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Q03: Integrated Research Training Group (RTG)

Bundle all training and mentoring activities in a research training group (RTG) for the young researchers participating in this collaborative research center.

Contributors

Tobias Banaschewski

B05: Predictors and (neuro-)biological correlates of (cyber-)bullying and victimization in real-life contexts Q01: Recruitment and biotyping transdiagnostic risk mechanisms for aggressive behaviors in mental disorders across the life span Q03: Integrated Research Training Group (RTG) Principal investigator Research training group (RTG) committee member Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University

Medical Director of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Deputy Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health.

David Slattery

A07: The intestinal microbiota as a regulator of aggressive and impulsive behavior A08: The metabolic lung-brain axis in aggressive behavior in patients with AMD C01: Gene-environment interactions and the role of impulsivity in responding to acute threats: early life stress and escalated aggression in recombinant inbred mouse strains Q03: Integrated Research Training Group (RTG) Principal investigator Research training group (RTG) committee member Public relations team member Citizen Advisory Boad Goethe University Frankfurt

Professor David Slattery is interested in understanding of the neurobiology and treatment of stress-related disorders; with an emphasis on mood and anxiety disorders. A particular focus is the study postpartum mood and anxiety disorders using stress- and diet-based models in rodents, as well as:

Lisa Wagels

B04: Investigating psychological and neural correlates of intimate partner violence Q03: Integrated Research Training Group (RTG) Principal investigator Research training group (RTG) committee member RWTH Aachen

Junior Professor for Social and Affective Neurosciences

Publications

A cognitive neuroscience approach to understanding aggression and its treatment

Ute Habel Lisa Wagels A02: Context effects on threat processing in dependence of testosterone levels A04: Implicit chemosensory threat signals as stimulators of amygdala hyperresponsiveness in AMD B04: Investigating psychological and neural correlates of intimate partner violence Q03: Integrated Research Training Group (RTG) Q04: Central coordination Biological Psychiatry Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Negative valence system

Blair, R. J., Habel, U., Votinov, M., Wagels, L., & Denson, T. F. (2025). A cognitive neuroscience approach to understanding aggression and its treatment. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 179, 106386. https://doi.