, she/her
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August 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We hope that our results on brain aging in the course of affective disorders will make it through peer-review this year! Our preprint also comes with open materials and open data: osf.io/qadxz/

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April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We then decided to explore wether the brain age gap at baseline was also predictive of future worse outcomes, for example, wether a patient is hospitalized or not. However, the cross-validation of our prediction with an accuracy of 64.3% was not significant.
April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Patients were consistently estimated with an older brain age resulting in a larger brain age gap than healthy participants, confirming previous results on brain aging. However, we also found that patients with a worse outcome during follow up already had a larger brain age gap at baseline.
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April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
... and how the longitudinal course of affective disorder relates to the brain age gap. We found something that we did not expect. 😱
April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We investigated the "brain age gap" - thedifference between actual and estimated age derived from MRI scans - in patients with affective disorders in a long-term prospective design. Our research question was wether the brain age gap differs between patients and healthy participants ....
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April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Thank you!! Could not have done it without you as my mentor 😊
February 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Thank you! :)
January 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM