Alexander Schmidt (doctor)

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Alexander Schmidt (born January 15, 1977 in Kiel ) is a German neurologist and musician . Since 2014 he has been professor of musicians' medicine at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin , where he heads the "Kurt Singer Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine" (KSI), and since 2015 head of the "Berlin Center for Musicians' Medicine" (BCMM ) at the Charité . He has been a board member of the German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine (DGfMM) since 2017 and its President since November 2019.

Life

Alexander Schmidt completed a piano course with Wladimir Krainew at the Hanover University of Music, Theater and Media with a diploma in music education and then studied medicine at the Hanover Medical School . He wrote his dissertation on the subject of pathophysiology of musician's dystonia: Neuroplasticity and clinical genetics at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine Hannover under Eckart Altenmüller and, after completing his doctorate in 2009, completed a neurological specialist training at the Clinic for Neurology at the University of Lübeck and the Ameos Clinic for Psychiatry and psychotherapy in Lübeck. At the same time he headed the research group Endophenotypes of Movement Disorders as a research assistant at the Institute for Neurogenetics . In 2016 he completed his habilitation in “Experimental Neurology” at the University of Lübeck on the subject of genetic and environmental causes of musician's dystonia and other dystonia syndromes .

He conducts research in the field of neurophysiology in musicians and neurological movement disorders with a focus on focal dystonia in musicians.

Publications (selection)

  • A. Schmidt: Pathophysiology of musician's dystonia: neuroplasticity and clinical genetics , Hannover 2009 (Medical University)
  • A. Schmidt, HC Jabusch, E. Altenmüller, J. Hagenah, N. Brüggemann, K. Hedrich, R. Saunders-Pullman, SB Bressman, PL Kramer, C. Klein: Dominantly transmitted focal dystonia in families of patients with musicians' cramp . Neurology 2006; 67: 691-693.
  • A. Schmidt, HC Jabusch, E. Altenmüller, J. Hagenah, N. Brüggemann, K. Lohmann, L. Enders, PL Kramer, R. Saunders-Pullman, SB Bressman, A. Münchau, C. Klein: Etiology of musician's dystonia: familial or environmental? Neurology 2009; 72: 1248-1254.
  • A. Schmidt, C. Eggers, J. Hagenah, N. Brüggemann, JC Klein, V. Tadic, L. Kertelge, M. Kasten, F. Binkofski, H. Siebner, GR Fink, R. Hilker, C. Klein: Progression of subtle motor signs in PINK1 mutation carriers with mild dopaminergic deficit . Neurology 2010; 74: 1798-1805.
  • A. Schmidt, HC Jabusch, E. Altenmüller, L. Enders, R. Saunders-Pullman, SB Bressman, A. Münchau, C. Klein, J. Hagenah: Phenotypic spectrum of musician's dystonia: A task-specific disorder? Mov Disord 2011; 26: 546-549.
  • A. Schmidt, E. Altenmüller: Do pianists have better fine perception of the fingers compared to non-pianists? In: Music in the Spectrum of Technological Developments and New Media , ed. v. A. Bense, M. Gieseking, B. Müßgens, epOs-Music , Osnabrück 2015, 135–140, ISBN 978-3-940255-60-0

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SURNAME Schmidt, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel