Henrik Walter

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Henrik Walter (September 2006)

Henrik Walter (born May 10, 1962 in Heidelberg ) is a German psychiatrist , brain researcher and philosopher at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin .

Life

Henrik Walter has held the newly created chair for psychiatry with a focus on psychiatric neuroscience and neurophilosophy at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin since 2010 and head of the Mind and Brain research department at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy there.

After studying human medicine, philosophy and psychology in Marburg , Giessen and Boston , he received his doctorate in medicine (Giessen 1991) and philosophy (Braunschweig 1997). After completing his specialist training in neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, he initially held professorships in Frankfurt (biological psychiatry) and Bonn (medical psychology) before moving to Berlin in 2010. His clinical focus is on schizophrenic and affective disorders, his empirical research ranges from executive functions and volition , reward mechanisms and the interaction of emotion and cognition to emotion regulation and social cognition to imaging genetics. In philosophy, he mainly deals with questions of the philosophy of mind and neuroethics .

Together with Achim Stephan, he is the main applicant for the Animal Emotionale research project , which has been funded by the Volkswagen Foundation since 2005 and which examines the role of emotions as a “missing link” between recognition and action from a philosophical and neuroscientific perspective.

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Monographs
  • Henrik Walter: Neurophilosophy of Free Will: From Libertarian Illusions to the Concept of Natural Autonomy. Schöningh, 1998, ISBN 3506732412 ; engl. Neurophilosophy of free will: from libertarian illusions to a concept of natural autonomy. MIT Press, 2001, ISBN 0262232146
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