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A05: Peripersonal space violations and social threat: daily-life psychological and neural mechanisms of environmental risk for reactive aggression

Peripersonal space, the representation of the space immediately surrounding the body, will be studied as an underlying factor for threat experience. Early-life stressors and daily-life stressors will be tested as factors influencing PPS processing and associated specific brain activation patterns. Location tracking and geoinformatics mapping, virtual reality (VR) experiments, physiological stress markers, and brain function during the processing of PPS violations in healthy at- risk individuals will be used to identify predictive biomarkers related to psychiatric risk, enhanced neural behavioral sensitivity to PPS interference and reactive aggression in daily life.

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

A05: Peripersonal space violations and social threat: daily-life psychological and neural mechanisms of environmental risk for reactive aggression A06: Decoding dynamic reciprocal neural mechanism underlying reactive aggression: Insights from fMRI and fNIRS hyperscanning B04: Investigating psychological and neural correlates of intimate partner violence Principal investigator Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg is a distinguished psychiatrist and neuroscientist based in Germany, renowned for his groundbreaking research on the neurobiological underpinnings of psychiatric disorders.

Heike Tost

A05: Peripersonal space violations and social threat: daily-life psychological and neural mechanisms of environmental risk for reactive aggression Principal investigator Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University