Prof. Dr. Klaus Mathiak

Principal investigator

Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine RWTH Aachen University, Aachen

Klaus Mathiak is a professor at RWTH Aachen University, specializing in psychiatry and psychotherapy. His research integrates neuroimaging, psychophysiology, and clinical studies to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition, aggression, and media influence on behavior. Mathiak’s work aims to enhance therapeutic interventions for psychiatric disorders by elucidating the brain’s role in social and emotional processing.

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B03: A process-based brain-computer interface to modulate aggressive behavior – a real-time fMRI neurofeedback study

Klaus Mathiak Christian Paret Jana Zweerings RWTH Aachen Central Institute of Mental Health Cognitive system Biological Psychiatry

Probe the self-regulation of CS networks in adults and adolescents diagnosed with mental disorders related to frequent stress-associated affective outbursts and aggressive symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and BPD.

C02: Aggressive decisions in social conflicts: Neuro-cognitive models for healthy individuals and psychiatric patients with high scores of aggression

Christoph Korn Klaus Mathiak RWTH Aachen Heidelberg University Interaction of negative valence system and cognitive system Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiolog Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry

Develop virtual scenarios to assess decision strategies in cartoon-like and naturalistic contexts.

Q02: Data management for computational modelling

Michael Hanke Gabriele Ende Christine Ecker Klaus Mathiak Service project Research Center Jülich (FZJ) Central Institute of Mental Health Goethe University Frankfurt RWTH Aachen

Data management and training platform.

RWTH Aachen

Natalia Chechko Thomas Frodl Ute Habel Kerstin Konrad Klaus Mathiak Vanessa Reindl Marc Spehr Lisa Wagels Carmen Weidler Jana Zweerings

RWTH Aachen University is one of Europe’s leading institutions for science and engineering education.