The overall project "Translational Pruritus Research" will receive funding of around 4.5 million euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) over the next three years. In the subproject TP 06 the project managers Prof. Dr. Dr. B. Pfleiderer, Prof. Dr. E. Pogatzki-Zahn and Prof. Dr. Dr. S. Ständer plan to investigate the influence of skin alterations due to chronic scratching (lichenified vs. non-lichenified skin) on the peripheral and central level and obtain deeper knowledge on the functional changes of the peripheral and central nervous systems, including inhibitory descending pathways and central sensitization. DFG-FOR 2690, PF 244/15-1 - TP 06, From 2018-09-01 to 2021-08-31, ongoing project. DFG contribution: EUR 256.700
Group members: Dipl. Biol. Mahboobeh Dehghan-Nayyeri, Nadine Heberle, Marilena Single, Ruth Büter, Dominika Kotas, Rebecca Ritterbach, Miriam Missler
Gender-specific differences of itching
Cooperations: Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Sonja Ständer (Kompetenzzentrum Pruritus, University Hospital Münster), Prof. Dr. med. Gudrun Schneider (Section for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Münster)
Gender specific processing of chronic and post-operative pain in the brain
Project 1: in healthy subjects: influences of gender and hormones
Project 2: Investigation of pain perception and brain activity in female patients with fibromyalgia
Cooperations: Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Esther Pogatzki-Zahn (Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Münster), Prof. Dr. med. Markus Burgmer (Section for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Münster)
Group members: Anika Mauritz
Improving frontline responses to High Impact Domestic Violence (IMPRODOVA)
Sixteen international organizations from different fields have joined forces in the project "Improving Frontline Responses to High Impact Domestic Violence", short IMPRODOVA (Flyer), to sensitize the public and first aiders in dealing with domestic violence. H2020-SEC-2016-2017-2. From 2018-05-01 to 2021-04-30, ongoing project. EU contribution: EUR 282.500
Group members: Dipl. Psych. Lisa Sondern MA, Paulina Juszczyk MA
What role does dentistry play in the detection of serious domestic violence? A literature review
In a literature review, the role of the dentist as contact person and examiner in cases of severe domestic violence should be analyzed. For example, what are possible indications of domestic violence? Furthermore, it should be analyzed to what extend the domestic violence is addressed as a problem during student training and further education of dentists as well as to what extent an education takes place on this topic. The aim is to compile the current state of research and, based on this, to develop recommendations on how the findings could be integrated into training and further education in dentistry.
Group member: Jana Bregulla
Open exchange platform "GenderMed-Wiki"
Cooperations: PD Dr. Jan C. Becker (Institute for Education and Student Affairs, University Hospital Münster), PD Dr. Andrea Kindler-Röhrborn (Essen University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Research Group: Molecular genetic tumor prevention research), Prof. Dr. Christian Fegeler (Heilbronn University), Prof.in Dr. Margarete Hochleitner (Medical University of Innsbruck)
Group members: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Bettina Pfleiderer
Flyer GenderMed-Wiki
Link to the open exchange platform GenderMed-Wiki
Evaluation of the use of online medical knowledge platforms among doctors depending on age, gender and discipline
Digitalization and the opportunities and risks associated with it in terms of medical patient care pose fundamental challenges to the professional profile of doctors. The use of online knowledge platforms is becoming increasingly important both in everyday medical work and in terms of medical training. Acceptance-moderating factors among doctors such as age, gender, specialist discipline and the affiliation to a specific healthcare sector have not been adequately scientifically investigated.
As part of an exploratory pilot study methodically based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (Venkatesh et al. 2003), both the perceived benefit and any barriers in the use of such applications were examined in a differentiated manner. Over 700 doctors took part in the twelve-month survey period. The corresponding statistical analysis has started. The results should help to facilitate the development of user-oriented offers and to realize the potential associated with an increased implementation of online knowledge platforms.
Group member: Benedikt Bradtke
The influence of gender-typical stereotypes on mental rotation performance
In this project, the influence of gender-typical stereotypes on the performance of men and women by the mental rotation of objects is examined using fMRI studies and behavioral data. Other behavioral measures, the ability of motoric thinking as well as the capacity of the working memory, just as the hormone status of the test subjects are further influences that will be taken into account in the work.
Cooperation partner: Dr. rer. medic. Yuka Morikawa
Group member: Lisa Sondern MSc.
epimedGender.net - Sub-project “Gender-sensitive concepts in neuroscience“
Cooperations: Prof. Dr. med. Michael Zitzmann (Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University Hospital Münster)
Gender specific encoding and retrieval in memory tasks
Project 1: gender specific influences, influence of hormones and age
Project 2: influence of music on encoding performance
Cooperations: Prof. Dr. med. Michael Zitzmann (Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University Hospital Münster)
Group members: Yuka Morikawa, Moritz Eikelmann, Katharina Pleuser, Anna Kristin Gwinner, Eva Pohlkötter
Audiovisual Speech Integration in Dyslexia
Cooperation: Dr. M.A. Birgit Breninger, Thomas Kaltenbacher (Intercultural College Salzburg)
Patients with anxiety disorders
Project 1: Interoception in patients with panic disorder before and after behaviour therapy, correlations with genetic factors
Project 2: Conditioning of patients with social phobia
Cooperations: Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Gerlach (Faculty of Human Sciences, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne), Univ.-Prof. Dr med. Dr. Katharina Domschke (Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg), Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Carsten Konrad (AGAPLESION DIAKONIEKLINIKUM ROTENBURG), Univ.-Prof. Dr. J. Deckert (Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Würzburg)
Group members: Maike Göllner, Christina Austmann, Hanna Koch, Adeline Dombrowski
Diagnostic classification and multimodal modeling of MRI data for depression
Group member: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Bettina Pfleiderer
Cooperations: Forschungsverbund BiDirect-Studie, Institut für Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin, Dr. med. Benedikt Sundermann (Institute of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Evangelical Hospital Oldenburg), Prof. Gwenaëlle Douaud (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxforf)
Cognitive abilities in adult patients with phenylketonuria or fetal alcohol syndrome
Cooperations: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. soz. Josef Weglage (Child and adolescent psychiatry, Haus Walstedde), Dr. rer. med. Dipl. Psych. Reinhold Feldmann (Child and adolescent psychiatry, Haus Walstedde), PD Dr. med. Frank Rutsch (Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, General pediatrics, University Hospital Münster), Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Thorsten Marquardt (Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, General pediatrics, University Hospital Münster), Dr. med. Wolfram Schwindt (Senior Physician, Institute for Clinical Radiology, Unversity Hospita Münster), Dr. med. Benedikt Sundermann (Institute of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Evangelical Hospital Oldenburg)
Group members: Dipl. Biol. Mahboobeh Dehghan-Nayyeri, Stefan Garde, Johanna Rau, Anna Brajie
Specific Language Impairment in children
Specific Language Impairment is defined as a significant delay in language development in the absence of non-verbal cognitive deficits, neurological damage, psychiatric disease or peripheral hearing loss. SLI affects 6-8 % of children attending pre-school and is therefore a common neurodevelopmental disorder in children. A multifactorial etiology is suspected, in which genetic mutations, structural neurological changes and environmental factors interact.
In this project we investigate whether families of children with specific language impairments demonstrate structural, architectural changes in the white matter fiber tracts, especially those relevant for language processing.
Cooperation partners: Dr. med. Sabrina Regele (Clinic for Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Münster), Dr. rer. medic. Jochen Bauer (Institute for Clinical Radiology, University Hospital Münster), Dr. rer. nat. Albrecht Röpke (Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Münster), Dr. med. Benedikt Sundermann (Institute for Radiology and Neuroradiology, Evangelical Hospital Oldenburg)
Group member: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Bettina Pfleiderer