Great news! The collaborative research center (CRC) TRR 418 on “Circadian Medicine” was granted to a Berlin-Lübeck research consortium
As part of the CRC TRR 418, Prof Ines Wilhelm-Groch and Prof Sören Krach will be studying the chronobiological foundations of how social information processing is linked to time-of-day fluctuations and chronotype.
Project title:
Circadian regulation of cognitive biases during adolescence
In this project we will use computational neuroscience, polysomnography, actigraphy, experience sampling, and light therapy to investigate how circadian disruption affects cognitive biases and depressive symptoms in healthy adolescents. First, we will examine the association of time of day and chronotype with cognitive biases and depressive symptoms (WP1).
Second, we will examine the immediate and longitudinal effects of circadian disruption on cognitive biases and symptom trajectories (WP2).
Finally, we will test whether stabilizing circadian rhythms can normalize cognitive biases and reduce depressive symptoms (WP3).
