University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Zentralgebäude der UPD

A large number of studies show that older people need adapted treatment. The University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is one of three Swiss hospitals, and the only one in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, to have a specialized professorship in old age psychiatry and psychotherapy.

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Profile

  • Teaching students studying medicine, pharmacy, psychology, and artificial intelligence in medicine as well as PhD students at the Graduate School for Health Science
  • Seven research groups
  • Investigation of cognitive functions with behavioral assessment, brain imaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation in healthy adults and in patients with a neurodegenerative or a psychiatric disorder
  • Application of tablet-based cognitive training in cognitive impairment
  • Improvement of sleep to enhance cognition in old age
  • Aim: Development and validation of non-pharmacological interventions to slow down cognitive decline

External Partners

Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland; Department of Neuroradiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland; SleepLoop Consortium, University of Zurich/ETH Zurich/University of Ulm; Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, University of Vienna, Austria; Cobtek (Cognition, Behaviour, Technology) Research Lab, University Cote d ́Azur, France; Neuroscience Centre, University of Geneva, Switzerland; German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrucken, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway; Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany; Technical University, Munich, Germany; University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Victoria, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, Lyon, France

Grants

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (189240,185105,191026, 2152569, 215333)
  • Synapsis Foundation
  • Velux Foundation
  • Empiris Foundation
  • Bangerter-Rhyner Foundation
  • SISF (Sitem Insel Support Funds)
  • Age Foundation