Research Activities

Our most important research topics are:

• Neurocognitive impairments in psychoses (particularly schizophrenia) and dementias
• Neurological soft signs in schizophrenic patients and their relatives
• Early detection and differential diagnosis of dementias
• Development and clinical validation of psychometric and experimental methods for the assessment of cognitive and motor impairments in psychiatric diseases
• Development and validation of (premorbid) intelligence estimators

Since January 1998 we conducted 7 research projects with financial grants by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), the Commission for Clinical Resarch (Kommission für Klinische Forschung, KKF), and other sponsors (see Granted Research Projects).

In addition to these logistically more demanding projects, we realized a number of research studies without extern financial help, many of them in cooperation with other clinical and reasearch teams within or outside our hospital (see Other Studies).

During the last years, major efforts were the Munich COGPIP-Study, the preIQ-Study, and the SEEWOLF-Study (for more details, see links on the left).