Aims and objectives

Our research has broad areas of interests aiming at improving knowledge about disease mechanisms, treatment and prevention addressing basic, clinical and ethical aspects in psychiatry by means of translational research methods.

Focus areas

Affective disorders

Schizophrenia

Psychiatric genetics

History of psychiatry

Philosophy of science

Prevention of suicide

Disciplines, methods and tools

Epidemiological and clinical suicide research, electroconvulsive therapy studied by neuroimaging and neurochemistry, genetic risk genes, philosophy of science including ethics.

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