Projects, Cooperations, and Publications

Current Projects located at the BION: INDIVISUAL (ERC Starter Grant, PI: Benjamin deHaas, PhD)

SFB TRR 135: Kardinale Mechanismen der Wahrnehmung: Prädiktion, Bewertung, Kategorisierung.

DFG-Forschergruppe FOR 2974 „Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet-use disorders (ACSID). Teilprojekt (PI: Prof. Dr. Tim Klucken, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark)

"Children Of Mentally Ill Parents at Risk Evaluation" (COMPARE). BMBF. PI: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark.

„Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of BIIB101 Administered to Adults With Multiple System Atrophy“ (HORIZON, PI: Dr. Carla Eggert)

„PLannning, Experimental, and Analysis SUpport in REsearch“ kurz PLEASURE (DFG, PI: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark)

Cooperating Sites and Departments

Internal Departments

General Psychology (Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner)
General Psychology: Perception and Action (Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler)
Human Movement Science and Psychology of Sport (Prof. Dr. Jörn Munzert)
Biological Psychology (Prof. Dr. Bianca Wittmann)
Personality and Biological Psychology (Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Hennig)
Clinical Psychology (Prof. Dr. Christiane Hermann)
Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark)
Altered States of Consciousness – Meditation (Dr. Ulrich Ott, Prof. em. Dr. Dieter Vaitl, PD Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier)

Other subject areas (FB11, FB10)

External Departments

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Prof. Dr. Tim Klucken)
The BION is closely connected to the "Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene" (IGPP) in Freiburg i. Br. (see history for details).

We closely cooperate with our sibling: Brain Imaging Unit Marburg.

Selected Recent Publications: Hermann, A., Neudert, M. K., Schäfer, A., Zehtner, R. I., Fricke, S., Seinsche, R. J., & Stark, R. (2021). Lasting effects of cognitive emotion regulation: neural correlates of reinterpretation and distancing. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 16(3), 268–279. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa159

Braun, U., Harneit, A., Pergola, G., Menara, T., Schäfer, A., Betzel, R. F., Zang, Z., Schweiger, J. I., Zhang, X., Schwarz, K., Chen, J., Blasi, G., Bertolino, A., Durstewitz, D., Pasqualetti, F., Schwarz, E., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Bassett, D. S., & Tost, H. (2021). Brain network dynamics during working memory are modulated by dopamine and diminished in schizophrenia. Nature communications, 12(1), 3478. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23694-9

Braun, U., Schaefer, A., Betzel, R. F., Tost, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Bassett, D. S. (2018). From Maps to Multi-dimensional Network Mechanisms of Mental Disorders. Neuron, 97(1), 14–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.007