Project Coordinator - Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
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Project Coordinator: Professor Dr. med. Dipl. - Theol. Christine M. FreitagDirector Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Phone: +49 - 69 / 6301-5408 Fax: +49 - 69 / 63015843 |
Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und JugendaltersDeutschordenstraße 50 60528 Frankfurt am Main Germany Website |
FemNAT-CD Team Frankfurt am Main
Julia Rossa
Assistant to the project leader
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Dr Andreas Chiocchetti
Post-doc biologist, Head of the molecular biological laboratory
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Katharina Ackermann, M.A.
PhD Student
Phone: 0049 69-6301 7178
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Dipl. - Psych.Anka BernhardPhD Student Phone: 0049 69-6301 7178 |
Anne Martinelli, M.Sc.PhD Student Phone: 0049 69-6301 7178 |
Institute Presentation
Goethe University (GU) Frankfurt is one of the leading Universities in Germany. The Medical Faculty was positioned among the 75 best Universities worldwide in the Shanghai Ranking Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy of 2012.
The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (CAPPP) serves the Frankfurt area (> 1 Mio inhabitants). It has 4 inpatient and 2 day clinic wards, and a large outpatient clinic (> 2000 patients/year). CAPPP serves around 500 new patients with different CD-subtypes per year. Especially one of the inpatient wards focuses on dialectic behavior therapy (DBT) treatment for adolescents. A close collaboration exists with local schools, youth welfare, and forensic institutions.
Research at CAPPP is organized in 4 areas:
- Clinical research (diagnostic and psychotherapy studies)
- Neuropsychology lab (executive function and emotion processing studies)
- Brain-imaging lab (own 2 x 32-channels EEGs; 2 x 3 Tesla MRI together with Brain Imaging Centre Frankfurt)
- Molecular biological lab (genetic and proteomic studies; fully equipped for DNA extraction, genotyping, functional studies).
Main tasks of GU attributed to the FemNAT-Project will be the lead of work package (WP) WP1, WP9 and WP10. Furthermore, GU contributes to WP2-WP4, WP6 and WP8 (data collection and analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal study; fMRI and sMRI and psychotherapy studies, ethics).
Prof. Freitag is the coordinator of FemNAT-CD. She is head of the CAPPP since 12/2008 and has a long track record on clinical, brain imaging, and genetic studies in ADHD, CD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Quicklinks
Workpackage 1: Ethics, training, data collection
Workpackage 2: Genetics and epigenetics
Workpackage 10: Coordination and project management