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Mind, Cognition & Health

The department bundles the RUB's successful research traditions in psychology, cognitive and neurosciences as well as analytical philosophy into a nationally unique research focus.

RUB has been successfully combining different research paradigms for some time now: psychology and cognitive neuroscience research at a comparative and systems level are systematically supplemented by philosophy and cognitive neurobiology, enabling joint research and determination of the mechanisms and architecture of the mind and mental health. In addition to the Research Center One Health at the UA Ruhr, the Bochum site of the German Center for Mental Health (DZPG) is essential for this. In addition, the new THINK research building provides a state-of-the-art research environment.

Research buildings

The Center for Theoretical and Integrative Neuro- and Cognitive Science will be built on Mark 51°7.

The Centre for Protein Diagnostics supports the PURE research network, which develops innovative methods for early diagnosis of cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.

DFG-funded measures

Collaborative Research Center

SFB 1280 Extinktionslernen

The team at this Collaborative Research Centre studies how previously acquired information can be unlearned.

Research group

Sen Cheng

The spokesperson of the research group "Scenarios of the Past" is RUB researcher Prof. Dr. Sen Cheng.

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ERC Grants

In her ERC project LOTIS, Maike Luhmann researches the relationship between places and loneliness. She also wants to derive suggestions on how to tackle loneliness.

In this ERC grant, Professor Caspar Schwiedrzik is investigating how living beings can learn categories and apply their knowledge flexibly.

How does cognition develop in a brain so completely different from ours?

The brain is capable of navigating complex environments. Grid cells play an important role in the process.

Cooperations

The Ruhr-Universität with its Research and Treatment Center for Mental Health is one of the locations of the German Center for Mental Health.

The Research Center One Health Ruhr of the University Alliance Ruhr is dedicated to the fundamental mechanisms of health and disease - from the molecular level to the superordinate system.

Leibniz Prize for Onur Güntürkün

Portrait of Onur Güntürkün

in 2013, Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün, holder of the Chair of Biopsychology at Ruhr University Bochum, was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

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