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Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University is Germany’s oldest university, founded in 1386. Renowned for its research excellence and strong emphasis on the humanities, natural sciences, and medicine, it consistently ranks among Europe’s top universities. The university fosters a rich academic tradition and an international outlook, attracting students and scholars from around the world.

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 Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University

Gabriele Ende

A03: Modulation of aggression by acute threat A08: The metabolic lung-brain axis in aggressive behavior in patients with AMD Q02: Data management for computational modelling Principal investigator Heidelberg University Central Institute of Mental Health

Gabriele Ende is a researcher associated with the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim, Germany.

Nathalie Holz

B05: Predictors and (neuro-)biological correlates of (cyber-)bullying and victimization in real-life contexts Principal investigator Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University

Christoph Korn

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

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.

Corinne Neukel

C06: Brain mechanisms differentiating aggressive vs. non-aggressive psychopathology as sequelae of early life maltreatment Principal investigator Heidelberg University

Christian Paret

B03: A process-based brain-computer interface to modulate aggressive behavior – a real-time fMRI neurofeedback study Principal investigator Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University

Christian Schmahl

A03: Modulation of aggression by acute threat Principal investigator Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University

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

Wolfgang Weber-Fahr

C03: Distributed network control and interventions to frustrative non-reward and threat triggered aggressions Principal investigator Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University

A02: Context effects on threat processing in dependence of testosterone levels

Katja Bertsch Sabine Herpertz Ute Habel Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg Heidelberg University RWTH Aachen Negative valence system Biological Psychiatry Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The focus will be on the influences of a provocative context on social threat processing in AMD under different testosterone levels.

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.

C06: Brain mechanisms differentiating aggressive vs. non-aggressive psychopathology as sequelae of early life maltreatment

Sabine Herpertz Corinne Neukel Heidelberg University Interaction of negative valence system and cognitive system Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Identify specific neuronal mechanisms related to the NVS and CS in female and male clinical samples with a history of early-life maltreatment (ELM) who exhibit externalizing, aggressive psychopathologies as opposed to internalizing, non-aggressive psychopathologies.

Q01: Recruitment and biotyping transdiagnostic risk mechanisms for aggressive behaviors in mental disorders across the life span

Tobias Banaschewski Thomas Frodl Sabine Herpertz Andreas Reif Christine Margarete Freitag Ute Habel Kerstin Konrad Service project RWTH Aachen Central Institute of Mental Health Heidelberg University Goethe University Frankfurt Biological Psychiatry Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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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