Professor

Professor

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 Johannes Thome, M.D., Ph.D.

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, is the Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Rostock

University of Rostock

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, Germany

Germany

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Biography

Prof. Thome studied medicine

Medicine

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, philosophy

Philosophy

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 and social psychology

Social psychology

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 and obtained his M.D. and Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 degrees from Saarland University

Saarland University

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, Germany

Germany

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. He completed his training in psychiatry

Psychiatry

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 at the University of Wurzburg

University of Würzburg

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, Germany

Germany

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, and then became Postdoctoral Associate at the Division of Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry

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 from the Yale School of Medicine

Yale School of Medicine

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, USA. After two years of intensive and successful research in the area of molecular psychiatry and psychopharmacology

Psychopharmacology

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, he worked as Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer

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 at the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany. From 2004 till 2011, he was Chair of Psychiatry at the Institute of Life Sciences, Swansea University

Swansea University

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, Swansea

Swansea

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, Wales

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. In March 2011, he was appointed Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Rostock

University of Rostock

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 , Germany

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; there, besides the treatment of mental illness

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, he wishes to create a new center of molecular psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry

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Work

His research interests focus on what happens in the brain at cellular, genetic and molecular levels when psychiatric disorders break out (e.g. depression, psychoses, adult ADHD, dementia

Dementia

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), psychopharmacology

Psychopharmacology

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 and interdisciplinary aspects of psychiatry

Psychiatry

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, including psychopathology

Psychopathology

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 and philosophy

Philosophy

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Prof. Thome has authored and co-authored several books and more than 100 articles in international scientific journals.
He is member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals and a regular reviewer of manuscripts in the fields of psychiatry

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

 and neuroscience

Neuroscience

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, as well as of grant applications for several national research councils.

Dr. Thome is the Secretary General of the World Federation of ADHD and was member of the Executive Committee of the UK Adult ADHD Network.

Books

"Philosophy and Psychiatry" (ISBN 3110178001)

"Molekulare Psychiatrie" (ISBN 3456835035)

"Psychotherapeutische Aspekte in der Philosophie Platons (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien)" (ISBN 3487099888)

External links

• Institute of Life Science, Swansea University
• The UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN)