Brain
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Influence of thyroid hormones on brain, cognition and behaviour
Funding line:
Else Kröner Memorial Fellowships
In our project our subjects experience either too much, or too little thyroid hormones in their body for a certain period of time. Before and after this time period, we examine their cognition and perform an extensive neuroimaging. We are thereby able to identify the area in the brain which is altered by changes of thyroid hormone household. Additionally, we examine patients with a variation of thyroid hormone receptors in the brain. We are interested to analyse the areas of the brain causing the symptoms, possibly leading to therapies targeting these receptors.
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