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Virtual Reality Therapy and Medical Technology

Research areas

  • Development of new examination and therapy approaches for ADHD, panic disorder & agoraphobia, anxiety disorders, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
  • Experimental studies on the psychopathology and plasticity of the self by means of different body-transfer illusions (e.g. supernumerary limb illusion und resized limb illusion) in dissociative disorders and psychoses.
  • Multimodal investigation (including EEG, EDA, EMG, ECG, actigraphy, eye tracking and fNIRS) of VR experiments.
  • Therapeutic testing of electrostimulatory procedures (especially tACS).
  • Research focus Digital Health Applications (DiGA) and Therapy-Apps.
  • Mobile sensing using smartphones and health trackers for ADHD and depression.

Currently running research projects

  • Assessment of sense of agency in obsessive-compulsive disorder using a virtual reality stove-checking paradigm (in Kooperation mit der Zwangsambulanz)
  • Smartphone-assisted exposure therapy in agoraphobia and panic disorder (M. Ehklas, M. Guth, A. Rodenjohann, F. Rohlfsen, J. Schilbach, A. Wiebe)
  • Body transfer illusions in dissociative disorders: a series of VR experiments (M. Pensel, A. Kobialka, J. Raschkowski)
  • Multimodal ADHD diagnostics: a virtual office study (A. Wiebe, A. Popova)
  • Virtual reality-based symptom characterization using complex motor tracking in adult ADHD and depression (J. Pakos, L. Asché, J. Schuder, H. Schrage)

Team

Alumni

Prizes and Awards

  • DIVR XR Science Award 2023 in category „Athletic Performance, Psychology & Health“ with the topic „Virtueller Seminarraum für die Diagnostik und Therapie der ADHS im Erwachsenenalter"
  • Research Award of the Elfriede Dietrich Foundation 2024 to Dr. Max Christian Pensel for conducting a study on the topic of „The impact of peritraumatic perception on the formation of intrusive memories“

Public media

Third-party funds raised

Opportunities for internships and dissertations

Professionally-suitable students (e.g. Psychology, Cognitive Science, Medicine, Informatics) who would like to write their master's or doctoral thesis about a clinical or neurophilosophical VR-related topic, are warmly welcomed to contact 

Current tenders

Opportunities for study participation

The VR-Laboratory as well as the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in general is constantly conducting new studies for which new study participants of all ages and sexes are being searched for.  

Please find under the following link a list of all currently running studies for which prospective probands are searched for.

 
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