Gerd Huber

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Gerd Huber (born December 3, 1921 in Echterdingen ; † April 8, 2012 ) was a German psychiatrist .

Live and act

Huber studied medicine in Tübingen , where he joined the Ulmia national team . He received his doctorate in 1948 and habilitated under Walter Ritter von Baeyer in Heidelberg in 1957 . Until 1962 he headed the psychiatric-neurological polyclinic and the neuroradiological department there. In 1961 he became an associate professor and worked as a senior physician at the University Neurological Clinic in Bonn . In 1968 he became a full professor in the Ulm- Weißenau psychiatric clinic . In 1974 he was a full professor for psychiatry and neurology at the Medical University of Lübeck . From 1978 Huber was director of the psychiatric clinic and polyclinic at the University of Bonn .

Huber is the author of several psychiatric books.

Act

His research focus is on schizophrenia research . Huber has published studies on the long-term course of schizophrenia (Bonn study), findings on ventricular asymmetry and on the basic symptoms. The latter are significant for the early course of schizophrenia . He is the first to describe a special form of schizophrenia, coenesthetic schizophrenia and pseudoneurasthenic syndrome .

Huber was the founder and honorary chairman of the international working group for psychosis research. He was the initiator of the Kurt Schneider and HJ Weitbrecht Science Awards and honorary chairman of their international boards of trustees. Furthermore, Huber was an honorary member of German, European and South and North American specialist societies for psychiatry and biological psychiatry. He was an Honorary Fellow of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry. He was visiting professor at several South American universities and was honorary president of the Latin American Society for Biological Psychiatry. Huber has received several honorary doctorates.

Honors

Gerd Huber was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1994 in recognition of outstanding achievements in psychiatric research and for increasing the reputation of German psychiatry in world medicine. In 2007 the “Gerd Huber Prize”, endowed with 20,000 euros, was donated by the AstraZeneca company for research into psychosis prevention .

Fonts (selection)

  • The coenesthetic schizophrenia. In: Advances in Neurology and Psychiatry, Volume 25, 1957, pp. 429-426.
  • Pneumencephalographic and psychopathological pictures in endogenous psychoses. Berlin 1957.
  • Psychiatry. Textbook for study and further education. Schattauer, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-7945-0404-6 , 7th edition 2005, ISBN 3-7945-2214-1
  • With Gisela Gross: madness. A descriptive-phenomenological study of schizophrenic madness. Enke, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-432-89061-3
  • With Gisela Gross and Reinhold Schüttler: Schizophrenia. Long-term progression and social psychiatric examinations of the schizophrenic patients hospitalized in Bonn from 1945 to 1959. Springer, Heidelberg 1979, ISBN 3-540-09014-2
  • With Edith Zerbin-Rüdin: Schizophrenia. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1979, ISBN 3-534-04885-7
  • With Lilo Süllwold: Schizophrenic basic disorders. Springer, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-540-16744-7

literature

  • Perspectives on Psychiatric Research and Practice. Organized in the club house of the University of Bonn by the Weissenauer Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Psychosenforschung e. V., Festschrift on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. hc Gerd Huber with the award of the Kurt Schneider Prize. Edited by Gisela Gross. Schattauer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7945-1637-0
  • 50 years of psychiatry. Symposium on December 13, 1996 in Bonn; Festschrift on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. hc Gerd Huber. Edited by Gisela Gross. Schattauer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7945-1979-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Huber G et al .: Longitudinal studies of schizophrenic patients. in: Schizophr Bull. 1980; 6 (4): 592-605. PMID 7444391
  2. ↑ Huber G .: Clinical and neuroradiological research on chronic schizophrenics. in: Neurologist. January 1961; 32: 7-15. PMID 13716451
  3. ↑ G. Huber: The concept of substrate-close basic symptoms and its significance for the theory and therapy of schizophrenic diseases. in: Neurologist. January 1983; 54 (1): 23-32. PMID 6133225
  4. ↑ G. Huber: Cenesthetic schizophrenia. in: Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr. September 1957; 25 (9): 491-520. PMID 13474068
  5. ↑ G. Huber: Clinic of the Psychopathology of Organic Psychoses. In: KP Kisker, JE Meyer, M. Müller, E. Strömgen (editor): Psychiatry of the present. 1972, Vol. II, pp. 71-146.
  6. ^ Obituary notice: Gerd-Huber , Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 11, 2012
  7. ↑ Article on the 80th birthday, aerzteblatt.de, accessed April 11, 2009
  8. ↑ Brief description of the “Gerd Huber Prize”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.astrazeneca.de  
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Real things
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2012