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Excellence Strategy: University of Halle receives funding for a Cluster of Excellence for the first time
The Martin Luther University is one of the winners of the Excellence Strategy. MLU applied for the Cluster of Excellence "Center for Chiral Electronics" (CCE) together with the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Regensburg and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle. The Cluster of Excellence will receive up to 64.5 million euros in funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and will start in January 2026. It will initially run for seven years. Research will focus on new concepts for high-performance and energy-efficient electronics.
Cognitive Behavioural therapy can alter brain structure and boost grey matter volume, study shows
Psychotherapy leads to measurable changes in brain structure. Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the University of Münster have demonstrated this for the first time in a study in “Translational Psychiatry” by using cognitive behavioural therapy. The team analysed the brains of 30 patients suffering from acute depression. After therapy, most of them showed changes in areas responsible for processing emotions. The observed effects are similar to those already known from studies on medication.
Older species tend to have large ranges – unless they live on islands
Every living species on Earth has a unique geographical range, with some being widespread and others being very narrow. Several factors shape a species’ range size - and one of them is the evolutionary age of a species. To investigate how evolutionary age is related to present-day range size, a research team by scientists from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University, the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) compared over 26,000 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, reef fishes, and palms.
Myths about the brain: How ChatGPT and others might help to dispel popular misconceptions
Large language models such as ChatGPT recognise widespread myths about the human brain better than many educators. However, if false assumptions are embedded into a lesson scenario, artificial intelligence (AI) does not reliably correct them. These were the findings of an international study that included psychologists from MLU.