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Thomas Bronisch, Prof. Dr. med.

Research group leader
Senior psychiatrist
Text Link Intern RG Bronisch: Suicide Studies
Text Link Intern Psychiatrische Stationen der Klinik
Phone: 089/30622-239
Fax: 089/30622-200
Email: bronisch[a]mpipsykl.mpg.de
Interests: Affective disorders, personality disorders, suicide research
   
CV:
Born 1948 in Hamburg. Study of medicine at the University of Erlangen and Heidelberg. Since 1977 in different positions at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich. Fellow of the Max-Kade-Foundation/New York, Cornell-University, The New York Hospital (1987 – 1988). Since 1986 head of a clinical department at the MPI. Since 1998 Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilians- University in Munich. Text Link Intern CV (pdf)
Further activities:
  • Since 2005 treasurer of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)
  • Since 2006 member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)
Selected publications:
Bronisch T, Hoefler M, Lieb R (2008) Smoking predicts suicidality. Findings from a prospective community study. Journal of Affective Disorders 108: 135-145

Bronisch T. (2007). Der Suizid. Ursachen-Warnsignale-Prävention. C.H. Beck, 5. völlig neubearbeitete Auflage

Lieb R., Bronisch T., Höfler M., Schreier A., Wittchen H.-U. (2005) Maternal suicidality and risk for suicidality in offspring: findings of a community study. American Journal of Psychiatry 162: 1665-1671

Brunner J., Bronisch T., Uhr M., Ising M., Binder E., Holsboer F., Turck C. (2005) Proteomic analysis of the CSF in unmedicated patients with major depressive disorder reveals alterations in suicide attempters. European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience (2005) 255: 438-440