The section deals with mental and neuropsychiatric diseases of ageing. The Gerontopsychiatry Section focuses on the description of cognitive and emotional processes in normal and impaired brain functions with the aid of clinical, neuropsychological, laboratory diagnostic and imaging procedures.

In terms of content, the focus is on the following areas:

• Early diagnosis of dementia and development of suitable test procedures for this purpose
• Objective diagnosis of affective disorders and development of suitable test procedures
• Gender dependencies of psychiatric syndromes
• Clinical drug trials
• Application of stimulation procedures (ECT, TCS)
• Development and use of technical aids for older people, in particular the development of aids for autonomous navigation
• Game-based learning
• Prediction of fall events