Systems Neuroscience in Depression

Dr. Thomas Frodl is currently Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. He studied medicine at the Free University Berlin and the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree. His training to specialize in psychiatry and psychotherapy was at the Department of Psychiatry of Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich, where he became consultant psychiatrist. Between 2008 and 2014 he was Professor and chair of clinical neuroimaging at the Department of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin within the international excellence program of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and worked as consultant psychiatrist in the clinical services of the University Hospitals St. James´s and AMNCH-Tallaght. He is author of more than 130 original publications and received the Hormosan Scientific Award of the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology and the Research Award of the German Society of Biological Psychiatry (in 2005 and 2006).

Developmental Aspects1. A multilevel developmental psychopathology systems perspective on depression2. Early Life Adversity and Risk for Depression: Alterations in Cortisol and Brain Structure and Function as Mediating Mechanisms

Experimental System Neuroscience 3. Novel targets in the glutamate and nitric oxide neurotransmitter systems for the treatment of depression4. Anti-inflammatory and immune-modulatory therapeutic approaches in depression5. Molecular Mechanisms of Depression

System Neuroscience 6. Epigenetics Mechanisms in Depression7. Identifying Large scale neural networks using fMRI 8. Imaging functional systems in depression9. Integrating the Stress Systems and Neuroimaging in Depression10. Depression in children and adolescents11. Systems Neuroscience in Late-Life Depression12. Arousal regulation in affective disorders