red line is the combined treatment, blue line is sham rTMS plus real psychotherapy, green line is sham psychotherapy

The last 12 hours provided wonderful scenery. Just to interrupt the heavy rain.

How does the🧠create psychomotor abnormalities?
Our recent article in @pnas.org offers some insight. Specific areas within the primary motor cortex seem to be altered in psychomotor slowing and linked to motor behaviors. These areas might become new treatment targets

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Enjoying a fantastic meeting on neuroimaging in psychiatry: the BaCI 2025 in Munich

ecnsweb.net/munich-ecns-...

Meeting in rooms full of history and the spirit of psychiatry heroes...

The 🦠 finally got a hold of me. Ruined all Christmas plans for everyone. After four days in bed, first walk outside today with lovely weather...

what a lovely Sunday walk. 🌞🥶

Proud moment: My team published a new paper on neural correlates of psychomotor disturbance in depression. Less movement = thalamocortical connectivity increased; more movement = higher pallidocortical connectivity. Data came from Marburg-Münster Affective Disorders cohort

doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Exciting new paper in molecular psychiatry from collaborating with Igor Nenadic, Ahmad Abu-Akel and team:

Hippocampal subfield volume and CBF are linked to an interaction of schizotypy traits with autism traits in a large sample of healthy subjects.
doi.org/10.1038/s413...

on the other social media app, the NIMH recommended a publication of ours.

makes me happy

here's the paper in schizophrenia bulletin:
doi.org/10.1093/schb...

Fresh off the press: Frauke Conring (not on X) and our team find specific resting state perfusion patterns in patients who experience auditory verbal hallucinations with strong emotional content. Amygdala perfusion increased only in this subgroup.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ni...

Fall morning run without scenic mountain views.🏔️

New start here. Moved over from the X