Professor and chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Würzburg; views are my own; interested in behaviors, soccer, and books
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May 27
Happy to see our new paper 📰 out:
Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments: A study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
@Team_Schmutz @UZH_ch @unibern @Uniklinikum_Wue
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during extended stays of small expert teams in confined extreme environments, social interaction and team coherence decrease, while loneliness, paranoid ideation, and team conflicts increase. Surprisingly, intense social interaction was associated with more paranoid ideation.
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May 27
findings are of interest for long-term stays in extreme environments, such as space flights. Monitoring psychosocial functioning and social interaction will be key for successful human space exploration.
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Mar 28
New paper alert:
Much insight from a simple measure of motor control and general fitness:
Transdiagnostic Patterns of Grip Strength in Schizophrenia, Current Depression, and Remitted Depression jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Mar 28
thanks to a great team effort:
Sofie von Känel, Anastasia Pavlidou, Stew Shankman, Vijay Mittal and many others
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31 Oct 2025
The scariest thing in academia 😅
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24 Oct 2025
🧠 New Editorial in JPN! 🧠
"Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf." — Osler.
In our latest piece, “Quantitative Semiology: AI-Generated Teaching Signals in Psychiatry,” we explore how psychiatry can evolve by embracing clinical signs
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26 Oct 2025
🧠mechanisms of psychomotor abnormalities...
Our @PNASNews paper shows distinct areas in the primary motor cortex are involved in psychomotor behaviors. Orchestration of complex movement is impaired and could become a TMS🧲target
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425388…
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19 Oct 2025
Our exciting RCT is out. We combined rTMS with group psychotherapy in psychosis to improve nonverbal communication and social functioning. The combination improved social functioning that was maintained six months after the trial.
@molpsychiatry
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19 Oct 2025
We thought we knew the primary motor cortex. Turns out that functional organization is more complex. The intereffector regions in M1 are altered in psychosis with psychomotor slowing and connectivity is linked to complex behaviors.
New paper in PNAS:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425388…
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4 Jan 2025
RT @GregStrauss8: New paper @SchizBulletin w/ 943 schizophrenia and 250 high-risk for psychosis participants replicated across 6 datasets:…
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17 Dec 2024
Thanks for highlighting our work @NIMHgov !
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12 Dec 2024
🚨We are hiring a ⭐️Research Assistant⭐️ to run rTMS 🧲🧠 clinical trials in people with substance use and psychosis @VUMCPsych ! RAs get lots of clinical contact and experience with neuromodulation! Great for someone applying to MD or PhD programs! vumc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/v…
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3 Dec 2024
We are hiring!
Postdoc position in Data Science in Neuroscience in our lab @EPFL_en Cutting-edge research analyzing rich datasets (VR, physiol, behav, metabolism, neuroimaging) to understand stress, anxiety & motivation
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#Postdoc #DataScience #Neuroscience
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30 Nov 2024
Letzter Tag eines spannenden DGPPN Kongresses
Heute sogar mit etwas Sonne in Berlin
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26 Nov 2024
Exciting new perspective on social interaction by a fantastic team from @Uni_WUE @Uniklinikum_Wue
@Hein_Lab @The_Gamer_Lab @ldeserno
New publication in #Neuroscience and Biobehavior Reviews! We propose a new model that links #social #connectedness with individual differences in social information processing.
👀➡️doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.…
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12 Nov 2024
👏🏾👏🏼👏Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Maximilian Friedrich zum NeuroTech-Innovationspreis @DSZimSV Mehr über seine Forschung zur KI-basierten Videoanalyse in der Neurologie, insbesondere bei Bewegungsstörungen wie der #Parkinson-Krankheit erfahren Sie hier ➡️ ukw.de/aktuelle-meldungen/de…
ALT Dr. Maximilian U. Friedrich, Assistenzarzt und Wissenschaftler an der Neurologischen Klinik und Poliklinik des UKW, erhielt auf dem Jahreskongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie (DGN) in Berlin den mit 50.000 Euro dotierten „NeuroTech-Innovationspreis“ der Manfred und Ursula Müller-Stiftung und der DGN. © DGN/Claudius Pflug
9 Nov 2024
Tremendously honored to be the inaugural recipient of the NeuroTech Innovation prize of the Manfred & Ursula Mueller Stiftung and the German Society for Neurology #DGN2024 to further develop computer vision approaches for movement disorders neurology. Here with the Müller family and Prof. Lars Timmermann.
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12 Nov 2024
Happy to see this out. A review on sensorimotor systems and psychopathology led by rising star Juston Osborne
Aberrant psychomotor behavior is found in multiple psychiatric disorders and may aid early detection and staging
@AdaptProg @NEARLab_
12 Nov 2024
A new review examining the #RDoC Sensorimotor Systems Domain illustrates how motor system dysfunction is involved in the pathophysiology of many psychiatric conditions; doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2024.1… @WaltherSeb @AdaptProg
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10 Nov 2024
I look forward to bringing the Swiss perspective in this European panel!
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