Sören Krach

CRC “Circadian medicine” started!  With great enthusiasm and passion, the CRC “Circadian medicine” started into the first founding round. Led by Achim Kramer (Berlin) and Henrik Oster (Lübeck), the CRC involves more than thirty scientists from the fields of immunology, metabolism as well as brain & behavior. Our group’s project is a collaboration with Ines Wilhelm-Groch

🚀 New publication on a fairer and more economic way to distribute research funding!   Our new paper in Nature Communications presents survey data for a “lottery-first” approach to science funding — where an initial lottery determines who enters the competition, followed by traditional peer review. 🔗 Read it here: OA-Link: https://lnkd.in/eDma7jmb We originally proposed

New preprint by Annalina Mayer, team members and in collaboration with Tobias Kube!  In this study, the lab’s Learning-of-own-performance (LOOP) task (Müller-Pinzler et al., 2019) has been adapted to examine how people attribute self-related feedback and whether attributing failures to external and successes to internal causes is linked to self-esteem and depressive symptomatology. Check out the

New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Annalina Mayer and team members! In this study we examined whether baseline plasma oxytocin levels are associated with stress responses in early-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compared them to healthy controls. While oxytocin concentrations did not differ between groups, their associations with affective stress responses diverged: