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Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
@mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social
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We aim to better understand psychiatric disorders.
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🏋️‍♀️ Beim AHA Wirtshaus-Wissen zum Thema Sport erklärte Direktor Prof. Peter Falkai, wie wichtig Bewegung für die mentale Gesundheit ist. Danke an @aha-bayern.bsky.social für die Organisation!

📸: AHA – The Science Communication Hub / Andreas Heddergott

#scicomm #wisskomm #sport #mentalegesundheit
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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📢Our next MPLS lecture is coming up!

🎓We are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Inga Koerte from the LMU Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She will share her research on the neuroimaging of brain injuries.

🔗All info here: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars

#psychiatry #lecture #brain
October 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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📊 In her new paper, PhD student Ghalia Rehawi combined total gene expression and isoform ratio data using a network approach, showing significant rewiring of #gene and #isoform co-expression patterns in the network of affected vs. unaffected individuals.

🎉 Full paper: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Graphical abstract from the described paper
October 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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📢 We are happy to announce our first MPLS #lecture after the summer break!

📅 On September 30th, we will welcome Dr. Joshua Gordon, Chair of the Department of #Psychiatry at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. As always, this talk is open to everyone!

More info: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars
September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🤔 Researchers from our MPI and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, led by Man-Hsin Chang, Florian Raabe and Peter Falkai, looked at how understanding #oligodendrocytes can help treat cognitive symptoms in #schizophrenia.

🔗 Check out our summary here: www.psych.mpg.de/2962269/comi...

#scicomm #wisskomm
August 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Letzte Woche sprach unsere Direktorin Prof. Elisabeth Binder @binderlabmpip.bsky.social im Bergson Kunstkraftwerk darüber, wie uns Stress auf molekularer Ebene beeinflussen kann. Wir bedanken uns beim Bergson und bei allen, die gekommen sind! 🥳

Fotos: © Georg Stirnweiss

#epigenetics #wisskomm
July 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🏃‍♀️ Congrats to our team for participating in the #b2run in Munich yesterday, alongside many other runners from the @maxplanck.de 🎉
July 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Am Wochenende sprach unsere Doktorandin @lrottenfusser.bsky.social für ein jüngeres und älteres Publikum über #KI in der Forschung!

Wir bedanken uns bei allen Organisator*innen für dieses tolle Event und freuen uns auf mehr #wisskomm in der Zukunft 🥳

@aha-bayern.bsky.social
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Foto von der Veranstaltung, Kinder und bunte Stühle vor der Bühne. Auf der Bühne sind Lisa Rottenfußer und Moderatorin Andrea Lauterbach zu sehen, Lisa stellt den Kindern im Publikum eine Frage zu KI in der Wissenschaft.
July 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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At the #DZGMunich25 yesterday, our researcher Darina Czamara shared research on the connection between childhood adversity and disease risk. She spoke on behalf of the German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), that we are proudly a part of!

#TranslationalHealthResearch
#ForschenFürGesundheit
July 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🤔 What if psychiatric disorders were grouped based on underlying biological mechanisms instead of symptoms?

📃 Janine Knauer-Arloth from our MPI und Karolina Worf from @www.helmholtz-munich.de explore this in a paper published in April, which we summarized as a comic: tinyurl.com/2s3p557b

#scicomm
July 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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📅 Next week, we are excited to welcome Dr. @yoavlivneh.bsky.social from Weizmann Institute of Science. He will share his research on the #insular #cortex.

🥳 As always, everyone is welcome to join us at our Institute, and registration is not necessary! All info here: www.psych.mpg.de/events/40140...
July 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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📅 Am 1. Juli geht es bei uns um Schizophrenie und das Auge oder auch um die größere Frage, inwieweit die Netzhaut zur Diagnose psychiatrischer Erkrankungen taugt. Unser leitender Obearzt Dr. Dr. Florian Raabe berichtet über seine Forschung.
June 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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📅 Don´t miss on July 1 at 16 pm in our lecture hall: Prof. Inga Koerte from the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents about neuroimaging of mild traumatic brain injuries:
June 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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📅Save the date: July, 16 ... Wednesday, not Tuesday as most of the time: "Neural circuit mechanisms for sensory encoding of emotion" with Prof. Sung Han from @salkinstitute.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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📅 On June 3rd, Prof Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik from @itetateth.bsky.social will share his research on disrupted #brain #networks in #autism and #epilepsy at our Institute.

🥳 Everyone is welcome, no registration needed! All info: www.psych.mpg.de/events/41864...

#neuroskyence
May 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🗓️ Für Kurzentschlossene: Am Samstag, 17.5., veranstalten wir in Kooperation mit der Deutschen Multiple Sklerose Gesellschaft einen #MS-PatientInnentag!

🔗 Programm und weitere Infos hier: www.psych.mpg.de/ms-tag.html

#ms #multiplesklerose
May 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🤔 Thinking about a career outside of academia?

📅 At the end of May we will welcome Dr. Christina Konen, scientific editor at Neuron, who will give an insight into her work! Taking place at our MPI in Munich and open to everyone.

🔗 All details here: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars

#neuroskyence
May 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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📅 Event alert: At the end of April, Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer, director at @mpicbs.bsky.social, will share his research on heart-brain interactions ❤️🧠. The talk will take place at our MPI in Munich and is open to everyone!

🔗 All details here: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars

#neuroskyence
April 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Yes, indeed! Such a great talk by @silvianeuro.bsky.social 🤗. So happy to welcome her back as Max Planck Fellow at our Institute 👍. www.psych.mpg.de/research (picture by Benno Pütz)
March 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Congrats to our Postdoc Eva Viho for two grants! The JoachimHerzStiftung supports her interdisciplinary computational research on the human hippocampus. The @dfg.de will foster collaboration with the University of CapeTown on neuroendocrine complications in traumatic brain injuries. #neuroskyence
Eva Viho in the lab
March 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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🧠Es geht weiter mit "Mind Matters", unserem Online-Format für PatientInnen und Interessierte: Dr. Sandra Nischwitz spricht am 1. April über die frühe Erkennung und Behandlung von kognitiven Störungen.

🔗Alle Infos: www.psych.mpg.de/mindmatters

#wisskomm #kognitive #störungen #gedächtnis
March 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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📅 Next week, @silvianeuro.bsky.social from @bmc-lmu.bsky.social will share her research on early brain development, hosted by our director @binderlabmpip.bsky.social. The talk will take place at our MPI in Munich and is open to everyone!

🔗 All details here: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars

#neuroskyence
February 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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With a slight delay, we turned this awesome paper into a comic 😍 Sneak peek below, check out the full version here: tinyurl.com/3jajehbn

@mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social @joeribordes.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #scicomm #wisskomm #sciart
Title page of a comic. In a big speech bubble, we see the title of the comic: "Research news: Males and females respond differently to early life stress". Below, we see pictures of first author Joeri Bordes on the right and Research Group Leader Mathias Schmidt on the left.
February 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM