PMU - Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität

The Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg was founded in 2002 with the support of its founders and benefactors, the pro-vincial, the municipal and regional administrations of Salzburg and private sponsors. The Paracelsus University is a young university with the highest professional standards. We consider our mission in teaching and research in the field of human medicine and in related health sciences disciplines. Our stu-dents are trained as MDs and are able to attain a PhD in mole-cular medicine at our university institutes, at the Salzburg Uni-versity Hospital, and at selected teaching hospitals. In addition, we offer a variety of postgraduate programs and degree courses. At the heart of all our endeavors lie the patients. The Paracelsus University ‘s hallmark is its international network in its teaching and research. Constructive and beneficial partner-ships in medical and scientific fields have been established with the Mayo Medical School (USA), Charles University in Prague, Capital Medical University Beijing (CMU), the universities of Yale, Milan, Cambridge, North Florida, Glasgow as well as the national universities.

Securing Salzburg in its development as a scientific center and economic hotspot is one of the Paracelsus Medical University’s main objectives. In addition to funding its research institutes, the Paracelsus Private Medical University supports the implementation of scientific projects at the university clinics and institutes with research funds.

University Institutes:

Institute of General Practice, Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine
Institute of Anatomy and Musculoskeletal Research
Institute of Nursing Sciences
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology
Research Institute of Molecular Regenerative Medicine
Research Institute of Public Health
Research Institute of Biomechanics
Research Institute Gastein
Institute of Advanced Radiation Technologies - radART
Research Institute of Synergetics and Psychotherapy
Research Institute of Metabolic Diseases
Research Institute of Neurointervention

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Further Education:

Research

Milestones of current research results were presented at the congress "Neurobiology in Psychotherapy"

06.07.2009

"Neurobiology in Psychotherapy"
Key issue: "Relationship and Complexity"
July 3-5, 2009

The interesting conference to connect the disciplines neurobiology and psychotherapy took place in a beautiful and relaxing atmosphere in the „large auditorium“ at the University of Salzburg. The key issue of the conference was oriented to „relationship and complexity“ and tried to conform to the fact, that the brain is a highly complex and nonlinear system, where self-organizing processes are proceeded permanently.

Among other things it was reported about the use of imaging procedures (i. e. functional magnetic resonance tomography, fMRT) to present the progress of therapy. One example, provided by the young and innovative Institute of Synergetic and Psychotherapy Research at the Paracelsus Medical Private University Salzburg in cooperation with the Psychosomatic Clinic Windach, the Medical University Wien and the Ludwig-Maximillian University München showed fascinating results of an fMRT-study about psychotherapy in OCD patients (obsessive-compulsive disorder). By combining neurobiological and psychological aspects in process research, a fascinating and interdisciplinary field of work is emerging, oriented to the theory of complex systems and self-organisation (Synergetic). The new release of synergetic navigation system (SNS) and its clinical therapeutic applications was presented in Salzburg for the first time. This system shows from a psychological perspective - complementary to the neuroscience methods - a detailed picture of psychotherapeutically processes.
Milestones of highly up-to-date research results were presented in lectures of Wolf Singer (Frankfurt a. M.), Peter Tass (Jülich), Wolfgang Miltner (Jena), Georg Northoff (Magdeburg), Dieter Vaitl (Gießen), Günter Schiepek (Salzburg), Simon Eickhoff (Jülich), Hans Förstl (München), Nils Birbaumer (Tübingen), Andreas Bartels (Tübingen), Josef Aldenhoff (Kiel), Henrik Walter (Bonn), Anna Buchheim (Innsbruck) and Christian Schubert (Innsbruck) to a large, responsive and very interested audience.

Picture: Günter Schiepek (Salzburg), Christian Schubert und Anna Buchheim (Innsbruck), Josef Aldenhoff (Kiel), Wolf Singer (Frankfurt am Main)

In addition, the participants had the opportunity to take part at one of eight workshops (daily, parallel sessions), to delve into single subjects. The subsequent congress in two years is planned to be hosted in the heart of Salzburg again.

Organizers:

Institute of Synergetic and Psychotherapy Research, Paracelsus Medical Private University Salzburg
Centre for Complex Systems, Weinstadt
Institute for Medical Psychology, Medical University Innsbruck
Paris-Lodron University, Salzburg
Psychosomatic Clinic, Windach
Schattauer Publishers, Stuttgart
In cooperation with European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea)

Milestones of current research results were presented at the congress "Neurobiology in Psychotherapy"

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