🍾 Our annual report "Highlights 2025" is here! In this very special edition we look back on 20 years of cutting-edge research and international collaboration--and show our principal investigators at the beginning of their careers :-) Check it out! ➡️https://hahn-institute.de/en/publication/report

➡️New paper out with Jan-Willem Thielen, Oliver Kraff and David Norris: "The association between medial prefrontal GABA concentration and memory performance is disrupted in human with a high body mass index". 🍾 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

⬇️ Don't miss it!

Proud to see our PI Matthias Brand contributing to EU policy discussions. Invited by Ursula von der Leyen, he joins a new expert group advising on how to protect children and young people online. His research helps shape recommendations on social media use. www.uni-due.de/2026-03-11-m...

Two days of exciting talks and hands-on sessions focused on the development and application of MRI hardware: at the end of February, the ELH hosted the ISMRM DACH chapter's annual PhD training. ➡️https://hahn-institute.de/en/info/news/a-great-success-ismrm-phd-training-at-the-elh

📣Cerebellum Minisymposium on March 26th, 14:00-18:30! The symposium is an exchange between research groups from Germany and The Netherlands and open to anyone interested. The symposium is hosted by the Timmann lab online & in person. More information ➡️ veranstaltungen.uk-essen.de/cerebellum-m...

Nochmal zur Erinnerung ... 📣😂

We're so ready and excited to host the @ismrm.bsky.social DACH PhD Training today and tomorrow!

➡️Nicht verpassen! Am Donnerstag, dem 26.2.2026, leitet ELH-PI Matthias Brand das Online-Seminar "19. NEUROPSY-Online-Event: "Psychologie der Verhaltenssüchte" (18.00 bis 19.30 Uhr) 📣 ➡️Weitere Infos: www.neuropsy.at/unser-angebo...

Congratulations are in order! ELH member Markus May has been elected as the study group Trainee Representative by the @ismrm.bsky.social MRI Coils Study Group Committee. 🍾🍾🍾

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

📣If you couldn't make it last week, you're in luck: We had to reschedule the workshop last-minute to tomorrow, February 11th. ➡️https://hahn-institute.de/en/info/event/markus-barth-magnetic-moments-a-journey-from-vision-to-discovery-in-ultra-high-field-mri

Was sind die Mechanismen des Placebo-Effekts und wie kann man sie nutzen? Wie sich Erwartungshaltungen von Patient*innen auf die Behandlung auswirken, darüber spricht ELH-PI @ulrikebingel.bsky.social im Deep Dive der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie e.V.: ➡️ www.dgn.org/mediathek/vi...

➡️ New paper out with ELH-PI Matthias Brand! "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/...

Tomorrow we travel all the way to Oz for our next Anniversary Colloquium: Join us at 10AM CET when Markus Barth from the University of Queensland discusses "Magnetic Moments: A Journey from Vision to Discovery in Ultra-High Field MRI" More information here: hahn-institute.de/en/info/even...

Communication and phrasing matters, especially as patients often struggle to interpret probabilities related to recovery and side effects. The CRC 289 investigates how patient expectations influence the effectiveness of medical treatments: ➡️ idw-online.de/de/news865216

➡️New paper out with Oliver Kraff and Harald H. Quick: "Transceiver 16-Channel Coaxial-End Dipole Array for Combined Head and C-Spine MRI at 9.4 T" 🍾 analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 📣 📣 If you're at the Benelux ISMRM meeting, don't miss Quincy van Houtum presenting his poster "Microstriplines or fractionated dipoles? An In-Vivo Image Comparison of Two Transmit/Receive Body Arrays in the Lower Abdomen" during Poster Session II (14:45 - 15:45).

➡️New paper out with ELH-PI Matthias Brand in Addictive Behaviors: "General executive functions, stimulus-specific inhibitory control and predisposing variables of individuals with problematic social network use". 🍾📣 Check it our here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wow, das ging mal wieder schnell. Wir sind für den Girls' Day bereits komplett ausgebucht und freuen uns riesig darauf, euch zu sehen!

Join the next talk in our "Sex and Gender in the Life Sciences" series! 🎤 Prof. Luana Colloca will present "Sex effects in placebo studiesy" 📅 January 20th, 2026 🕠 16:00 - 17:00 h (CET) 💻 Zoom: uni-due.de/ekfg/sex-and-gender-in-the-life-sciences_2025.php #SexGenderUDE #sexandgendersensitive

➡️New paper out by ELH-Director Matthias Brand in Comprehensive Psychiatry: "Research protocol for BootStRaP assessment phase: A nine-nation study on boosting societal adaptation and mental health in a rapidly digitalising, post-pandemic Europe" 🍾🍾🍾 ➡️Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Auch dieses Jahr ist das ELH wieder beim Girls' Day mit dabei! Ihr wolltet schon immer mal wissen, was man als MRT-Physikerin so macht? Das ist eure Chance! Die Teilnehmerinnenzahl ist auf 10 begrenzt. Alle Infos: www.girls-day.de/.oO/Show/erw...

Got no plans tomorrow? In collaboration with the Neurophysiologisches Seminar, Kaustubh Patil joins our Anniversary Colloquium series tomorrow at 5:15PM with a lecture on "Gaining Insights into Neuroimaging Data with Machine Learning–Based Multivariate Modeling". hahn-institute.de/en/info/even...

Curious about UHF-MRI? Excellent! ➡️ The ELH is hosting the 2026 ISMRM DACH Section PhD Training ✨ We have cooked up an exciting programme, so hurry up and register! Slots are limited, so it's strictly first come, first serve. hahn-institute.de/en/info/news...

Hello, 2026! We're entering the new year with snowy vibes on the UNESCO Heritage Site Zollverein 🍾

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