Central Institute of Mental Health

The objective of the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) is to improve therapies and develop new treatment options for mental illnesses. Our main target is to identify, establish and personalize psychotherapeutic and pharmacological mechanisms of action. We use a translational concept for this: the basic research aims to identify neurobiological mechanisms in the human brain. At the same time, we take into account the fact that mental illnesses often arise from an interaction of psychosocial and behavioral processes. At the CIMH, we combine experimental medical and mechanistic/neuroscientific research.