The role of thalamic and subthalamic nuclei in action planning and adaptation in hypo- and hyperkinetic motor disorders (C07)

• Subject Area: Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 431549029

Project C07 investigates how networks involved in the planning and adaptation of actions are modified in different neuropsychiatric disorders and by deep brain stimulation. Investigating participants with Tic Disorders, Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease and using simultaneous recordings of local field potential (LFP) and EEG activity as well as employing state of the art deep brain stimulation neuroimaging techniques, we aim to investigate the role of thalamic and subthalamic structures in motor adaptation and effort discounting.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1451: Key mechanisms of motor control in health and disease
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Dr. Till Anselm Dembek; Dr. Jan Niklas Petry-Schmelzer; Professorin Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, Ph.D.