Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University
Carmen Weidler is a neuroscientist whose research primarily focuses on the neural underpinnings of aggressive and impulsive behavior. Her work explores the effects of brain stimulation techniques, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), on behavioral and neural correlates of aggression and impulsivity in violent criminal offenders, patients with mental disorders, and healthy individuals. The primary aim of her research is to achieve a better understanding of the individual and methodological factors that enhance the efficacy of tDCS.
Projects
TDCS will be used as an interventional tool to decrease aggression. Using a simultaneous tDCS – fMRI approach, the project aims to enhance cognitive control by repeated prefrontal brain stimulation, investigating its effect on aggression.
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