ProjectA2BipoLife – Adjuvante Psychotherapie zur Rückfallprävention während der frühen Lebensphase einer Bipolaren Störung

Basic data

Acronym:
A2BipoLife
Title:
Adjuvante Psychotherapie zur Rückfallprävention während der frühen Lebensphase einer Bipolaren Störung
Duration:
01/03/2015 to 30/09/2020
Abstract / short description:
To test three groups of hypotheses, regarding whether the addition of a specific, innovativ psychotherapy (SEKT) to psychiatric care in young bipolar patients in early stage of their disease
Primary: (1) reduces rate of relapse (development of new affective episode);
Secondary: (2) reduces missed days at work/school, days spent in hospitals, and health costs, improves medical treatment compliance and social functioning; (3) normalizes neurobiological functioning; (a) normalizes alterations in neural networks associated with emotion regulation and social cognition, i.e., reverses enhanced activation in the amygdala, attenuated activation in the medial prefrontal cortex; b) pre-treatment neural alterations in these systems will predict post-treatment outcome of SEKT, with the greatest improvement in SEKT for patients with the most pronounced neural alterations prior to treatment.
Keywords:
Bipolare Störung
Rückfallprävention
Psychotherapie

Involved staff

Managers

Faculty of Science
University of Tübingen
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Science

Contact persons

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Hospitals and clinical institutes, Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Tübingen
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Hospitals and clinical institutes, Faculty of Medicine

Local organizational units

Department of Psychology
Faculty of Science
University of Tübingen

Funders

Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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