Author: Tobias Hauser

Breaking Ground in Mental Health: New €6 Million Research Project led by Tobias Hauser

We are excited to share that our team has been awarded nearly €6 million in funding from the Wellcome Trust to investigate how the brain makes decisions—and why this process can become disrupted in mental illness. Every day, we make decisions both big and small. But for people with mental health conditions like schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), decision-making can become a major struggle. Some decide too quickly based on little evidence—a pattern known as “jumping to conclusions.” Others become stuck in doubt, unable to decide at all. Starting in February 2026, we will launch the largest study to date on these patterns. Using functional MRI, we will scan the brains of 150 people with schizophrenia and 150 with OCD to explore what happens in the brain when decisions go wrong. A key focus will be dopamine, a brain chemical that plays a crucial role in how we gather and process information before deciding. With both human data and mouse models, we aim to uncover how dopamine affects decision-making. This project brings together international experts …

Event at the Royal Society

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2024/02/lates-brains/ Join us on Wednesday 21/02/24 for an exciting event at the The Royal Society – we will be there presenting Brain Explorer (www.brainexplorer.net) and our recently co-produced OCD and the Brain (www.ocdandthebrain.com). Looking forward to seeing you all there!

OCD & the Brain launched!

After several years of work, and thanks to Wellcome funding, we have now launched the OCD & the brain website. This Resource was developed together with OCD charities, OCD stakeholders, and people with lived experience. It should be a hub to translate what brain research can contribute to the understanding of OCD. Please have a look at the website and find more information about the process here.

OCD & the brain – a new resource for people with OCD!

We are very excited to announce a project that the lab has worked on for a few years: together with the charities IOCDF and OCD Action, people with lived experience and OCD stakeholders, we have asked the questions “what can brain reseach add to the understanding of OCD?”. What came out is a new website that explains the brain’s role in OCD in an accessible and didactic way. Interested? Join us for the launch event on the 27th January! You can find all info here: https://ocdandthebrain.com/

Lab-Manager Stelle Tübingen

Wir suchen eine*n Lab-Manager*in zur Stärkung unseres Teams in Tübingen. Die Aufgaben sind sowohl die Unterstützung der Forschung als auch die Beihilfe bei administrativen Tätigkeiten. Bei Fragen gerne direkt an Tobias wenden – Ausschreibung hier: https://jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/3489/Medizinisch-Technische-Assistenz-in-der-Forschung

New positions in Tuebingen

We have several new positions available for lab manager and student research assistants. If you are interested in working on computational psychiatry and neuroimaging, please visit all the details here: https://devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/

OCD Action national Conference

Our lab will be joining OCD Action’s National Conference on 07/10/2023 in London. Tobias will be speaking on “(How) does brain research matter for understanding OCD?” at 11:45am and our group will have a stall talking about some exciting research projects and new creations about OCD and the brain. Looking forward to seeing you there!

PostDoc position at UCL

Join an exciting fMRI project at UCL and be part of the vibrant MPC and FIL research community! If you have a background in fMRI and/or decision making, please consider applying for this position. All details can be found here: https://t.co/PFJ1i1QdWJ If you are interested, please feel free to reach out to Tobias. Deadline: 17/07/23

Postdoctoral Openings

We have several postdoctoral openings in Tubingen for neuroimaging as well as for clinical studies. If you are interested in these opportunities, please reach out to Tobias directly. These positions provide the unique chance to help form the research direction of the Tubingen site. All information about the positions can be found here: https://devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/