News in 2025
2025-02-07
Cake, Coffee, and Cheers for Anja’s Years!
A sweet surprise! Even though Anja’s birthday was a few weeks ago, she surprised us with cake and coffee during our team meeting. We raised our cups to her once more and enjoyed a lovely break together. Thanks, Anja, and once again, happy birthday!
2025-20-06
Hannah and Caroline published their first paper!
We are very proud to announce that our medical doctoral students Hannah and Caroline published their research in the field of child and adolescent eating disorders. Congratulations on this great achievement and milestone in your doctoral studies!
Don't miss these papers on parental psychopathology and expressed emotion in ARFID and the validation of the parent version of the ChEDE-Q questionnaire, the Ch-EDE-QP (open access)!
2025-18-06
Paper news!
This week, our smartphone-supported cognitive behavioral therapy (smartCBT) study for adults with binge-eating disorder (BED) was pubslihed! This single-center, assessor-blinded, parallel feasibility study evaluated the effects of smartCBT versus standard CBT in 25 adults with BED providing evidence for the feasibility of app-supported CBT for BED. With few procedural refinements, the protocol can be used in a confirmatory randomized-controlled trial with long-term follow-up to evaluate efficacy and determine treatment mechanisms. Congratulation to Anja and the smartCBT team!
2025-28-05
Lisa in Ladenburg!
Last Friday, Lisa attended the Ladenburg Roundtable on “Emotional eating – universality and limits of the concept” – an exciting meeting with great international colleagues. Thank you for letting us be part of it!
2025-20-05
Next degree: PD!
The time has finally come: Ricarda has completed her Habitation. The Habilitation is a postdoctoral qualification in the German academic system that demonstrates the ability to conduct independent research and university-level teaching. Congratulation 🙂
2025-16-04
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter everyone! Anja surprised us today with a chocolate Easter bunny. This brings back great childhood memories. Thank you so much!
2025-09-04
Ben on the stage!
Yesterday, Ben presented one of his doctoral studies at the German Psychotherapy Congress in Berlin. Soon you will be able to read his results on neurophysiological predictors and rapid response in the treatment of binge-eating disorder using neurofeedback in a scientific journal! Stay tuned!
2025-19-03
Our new INSTA(R)!
Check out our new video introducing our NOBEAD study. Lisa gives you a brief introduction to the study. For more information, have a look at our study flyer.
2025-13-03
Congress News!
Our two doctoral students Anne and Elisabeth gained their first congress experience and presented their studies at the joint congress of the German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical Psychotherapy (DGPM) and the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM) in Berlin. Anne even received a congress fellowship! We are very proud of both of them.
2025-10-03
Paper News!
Congratulations to Nicolas Pardey for his paper on "Economic evaluation of cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescents with binge-eating disorder in Germany", which was published today (open access) in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Although cost-effectiveness analyses are mostly rare, they play an important role for the healthcare system. Thank you for such a great collaboration.
2025-04-03
World Obesity Day!
Today, we would like to take the opportunity to raise awareness and increase knowledge about obesity. On our website you will find all important information about obesity and its stigma as well as approaches to stigma reduction an important step on the way to a more tolerant society.
2025-25-02
Spring in the air! (at least we dream of it)
We're slowly getting into the spring mood - can you spot it?!
2025-05-02
Happy Chinese New Year!
Our doctoral student Wenlu spent the Chinese New Year holiday at home. See what great impressions she captured for us! Let's have a peaceful and happy new year together!
2025-30-01
Festival season has started!
Ben attended the first festival of the year – the Research Festival – and presented his study on neurophysiological predictors of EEG and fNIRS neurofeedback in adults with binge eating disorder!
2025-22-01
Coffee is always a good idea
Nice to have coffee breaks together again - especially with such a beautiful view.
2025-15-01
Breaking news: 1000 participants!
In our PRAC study, we reached our recruitment target of 1000 patients who have received bariatric surgery! How exciting! To everyone involved, and of course the participants, thank you for your great support. This is a major milestone!
2025-06-01
From arts to carts!
At the end of last year we spent a wonderful evening at the Kunstkraftwerk and admired the video installations of Dali's works in the digital art center. This powerful performance still resonates. Afterwards we toasted to a great team year at the Christmas market at the Felsenkeller - thank you all for being here and for Anja for inviting us.
2025-01-01
Happy 2025!
We hope you had a few relaxing days at the end of the year and welcomed 2025 in style. We are starting the new year with full momentum and look forward to constructive teamwork and exciting projects!