Lab News

March 27, 2023: At the TeaP 2023 in Trier, we gave a super-well attended symposium together with Kelly Diederen (KCL) on Computational Psychiatry: Identifying the fine-grained behavioural mechanism underpinning symptoms in psychosis and internalising disorders. We enjoyed it very much!

March 16, 2023: Welcome, Alexia Pagkopoulou, who joined the lab as a Bachelor Student. πŸ˜€

February 23, 2023: Welcome, Viola von Heyden, who joined the lab as a Bachelor Student! 😊

February 21, 2023: Elisabeth’s active inference paper got published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. πŸ₯‚

February 18, 2023: Lea Zaric has joined the lab as a Master Student! Welcome πŸŽ‰πŸ‘

February 3, 2023: Verena published her first pre-print on the associations between ACC glutamate and psychotic-like symptoms. πŸ‘πŸŽ‰

January 27, 2023: Simiao Xu has joined the lab as a Master Student! Welcome 😊🎊

December 15, 2022: Franziska has been awarded a position as a GSN associate member to the faculty of the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences.

December 1, 2022: Congratulations to Verena who received the Leonhard-Lorenz Grant. πŸŽ‰πŸ₯‚ Well done!!!

November 23-26, 2022, continued: At the DGPPN, Elisabeth gave a presentation on action selection in psychosis (upper left), Pritha talked about model free and model based decision making in OCD (upper right), Franziska reviewed findings on reward and salience processing in psychosis (lower left) and Sarah presented data on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the increase of schizotypal traits in the general population (lower right).

November 23-26, 2022, continued: During the DGPPN, we even squeezed in a little Berlin-sightseeing run πŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒβ€β™€οΈ Really nice! 😊

November 23-26, 2022: We are attending the DGPPN. Very interesting and cool inspirations for future projects!

September 1, 2022: Elisabeth Sterner and Pritha Sen have joined the lab as PhD students. Welcome!!

August 31, and September 6, 2022: Congratulations to Elisabeth Sterner and Madeleine Seitz for submitting their master thesis!! Well done πŸ‘ πŸ₯‚

August 16, 2022: Congratulations to Pritha Sen for submitting her master thesis!! Well done πŸ‘πŸŽ‰

August 3, 2022: Katharina Bracherand Franziska Knolle submit preprint on clustering cognitive phenotypes in affective and non-affective psychosis (medRxiv) . 🎊πŸ₯‚.

July 25, 2022: Felix Brandl and Franziska Knolle publish paper in Brain, on negative symptoms, striatal dopamine and modle-free decision making in schizophrenia.

July 18, 2022: Congratulations to Clara Seifert who submitted her master thesis! 🎊πŸ₯‚

July 4, 2022: Sarah Daimer publishes her next paper on COVID-19 & use of media & schizotypy in eLife. The paper is also presented in a eLife Digest. Congratulations!

May 16, 2022: Elisabeth Sterner and Franziska Knolle publish a preprint on decision making in early psychosis using active inference modelling. Finally πŸ˜… (Well deserved submission cake!)

May 7, 2022: Franziska Knolle and Kathrin Koch publish a preprint investigating morphometric grey matter networks in a multi-centre study. Great project with great collaborators!

May 31, 2022: Drinks after work …. work hard, play hard πŸ€”

April 1, 2022: Verena Demler joins the lab as an MD student. Welcome!

February 22, 2022: Clara Seifert, Elisabeth Sterner, Madeleine Seitz and Pritha Sen join the lab to write their Master’s theses. Welcome!