Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Professor Christine M Freitag focuses on Translational research in Neurodevelopmental, Anxiety and Disruptive Behavior Disorders in children and youth. Her methods comprise biostatistics, diagnostic and biomarker studies, randomized-controlled trials (phase-IIa, phase-III), brain stimulation and behavioural/psychotherapeutic interventions.
Projects
Address sex-specific NVS (reactive aggression) and CS (different dimensions of psychopathy, proactive aggression) associated risk factors, and risk factor-based biosignatures in young people. Considering the interacting genetic, environmental, and hormonal factors related to these specific aggressive behavior dimensions, C04 will identify specific and shared factors and mechanisms related to NVS and CS in female and male youth with and without pathological aggression.
The central recruitment platform for collecting and curating a longitudinal dataset for studying individual aggression dynamics related to the neural, cognitive-emotional, neurobiological, psychopathological and environmental factors in patient groups.
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