Basic research in psychosomatics focuses on a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the complex biomedical interaction between physical and mental factors. Modern approaches in experimental research, systems medicine and systems biology offer a promising and innovative translational research perspective in this area. A profound and causal understanding of these complex bio-psycho-social relationships would be a groundbreaking ­success in developing new therapeutic approaches.

CURRENT PROJECTS FROM THE AREA

• Nociceptive predictive processing and allostatic load in fibromyalgia: a computational modelling approach
• Ivestigating the interaction of emotional reactivity and neural reward processing in patients with complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• The significance of an impaired psychosocial stress response on the release of reactive metabolites as a possible cause of diabetic complications
• Epigenetic Signaling in a Mouse Model of Takotsubo Syndrome
• Translational studies in pain chronicity - role of corticothalamostriatal pathway in stress-sensitisation and comorbidity development