Klaus-Peter Lesch

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Klaus-Peter Lesch (born March 4, 1957 in Würzburg ) is a German psychiatrist and professor at the University of Würzburg .

Klaus-Peter Lesch 2014

education

Lesch attended the Roentgen-Gymnasium Würzburg and graduated from the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium in Würzburg and studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg (Germany), Bern (Switzerland) and Cape Town (South Africa) from 1977 to 1983 . During his studies he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg . In 1984 he received his doctorate at the Department of Neurology at the University of Würzburg's Clinic, where he worked from 1985 to 1990 as an assistant doctor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy .

Scientific career

From 1990 to 1992 he was a Fogarty Research Fellow in the Department of Neuropharmacology under the direction of Dennis L. Murphy at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland / USA.

From 1993 to 1995 he was senior physician and working group leader at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Würzburg. After completing his habilitation, he held a Hermann and Lilly Schilling endowed professorship for clinical neurosciences in Würzburg from 1995 to 2000 .

Full professorship

Klaus-Peter Lesch has been a full professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University of Würzburg since 2001 and has headed a clinical research group for research into attention deficit / hyperactivity syndrome since 2004. Since 2010 he has also been a professor at the Institute for Translational Neurosciences at the School for Mental Health and Neurosciences (MHENS) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

In Würzburg, Lesch has held the chair for molecular psychiatry since 2010 and is director of the laboratory for translational neurosciences.

At the University of Tartu in Estonia, Lesch has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education since 2011.

Research areas

Klaus-Peter Lesch's most important research areas include:

  • Molecular Neurobiology of Cognitive Control
  • Epigenetics of brain development and neural plasticity
  • Functional imaging
  • Animal models for attention, cognition and learning / memory
  • Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Anxiety Disorders , Depression, and Substance Abuse

Other professional activities

Lesch has been a founding member of the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) since 2007 . In addition, he is a member of various national and international advisory bodies.

Awards

  • 1988 Organon Research Award for Biological Psychiatry
  • 1992 AE Bennett Award
  • 1993 HJ Weitbrecht Award
  • 1995 WFSBP International Research Development Award
  • 1996 Max Hamilton Memorial Award
  • 1997 AGNP Psychopharmacology Award
  • 2008 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award

Publications

  • with D. Bengel, A. Heils, SZ Sabol, BD Greenberg, S. Petri, J. Benjamin, CR Müller, DH Hamer and DL Murphy: Association of anxiety-related traits with a polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene regulatory region. In: Science. 274, 1996, pp. 1527-1532.
  • with T. Canli: Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition. In: Nature Neurosci. 10, 2007, pp. 1103-1109.
  • with DL Murphy: Targeting the murine serotonin transporter: insights into human neurobiology. In: Nat Rev Neurosci. 9, 2008, pp. 85-96.
  • with S. Selch, TJ Renner, C. Jacob, TT ​​Nguyen, T. Hahn, M. Romanos, S. Shoichet, A. Dempfle, M. Heine, A. Boreatti-Hümmer, S. Walitza, J. Romanos, S. Gross-Lesch, H. Zerlaut, B. Allolio, S. Heinzel, M. Fassnacht, A. Fallgatter, T. Wultsch, H. Schäfer, A. Warnke, A. Reif, HH Ropers and R. Ullmann: Genome- wide copy number variation analysis in ADHD: association with neuropeptide Y gene dosage in an extended pedigree. In: Mol Psychiatry. 16, 2011, pp. 491-503.
  • with J. Waider: Serotonin in the modulation of neural plasticity and networks: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders. In: Neuron. 76, 2012, pp. 175-191.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Röhrich, Winfried Stadtmüller: Annual report 1971/72. Röntgen-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1972, p. 22 ( class 8 d ).
  2. ^ Annual report 1975/76. Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1976, p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Lesch, Klaus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg