Dipl.-Psych. Nele Adler (Student)
Affiliation(s) Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Institut für Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Keywords F.1 Human cognition and behavior, K.1 Mental processes and functions, K.10 Clinical psychology, K.7 Cognitive control
My PhD projects aims to investigate the neural signature of two philosophically-based concepts characterizing our thoughts: authorship and control. I focus on the investigation of intrusive and inserted thoughts as common thought disturbances observed in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia. While the experience of both intrusive and inserted thoughts is associated with a lack of thought control, only inserted thoughts in schizophrenia are additionally characterized by a lack of authorship. The neuroscientific investigation of the neural networks underlying the phenomena of authorship and control of thoughts in general and it’s impairments in OCD and schizophrenia is the main focus of my project.