Das Lab von @ulrikebingel.bsky.social war dieses Jahr wirklich nicht faul, und hat mit Kollegen von der Universitätsmedizin Essen mal eben noch an einem Buch zum Placebo-Effekt mitgearbeitet. @helenahartmann.com 👏🍾 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

As we approach the end of another year, we would like to wish you and your families a wonderful holiday season filled with joy, health, and relaxation. May the new year bring exciting discoveries, successful collaborations, and continued growth for all of us. Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

✨🕯️🎄🎀ADVENT CALENDAR WEEK 4🕯️🎄🎀✨ The final advent calendar post is brought to you 2 days early 😆 Pictured: ELH members in 2024, UDE chancellor Ulf Richter with ELH directors H. Quick and D. Norris, and manager F. Günther in 2025; a rainy lunch talk barbecue, impressions from the coking plant. 🎄🎄🎄

➡️ New paper out by ELH-PI Tom Scheenen! "The Current and Future Role of MRI and PSMA-PET/CT in Diagnosing Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer" 🍾👏 journals.lww.com/investigativ...

Join us today via Zoom at 4PM CET for our next Anniversary Colloquium! Greg Metzger from the University of Minnesota will give a lecture on "The Evolution of UHF body MRI". Interested? You can find the Zoom link here. hahn-institute.de/en/info/even...

➡️ New paper out with Oliver Kraff! "Corollary discharge and efference copy mechanisms in schizophrenia and controls: The N1 and P2 evoked potential components differentially react to self-initiated tones in schizophrenia" 🍾 Check it out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

✨🕯️🎄🎀ADVENT CALENDAR WEEK 3🕯️🎄🎀✨ Adventures in the history of the ELH... Pictured: The ELH celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop in 2017, inquisitive children join us for the "Türen auf mit der Maus"-Tag in 2023, the new 7Tesla MRI system arrives in 2020.

✨🕯️🎄🎀ADVENT CALENDAR WEEK 2🕯️🎄🎀✨ Our travels through the ELH's history continue... Pictured: WissensNachtRuhr, changing the coil, ELH on a sunny day and Erwin L. Hahn visits the ELH in 2009.

➡️ New paper out with ELH members Markus May and Marcel Gratz, and ELH-PI Mark Ladd and ELH alumni Stephan Orzada: "Ultimate Intrinsic SNR in the Torso of Realistic Body Models". Check it out! 🍾 doi.org/10.1002/mrm....

And that's a wrap on our Lunch Talk series for this year. A huge thank you to ELH alumni Stephan Orzada from @dkfz.bsky.social for closing 2025 in style with an excellent talk on "The MRexcite System Mk3 - New design and capabilities". 🤗

✨🕯️🎄🎀ADVENT CALENDAR 🕯️🎄🎀✨ This advent, the ELH will take you through a brief photo tour through its 20 years of history. First week: The former control centre of the Zollverein coking plan (now the ELH) under construction in 2006 and the arrival of the first 7T MRI system.

➡️New paper out by Matthias Brand's PI group: "General executive functions, stimulus-specific inhibitory control and predisposing variables of individuals with problematic social network use" 🍾👏 doi.org/10.1016/j.ad...

Das Internet droht im synthetischen Müll zu versinken. Wikipedia, YouTube, LinkedIn: Überall ist künstlicher Content, auch bekannt als ‘AI Slop’. Wie gefährlich ist das für unsere Wissensinfrastruktur? 👇 www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/wir-versinke... #Wisskomm @aiforensics.org @kurzgesagt.org

In Deutschland… - findet fast jeden Tag ein Femizid statt - tötet alle zwei Tage ein Mann seine (Ex-)Partnerin - erleben 63 % der politisch engagierten Frauen digitale Gewalt #orangetheworld unwomen.de/orange-the-w...

I am so proud and deeply impressed by the amazing work of our ECRs. We could have awarded even more of the ECR publications evolved from the 1st funding period!

Congratulations! So well-deserved! 🍾🍾🍾

A huge thank you to Benedikt Poser ( @highonfield.bsky.social ) for coming all the way to the ELH to deliver his talk on "Spiral imaging for non-BOLD fMRI at UHF"! It was an honour and a blast to have you here!

📣 Join us today at 1:30CET on Zoom for our next exciting Anniversary Colloquium: Benedikt Poser's (@highonfield.bsky.social) talk on "Spiral imaging for non-BOLD fMRI at UHF". ⬇️ The Zoom link is available here: hahn-institute.de/en/info/even... See you there!

Wie beeinflussen Placebo und Nocebo die Behandlung von Patient*innen? Im ERCM Medizin Podcast auf YouTube spricht @ulrikebingel.bsky.social über das spannende und lange unterschätzte Phänomen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHeF...

When the view from your office is an UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

Join the next talk in our "Sex and Gender in the Life Sciences" series! 🎤 Prof. Dr. Ute Seeland will present "Sex and Gender in Cardiology" 📅 November 5, 2025 🕠 17:15–18:15 h (CET) 💻 Zoom: uni-due.de/ekfg/sex-and-gender-in-the-life-sciences_2025.php #SexGenderUDE #sexandgendersensitive

➡️ New publication with ELH PIs Mark Ladd and Harald Quick: "In Vivo 3D Liver Imaging at 7 T Using kT-Point pTx Pulses and a 32-Tx-Channel Whole-Body Radiofrequency Coil Array" analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What a fantastic 2025 Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop! Did you enjoy it as much as we did? If you’d like to rewatch Larry Wald’s keynote “MR technology; from elegant physics to elegant engineering and back again” (or missed it), find it here: hahn-institute.de/en/info/even... #HahnLecture25

And that's a wrap on the 2025 Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop! We thank our wonderful speakers, the UDE and RU rectors, the attendees as well as the Oktogon staff and everyone who helped out today. See you all next year! #HahnLecture25

And with that, we are already at the final speaker of the 2025 Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop: Sebastian Schmitter from PTB discusses "Towards clinical body imaging at UHF". #HahnLecture25

Now on stage: Armin Nagel from the University Erlangen-Nürnberg speaks about "Combined 23Na and 1H MRI of the human body at 7 Tesla". #HahnLecture25

Up now: Jeanine Prompers from Maastricht University talks about "Combined application of 3D 2H and 31P metabolic imaging in the body at 7T". #HahnLecture25

After a small coffee break, we're back with the BRAIN session. First speaker is ELH-PI Tom Scheenen from @radboudumc.bsky.social talking about: "MRI of the abdomen at ultra-high field". #HahnLecture25. Watch on our website: hahn-institute.de/de/info/hahn...

Last but certainly not least in this session: Jennifer Faber from the University of Bonn discusses "From artifact to insight: Imaging the infratentorial structures with whole-brain ultra-high field MRI in neurodegenerative ataxias". #HahnLecture25

Speaking now: ELH-PI Dagmar Timmann from the University Medicine Essen talks on "Functional MRI of the human cerebellum". #HahnLecture25

Wietske van der Zwaag from the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging speaks about"Layer-MRI in the human cerebellum". #HahnLecture25

Up now: Birte Forstmann from the University of Amsterdam talks about "Joint modeling of deep brain's form and function". #hahnlecture25 You can watch the sessions live here: hahn-institute.de/de/info/hahn...

It's an absolute honour to have Larry Wald at the #HahnLecture25. Watch his talk on "MR technology; from elegant physics to elegant engineering and back again" on our website live: hahn-institute.de/de/info/hahn...

Opening Session: ELH-Scientific Director David Norris welccomes the attendees, Radboud University's Rector Magnificus José Sanders and UDE rector Barbara Albert congratulate the ELH on its 20th anniversary, ELH Administrative Director Harald Quick speaks on 20 years of ELH. #hahnlecture25

Let's goooo ... #HahnLecture25

ELH-PI Onur Güntürkün vom Lehrstuhl für Biopsychologie der Ruhr-Universität Bochum ist Professor des Jahres 2025 in der Kategorie Naturwissenschaften/Medizin. Vergeben wird die Auszeichnung zum 20. Mal von der Unicum-Stiftung. Wir gratulieren zu dieser tollen und verdienten Auszeichnung!

Warum Vögel viel schlauer sind, als wir meinen: Auf Spektrum.de ist ein spannendes Interview mit ELH-PI Onur Güntürkün erschienen:  www.spektrum.de/news/intelli...

➡️ Our very own Oliver Kraff is today's speaker at the @dkfz.bsky.social Medical Physics Seminar! Join his talk on "Exploring Implant Safety & Its Management: Ensuring Access at 7T" at 2PM (CEST). www.dkfz.de/en/medical-p...

Our lovely student brought home made cinnamon rolls to the office, and yours probably didn't. 😉😎 (They're delicious.)

➡️New paper out by the Cognitive Neuroscience reserach team: "Psychometric evaluation of a trans-addiction craving questionnaire: The Craving Assessment Scale for Behavioral Addictions and Substance-use Disorders (CASBAS)" 🍾 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you are the 2025 CMRR Workshop, don't miss Stephan Orzada's talk on "Key technologies to make 7T a true clinical system" today! (2:20pm CDT) sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...

We are delighted that in collaboration with the CRC 1280, Katrin Amunts from the Forschungszentrum Jülich will join our Anniversary Colloquium series on Oct 15 with a lecture on "The multi-level brain atlas: greater than the sum of its parts". Don't miss it! hahn-institute.de/en/info/even...

Excited to announce that our ELH PI Mark Ladd will be speaking at #ESMRMB2025 in Marseille! 📅 09.10, 15:30-17:00 h – Magnet Design (FT1-1, Basic MR Hardware, Salle 120) 📅 10.10, 16:55 h – Experience in Germany: A Partial View (Medial Device Regulation, Salle 76) esmrmb2025.org/scientific-p...

After a summer break, the lunch talk series at the ELH is back. Our colleague Farzad Jabbarigargari opened the 2025/26 season with an exciting talk on "New pTx RF antennas for head/neck UHF MRI at 7T, 9.4T and 11.7T". Not pictured here: The delicious barbecue. 😀

Service-Skeet: This is is a brief reminder that registration for the Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop 2025 ENDS TODAY at midnight. If you haven't signed up yet, head to our website now: hahn-institute.de/de/info/hahn... It's going to be a very special event--don't miss it!

Excited to share a new publication with ELH-PI Tom Scheenen: “Activation mapping in multi-center retrospective rat sensory-evoked functional MRI datasets using a unified pipeline”. Delve into the details here: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Don't miss Oliver Kraff's talk on "Clinical UHF Safety at 7T" at the ISMRM Workshop on MR Safety: From Science to Clinical Practice on Sept 25 at 16:35 CEST in Berlin, Germany. 🔗 www.ismrm.org/workshops/20...

At 4:35PM CEST, don't miss Stephan Orzada's talk on "The STASIS Open-Source RF Exposition System" at this year's @ismrm.bsky.social Safety Workshop. (Session 5b: Open-Source & Free Resources in MR Safety, Hermann von Helmholtz Building)

Last up in the Physics & Physiology of MR Safety session at the @ismrm.bsky.social Safety Workshop is ELH director Harald Quick with a talk on implants! (9:55AM CET)

Are you at the ISMRM Safety Workshop in Berlin? Mark Ladd's talk on "Static Magnetic Field B0" has just started!