Depression
Clinical research in depressive disorders focuses on adjunctive treatment strategies for moderate to severe depression, with attention to symptom relief in patients already receiving standard psychiatric care.
- Depressive disorders
- Adjunctive antidepressant treatment
- Psychiatric symptom management
The work is centered in psychiatric care and addresses treatment-resistant or persistent symptoms within routine clinical settings.
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Research activity includes schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, with interest in both acute illness and persistent symptom domains such as negative symptoms and cognitive impairment.
- Schizophrenia
- First episode psychosis
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Persistent delusional disorder
Clinical focus extends across ICD-10 psychotic disorder categories, including non-organic psychoses and acute psychotic presentations.
Insomnia and sleep disturbance
The sponsor funds studies in chronic insomnia associated with psychiatric disorders, reflecting interest in sleep symptoms that complicate psychiatric illness and affect day-to-day functioning.
- Chronic insomnia
- Psychiatric comorbidity
- Sleep-related symptom burden
These studies sit at the intersection of sleep medicine and mental health, particularly in patients with ongoing psychiatric conditions.
Psychophysiology and cognitive impairment
Another area of interest is psychophysiological and neurocognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia spectrum conditions, including measures linked to hypofrontality and impaired information processing.
- EEG and EMG measures
- Cognitive impairment
- Negative symptoms
- Glutamatergic and GABA(A)-receptor pathways
Research also addresses symptom domains that remain insufficiently treated by antipsychotic therapy, especially anhedonia, avolition, and social withdrawal.
