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Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology

Projects

B02: Young offenders’ self-regulation deficit as a common mechanism for aggressive behavior and psychopathology - neural mechanisms and role of adverse childhood experiences

Wolfgang Retz Oliver Tüscher Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Cognitive system Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology Biological Psychiatry Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This project aims to identify cognitive and emotion control deficits in the context of negative valence and threat interference and their association with ACE in young offenders. Complementary to other projects, this project will focus on a group of young people defined by their propensity to aggression showing at the same time more severe psychopathologies.

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 Neurobiology Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry
Develop virtual scenarios to assess decision strategies in cartoon-like and naturalistic contexts. The core question is how healthy individuals and patients make (mal-)adaptive aggressive decisions in social conflicts given their threat sensitivity, cognitive functions, and learning experience.

Publications

Identifying P100 and N170 as electrophysiological markers for conscious and unconscious processing of emotional facial expressions

Ute Habel Lisa Wagels Julia-Schraeder B04: Investigating psychological and neural correlates of intimate partner violence Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
Introduction: Everyday life requires correct processing of emotions constantly, partly occurring unconsciously. This study aims to clarify the effect of emotion perception on different event-related potentials (ERP; P100, N170). The P100 and N170 are tested for their suitability as electrophysiological markers in unconscious processing.