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Brain stimulation in psychiatry

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01 January 2021
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For most mental disorders, the underlying pathobiology is still unknown. Furthermore, current treatment strategies including psychotherapy and medication fall short of alleviating all symptoms effectively, leaving many patients insufficiently treated. Brain stimulation techniques offer two important strategies for psychiatry: First, they can be used to probe brain function both in health and disease, contributing to the understanding of disease mechanisms. Second, brain stimulation may target relevant brain areas in mental disorders to modulate single symptoms or syndromes directly. Either individualized or broad applications have the potential to move the field forward, thus improving patients’ lives.

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  • Sebastian Walther, MD, University of Bern, Switzerland Sebastian Walther, MD, University of Bern, Switzerland  &

    Sebastian Walther, MD, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Sebastian Walther, MD is Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and head of the outpatient department at the University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland. He received research awards of the DGPPN, SSBP and the Swiss Brain League. Dr. Walther investigates the pathobiology of psychopathological dimensions such as motor abnormalities, formal thought disorder, paranoia, or anhedonia. His research program combines behavioral experiments, multimodal neuroimaging, psychotherapy and various brain stimulation techniques to target symptom dimensions in psychoses and affective disorders. His research is funded by the SNF and NIMH.

  • Chris Baeken MD, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium Chris Baeken MD, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium

    Chris Baeken MD, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium

    Chris Baeken, MD, PhD is a qualified psychiatrist and associate Professor in Psychiatry at Ghent University and at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)t, Belgium. He is also affiliated to the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. As Principal Investigator of the Ghent Experimental Psychiatry lab (GHEP), his main research goals are to gain more insight into the underlying mechanisms of emotional brain processes in both the 'healthy' and the 'mentally affected' brain, using multimodal neuroimaging techniques in combination with neurostimulation.

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