What's on?

In July many of our Lab attended and presented their research at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness in Heraklion on the island of Crete, Greece!

A very warm welcome to 2 new team members of the Translational Psychiatry Lab, as of the beginning of June 2025!

• Fjola Hyseni, who joins us as a Postdoctoral researcher

• Lara Rosenberg, who joins us as a Clinician Scientist

We are pleased to announce a new research paper published by first author Lukas Sempach, in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

To read the paper please follow this link:

Adjunctive d-serine treatment for major depressive disorder: A randomized clinical trial

Truth and Madness

The "Arte" documentary series "42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles" ("42 – The Answer to Almost Everything") explores serious questions in a popular science format. Our Lab Head, Philipp Sterzer, is involved in two current episodes:

Ist die Wahrheit noch zu retten? - 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Wo beginnt der Wahnsinn? - 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

For further information see also the following link: Wir sind alle wahnsinnig normal - UPK Basel

The Translational Psychiatry Lab is looking for research assistants (HiWis) to support participant recruitment and data collection.
Our lab aims to improve the understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying psychosis by using state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and EEG, as well as psychophysics, eye tracking, and computational modeling.

If you are interested in the position, please contact Philipp Sterzer (philipp.sterzer@upk.ch) with your CV.

We are pleased to announce a new pre-print, from first author Anna-Chiara Schaub. You can read it via the link below:

Reduced weighting of short-term perceptual priors during auditory perceptual decision-making in psychosis-prone individuals

In this study we show that healthy people under S-ketamine, an NMDAR antagonist, and people diagosed with schizophrenia, a disorder associated with NMDAR hypofunction, spend more time in an external mode of perception - where noisy sensory signals override knowledge about the world.

N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor hypofunction causes recurrent and transient failures of perceptual inference | Brain | Oxford Academic

We are happy to announce this new collaborative project investigating the neurocomputational mechanisms of psychosis in a cross-species approach [more...].

On Friday 17th January, the Translational Psychiatry Lab will host a guest speaker, Prof. Anja Riesel (Uni. Hamburg). Prof. Riesel will speak in the topic "Insights from Errors: Neural Error Signals as a Transdiagnostic Risk Marker" [more...].

Congratulations to Lukas Sempach for a successful application to the University of Basel's Doctoral Mobility (Doc.Mobility@unibas) grant! Lukas will spend 6 months at University College London's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in the research group of Prof. Jonathan Roiser.