The Central Institute of Mental Health (State Foundation) is an internationally re-nowned research institute in the field of psychiatry and neuroscience, home of the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg as well as psychi-atric hospital with 255 inpatient and 52 day-hospital beds.
Within several new projects funded by the European Union and the Federal Ministry of Educa-tion and Research we offer 2 Positions for PostDocs and PhD-Students in the area of rodent magnetic resonance functional-, perfusion- and diffusion tensor (DTI) im-aging at 9.4 Tesla.
The Central Institute of Mental Health is equipped with a latest generation 210 mm horizontal bore Bruker BioSpec animal system and additional cryogenic MR coils for 1H and 13C detection in the mouse brain as well as two 3 Tesla human whole body MR-scanners.
We have openings in these primary fields of research:
- Establishment of manganese enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) for a the longitudinal assessment of connectivity and neuronal activity in experimental animals.
- Development of methods for the acquisition and post processing of functional BOLD imaging data with optogenetics for the identification and investigation of brain networks.
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging for the investigation of structural integrity in different psychiatric mouse-models.
