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The SNL welcomes Jessica Royer from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) for a two months lab visit. Jessica is a clinical neuropsychologist focusing on socio-affective networks in persons with epilepsy. She uses multimodal MRI and electrophysiology, specifically high-density scalp EEG and intracranial recordings. Her work at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) is co-supervised by Dr. Birgit Frauscher

To deepen her expertise in neuroimaging and network neuroscience, Yana Schwarze is visiting the Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, headed by Boris Bernhardt, at McGill University.  

Great news! Jonathan Czollek, doctoral student in our lab, received the junior teaching award for the seminar “Diversity psychology”! Jonathan, together with colleagues, recently established the Institute for Diversity Psychology. Jonathan is also member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee at the German Psychological Association (DGPs). 

Congratulations to Annalina V. Mayer for receiving clinician scientist funding from Lübeck University! Annalina will return to the research group in April 2023 and continue her postdoc in translational neuroscience with the Social Neuroscience Lab! 

Reactivation and abstraction of self-related social information during sleep   In this newly granted DFG project, as part of the larger Research Unit “Information abstraction during sleep” (PI: Jan Born), we will study the functional role of reactivation during sleep for the abstraction of gist from self-related social information. Principal investigators of the project are Susanne

Congratulations to Nora Czekalla for receiving a “Corona & Wissenschaft 2022” stipend to finish her PhD! 

Neurocomputational mechanisms of fatigue in Long-COVID and their links to immune activation One of the most prominent symptoms of Long COVID is fatigue. David Stolz now received funding from the Else-Kröner Fresenius Stiftung to investigate the hitherto unexamined psychological and neurobiological processes underlying fatigue with the aim to improve prediction and early intervention.  The project will start in February