Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion D.I.N.E.

Members

Board of Directors

Prof. Dr. Arthur Jacobs
Founding Director

Prof. Dr. Hauke R. Heekeren
Deputy Director

Prof. Dr. Malek Bajbouj
Deputy Director

Executive Director

Dr. Mario Braun
Head of D.I.N.E. Laboratories

Staff

Dr. Jürgen Baudewig
Manager fMRILAB

Dr. Evgenyia Kirilina
Manager NIRSLAB

Christian Kainz
Technical Assistant

Visiting Scholar 2010

Manfred Herrmann
Bremen

 

D.I.N.E. User Club

At D.I.N.E. User Meeting planned fMRI studies of cluster projects are presented. Experts will examine the studies and discuss further steps towards realisation.

There will be a maximum of 3 talks per meeting. The talk should not be longer than 15 minutes and is followed by 15 minutes of discussion. People who want to present their study may register by sending an email - 1 week ahead of the meeting - with a 1 page summary attached to mario.braun[at]fu-berlin.de. The summary should contain the following information: background of the study, previous findings, hypotheses, design, implementation and planned analyses.

The D.I.N.E. User Meeting is held at every 1st Thursday of a month. Meeting starts at 5 pm at room JK25/21f at the neurocognitive labs of the Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45 (Silberlaube), 14195 Berlin. Program here.

Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion

The Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (D.I.N.E.) is an institution of the Cluster of Excellence Languages of Emotion (LoE) and the Department of Pedagogics and Psychology of the Freie Universität Berlin. It offers modern neurocognitive labs on 800 m2 with cutting edge neuroimaging facilities (3T fMRI, EEG, fNIRS, TMS, high-speed eye tracking) for investigating the interaction between language, cognition and emotion. It consists of six integrated experimental labs:

  • fMRILAB. A functional imaging lab with a 3T MR scanner (Siemens Trio) including a 32 channel head coil and an eye tracking system for collecting eye positions during the recording of the hemodynamic response to language and emotion-relevant situations
  • BRAINWAVELAB. Five EEG labs for recording brain electrical activity with millisecond precision
  • EYELAB. Three high-speed eye trackers for oculo- and pupillometric studies of language and emotion processes with millimiter and millisecond precision
  • MAGSTIMLAB. A transcranial magnet stimulation (TMS) lab including neuro-navigation of the TMS coil to functionally defined brain regions-of-interest
  • NIRSLAB. Featuring functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for measuring hemodynamic activity in participant groups who cannot use the fMRILAB
  • SIMLAB. A computer simulation lab for quantitative modeling of mental processes via artificial neural networks, e.g. simulating those hidden processes that we think do all the „unconscious“ work involved in psycholinguistic and emotional processes


The main function of the D.I.N.E. is to support LoE projects. It also coordinates neurocognitive research at the Freie Universität, acquires grants and offers new research opportunities for scientists from various disciplines (e.g. imaging genetics, neuropharmacology, neurolinguistics, neuroeconomics, etc.) and for public-private partnerships.

Blick ins Labor

Gründungsdirektor Arthur Jacobs vor dem Siemens Tim Trio, einem drei Tesla Magnet-Resonanz-Tomografen mit 32-Kanal Kopfspule. Fotos: Kathrin Harms/Zeitenspiegel

 

 

 

D.I.N.E.-Inauguration with Chris Frith

The Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion has been inaugurated in a grand opening on June the 12th, 2009. Chris Frith held the inaugural speech on "Facial Expressions." Please find a report on the opening ceremony here (in German)

Picture gallery of the D.I.N.E.-Inauguration

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Current research projects at D.I.N.E.

Selection 2009:

  • Affective and aesthetic processes in reading (Jacobs et al.)
  • Die Verarbeitung emotionaler Gesichtsausdrücke in neurotypischen Kontrollprobanden und Probanden mit Asperger Syndrom (Heekeren et al.)
  • Effects of prefrontal direct current stimulation on emotional memory processes (Bajbouj et al.)
  • Effects of TMS induced virtual lesion of DLPFC on emotion regulation (Bajbouj et al.)

Current publications of D.I.N.E.

Selection 2009

  • Krugel LK, Biele G, Mohr PNC, Li SC, Heekeren HR (2009) Genetic variation in dopaminergic neuromodulation influences the ability to rapidly and flexibly adapt decisions. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,
    106(42):17951-6. Epub 2009 Oct 12
  • Dziobek I, Bahnemann M, Convit A, Heekeren HR (2009) Neuropsychological and Neuroanatomical Evidence for social perceptive and social cognitive impairments in adults with Asperger syndrome. Archives of General
    Psychiatry, in press
  • Mohr PNC, Li SC, Heekeren HR (2009) Neuroeconomics and aging: Neuromodulation of economic decision making in old age. Neurosci
    Biobehav Rev, 2009 Jun 6. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Mohr PNC, Biele G, Krugel LK, Li SC, Heekeren HR (2009) Neural Foundations of Risk-Return Trade-Off in Investment Decisions. Neuroimage, in press
  • Bajbouj M, Heuser I. Stimulating the brain to treat depression. Exp Neurol. 2009 Apr 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 19348796
  • Braun, M., Hutzler, M. Dambacher, Ziegler, J. C., & Jacobs, A. M. (in press). Pseudohomophone Effects Provide Evidence of Early Lexical-Phonological Processing in Visual Word Recognition. Human Brain Mapping. (IF 6.151)
  • Briesemeister, B.B., Hofmann, M.J., Tamm, S., Kuchinke, L., Braun, M.M. &  Jacobs A.M. (2009). The pseudohomophone effect: Evidence for an orthography-phonology-conflict. Neuroscience Letters. 455, 124-128. (IF 2.08)
  • Thaler, V., Urton, K., Heine, Hawelka, S., Engl, V., & Jacobs, A. M. (in press). Different Behavioral and Eye Movement Patterns of Dyslexic Readers With and Without Attentional Deficits during Single Word Reading. Neuropsychologia. (IF 3.630)