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Speaker: Gunter Schumann Host: International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP)

Precision Medicine and Global Mental Health.

Special Seminar

Date: Mar 8, 2018
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gunter Schumann
Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS) | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience | King's College London
Location: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Room: Lecture Hall
Host: International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP)
Contact: imprs-tp@psych.mpg.de

Precision medicine aims to reduce the burden of mental disorders by identifying disease markers based on neural processes that predict psychopathology and enable stratification for targeted interventions. [more]

The environment, brain and behaviour: results from large scale neuroimaging cohorts

Seminar

Date: Feb 28, 2019
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gunter Schumann
Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS) | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience; King's College London, London UK
Location: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Nußbaumstraße 7, Munich
Room: Library
Host: International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP)
Contact: imprs-tp@psych.mpg.de

Mental illness accounts for 28% of disease burden among non-communicable diseases . Environmental factors account for up to 20% of the attributable risk for mental disorders. To advance precision medicine in psychiatry, we therefore need to take into account environmental and lifestyle factors, and characterise the biological and neuronal mechanisms that mediate their effect on behaviour. [more]