Interaction of negative valence system and cognitive system

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

Sex-dependent effects and gene-environment interactions will be investigated by applying escalating aggression …

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

Develop virtual scenarios to assess decision strategies in cartoon-like and naturalistic contexts. The core question is …

C03: Distributed network control and interventions to frustrative non-reward and threat triggered aggressions

Investigate context-dependent aggression triggered by frustrative non-reward or acute social threats. Using newly …

C04: The sex-specific role of genes, early adversity, peers, community violence, and puberty related endocrinological changes in adolescent pathological aggression

Address sex-specific NVS (reactive aggression) and CS (different dimensions of psychopathy, proactive aggression) …

C05: The neuroanatomical underpinnings of clinical aggression and their relationship with the negative valence and cognitive control systems

Link questionnaire measures of aggression to specific neural substrates using structural MRI. The resulting patterns of …

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

Identify specific neuronal mechanisms related to the NVS and CS in female and male clinical samples with a history of …

C07: Identifying mediators of threat-aggression and experimental manipulation by tDCS

Test the interaction of the CS and frustrative non-reward as part of the NVS. It will investigate the …