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Professor Gerhard Gründer, M.D.
Deputy Director
Head of Division Experimental Neuropsychiatry
contact Administrative Office
Pauwelsstraße 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
phone: +49 241 80-89821
fax: +49 241 80-3388415
ggruender@ukaachen.de
Head of Molecular and Clinical Psychopharmacology
The working group analyses the biological foundations of healthy human behavior and the pathological deviations from the norm associated with in psychiatric disorders. The team investigates the dynamic processes in the brain using functional imaging techniques, in particular positron emission tomography (PET), which allows them to quantify molecular structures in nanomolar concentrations. The group's research therefore concentrates on understanding molecular pathophysiology in mental disorders and the effects of psychotropic substances. A particular focus is the clinical testing of new drugs.
The division's work is closely linked with that done by the medical faculty in the clinical neurosciences. An important partner at University Hospital Aachen is the Department of Nuclear Medicine headed by Prof. Felix Motthagy. In addition to working with other neuroscience research groups at RWTH Aachen, the group collaborates with Forschungszentrum Jülich in the JARA-BRAIN alliance.
Partners:
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
(Prof. Dr. Dean F. Wong) - Department of Radiology, University of Tokyo
(Dr. Yoshitaka Kumakura) - Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
(Prof. Dr. Steven Siegel) - Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
(Prof. Dr. Robert T. Schultz) - Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
(Prof. Frank Rösch) - Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
(Prof. Christoph Hiemke) - Department of Nuclear Medicine, LMU Munich
(Prof. Peter Bartenstein and Dr. Paul Cumming) - Department of Nuclear Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
(Prof. Matthias Schreckenberger) - Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
(Prof. Andreas Heinz) - Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
(Dr. Georg Winterer)
Publications of Professor Gerhard Gründer, M.D.
