How much do treatment expectations matter in depression? Our new paper underscores the translational value of experimental placebo models for understanding and predicting real-world expectation effects. Part of our work in @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social Read more: rdcu.be/fiAkd

New work from the lab 👇 Congrats @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & team!

Only a few days left to apply for the Early Career Award! If you would like to apply and are not yet a DGPA member, feel free to reach out.

Watch out: New work from us at #EMHFC2026 👇

Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben einen Förderpreis für Wissenschaftskommunikation (1.500€) aus.

Gleich wird wieder demonstriert: Gegen Honorarkürzungen und Einschränkungen der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung aktionsbuendnis-psychotherapie.info/protest

The team of our “Super-Test-Site Würzburg” consortium (University of Würzburg, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Leibniz-Institute for Länderkunde in Leipzig  and the German Aerospace Center) held a meeting at our Earth Observation Research…

Brain Products is once again supporting an award for early-career researchers in EEG research. If you are eligible (or know someone who is), check out the details and apply by May 10, 2026! 👇

Are you a DGPA member (or thinking of becoming one 😁) conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Apply now for the 2026 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Deadline TODAY! Don´t miss it!

So important to raise our voice!

Würzburg, March 25, 2026, 4:30 PM (start: Eichhornstraße): Protest against cuts to psychotherapy fees, highlighting risks to mental health care access.

The compensation for psychotherapeutic services in Germany was cut yesterday. Please support the petition against that 👇 c.org/wc7Vhk7h5L

🎤KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT We welcome Prof. Dr. Matthias Gamer from the Department of Psychology at the University of Würzburg 🧠 Explore how the brain responds to threats and defensive behavior on the conference’s final day. 📍 GSLS, University of Würzburg 📅 11 June 2026 @gamerlab.bsky.social

Spannendes Projekt an unserem Lehrstuhl!🙌 Erprobung von KI-gestütztem Therapie-Training in Virtual Reality 🗣️👓 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei... @sabrinagado.bsky.social @isabelneumann.bsky.social @Daniel Gromer

Ich war zu Gast beim Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Es war eine sehr schöne Sendung mit vielen spannenden Beiträgen von Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörern. Die ganze Sendung kann hier nachgehört werden: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/nichts-als-d...

Vor 95 Jahren wurde das Patent für den Polygraphen ("Lügendetektor") erteilt. Ich wurde dazu für einem WDR-Podcast interviewt www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/s...

Submit your symposium to PuG by 28th February 2026: pug2026.org/submission/ And posters by 31st or March!

🎉Invitation: Opening Ceremony You are warmly invited to join the official opening of the University Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents at the University of Würzburg! 🗓️January 21, 2026 at 5:00 pm 📍Oswald-Külpe Lecture Hall, Röntgenring 12, 97070 Würzburg

Call for Symposia: Göttingen Meeting 2027 Time to take the opportunity and help to shape the Scientific Program 2027 by submitting your proposal until: 17 February 2026 Further information can be found here: web.nwg-info.de/de/conferenc...

Very much looking forward to this great conference!

Very proud of the team of the SciComm-Café, including some of the RTG's PhD researchers, for winning the university of Würzburg's Communicator Award!! 🥳🥳🥳Such a great initiative!

Ich war Gast in einem Spiegel Podcast zum Thema Lügen. War ein sehr nettes Gespräch! www.spiegel.de/psychologie/...

Excited to be part of this amazing group of researchers!

We're extremely happy and proud to announce that the RTG 2660 will be extended for a 2nd funding period of 4.5 years! 🥳https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/rtgs-11-2025/

New preprint! We show that avoidable threats induce attentive immobility, i.e. alpha suppression, bradycardia, pupil dilation, and centralized gaze, that enhances perception. Memory encoding, however, relies on separate electrocortical and physiological responses. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Great opportunity to join Katja's group @uni-wuerzburg.de 👇

Highly recommended! Great PI, great lab and great environment 👇

11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣

With an amazing keynote by @michaelgaebler.com #wuertual25 comes to an end. A huge thank you to all participants for sharing your research and perspectives and for contributing to the amazing atmosphere! #tbc

#wuertual25 just started! Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

Die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung ist noch immer nicht geregelt. 2500 Absolvierende stehen jährlich vor verschlossenen Türen. Die Zukunft der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung ist in Gefahr! Kommt am 24.10.25 um 15 Uhr nach Köln oder Bochum zur Demo, werdet laut für die Finanzierung!

Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃 #PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

Less than one week left to apply 👇 Exciting project, great team, and a stimulating environment!

Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Register and connect!🙌 Great program and great people await you🧠 @dgps.bsky.social #ECRs

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Very happy that this is out now!

Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉 We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!

Hallo #CPConf2025, Poster 3.7! Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference. Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈 Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃

📢 New Preprint: Acting upon Threat osf.io/r8a5n Together with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & @gamerlab.bsky.social, we used EEG, eye-tracking, and autonomic data to disentangle threat intensity ⚡️ from action possibility 🏃‍♂️ in states of attentive immobility.

🚨Our latest paper is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social: We show how aversive generalization and contexts interact at electrocortical levels, demonstrating modulations of cues and contexts into different frequencies of the ssVEP. With @gamerlab.bsky.social! Check it out: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer: The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Truly proud to receive this award! Huge thanks to my amazing PhD students and colleagues — working with you all is the real reward 😉

Very glad to share my first published PhD paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli. Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig

🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠