02.02.2026 Marburg research project "MindShift" receives more than € 870.000 of funding

Personalized AI-Supported Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety Disorders

MindShift team (from left to right): Marco Rothermel, Bita Shariatpanahi, Dr. med. Felix Bernhard, Prof. Dr. Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Svenja Francke, Timo Becker, Alina Buschhüter, Dr. Sarah Alizadeh.

Aiming to develop and validate personalized, AI-supported neurostimulation approaches for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders, the Computational Psychiatry Working Group, led by Prof. Dr. Hamidreza Jamalabadi, is receiving more than  € 870.000 of funding from the state of Hesse for their research project “MindShift”.

The project, which is directly related to the SFB/TRR 393, is based at the Psychiatric Control Lab of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Faculty of Medicine) at Marburg University. MindShift builds on a series of recent scientific publications from the Computational Psychiatry Working Group, which examine the interface between neuroscience, mental health, artificial intelligence, and engineering. A particular focus is on dynamic systems and control theory approaches that allow affective-cognitive brain states to be formally modeled and specifically modified. On this basis, the project aims to develop hardware-independent optimization methods for neurostimulative treatments that can control existing stimulation devices individually and adaptively.

Even before receiving the current funding, the project had already been recognized for its innovation and transfer potential, winning first place in the 2025 Hessen Ideas Competition.

We warmly congratulate Prof. Jamalabadi as the spokesperson of the project as well as the whole team on this great success!