Science is a system for working out findings, causalities and regularities and establishing contexts of reasoning. It is dedicated to specific subject areas (individual sciences), but also always attempts to consider larger contexts. This is all the more important in psychiatric research, where basic research has an exciting connection with culture and society. Here, research not only means establishing a context, but also "producing" medical applicability.
The Clinical Department of Psychiatry, Social- and Psychological Therapy conducts research in various areas.
- Basic research,
- therapeutic innovations and
- care research
are directly related. Different subject areas are communicated in a methodologically verifiable and interdisciplinary manner.
Scientific staff and clinicians, together with research assistants, form the numerous working groups and cooperate with national and international research networks.
Our research groups
Our collaborations in science and research
Our research facilities
Laboratory for Molecular Neurosciences
On July 1, 2010, the Clinical Department of Psychiatry under Professor Stefan Bleich opened a laboratory for basic research and to support molecular analysis for the examination of patient samples as part of clinical studies. The Molecular Psychiatry Research Group (headed by Professor Peter Claus), which is closely linked to the Molecular Neuroscience Laboratory, focuses on questions of neuroepigenetics.
Laboratory for Cognitive NeuropsychiatryCognitive neuropsychiatry represents a systematic and theoretically oriented approach with the aim of understanding and explaining clinical psychopathologies with regard to deficits in cognitive mechanisms. This multidisciplinary field of research enables collaboration between psychiatry, cognitive science, neuroscience and clinical psychology.
Skyra (MRT)The 3T magnetic resonance tomograph (Magnetom, Skyra) from Siemens, which was acquired by Prof. Dr. Tillmann Krüger's research group through third-party funding (BMBF), is available for scientific research projects at Hannover Medical School.