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Year of election: | 1993 |
Section: | Neurowissenschaften |
City: | Berlin |
Country: | Deutschland |
Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgebiete (chronologisch): Psychiatrie der Epilepsien, psychiatrische Methodologie in Diagnostik, Klassifikation und Therapieforschung, unterschwellige psychische Erkrankungen, psychische Störungen im Alter (Berliner Altersstudie BASE), ethische Fragen der Psychiatrie, Geschichte der Psychiatrie.
Research (in chronological order): epilepsy (as a model of cerebral determinants of mental disorders, therapy); EEG in psychiatry; psychiatric diagnostics and classification (methodology); Depression (diagnostics, Epidemiology, standardisation of treatment); psychiatric therapy research (methodology of clinical trials, criteria of evaluation); mental disorders in old age (Berlin Aging Study BASE); dementia (differentiating from cognitive aging); subthreshold psychiatric disorders (diagnostics and relevance for health policy); ethical questions in psychiatry (clinical trials, informed consent, research with vulnerable populations), history of psychiatry.