Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health and Head of the Executive Board
Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany
| Prof. Meyer-Lindenberg is Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Institute, and Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is board certified in psychiatry, psychotherapy, neurology. Before coming to Mannheim in 2007, he spent ten years as a scientist at the National Institutes of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA.His research interests focus on the development of novel treatments for severe psychiatric disorders through an application of multimodal neuroimaging, genetics and enviromics to characterize brain circuits underlying the risk for mental illness. He is the author of more than 480 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is continuously named as one of the most highly cited scientists in the world (www.isihighlycited.com). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the new Journal of the ECNP “Neuroscience Applied”.
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