Renée Hartig

Renée Hartig is a researcher at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim (ZI) in the research group focused on the Developmental Biology of Psychiatric Disorders. Her work explores the interplay between genetic factors, neural circuit development, and cognitive processes in psychiatric conditions.

Her research interests include:

• Neurogenetics of psychiatric disorders
• Neural circuit development and function
• Olfactory decoding in behavioral contexts
• Role of oxytocin in social cognition
• Prediction coding in striatal networks

Recent publications highlight her contributions to understanding autism-related genes, olfactory reinforcement learning, and cortical representation dynamics. These works span disciplines like neuroscience, neurogenetics, and behavioral biology, with subfields including neural circuits, synaptic plasticity, and social behavior modeling.