Department for Systems Neuroscience
NeuroImage Nord
Haus S10, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Martinistr. 52
20246 Hamburg
Germany
http://www.uke.uni-hamburg.de/institute/systemische-neurowissenschaften/
C. Büchel is the current director of the BMBF funded neuroimaging center NeuroImage Nord. The team takes responsibility for WP6: Image acquisition in a large cohort of adolescents
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Professor Dr. Christian Büchel Phone: +49 (40) 42803 4726 Fax: +49 (40) 42803 9955  Contact |
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Dr. Wolfgang Weber-Fahr: MR Physicist |
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Dr. Juliana Yacubian: Clinical Postdoctoral Researcher |
The neuroimaging center NeuroImage Nord
The combined efforts of basic and clinical neuroscience departments at three universities in Northern Germany (Hamburg, Kiel, and Lübeck) supported by a structural BMBF grant have allowed for the establishment of a neuroimaging center, “NeuroImage Nord” (NIN) covering important areas of basic and clinical neuroscience since October 2002. Sharing methodological, clinical, and neuropsychological knowledge has led to a number of synergistic effects, including a successful grant application for a 3 T MR system dedicated to research, which is the core of the center. The center is designed to combine basic and clinical neuroscience and aims at advancing our understanding of human brain function in the normal and pathological state. The emphasis on the combination of clinical and basic systems neuroscience has led to a successful “from-bench-to-bedside-strategy”.
- Major research topics
- Affective processing
- Reward processing
- Emotional perception and learning
- Episodic memory
- Implicit memory processes
Summary of experience relevant to IMAGEN
C. Büchel’s group has conducted many imaging studies in relation to affective processing.
These include many studies focusing on face perception (Glascher et al., 2004; Morris et al., 1998; Reinders et al., 2005, 2006), and others on associative learning involving faces (Buchel & Dolan, 2000; Buchel et al., 1998; Glascher & Buchel, 2005; Morris et al., 2001).
The group has also investigated affective processing using emotional scenes (IAPS) (Glascher et al., 2007), including the genetic modulation of brain circuits involved in emotional processing like the amygdala (Heinz et al., 2005, 2007; Smolka et al., 2005).
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