One research focus is Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome. Several project grants and collaborations have enabled us to establish a research focus on this:

• Multimodal investigations of functional interactions and plasticity in the neuronal network linking action observation and execution: a combined functional MRI, MEG and TMS approach (Volkswagenstiftung; 2003-2006)
• Multimodal investigation of neuronal circuits involved in execution and inhibition of self-determined and externally guided movements in Tourette syndrome (German Research Foundation MU 1692/2-1 and 2-2; 2006-2009)
• Intentional inhibition and self-control in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (DFG MU 1692/3-1; 2010-2014)
• Psychophysical methods in the context of pharmacological and behavioural therapeutic approaches to the treatment of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (DFG MU 1692/4-1, 2015-2017).

The aforementioned funding allowed the establishment of a national and international clinical and scientific focus on Tourette syndrome. To this end, the DFG established a cross-location research group (spokesperson: Alexander Münchau) at the University of Lübeck and the University of Dresden in 2018 and extended it into the second funding period in 2022 (DFG Research Group "Cognitive theory for Tourette syndrome - a novel perspective (TEC4Tic)" (FOR 2698)).