Paper out - big congrats to Dahna Choi! How #empathy & #perspectivetaking relate to #depression, specifically disease severity @trr393.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @lisaleehr.bsky.social @straubeb.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/jclp...

When Being Social Is Costly: Empathy's Role for Risk States, Acute Symptoms, and Cumulative Disease Severity of Depression

Objectives Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) frequently report burdensome interpersonal difficulties and altered empathy and perspective-taking. Previous findings on binary comparisons b.....

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This Saturday, we will be participating in the German Patient Congress on Depression in the Alte Oper Frankfurt with an info booth (you'll find us in the Clara Schumann Foyer). We are looking forward to chat with you! Find all details and tickets here: depressionsliga.de/kalender/pat...

Patientenkongress Depression 2026 - Deutsche Depressionsliga e. V.

Am 30. Mai 2026 veranstaltet die Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe und Suizidprävention den Deutschen Patientenkongress Depression in der Alten Oper Frankfurt am Main.

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Grateful to have attended #SOBP2026 in New York this year. The conference theme “Building Better Brains: From Synapses to Societies” sparked inspiring discussions and offered insights into biological psychiatry and neuroimaging. @uni-muenster.de @trr393.bsky.social @traplabms.bsky.social

For today's #WorldBipolarDay we spoke with one of our #livedexperience experts who shared personal insights on living with #BipolarDisorder. Read about first symptoms, challenges, support systems, and what it can mean to take part in research projects here: www.uni-marburg.de/en/trr-393/n...

Our special issue on the CRC/TRR 393 "Trajectories of Affective Disorders" is out. Find out all about the project here www.springermedizin.de/der-nervenar... @trr393.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @unimarburg.bsky.social

Our new open dataset www.nature.com/articles/s41... NEVi @tudresden.bsky.social provides 112 validated video clips to elicit negative emotions, with valence and arousal ratings to study emotion with dynamic stimuli also used by @trr393.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social

NEVi: Negative Emotional Video dataset – categorizing stimulus intensity ratings based on valence and arousal - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - NEVi: Negative Emotional Video dataset – categorizing stimulus intensity ratings based on valence and arousal

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SFB/TRR 393 related research project "MindShift" receives more than € 870.000 of funding in 2025 Hessen Ideas Competition. Congratulations! www.uni-marburg.de/en/trr-393/n...

Introduction to the interventions tested in our @trr393.bsky.social consortium to improve #depression and #bipolardisorder Big thanks to @lisaleehr.bsky.social! @unimarburg.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @dfg.de @dgps.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What to target? Interventions to modulate key mechanisms underlying the trajectories of affective disorders in the transregional Collaborative Research Center 393 - Der Nervenarzt

Background Affective disorders are associated with an enormous disease burden, necessitating research on the mechanisms of effective treatments. Objectives This article introduces the intervention pro...

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Let's meet at the #DGPPN! Our members are happy to chat with you at our info desk in the exhibition hall, right across the main entrance - stop by to get to know the people behind the hashtag #SFBTRR393 👥 (also: we have sweets 🤭) #DGPPN2025 #DGPPNKongress

🧠 Our CRC/TRR 393 consortium outlines key mechanisms of affective disorders — focusing on emotion regulation, expectation, social cognition, and cognitive-behavioral rhythms. Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s001... @kanske.bsky.social @markuswohr.bsky.social @lisaleehr.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social

Key mechanisms of affective disorders - Der Nervenarzt

Background Although affective disorders are a major driver of disability worldwide, there is a lack of understanding of the mechanisms and modulating factors involved in the long-term disease trajecto...

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During last week's retreat, we awarded #posterprizes to the best 3 of ~70 excellent #ECR posters. 🎉 Congratulations to winners Vera Ludwig, Alina Nostadt, Claudia Förster Ribet, Tung Anh Nguyen & Theresa Kolb - thank you to all ECRs for presenting your research and engaging in lively discussions!

Last week, 130 researchers of the #SFBTRR393 & invited guests gathered at Kulturrathaus Dresden for an inspiring retreat. 4 days of sharing recent results, discussing new directions, and strengthening collaborations across sites. More & more difficult to get everyone into one photo, but we managed!

Impressive keynote lecture on "Functional and metabolic imaging in major Depression" by Thomas Frodl. @rwth.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social

Super inspiring talk at the SFB/TRR 393 retreat by Samuel Swidzinski, author of "Winning the War with Bipolar" and the host of the "Winning the War Within" podcast. @trr393.bsky.social

📢 Publication alert! Check out our new study by Anna Kraus (&many more) on brain structural correlates of an impending initial major depressive episode published in @npp-journal.bsky.social 🧠 #MDD #GrayMatter @trr393.bsky.social @smeinert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain structural correlates of an impending initial major depressive episode - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Brain structural correlates of an impending initial major depressive episode

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Join the #SFBTRR393 in Marburg! Two open PhD positions (65%) in A04, investigating inflection signals in #depression using MRI, EMA & EEG. You’re passionate about translational #psychiatry and want to work in an interdisciplinary environment? Apply by April 27 via the official portal ⬇️ #ResearchJob

DPK Symposium feat. @smeinert.bsky.social 🧬🧠 🧩 Title: Chancen experimenteller Psychopathologie für die Weiterentwicklung der klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie (mit Prof. Jan Richter!) 📅 When: Thursday, April 10th, 2025 | 3:00 – 4:30 PM 📍 Where: Room Strassburg @dpk-kongress.bsky.social #DPK

We'll be @DPK2025 - check out the fantastic talks by @katfoerster.bsky.social @annikakonrad.bsky.social @ingmarheinig.bsky.social @larapuhlmann.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social & more @dpk-kongress.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

@trr393.bsky.social und @dpk-kongress.bsky.social Herzliche Einladung zu unserem Symposium zu den Schlüsselmechanismen der Trajektorien affektiver Erkrankungen

Congrats - very proud of Ingmar Heinig 🎉 This is one of the very cool @trr393.bsky.social projects 👇

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Poster award for Ingmar Heinig at the 33rd @dgvt-dgvtbv.bsky.social Congress The presented project “Stress transmission and couple affect training in depressive disorders” is part of the Collaborative Research Center “Course of Affective Disorders” @unimarburg.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @dfg.de

In the light of #worldbipolarday, Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Bauer, the #sfbtrr393 local spokesperson at @tudresden.bsky.social was interviewed about current developments in #bipolardisorder research: www.uni-marburg.de/en/trr-393/n...

Hi! We are the SFB/TRR 393 "Trajectories of Affective Disorders: Cognitive-Emotional Mechanisms of Symptom Change" - a transregional @dfg.de collaborative research center & interdisciplinary team of researchers working together to better understand what influences the course of affective disorders👇🏻🧵