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Current Projects

Project title PI                       Funding agency
Intermodal integration of perception of one's own actions Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher DFG (SFB TRR135/1)
Cardinal mechanisms of perception. Predictive perception: multisensory consequences of one's own actions Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube DFG (SFB TRR135/2)
1st Funding period (1.4.2014 - 31.12.2017)
Neurobiology of affective disorders: a translational perspective on brain structure and function
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Dannlowski
DFG (KI 588/14-1)
DFG (DA 1151/5-1)
WP1: Dissecting the neurobiology in the course of affective disorders – the Marburg affective disorders cohort study (MACS) Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Dannlowski
Prof. Dr. Carsten Konrad
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
DFG (DA 1151/5-1)
DFG (KO 4291/3-1)
DFG (KI 588/14-1)
WP5: Integrative analyses of genetic, epigenetic, and environmental vulnerability factors of affective disorders Prof. Dr. Axel Krug
Prof. Dr. Markus M. Nöthen
Prof. Dr. Marcella Rietschel
PD Dr. Stephanie Witt
DFG (KR 3822/5-1)



WP6: Methodological aspects of longitudinal imaging genetics MRI studies: reliability, quality assurance, statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology Prof. Dr. Astrid Dempfle
Prof. Dr. Andreas Jansen

DFG (JA 1890/7-1)
CP2: Management and administration Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Dannlowski
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
Prof. Dr. Carsten Konrad
DFG (DA 1151/6-1)
DFG (KI 588/15-1)
DFG (KO 4291/4-1)
Dissecting the neurobiology of anxiety across diagnostic categories – the extension of the Marburg/Münster affective disorders cohort study (MACS) regarding anxiety disorders Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Dannlowski
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
DFG (KI 588/22-1 )
DFG (DA 1151/11‑1)
DFG STR1146/18‑1)
Verbund BipoLife im Forschungsnetz zu psychischen Erkrankungen: Adjuvante Psychotherapie zur Rückfallprävention 
The German Research Consortium for the Study of Bipolar Disorder (BipoLife): Projekt A2 -- Adjuvant Psychotherapy in Early Stage Bipolar Disorder
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
PD Dr. Irina Falkenberg
BMBF
Providing tools for effective care and treatment of anxiety disorders (Protect AD) - Project P4
Activation of the fear network and neural correlates of extinction learning in relation to the therapy outcome
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
BMBF
Providing tools for effective care and treatment of anxiety disorders (Protect AD) Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher BMBF
The German Research Consortium for the Study of Bipolar Disorder (BipoLife): Projekt TPP2 -- Neuroimaging and neurophysiology platform Prof. Dr. Andreas Jansen
Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Dannlowski
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
PD Dr. Irina Falkenberg
BMBF
Heisenberg-Professorship: Translational neuroimaging: From the fundamentals of perception and action to the understanding of mental disorders" Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube DFG STR1146/15‑1)
The neural correlates of action–perception circuits in schizophrenia: Impaired perception of the multisensory consequences of one’s own actions Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube DFG (STR 1146/9‑1)
The neural correlates of action-perception coupling in schizophrenia: Impaired recalibration and cross-modal transfer of forward model predictions Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube DFG (STR 1146/9‑2)
The neural correlates of social-communicative perception in patients with schizophrenia, major depression und bipolar disorder: Disorder specific and disorder-unspecific aspects of the comprehension, recognition and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal information Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
DFG (STR 146/11‑2)
DFG (KI 588/6-2)
The neural correlates of natural social-communicative perception processes in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls: Understanding, recognition and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal information. Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
DFG (KI 588/6-1)
Hippocampus and neurocognition in depressive patients: a comparison of rTMS and ECT
Dr. Bruno Dietsche
Dr. Maxim Zavorotnyy

von Behring Röntgen Stiftung
Neurobiology of Schizotypy: A transdiagnostic & translational approach Prof. Dr. Igor Nenadić FLEXI FUNDS Forschungscampus Mittelhessen
International Research Training Group "The Brain in Action" Prof. Dr. Frank Bremmer
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
DFG (IRTG) 1901/2 - 2018 IRTG
2nd Funding Period Neurobiology of affective disorders: a translational perspective on brain structure and function Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Dannlowski
DFG (KI 588/14-2)
DFG (DA 1151/5-2)
WP1: Dissecting the neurobiology in the course of affective disorders - the Marburg-Münster affective disorders cohort study (MACS) Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Dannlowski
Prof. Dr. Axel Krug
Prof. Dr. Igor Nenadić
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
DFG (DA 1151/5-2)
DFG (KR 3822/7-2)
DFG (NE 2254/1-2)
DFG (KI 588/14-2)
WP6: Multimodal Cross-Disorder Biotype Identification and Multimethod Data Analytic Support Prof. Dr. Astrid Dempfle
PD Dr. Tim Hahn
Prof. Dr. Andreas Jansen
Prof. Dr. Betram Müller-Myshok
DFG (JA 1890/7-2)
CP2: Coordination Funds Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher DFG (KI 588/17-1)
Translational study of brain structural and genetic parameters in a short-term intervention programme for subjects at ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis/schizophrenia and in schizotypy Prof. Dr. Igor Nenadić
Dr. Sarah Grzellschak
UKGM Förderpool
Prediction of treatment response in unipolar depression using biological markers Dr. Kyeon Raab
PD Dr. Irina Falkenberg
Innovations- und Förderpool der RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG
Imaging Neuroscience Prof. Dr. Igor Nenadić FLEXI FUNDS Forschungscampus Mittelhessen
7T Animal Imaging Prof. Dr. Igor Nenadić UKGM Förderpool
Partner Center German Center for Mental Health Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief
FLEXI FUNDS Forschungscampus Mittelhessen
EARLY-Tret, effects of early clozapine treatment on remission rates in acute schizophrenia Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher LMU München
Mechanisms of hemispheric lateralization: Functional roles of left- and right-hemispheric regions of the core system of face perception Prof. Dr. Andreas Jansen DFG
Investigation of gesture and speech interaction, using EEG and simultaneous EEG/fMRI methods Dr. Yifei He DFG
The ontogenetic development of the neural network for face and emotion processing: a fMRI study in children and adolescents Prof. Dr. Andreas Jansen UKGM Förderpool
Atypical perception in autism spectrum disorder: Combining computational models, functional neuroimaging and MR spectroscopy to understand aberrant perceptual mechanisms Prof. Dr. Andreas Jansen DFG
PAK 1000: Extention FOR 2107 Neurobiology of affective disorders - a translational perspective on brain structure and function Dissecting the neurobiology of anxiety across diagnostic categories the extension of the Marburg/Münster affective disorders cohort study (MACS) regarding anxiety disorders Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher DFG
PAK 1000: Extention FOR 2107 Neurobiology of affective disorders - a translational perspective on brain structure and function Dissecting the neurobiology of anxiety across diagnostic categories the extension of the Marburg/Münster affective disorders cohort study(MACS) regarding anxiety disorders Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube DFG
PAK 1000: Neurobiology of the major psychoses - transdiagnostic and longitudinal characterisation of schizophrenia and affective disorders Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher DFG
PAK 1000: Neurobiology of the major psychoses - transdiagnostic and longitudinal characterisation of schizophrenia and affective disorders Prof. Dr. Igor Nenadić

DFG

PAK 1000: Neurobiology of the major psychoses - transdiagnostic and longitudinal characterisation of schizophrenia and affective disorders Prof. Dr. Axel Krug DFG
PAK 1000: Neurobiology of affective disorders: 5 year longitudinal deep phenotyping of the Marburg/Münster cohort study (MACS) Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher DFG
PAK 1000: Neurobiology of affective disorders: 5 year longitudinal deep phenotyping of the Marburg/Münster cohort study (MACS) Prof. Dr. Igor Nenadić DFG
Development and neurobiological investigation of a social-cognitive intervention program to improve social dysfunction in schizophrenia Dr. Florian Bitsch
Dr. Yifei He
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
UKGM
Treatment expectation: The impact of expectation on health outcome Duisburg-Essen Marburg Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
PD Dr. Irina Falkenberg
SFB/TRR 289/1
The effect of nasal ketamine and treatment expectation in acute major depressive disorder: a pharmacological fMRI study Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
PD Dr. Irina Falkenberg
SFB/TRR 289/1 A08
Disentangling pharmacologic and expectation effects in antidepressant discontinuation - a randomized, balanced open-hidden trial Prof. Dr. Yvonne Nestoriuc
Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher
SFB/TRR 289/1 A15