NECTARINE

Worldwide the burden of mental disorders in humans continues to grow with significant impact on health and major social and human rights and economic consequences. Non-invasive neurostimulation is a promising method for treating mental disorders, as it may produce fewer side effects than medication and provide assistance to patients who do not respond to traditional treatments. Most existing neuromodulation methods have an unspecific and thus poorly understood impact on the brain and do not adapt to individual patients.

The research team develops patient-specific non-invasive neuromodulation techniques with a clinical focus on attention deficits in mental disorders. The team’s research work focusses on electric closed-loop neurostimulation methods adapting to single patients and on specific neuromodulation by auditory beats in theory and experiment. Moreover, we work out theoretical brain models and computational techniques to estimate brain models from experimental observations, such as behavioural data and electroencephalographic data.