Ahmed A. Karim

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Ahmed A. Karim (born March 17, 1974 in Cairo / Egypt) is a German psychotherapist , neuropsychologist and health psychologist with a focus on prevention .

Life

Ahmed A. Karim was born in Cairo / Egypt. He went to school in Berlin , which he graduated from high school in 1994 . In 1995 he began studying psychology and neuropsychiatry at the Free University of Berlin (FU), and in 2001 he received a one-year scholarship from the University of Oxford / England . In 2001 he obtained the degree of psychologist at the Free University of Berlin . From 2002 to 2004 Karim completed a postgraduate master’s degree at the International Max Planck Research School of Neural and Behavioral Sciences in Tübingen . At the same institute he received his doctorate in 2009 as a scholarship holder of the State Graduate Funding Baden-Württemberg with a neuroscientific dissertation for a doctor of natural sciences .

After subsequent research on non-invasive cerebral cortex stimulation, neuroplasticity and neural processes in learning as well as clinical training in psychotherapy with a focus on behavioral therapy at the Tübingen Academy for Behavioral Therapy (TAVT), Karim received the state license to practice as a psychotherapist in 2011 .

After various professional positions in outpatient gerontological psychiatry and adolescent psychiatry , Ahmed A. Karim accepted a visiting professorship at the University Clinic for Neurology and Psychiatry in Assiut / Egypt in 2012 . In the 2012/13 winter semester, he held a professorship for clinical psychology, neurorehabilitation and methodology at the Arnstadt-Balingen University of Applied Sciences . Since 2014 he has been Professor of Prevention and Health Psychology at the SRH Fernhochschule Riedlingen .

Awards

  • 2010 Brain Products Young Scientist Award from Brain Products for outstanding scientific contributions to EEG research with the article "Brain oscillatory substrates of visual short-term memory capacity" (Current Biology, 19, 2009)
  • 2013 Young Investigator Award from the European Brain and Behavioral Society (EBBS)

Memberships

Scientific publications (selection)

  • (together with Angelika Karger) On the Critique of Neurotheology . In: Forum Technik, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft , 16, 2006, pp. 19–37.
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), neuroplasticity and learning . Tübingen 2009.
  • Brain oscillatory substrates of visual short-term memory capacity . In: Current Biology , 19, 2009.
  • (together with Martin Krippl) "Theory of Mind" for forensically relevant disorders . In: JL Müller (Ed.): Neurobiology forensically-relevant disorders . Stuttgart 2009, pp. 248-259.
  • Transcranial cortex stimulation as a novel approach for probing the neurobiology of dreams: Clinical and neuroethical implications . In: International Journal of dream research , 3 (1), 2010, pp. 17-20.
  • (together with Niels Birbaumer, Andreas J. Fallgatter) The truth about lying: Neurophysiological and psychopathic personality traits . In: J. Müller, M. Rösler, P. Briken (eds.): Empirical research in forensic psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy . Berlin 2012, pp. 3–12.
  • Migrants as role models: Findings from media, learning and neuropsychology . In: Office for Integration and Equal Opportunities of the University City of Tübingen (Hrsg.): Tübinger Talente . Kirchentellinsfurt 2014.

A complete list of publications is available at.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahmed A. Karim: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), neuroplasticity and learning . Dissertation at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen 2009.
  2. ↑ ebbs-science.org ( Memento from April 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ fh-riedlingen.de or SRH Fernhochschule mobile University
personal data
SURNAME Karim, Ahmed A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist, neuro and health psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Egypt