Young offenders’ self-regulation deficit as a common mechanism for aggressive behavior and psychopathology - neural mechanisms and role of adverse childhood experiences (B02)

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology ; Biological Psychiatry ; Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 512007073

B02 aims to identify cognitive and emotion control deficits in young offenders. In a series of studies using multimodal imaging (EEG-fMRI, EEG-sMRI) in combination with naturalistic longitudinal follow-up, B02 will identify the neural mechanisms and predictors of self-regulation deficits as a putative common developmental pathway for aggressive behavior and psychopathology. B02 will seek to causally confirm neural network mechanisms of inhibitory control and emotion regulation deficits as the basis of aggressive behavior and associated psychopathology by real-time EEG-triggered TMS in young offenders.

• 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. Wolfgang Retz; Professor Dr. Oliver Tüscher