This funding will support their clinical trial aimed at identifying drug compounds to prevent psychosis in individuals at clinical high risk, addressing a critical gap in psychiatric treatment.

This funding will support the human and animal experiments to Investigate Mechanism-based Biomarkers of Schizophrenia.

To promote communication, research, development, applications and the availability of information on magnetic resonance in medicine and biology and other related topics internationally; to develop and provide channels and facilities for continuing education and communication in the field; to ensure that scientists and clinicians working in the field have equal and fair opportunities to contribute to it.

Only 20 posters were selected from hundreds of submissions!

This project has also been accepted for an oral presentation at the International Congress of Psychopharmacology (ICP).

Their study explores brainstem-hypothalamic connectivity using combined T1-weighted MRI and diffusion MRI tractography, providing new insights into the neural pathways of the paraventricular nucleus, locus coeruleus, and dorsal vagal complex.

Investigation into superficial white matter (SMW) mapping using ultra‐high‐resolution diffusion MRI (0.76‐mm isotropic). Compared to standard data (1.25‐mm isotropic), significantly enhanced performance is achieved, particularly in short‐range SWM connections under 40 mm. To enable the study of finer details of SWM, future work should consider moving beyond standard dMRI.

This funding will support the development of high-resolution, comprehensive atlases of human brain morphology, advancing our understanding of neuroanatomy.

September 2021: Inga Koerte conducts research of brain trauma at LMU and Harvard Medical School. The physician and scientist is one of the winners of this year’s Prinzessin Therese von Bayern Preis.

August 2020: Dr. Suheyla Cetin Karayuma received the 2020 Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant for her grant proposal titled “Association of prenatal cannabis exposure and psychotic experiences in adolescents: a harmonized multi-site diffusion MRI study”. BBRF Young Investigator Grants enable promising investigators to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty. The goal of the program is to help researchers launch careers in neuroscience and psychiatry and gather pilot data to apply for larger federal and university grants.