Circadian regulation of cognitive biases during adolescence (C04)

• Subject Area: Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience ; Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 541063275

The two psychologists, Ines Wilhelm-Groch and Sören Krach, team up to dissect the interaction between circadian rhythms and depressive symptoms via socio-emotional learning biases in adolescents. In healthy adolescents they will test immediate and delayed effects of circadian disruption on socio-emotional learning and mood combined with functional neuroimaging and computational modelling of behavior. Conversely, they will stabilize circadian rhythms in adolescents to normalize learning biases and reduce depressive symptoms.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 418: Foundations of Circadian Medicine
• Applicant Institution: shared FU Berlin and HU Berlin through:; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Sören Krach; Dr. Ines Wilhelm-Groch