Dirk Hellhammer

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Dirk H. Hellhammer (born June 26, 1947 in Hanover ; † December 1, 2018 in Trier ) was a German psychoendocrinologist and university professor. He was known beyond the professional world for his development of Neuropattern , the first translational diagnostic system in stress medicine.

Life

Hellhammer studied psychology and biochemistry at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . During his studies he became a member of the Corps Moenania Würzburg . He completed his psychology diploma and doctorate with research work at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. As a post-doc he worked as a research assistant at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and as a group leader of the Max Planck research group for reproductive medicine in Münster . There he received the venia legendi in physiological and clinical psychology . After a guest professorship as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychiatric Research in Indianapolis and his license to practice psychological psychotherapists , he was appointed professor of clinical and physiological psychology at the University of Trier in 1986 , where he remained until his retirement. In 1988 he founded the Research Center for Psychobiology and Psychosomatics there , which he headed for decades.

His research team established pioneering methods in psychoendocrinology , such as hormone measurement in saliva, the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) and the recording of cortisol peaks in the morning as the most important stress indicator for basal hormone release. Later he developed the diagnostic system Neuropattern , which systematically uses knowledge from brain research for the clinical diagnosis of stress-related diseases. In clinical research, Hellhammer's working group described hypocortisolemic diseases ( fibromyalgia , irritable bowel syndrome , burnout, etc.) as a definable spectrum of psychosomatic health disorders .

From 2002 to 2005 Hellhammer was President of the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology . This scientific society awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and made him an honorary member. He was also a fellow at the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (USA) and the American College for Neuropsychopharmacology (USA).

Fonts

  • Neuropsychologically oriented longitudinal studies to measure determinants of behavioral activity in rats , Philos. Fac., Dissertation Univ. Wuerzburg 1978.
  • Brain and behavior: an application-oriented introduction to psychobiology , Aschendorff, Münster 1983. ISBN 978-3-402-04282-3 .
  • Neuropattern - an innovative psychobiological method for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of stress-related health disorders , online resource of the Saarbrücken University and State Library 2005, ( urn: nbn: de: bsz: 291-psydok-5211 )

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of the AHSC in Trier. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Brief CV of Professor Dr. Dirk H. Hellhammer , University of Trier, accessed April 4, 2017
  3. ^ Prize winners archive list of the German Psychology Prize , accessed on April 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hellhammer, Dirk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellhammer, Dirk H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuropsychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 2018
Place of death trier