Universitätsklinikum Essen
Institut für Medizinische Psychologie
und Verhaltensimmunbiologie
Address
Hufelandstraße 55
45147 Essen
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
45147 Essen
Projects
Research Grants
Completed projects
Altered visceral and psychological stress signal processing in visceral hyperalgesia: Role of central pain processing and local inflammation in the gut.
(Applicant
Elsenbruch, Sigrid
)
Arbeitstitel: Psychobiologische Grundlagen des pathologischen Spielverhaltens - funktionell-neuroanatomische Korrelate auf der Basis kombinierter funktionell-magnetresonanztomografischer und elektrophysiologischer Untersuchungen
(Applicant
Exton, Michael
)
Behaviorally conditioned changes in peripheral immune functions: kinetics, affernet pathways and central processings
(Applicants
Krügel, Ute
;
Schedlowski, Manfred
)
Der Einfluss aktivitätssteigernder psychotherapeutischer Interventionen auf psychoneuroimmunologische Parameter von Patienten mit Depression
(Applicants
Rief, Ph.D., Winfried
;
Schedlowski, Manfred
)
Effects of experimental endotoxemia on the neural processing of visceral and somatosensory stimuli
(Applicants
Benson, Sven
;
Elsenbruch, Sigrid
)
Effects of negative mood and systemic inflammation on visceral pain
(Applicant
Benson, Sven
)
Effects of sexual arousal and orgasm on neuroendocrine parameters: mechanisms and clinical relevance
(Applicant
Forsting, Michael
)
Inflammatory mechanisms in a two-hit mouse model of neurodevelopmental disease
(Applicant
Engler, Harald
)
Mechanismen der Klassischen Konditionierung T-Zell-abhängiger immunsuppressiver und immunstimulierender Effekte bei der Ratte
(Applicant
Schedlowski, Manfred
)
Research Units
Completed projects
Central tasks of all subprojects of the Research Unit
(Applicant
Rief, Ph.D., Winfried
)
Effects of emotional context on placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia in a visceral pain model
(Applicant
Elsenbruch, Sigrid
)
Extinction and renewal in behaviorally conditioned immunosuppression
(Applicant
Schedlowski, Manfred
)
FOR 1328: Expectation and Conditioning as Basic Processes of the Placebo and Nocebo Response
(Spokesperson
Rief, Ph.D., Winfried
)
Molecular regulation and functional efficacy of T cell responses in a mouse model of social stress and patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
(Applicants
Engler, Harald
;
Groettrup, Marcus
)
Neural mechanisms of learning and extinction in human visceral pain
(Applicant
Elsenbruch, Sigrid
)
Neurobehavioral mechanisms of learned immunosuppressive placebo responses: from basics towards clinical application
(Applicant
Schedlowski, Manfred
)
Stress by acute inflammation in humans: Effects on brain activity, neuropsychological performance and social behavior
(Applicant
Schedlowski, Manfred
)
Heisenberg Fellowships
Completed projects
Medizinische Psychologie
(Applicant
Elsenbruch, Sigrid
)
Research Fellowships
Completed projects
The role of PPARgamma-dependent communication pathways between brain endothelial cells and perivascular macrophages in immune-to-brain communication
(Applicant
Grigoleit, Ph.D., Jan-Sebastian
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Current projects
How learning shapes immunity
(Project Heads
Hadamitzky, Martin
;
Schedlowski, Manfred
)
The impact of chronic inflammation on fear extinction
(Project Heads
Elsenbruch, Sigrid
;
Engler, Harald
)
CRC/Transregios
Current projects
Central scientific project: Overarching psychometric and neuroendocrine assessments
(Project Heads
Engler, Harald
;
Müller, Erik M.
;
Rief, Ph.D., Winfried
;
Schedlowski, Manfred
;
Shedden Mora, Ph.D., Meike
)
Changing sickness symptom expectations: Effects on objective and subjective symptom dynamics in an experimental model of inflammation-induced sickness
(Project Heads
Benson, Sven
;
Rohn, Hana
)
Communicating the science of treatment expectations – from healthcare professionals to patients and back
(Project Heads
Benson, Sven
;
Bingel, Ulrike
;
Hartmann, Ph.D., Helena
)
Neurobiological mechanisms and temporal dynamics of negative treatment expectations in an animal model of sickness behavior
(Project Heads
Engler, Harald
;
Heiß-Lückemann, Laura
;
Schedlowski, Manfred
)
Treatment expectation in clinical and experimental inflammatory skin conditions
(Project Heads
Benson, Sven
;
Schedlowski, Manfred
;
Sondermann, Wiebke
)
Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 1045: Modulation of Host Cell Functions to Treat Viral and Bacterial Infections
(Spokesperson
Dittmer, Ulf
)
