Aims and approaches
What?
Our basic aim is to gain a deeper understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying affective disorders and stress regulation. We integrate findings from clinical, behavioural, cognitive and neurobiological research.
We aim to:
- Improve our understanding of the working mechanisms of mood and anxiety disorders
- Investigate psychophysiological stress dynamics
- Identify individual differences in information processing styles
- Investigate vulnerability and resilience factors for affective disorders in a life-span perspective
- Develop neurocognitive interventions to increase stress resilience, based on new strategies of emotion regulation and on a combination of neurostimulation and cognitive training
- Stimulate translational research to improve prevention for stress related disorders, in a transdiagnostic perspective
How?
- Experimental psychology paradigms
- Eye-tracking
- Neuroimaging techniques (e.g. fMRI, PET)
- Psychophysiological indeces (heart rate variability, pupillometry, skin conductance, saliva cortisol)
- Tasks to index implicit processes
- Neurostimulation (rTMS, iTBS, tDCS)
- Experience Sampling Methods / Cognitive training apps