NEWS
Dec 2024
ResolvePAIN enters second funding period. The DFG has renewed funding for the Clinical Research Group KFO 5001, providing over €8 million to support its work for another four years. The DCL will participate with a project on periaqueductal grey circuit processes during pain resolution. Read the press-release
Jul 2024
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Donation from the Vogel Stiftung Dr. Eckernkamp. The Vogel Stiftung Dr. Eckernkamp has supported the Defense Circuits Lab with a donation of 10 000€. Read the press-release
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May 2024
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Continuation of project on defensive states in Parkinson´s Disease. The DFG has approved funding for a second round of the collaborative research centre SFB TRR 295 Retune. The DCL's contribution over the next three and a half years will be to investigate how Parkinson´s Disease affects the circuits underlying fear-induced freezing. Read the DFG press-release
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Mar 2024
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Brain awareness week. Join us for a neuroscientific bar night held at Standard on the 13.03.2024! There will be interesting talks on brain function, games and discussions.
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LATEST RESEARCH
A framework for cardio-behavioral defensive states.
The defense response to threat involves complex behavioral and autonomic adjustments. We identified integrated, short-lasting micro- and long-lasting macrostates evoked by threat, consisting of patterned behavioral and cardiac responses, which are dynamically interrelated, dependent on environmental threat levels, and controlled by neurons in the midbrain periaqueductal grey region.
