Cognitive control as transdiagnostic construct for impulsive and compulsive disorders and its relation to self-control (C06)

• Subject Area: Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: from 2018 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178833530

Project C06 investigates if clinically relevant expressions of compulsivity and impulsivity reflect dysfunc-tions in the regulation of cognitive control, which lead to an imbalance of cognitive flexibility and stability. In a transdiagnostic approach, we will investigate control dysfunctions in clinical samples along compulsivity and impulsivity dimensions (obsessive-compulsive and alcohol-use disorder). The aim is to delineate transdiagnostic subgroups of individuals characterized by specific configurations of behavioral, neural, and self-reported control capabilities, and to examine how these groups differ in real-life self-control and quality of life. Results will be relevant for mechanism-based therapies of dysregulations of cognitive control.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 940: Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators and Dysfunctions
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Heads: Dr. Raoul Dieterich, since 7/2020; Professorin Dr. Tanja Endrass