University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Zentralgebäude der UPD

The University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy provides primary psychiatric care and specialized treatment programs for adults. It is divided into specialized centers, each with outpatient, day-patient, and inpatient facilities.

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Profile

  • Teaching students of medicine, biomedical science, and psychology within the curriculum, supervising masters and doctoral thesis projects, as well as teaching at various graduate schools at the University of Bern
  • 18 research groups
  • Clinical translational research topics include psychosis pathophysiology and treatment, sleep, addiction, stress, and depression
  • Aims: understand the etiology and pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders and develop novel non-pharmacological treatment options

External Partners

Dept. of Psychiatry, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; Dept. of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA; Dept. of Psychiatry, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany; Dept. of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Freiburg, Germany; Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Germany; University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Milano, Italy; Depts. of Psychiatry, University of Basel and University of Zurich; Neurocenter of the University of Lugano

Grants

  • SNSF: 184717/182469/184943/189058/192623/180022/179451/159286/207822/200524
  • NIH: R01MH118741
  • Swiss Health Promotion Foundation (No. 20.189.K50003), Swiss Foundation for Alcohol Research (No. 283, 303 and 328)
  • Fondation Adrian et Simone Frutiger, Novartis Foundation for medical-biological research (19A063), Velux-Foundation, Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz, Volkswagen-Foundation, Synapsis Foundation, Swiss Life Jubiläumsstiftung, Robert-Enke Stiftung
  • IRC Univ. Bern