Bernhard Bogerts

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Bernhard Bogerts

Bernhard Bogerts (born June 1, 1948 in Stromberg , Hunsrück ) is a German psychiatrist and brain researcher .

Professional background

Bernhard Bogerts studied medicine at the Universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf . After receiving his doctorate in 1975 on the subject of neuroplasticity of the visual system, he began his training as a doctor for psychiatry at the Schleswig State Hospital . Until 1984 he was a research assistant at the C. u. O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research at the University of Düsseldorf, where he carried out studies on fine tissue changes in schizophrenic brains. Then he was a senior physician at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Düsseldorf until 1994 . In 1989 he completed his habilitation with investigations into changes in the brain structure of schizophrenics. In 1989/90 he spent a research stay at the Department of Psychiatric Research, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York. There he carried out magnetic resonance imaging examinations on the brains of schizophrenic and depressed patients.

From 1994 Bogerts was full professor for psychiatry and psychotherapy at Magdeburg University Hospital. Here he built the Psychiatric University Clinic with its sub-areas acute ward, psychotherapy wards, geriatric psychiatry, day clinic and polyclinic. The clinical and scientific focus was the diagnosis and therapy of psychotic and affective and geriatric psychiatric disorders. To date, he has provided around 500 expert opinions on questions of criminal or civil law. In 1998, he turned down the chair for psychiatry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In October 2015 he retired; but he continues to work in the research area of ​​the Magdeburg University Hospital. In April 2016 he took over the management of the Salus Institute in Magdeburg, which is part of Salus gGmbH . The main research focus there is on investigations into the brain biological and psychosocial causes of violence .

Scientific work

Bernhard Bogerts introduced quantitative methods to assess the brain structure both on a microscopic (neurohistological) and macroscopic level ( computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging) in schizophrenic and affective diseases. In the brains of deceased psychotic patients and in the magnetic resonance imaging of schizophrenics, he demonstrated structural deficits in the central limbic brain areas as well as other brain pathological abnormalities as neurobiological correlates of these psychological disorders.

Another research focus is the brain-biological basis of violent behavior. Together with the Magdeburg research group, he was able to provide evidence of brain pathology in incarcerated violent criminals. In 1997 he received the brain of Ulrike Meinhof from Jürgen Peiffer , former head of the Institute for Brain Research in Tübingen, for a brain pathological follow-up examination. She suicided in 1976 in the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. Peiffer had been entrusted with the neuropathological examination of the brain and described in an expert report brain pathological changes in the limbic system, which he viewed as a partial cause of a personality change of Ulrike Meinhof with a tendency to violence. Peiffer's findings were largely confirmed by Bogerts. He has published several papers on psychopathology and brain biological findings in aggression, amok, neonaticide and terrorism.

In addition, he researches inflammation-like and immunological processes in the brain as a partial cause of psychotic and emotional disorders.

Bernhard Bogerts has published around 370 original articles in international journals and several book chapters since 1980.

Awards

  • Kurt Schneider Prize 1984.
  • Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Grant 1989.
  • Stanley Foundation Research Awards 1992, 1996, 1999.
  • 1998 Kraepelin Prize.

Memberships

Publications on the research focus "Violence" (selection)

  • with E. Peter: Epidemiology and psychopathology of the rampage. First results of an analysis of the criminal files of 27 gunmen. In: The neurologist . 83 (1), Jan 2012, pp. 57-63.
  • with AM Möller-Leimkühler: Neurobiological causes and psychosocial conditions of individual violence. In: The neurologist. 84 (11), Nov 2013, pp. 1329-1344.
  • with K. Schiltz, JG Witzel and J. Bausch-Hölterhoff: High prevalence of brain pathology in violent prisoners: a qualitative CT and MRI scan study. In: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 263 (7), Oct 2013, pp. 607-616.
  • with JG Witzel and K. Schiltz: Increased frequency of brain pathology in inmates of a high-security forensic institution: a qualitative CT and MRI scan study. In: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 266, 2016, pp. 533-541.
  • with E. Peter and K. Schiltz: aggression, violence, amok, stalking. In: HJ Möller, G. Laux (Ed.): Handbook for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. 2017.
  • Bernhard Bogerts (Hrsg.): Violence in schools: current situation and prevention options. Lectures from the workshop on February 2, 2017 in the community and secondary school "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz" in Magdeburg. Salus Institute, Magdeburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056387-4 ( online ).
  • Bernhard Bogerts (ed.): Juvenile crime - causes and prevention. Lectures of the joint conference of JUBP and Salus-Institut on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the youth counseling center of the Police Directorate Saxony-Anhalt North on January 18, 2018 in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Integration of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg. Salus Institute, Magdeburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-059417-5 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ B. Bogerts, E. Meertz, R. Schönfeldt-Bausch: Basal ganglia and limbic system pathology in schizophrenia. A morphometric study of brain volume and shrinkage. In: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 42 (8), 1985, pp. 784-791.
  2. ↑ B. Bogerts, M. Ashtari, G. Degreef, JM Alvir, RM Bilder, JA Lieberman: Reduced temporal limbic structure volumes on magnetic resonance images in first episode schizophrenia. In: Psychiatry Res. 35 (1), 1990, pp. 1-13.
  3. ^ B. Bogerts: The neuropathology of schizophrenic diseases: historical aspects and present knowledge. In: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 249 Suppl 4, 1999, pp. 2-13.
  4. ↑ HG Bernstein, J. Steiner, PC Guest, H. Dobrowolny, B. Bogerts: Glial cells as key players in schizophrenia pathology: recent insights and concepts of therapy. In: Schizophr Res. 161 (1), 2015, pp. 4-18. doi: 10.1016 / j.schres.2014.03.035
  5. ↑ J. Steiner, H. Bielau, R. Brisch, P. Danos, O. Ullrich, C. Mawrin, HG Bernstein, B. Bogerts: Immunological aspects in the neurobiology of suicide: elevated microglial density in schizophrenia and depression is associated with suicide. In: J Psychiatr Res. 42 (2), 2008, pp. 151-157.
  6. ↑ T. Gos, D. Krell, H. Bielau, R. Brisch, K. Trübner, J. Steiner, HG Bernstein, Z. Jankowski, B. Bogerts: Tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in the locus coeruleus is elevated in violent suicidal depressive patients . In: . Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 258 (8), 2008, pp. 513-520. doi: 10.1007 / s00406-008-0825-8
  7. ↑ a b B. Bogerts, AM Möller-Leimkühler: Neurobiological and psychosocial causes of individual male violence. In: Neurologist. 84 (11), 2013, pp. 1329-1344. doi: 10.1007 / s00115-012-3610-x
  8. ↑ B. Bogerts: Brain and crime: Neurobiology of acts of violence. In: F. Schneider: Developments in Psychiatry. Springer Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-30099-6 , pp. 335-347.
  9. ↑ K. Schiltz, JG Witzel, J. Bausch-Hölterhoff, B. Bogerts: High prevalence of brain pathology in violent prisoners: a qualitative CT and MRI scan study. In: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 263 (7), 2013, pp. 607-616. doi: 10.1007 / s00406-013-0403-6
  10. ↑ K. Schiltz, J. Witzel, G. Northoff, K. Zierhut, U. Gubka, H. Fellmann, J. Kaufmann, C. Tempelmann, C. Wiebking, B. Bogerts: Brain pathology in pedophilic offenders: evidence of volume reduction in the right amygdala and related diencephalic structures. In: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 64 (6), 2007, pp. 737-746.
  11. ↑ Jürgen Dahlkamp : RAF - The brain of terror. In: Der Spiegel . November 8, 2002, accessed October 20, 2016 .
  12. ^ E. Peter, B. Bogerts: Epidemiology and psychopathology of persons running amok. Initial results of an analysis of criminal acts perpetrated by 27 persons running amok In: Nervenarzt. 83 (1), 2012, pp. 57-63. doi: 10.1007 / s00115-011-3250-6
  13. ^ M. Schöne, E. Peter, H. Dobrowolny, B. Bogerts: Neonaticide: A classification of female perpetrators in an east-west comparison. In: Neurologist. 86 (5), 2015, pp. 595-602. doi: 10.1007 / s00115-014-4205-5
  14. ↑ B. Bogerts, M. Schöne, S. Breitschuh (Salus Institute, Magdeburg, Germany): Brain alterations potentially associated with aggression and terrorism. In: Cambrigde University Press. August 14, 2017. doi: 10.1017 / s1092852917000463
  15. ↑ S. Breitschuh, M. Schöne, L. Tozzi, J. Kaufmann, H. Strumpf, D. Fenker, T. Frodl, B. Bogerts, K. Schiltz: Aggressiveness of martial artists correlates with reduced temporal pole gray matter concentration. In: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 281, pp. 24-30. doi: 10.1016 / j.pscychresns.2018.08.001
  16. ^ PubMed directory of scientific papers in international journals. Retrieved October 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bogerts, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and brain researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stromberg , Hunsrück