Peripersonal space violations and social threat: daily life psychological and neural mechanisms of environmental risk for reactive aggression (A05)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience ; Biological Psychiatry
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 512007073

The representation of the space immediately surrounding the body, will be studied as an underlying factor for threat experience. Early-life stressors and daily-life stressors will be tested as factors influencing PPS processing and associated specific brain activation patterns. Location tracking and geoinformatics mapping, virtual reality (VR) experiments, physiological stress markers, and brain function during the processing of PPS violations in healthy at-risk individuals will be used to identify predictive biomarkers related to psychiatric risk, enhanced neural behavioral sensitivity to PPS interference and reactive aggression in daily life.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 379: Neuropsychobiology of Aggression: A Transdiagnostic Approach in Mental Disorders
• Applicant Institution: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg; Professorin Dr. Heike Tost