Current Research Projects

Project Leader Project Title
Böker Evaluation Of The Course Of The In-Patient Treatment Of Depressed Patients
Neural and metabolic correlates of emotional processing in major depressive disorder - A combined fMRI-/MRS-study during pharmacological intervention with ketamine.
Functional neuroanatomy and regional metabolism before and after treatment with duloxetine: a combined fMRI/MRS study in major depression
Which patients are referred for ECT treatment? Diagnostic and therapeutic evaluation of depressed patients who have been referred for ECT treatment.
Boeker Course and outcome of depression in day-care clinic treatment: Study by means of Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics (OPD-2)
Böker Bösiger The modulation of fear processing by oxytocin - An fMRI study in major depressive disorder
Böker Stassen A Molecular-Genetic Approach to Modelling the Time Course of Recovery from Depression: Psychotherapeutic and Pharmakotherapeutic Treatment of Depression - A Prospective, Multicenter Comparative Study
Boschung Küchenhoff Edition of the correspondence between Eugen Bleuler and Sigmund Freud
Csomor Influence of experimental parameter on the reliability and sensitivity of P50 gating
Habermeyer A comparison of personality- and neuropsychological traits of repeated offenders in prison and in forensic-psychiatric institutions
Offenders with psychotic disorders
Pryce The role of prefrontal cortex glutamate in signaling stress un/controllability in mice
The effects of serotonin transporter knockout on stress coping in mice
Quednow Neurosocial consequences of cocaine use: a longitudinal investigation
Genetics of sensorimotor gating in schizophrenia in healthy humans
Schuepbach Rapid cerebral hemodynamic modulation during attentional and executive tasks: a functional transcranial Doppler sonography study in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls
Stassen Activation of inflammatory response system in depression and schizophrenia
European Twin Study Network on Schizophrenia (EUTwinsS)
Online Predictive Tools for Intervention in Mental Illness (OPTIMI)
Polypharmacy in Psychiatry: Clinical Practice versus Empirical Evidence
Vollenweider Monitoring-processes in psilocybin-induced altered states of consciousness
Effect of the mixed 5-HT2/D2 antagonist sertindole on sensory gating and cognition in healthy controls with low PPI levels and schizophrenia patients.

Completed Research Projects

Project Leader Project Title
Csomor Impact of neurochemical manipulation on sensory gating in healthy subjects with low gating levels: validation of a translational model
Kuechenhoff Discussion of free will in neurosciences
History of the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychiatry
Eugenic concepts and its application in Swiss psychiatry
Vollenweider Reinforcement learning in cocaine addiction
Wecker Küchenhoff Eugenic Concepts and measures in psychiatry and administration. On the politics standardization, integration and exclusion. The case of Basle-Stadt, 1880-1960
Sexuality and Eugenics: Regulation of sexual and reproductive norms (1920-1960)

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