TraPLab

🧵👉 More about our work: www.uni-marburg.de/en/trr-393/a...

🧵👉 Our goal: to understand individual trajectories and develop targeted, effective interventions. We're the team of the S02 project– the backbone of the SFB.

⚡Meet the Team, pt. 6⚡

How do symptoms of affective disorders change over time – and what drives this change?
Within SFB/TRR 393, our 24 projects investigate the cognitive, emotional, and neurobiological mechanisms behind symptom dynamics.
@tianaborgers.bsky.social @kflinkenfluegel.bsky.social
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🧠 Lead investigators of the NAE study over the years were Udo Dannlowski, Katharina Koch, Anna @janikgoltermann.bsky.social (current)

🧠 Huge thanks to our amazing study team (past and present) - and to our long-term participants, who are making this possible!

The NAE study is our longest-running project — & one of a kind.🧠💡
Since 2009, we've followed patients with MDD & BD for up to 14 years.
We combine repeated MRI scans & deep phenotyping.
This rare longitudinal design lets us explore how brain changes might (not) cause affective disorders over time.

@luisa-al.bsky.social @chris-jurischka.bsky.social and many more :)

PhDs unite!
The TraP-PhDs gathered for their #Stammtisch to chat all things research, work-life balance—and cookie recipes 🍪🧪

There’s no “I” in PhD… or something like that 😄
@judithkrieger.bsky.social @wiebkeringels.bsky.social @judithkrieger.bsky.social

MMLL The Medical Machine Learning Lab develops Machine Learning solutions in all areas of medicine - from tools improving research to prototypes of clinical decision support systems.

🧵👉check out for more: mmll.uni-muenster.de

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With the use of deep learning, causal inference, control theory, time series analysis, graph analytics, and many more, we develop cutting-edge machine learning solutions, with the goal of improving healthcare and medical research

⚡Meet the Team, pt. 4 ⚡

The Medical Machine Learning Lab develops Machine Learning solutions in all areas of medicine - from tools improving research to prototypes of clinical decision support systems.

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The #TraPrennwahn is spreading fast — literally! 🏃‍♀️💨 Some of our team joined this year’s #LeonardoCampusRun.

Turns out we're not just chasing research goals, but finish lines too. 🧠➡️👟 Who says academics can't sprint?
@juliahubbert.bsky.social @judithkrieger.bsky.social @chris-jurischka.bsky.social

🎯 Based on the knowledge gained, we aim to develop targeted, innovative and optimized psychotherapeutic interventions. We are also investigating predictors of response to interventions in order to pave the way for personalized intervention selection.

🎯We investigate psychological processes such as emotion regulation or inhibitory control in people with and without mental disorders.

⚡Meet the Team, pt. 3 ⚡

🎯The "Psychological Processes and Targeted Clinical Interventions"-Group (TARGET Group) led by @lisaleehr.bsky.social aims to bridge the gap between basic psychological research and clinical practice in order to improve the treatment of mental disorders.
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👶 For our new project MIND-PPD on postpartum depression, we're looking for passionate PhD students!

Interested in joining a multidisciplinary team tackling one of the most critical times in mental health? Reach out – we’d love to hear from you!

#DepressionResearch #MentalHealth #PhDPosition #TRIAD

🧪 Our research wouldn't be possible without the dedication of our amazing psychology & medical students. Your work matters – and it shows.

🙌 Big thanks to all of you pushing science forward every day!

💡 Across generations in cooperation with Dr. Linda Bonnekoh from Klink für Kinder-und Jugendpsychiatrie UKMünster:

👧👦 @juliahubbert.bsky.social explores adolescent brain development (ONSET: Education)
🧑‍🦳👩‍🦳 @judithkrieger.bsky.social examines how parental depression affects children (ONSET: Parents)

🔍 In the @trr393.bsky.social project A04, @chris-jurischka.bsky.social dives deep into brain networks to understand how connectivity patterns shift during vulnerable periods!

💻: www.uni-marburg.de/en/trr-393

🧠 in FED:UP, Wiebke Ringels studies how synaptic lipids may link depression to metabolic dysfunctions. Yes, fat does matter in the brain!
💻: www.crc1451.uni-koeln.de/c8/
#Fasting #Depression

⚡Meet the team Pt.2⚡

🚨 What triggers depression – and when?
At TRIAD, led by @smeinert.bsky.social, our team investigates the crucial transitions that can set depression in motion. A thread on our current research 🧵👇

#Depression #Research #Transitions

📢 Publication Alert!

Excited to share our new paper on brain functional changes after naturalistic CBT in patients with depression. 🧠📉

Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

@tianaborgers.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social

#Depression #CBT #NeuralCorrelates #MentalHealth #Neuroscience

⚡Meet the team⚡

The ReFiNe-MDD team tackles the replication crisis!
We aim to conduct 60 replications in neuroimaging to
- estimate the replicability rate
- identify predictors of replicability
- derive guidelines to enhance replicability!
@janikgoltermann.bsky.social @luisa-al.bsky.social

Congratulations to @smeinert.bsky.social, honoured with the #EKFS Publication prize for her great Lancet Psychiatry publication „Associations between white matter microstructure and cognitive decline in MDD versus controls in Germany: a prospective case-control cohort study“!
© Vero Bielinski

Brain structural correlates of an impending initial major depressive episode - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Brain structural correlates of an impending initial major depressive episode

📢 Publication alert!

Check out our new study by Anna Kraus (&many more) on brain structural correlates of an impending initial major depressive episode published in @npp-journal.bsky.social 🧠

#MDD #GrayMatter

@trr393.bsky.social @smeinert.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌟 Rising Star Award 2025 🌟

Congratulations to @smeinert.bsky.social , honoured with the #ECPN Rising Star Award for her outstanding early-career research in applied and translational neuroscience!

The whole TraP-family is proud! 🫶

@uni-muenster.de @trr393.bsky.social
@dgps.bsky.social

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We hope that our results on brain aging in the course of affective disorders will make it through peer-review this year! Our preprint also comes with open materials and open data: osf.io/qadxz/

Please share @traplabms.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

The "Transition Research in Affective Disorders" (TRIAD) Team at the @traplabms.bsky.social Institute for Translational Psychiatry in Münster is dedicated to exploring transitional periods through the lens of the biopsychosocial triad.

🚨 Job Alert 🚨
I'm absolutely thrilled to share that our joint grant proposal with Natalia Chechko from the @rwth.bsky.social University Clinic Aachen has been approved by the @dfg.de!

@uni-muenster.de
@dgps.bsky.social
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
@traplabms.bsky.social

And with this, the #DPK comes to an end. We look back on a week filled with many interesting sessions, good talks, and of course also lots of fun! 🚀 @dpk-kongress.bsky.social @lisaleehr.bsky.social @smeinert.bsky.social @luisa-al.bsky.social