We warmly invite you to a seminar organized as part of the SAME-NeuroID project, during which Prof. Bastian Hengerer, Director of Neuroscience Research at Boehringer Ingelheim, will deliver a lecture. Professor Hengerer will present key findings from his research.
Title of the seminar: “Studying the Circuit Biology of Social Behavior: Backtranslation of the Findings of a Transdiagnostic Clinical Study.”
Abstract:
“PRISM (Psychiatric Ratings using Intermediate Stratified Markers), an EU-level academic–industry consortium, identified a new transdiagnostic and pathophysiological link between quantitative measures of neural integrity in the Default Mode Network (DMN) and social dysfunction. Significant relationships were found between measures of daily social functioning and quantitative measures of DMN activity and connectivity, regardless of the initial clinical diagnosis. These results provide a new neurobiological, quantitative, and transdiagnostic framework for further validation. To deepen our understanding of the fundamental biology underlying these new hypotheses and to test the causal relationship between quantitative variability in DMN integrity and social dysfunction in preclinical models, the team experimentally modulated DMN activity and developed a new set of automated tools for analyzing social behavior in mice.”
Short biography:
Professor Bastian Hengerer has more than 34 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as Director of Neuroscience Research at Boehringer Ingelheim. He joined the company in 2003, leading a research group focused on preclinical studies in Parkinson’s disease, and now oversees scientific collaborations in the field of nervous system disorders.
This seminar is part of the SAME-NeuroID project funded under the Horizon Europe program.
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