Research & Projects

Research Priority Program

"Psychobiology of Stress" brings together researchers from Faculty I - Psychology and the Research Institute for Psychobiology. The Priority Program is funded by the Research Initiative of Rheinland-Palatinate’s Ministry of Science, Further Education and Cultural Affairs. Further information can be found on the ► Homepage of the Research Priority Program.

Overvaluation of shape and weight in BED

Shape and weight are significant issues to many of those suffering from binge eating disorder (BED). Here we investigate the neural underpinnings using fMRI.

Contact: [→ Gregor Domes]

Fronto-limbic abnormalities in BPD

Fronto-limbic abnormalties in borderline personality disorder patients are investigated using structural and functional MRI

Contact: [→ Gregor Domes]

Neural predictors of the acute stress response

Why do we respond so differently to psychossocial stress? The project aims at indentifying neural predictors of the individual reactivity to stress.

Contact: [→ Gregor Domes]