PhD Candidate (Dr. rer. nat) - Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy

Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland

Veröffentlicht: 29.9.2025

Teilzeit

This PhD project involves participation on two projects:
Project PRECISION investigates visuospatial working memory precision (VWMP) and the cortical signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as potential biomarkers for stimulant therapy in adult ADHD. While stimulants improve symptoms and cortical SNR, reliable markers to guide individualized stimulant dosing are lacking. Using fMRI in adults with ADHD and healthy controls after stimulant washout, we will assess VWMP performance and compute cortical SNR via visual mapping and multivariate encoding models. The project combines behavioral, neuroimaging, and genetic methods to advance precision medicine approaches in ADHD. The PhD candidate will benefit from the interdisciplinary collaboration of our department with the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviou in Nijmegen.
Scientific work with the aim of a publication-based doctorate
Conducting and supervising fMRI measurements
Support of ongoing patient recruitment
Database management
Data-driven analysis of the questions
Publication of the results in scientific journals
Presentation and discussion of the project and research results at specialist conferences in Germany and abroad
Supervision of interns, Bachelor's/Master's and/or medical doctorate students
Organizational tasks within the framework of the project

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