Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Lab (CNL)

Cognitive neuropsychiatry offers insights into brain-behaviour dynamics, harnessing this knowledge to advance mental health understanding and treatment. Our group, led by Prof. Igor Nenadić, aims to deepen the comprehension of mental health phenotypes, illuminate markers of risk for and resilience to psychiatric disorders, and better understand the wide spectrum of adaptive and maladaptive human behaviour through cutting-edge structural and functional neuroimaging

We employ current data-driven techniques to develop and test dynamic functional networks, machine learning models, as well as complex surface-based morphometry approaches, white matter diffusion tensor imaging and tractography. These methods can reveal structural patterns and functional networks by analysing resting-state as well as task-based emotional/cognitive functional MRI paradigms, structural brain data and regional cerebral blood flow parameters.

The group is involved in large consortia, e.g. as coordinating site of the transnational EU EraNet NEURON project “Resilience and vulnerability: from neural circuits to networks” (ResilNet), as well as with projects within the DFG SFB/TRR 393 “Trajectories of Affective Disorders” and the LOEWE Research Center DYNAMIC, and are contributing to different ENIGMA working groups. 

Find more about our current projects as well as the members of our team below: