Two neuroimaging-related PhD positions in Neuroscience Graduate Programme
"NEUROBIOLOGY OF EMOTION DYSFUNCTIONS" at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
We encourage outstanding undergraduate students to apply for the DFG-funded Graduate School “Neurobiology of Emotion Dysfunction” (GRK) at the University of Regensburg. We provide a specialized interdisciplinary program at the highest conceptual and methodological levels. Students will perform cross-disciplinary projects aimed at unravelling neurobiological underpinnings of emotional behaviour in health and disease across molecular, neuronal, neuroendocrine and behavioural levels in an appropriate research environment.
For candidates interested in neuroimaging we would like to highlight the following two positions (a description of all ten projects can be found at: https://www.uni-regensburg.de/research/grk-emotion/research-projects/index.html).
Brain Representations of Emotional States in Humans
with PROF. DR. JENS SCHWARZBACH / PROF. DR. MARK GREENLEE
Identifying somebody's emotional states from brain activity is an important task for developing brain-based biomarkers of emotions (such as joy, but also fear, anxiety, sadness, anger, and disgust) that one can use in basic research on emotional processing as well as in clinical research in order to improve diagnostics and interventions diagnostics. The main goal of this project is to identify emotional states based on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) using machine learning approaches such as statistical classifiers and deep neural networks.
Functional Role of Translocator Protein 18 kDa (TSPO) in depressive patients under treatment with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
with PD DR. CAROLINE NOTHDURFTER / PROF. DR. JENS SCHWARZBACH
TSPO is supposed to play an important role in different mitochondrial functions. Dysregulation of such mitochondrial functions is involved in the pathophysiology of several psychiatric diseases, such as major depressive disorder (MDD). However, little is known about these TSPO functions during the process of specific therapies, such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The aim of this project is to investigate the functional role of TSPO during ECT in depressed patients with specific regard to functional brain connectivity and its dynamics.
Please apply at
https://www.uni-regensburg.de/research/grk-emotion/application/index.html
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