Project Details
Cortical synaptic strength and behavioural rhythms in bipolar depression: a randomized dose-response study of wake therapy (C04)
Subject Area
Biological Psychiatry
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 521379614
Rapid Eye Movement sleep is linked to symptom change and synaptic plasticity in the left prefrontal cortex. The project leverages sophisticated electrophysiological methodologies, integrating Electroencephalography and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, to evaluate alterations in neuroplasticity indices in relation to brain-sleep-variables in patients with bipolar disorder. Employing a structured randomized dose-response protocol, we want to elucidate the influence of REM-sleep via wake therapy on neuroplasticity, clinical symptomatology, and cognitive-emotional processes.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Subproject of
TRR 393:
Trajectories of Affective Disorders: Cognitive-emotional Mechanisms of Symptom Change
Applicant Institution
Philipps-Universität Marburg