Prof. Dr. Volker Arolt (UKM) directs research association / The world's largest study of panic disorder
Münster (UKM / dre). The national research network "psychotherapy for panic disorder" in the next three years will receive a total of three million euros from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Spokesman of the research network is Prof. Dr. Volker Arolt, Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Münster (UKM). The research network was established in 2007, it now is the second production in this amount by the BMBF.
In the first phase of the project already carried out a comprehensive study of psychotherapy with nearly 370 patients with panic disorders. It is the world's largest study of psychological treatments for panic disorder. Here are several clinic locations in Germany collected data simultaneously for psychophysiology, the cerebral organization of panic and panic prevention and to the genetic backgrounds of individual disease but also therapeutic mechanisms. "During the second phase of the project is once again a great and performed at six centers in Germany organized psychotherapy project. The already begun research projects at the level of psycho-physiology, imaging and genetics, but still significantly intensified and enriched by additional psychobiological studies. At the same time in the The first study collected unusually wide range of information in an extensive data-analytical approach evaluated, "said Prof. Arolt.
panic disorders are among the most common and most engaging in the life of anxiety disorders. psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions bring some help, but often at the have not yet become a complete and long-term symptoms. In addition, many of the therapeutic mechanisms on both the psychological and neurobiological not understood precisely.
The previous joint work in the research network is already much better understanding and therapy the Panikstärung contributed. This work could now be continued, Prof. Arolt: "It is expected that the world's largest study of psychotherapy of panic disorder and currently had been launched in major expansion of the psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment of panic disorders are fundamentally influence."
Information Research Network:
www.paniknetz.de
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Volker Arolt
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Münster Albert Schweitzer Str 11
D-48149 Münster
Tel: 0251 8356604
Fax: 0251 8356988
e-mail: arolt@uni-muenster.de
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