Staff
Georg Northoff
Research Unit Director
M.D., Ph.D., Ph.D.

Institutional adress:
Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit
Room 6435
University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
1145 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON K1Z 7K4
- Curriculum Vitae
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- Publication List
Email: Georg.Northoff@rohcg.on.ca
Victoria Howard
Secretary
Contact:
Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit
Room 6443
University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
1145 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON K1Z 7K4
Email: Victoria.Howard@rohcg.on.ca
Phone: (613) 722-6521 ext. 6801
Fax: (613) 798-2982
David J. Hayes
Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., Ph.D.
Contact: Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, room 6441
Interests: I am interested in how emotional brain function gives rise to aversion and reward, and how these processes are related to neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, and addiction.
Email: David.Hayes@rohcg.on.ca
Christine Wiebking
Graduate Student
M.Sc.

Contact: Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, room 6437
Interests: Are emotions modulated by the resting state activity of our brain or by our degree of interoceptive awareness? To address this question I am interested in investigating the neuronal activity during rest and interoception using fMRI in healthy subjects as well as in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD).
Email: Christine.Wiebking@rohcg.on.ca
Niall Duncan
Graduate Student
B.Sc., M.Litt.

Contact: Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, room 6441
Interests: philosophy and neurobiology of the self
Email: Niall.Duncan@rohcg.on.ca
PengMin Qin
Postdoctoral Fellow
M.Chi.Med., Ph. D.
Contact: Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, room 6436
Interests: self, consciousness and patients with disorders of self and consciousness
Email: qin.pengmin@gmail.com
Oliver Lyttelton
Postdoctoral Fellow
M.Sc.

Contact: Office phone: (514) 398-6447
Interests: During my post-doctoral fellowship I hope to bring my knowledge of brain imaging analysis methodology to a more clinical setting. Specifically, I have a developing interest in neuro-psychoanalysis and will will get involved in the functional imaging of self-related processing in the brain. This would bring my research career into good alignment with psychoanalytic training at the Montreal Psychoanalytic Association.
Email: oliver.c.lyttelton@gmail.com
Takashi Nakao
Postdoctoral Fellow
M.Sc., Ph.D.

Contact: Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, room 6436
Interests: Research in the field of social cognitive neuroscience, especially
function of the self-knowledge, social decision making, and medial prefrontal cortex. Homepage: http://takana-eng.blogspot.com/
Email: takana818@gmail.com
Hitomi Nashiwa
Graduate Student
M.Sc.
Contact: Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, room 6434
Interests: Language comprehension: How we (human being) understand
language and what is going on in our brain?
Email: Hitomi.Nakao@rohcg.on.ca
Yan Fan
Graduate Student
B.Sc.

Contact: Cluster Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin
Interests: empathy, reward and self-referential processing
Email: yan.fan@fu-berlin.de
Björn Enzi
Graduate Student
M.D.

Interests: fMRI in alcoholism, reward and borderline personality disorder
Email: bjoern.enzi@gmx.de
Previous Members
Dr. Moritz de Greck
Dipl.-Psych. André Bauer
Dr. Ulrike Bruer
Andree-Anne Ledoux
Herrmann Fellmann
Udo Gubka
Dipl.-Neuro. Christian Matthiä
Dipl.-Neuro. Sascha Mörth
Dipl.-Psych. Diana Moritz
Luise Poser
Daniela Schwindel
Dr. Rene Thiemann
Dr. Martin Walter
Collaborations
McGill University Montreal/Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)
Prof. Shihui Han, Department of Psychology, Peking University, China
Prof. Israel Liberzon, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, USA
Prof. Jaak Panksepp, Department of VCAPP, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, USA
Prof. Helen S. Mayberg, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Dr. Todd Feinberg, Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan, Brooklyn New York
Dr. Heinz Böker, Department of Psychiatry, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Alexander Heinzel, Department of Nuclear Medicine (KME), Research Center Jülich, Germany
Dr. Antonio Alcaro,
Department of Psychology, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Dr. Marina Farinelli, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
Clinical Psychology Service, “Villa Bellombra” Rehabilitation Hospital, Bologna, Italy
Prof. Cornelius Faber, Dept. of Experimental Magnetic Resonance, University of Münster
Prof. Stephan Doering, Divison of Psychosomatic Medicine in Dentistry, Department of Prostetic Dentistry, University of Münster
Dr. Michael Dümpelmann, Ärztlicher Leiter Psycho- und Soziotherapie, Asklepios Fachklinikum Tiefenbrunn
Prof. Jörg Frommer, Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany
Dipl.-Med. Cornelia Ulrich, State Hospital for Forensic Psychiatry in Uchtspringe, Germany
Dr. Joachim Witzel, State Hospital for Forensic Psychiatry in Uchtspringe, Germany
Dipl.-Med. Ulrike Prösch, Clinic for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Schweriner See, Germay
Dr. Ludwig Niehaus, Clinic for Psychiatry, Winnenden, Germany