Young offenders’ self-regulation deficit as a common mechanism for aggressive behavior and psychopathology - neural mechanisms and role of adverse childhood experiences (B02)

B02 aims to identify cognitive and emotion control deficits in young offenders. In a series of studies using multimodal imaging (EEG-fMRI, EEG-sMRI) in combination with naturalistic longitudinal follow-up, B02 will identify the neural mechanisms and predictors of self-regulation deficits as a putative common developmental pathway for aggressive behavior and psychopathology. B02 will seek to causally confirm neural network mechanisms of inhibitory control and emotion regulation deficits as the basis of aggressive behavior and associated psychopathology by real-time EEG-triggered TMS in young offenders.

DFG Programme CRC/Transregios

Subproject of TRR 379:  Neuropsychobiology of Aggression: A Transdiagnostic Approach in Mental Disorders

Applicant Institution Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Project Heads Professor Dr. Wolfgang Retz; Professor Dr. Oliver Tüscher