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LOEWE Center DYNAMIC
The Dynamic Network Approach of Mental Health to Stimulate Innovations for Interventions and Change
Mental illnesses are among most common and most serious illnesses. Across the population, one in three people are affected at some point in their lives. When those affected receive earlier and more personalized help, the chances of successful treatment are also greater. This is why researchers from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, statistics and computer science are researching and working together in the LOEWE Center DYNAMIC with the shared vision of better understanding mental illness.
The aim of the project is to advance the diagnosis of mental illnesses, patient care and the development of methods. We want to move away from a description of mental illnesses as simple, separable categories and towards a description that takes the heterogeneity of the problems seriously and formalizes them accordingly. Fundamental to this is the development of a new understanding of mental illnesses as disorders of dynamic networks of psychopathological, psychological and neurobiological processes.
In this joint research project, the Departments of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry from the universities of Marburg, Frankfurt and Gießen are working together with the Computer Science Department of TU Darmstadt and the external institutes DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education and Ernst Strüngmann Institute ESI. The project will start in 01/2024 with a funding of EUR 33 million for the planned duration. The spokesperson until 2027 is Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief.