Das Deutsche Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit

Research

To advance research in the field of mental health, it must address the multifaceted factors that influence people in their living environments.

DZPG Academy

The DZPG Academy is the central platform for further and advanced training, professional career and junior staff development and interdisciplinary networking.

Participation

People who have experienced or are currently living with mental disorders have valuable experiences and unique perspectives. This knowledge is of great important for research.

Better Together – Research for a Healthy Mind

As one of eight German Centers for Health Research, the DZPG aims to improve the mental health of the population and reduce the stigma associated with mental disorders. To achieve this, the scientists work closely together with experts from the field. These experts include people living with mental disorders, their families, and relatives, as well as international researchers.

Together, they are searching for new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat mental disorders. The DZPG aims to ensure that people can benefit from the results of this research as soon as possible.

About the DZPG

News

[Translate to English:] Zwei Kinder in der Natur

09/10/2024 Latest News

New Online Training: Identifying and Treating Early Childhood Adversities – Free and Certified

Early childhood adversities, such as emotional and physical neglect, violence, experiences of migration, fleeing from conflict, or parental separation, often have serious impacts on the mental and physical health of the affected children and adolescents. These traumatic experiences influence core… >>

Thuringia's Science Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee (l.) and Prof. Martin Walter, Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the UKJ, in front of the new 7 Tesla MRI scanner, which will be used for clinical trials in mental health.

08/19/2024 Inside DZPG

Jena is becoming a center for neuroimaging

A state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner was inaugurated at the University Hospital Jena on August 9, 2024. The 7 Tesla MRI will be used for brain imaging in research projects at the German Center for Mental Health. The central German location of this center is coordinated in… >>

08/05/2024 Press Release

Invitation to the second nationwide online participation

Those affected and those close to them are asked to contribute their priorities for the Mental Health Research Compass at kommit-deutschland.de. This is intended to help researchers align their choice of topics more closely with the needs of those affected and those close to them in the future. >>

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Knowledge

Mental Disorders - What they look like, how to prevent them

Mental crises, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or depression - here you will soon find information on these and other illnesses studied at the DZPG, as well as on the prevention of mental disorders.

KNOWLEDGE

Partner Sites

Berlin-Potsdam Bochum-Marburg Halle-Jena-Magdeburg Mannheim-Heidelberg-Ulm München-Augsburg Tübingen

Network for Success

The DZPG offers optimal conditions for accelerating the transfer of research results into practice (translation) through close networking and the expansion of existing research structures. The DZPG brings together the expertise of 27 universities, university hospitals, and non-university research institutions at six sites in Germany in the form of long-term, equal partnerships. During the two-year start-up phase, research projects will be set up, infrastructures will be established and extensive measures for networking, promotion of young talent and patient participation will be initiated.

DZPG Partner Sites