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Together with the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the Department of Neurology (Prof. Ulrike Krämer) we will study a social event coding approach to echophenomena in Tourette.

The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour. Gallo S, Paracampo R, Müller-Pinzler L, Severo MC, Blömer L, Fernandes-Henriques C, Henschel A, Lammes BK, Maskaljunas T, Suttrup J, Avenanti A, Keysers C, Gazzola V. Elife. 2018 May 8;7. pii: e32740. doi: 10.7554/eLife.32740.

Scientists receive grants, bonuses, and tenure depending on the perceived impact of the journals in which they publish their research. Using the journal impact factor (JIF) for such purposes results in reasoning and argumentation fallacies. In our new publication we describe several “impact factor fallacies” by applying ideas from reasoning and argumentation research. We argue

Dr. Lena Rademacher was granted a “Eigene Stelle” by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for two years. In her project she will investigate the “Social aspects of restrictive eating behavior in anorexia nervosa”. Very cool!!

Frontiers in Psychiatry welcomes Professor Sören Krach from Lübeck University, Germany, as Specialty Chief Editor of the new Social Cognition section Professor Sören Krach heads the Social Neuroscience in Psychiatry group at Lübeck University’s Social Neuroscience Lab. His clinical research focuses primarily on Autism Spectrum Disorder and social anxiety. As the Specialty Chief Editor of the new Frontiers in Psychiatry section,