Topics we address:
- Social interactions and their relationship to health and well-being
- Genetic architecture of brainstem and thalamus structures and their roles in neurological and psychiatric disorders
- Neurobiological mechanisms underlying the acute antidepressant effects of sleep deprivationSynaptic function in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
- How sleep and brain plasticity are related in health and depression
- Gut-brain interaction
- Development of structural equational models for functional data
- How social factors and internal states influence cognitive control processes
- Characteristics and consequences of pleasant touch
- How humans attribute value to sensory stimuli (“mechanisms of reward valuation”)
The group is associated with the Leknes Affective Brain lab