Affective neuroscience
Head:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carmen Morawetz
Research staff:
Gaia Lapodarma, PhD, MSc
Sofia Amaoui, MSc, PhD
PhD students:
Laura Gervais, BSc, MSc
Anna Gmeiner, BSc, MSc
Christina Grammenou, BSc, MSc
Mi Lande, BSc, MSc
David Lang, BSc, MSc
Aaron Tolone, BSc, MSc
Jonathan Weber, BSc, MSc
Nils Wehner, BSc, MSc
Focus
- To cover the key areas of general, biological and clinical psychology in their entirety.
- Elucidating the neural mechanisms involved in emotion processing and emotion regulation.
- Examining the interaction between emotional processes and sustainable/environmentally conscious decision-making, as well as human-environment interaction and its effects on neural changes.
- Promoting emotional well-being, resilience, emotional processing and emotional control
Prevention and health considerations
- Identification of measures to improve the ability to regulate emotions
- Investigating the neural correlates of effective emotion regulation
- Investigation of individual differences in emotional processing and control, and their links to neural networks
- Predicting craving and emotional state using neural networks in patients with addiction
A life-course perspective
- Development of prevention and intervention programmes to promote emotional wellbeing and emotional regulation
Methods
- fMRI
- Psychophysiology
- Questionnaires