Sofia Eickhoff

University of Lübeck · Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie

Mental health research increasingly focuses on the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and observable manifestations of the face and body. In recent studies, psychiatric patients have shown distinct patterns in movement, posture and facial expressions, suggesting these elements could enhance clinical diagnostics. The analysis of the facial ex...

Diagnosis of a clinical high-risk (CHR) state enables timely treatment of individuals at risk for a psychotic disorder, thereby contributing to improving illness outcomes. However, only a minority of patients diagnosed with CHR will make the transition to overt psychosis. To identify patients most likely to benefit from early intervention, several...

Introduction In the inherently noisy real world, we can rarely have full certainty about what we have just seen or heard. Thus, making a perceptual decision on sensory information, and simultaneously tracking our varying levels of certainty in these decisions (i.e., metacognitive abilities) are crucial components of everyday life. Hallucinations, s...

The basal forebrain cholinergic nuclei (BFCN) provide the main cholinergic input to prefrontal cortices, the hippocampi, and amygdala. These structures are highly relevant for the regulation and maintenance of many cognitive functions, such as attention and memory. In vivo neuroimaging studies reported alterations of the cholinergic system in psych...