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Rainer Rupprecht

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Rainer Rupprecht, Prof. Dr. med.

Max Planck Fellow and research group leader
Text Link Intern Max Planck Fellow RG Rupprecht: Molekular Psychopharmacology
Phone: 0941/941 1001
Fax: 0941/941 1005
Email: rainer.rupprecht[a]medbo.de
Interests: Affective disorders, Neuroendocrinology, Genetics, molecular Neuropsychopharmacology
   
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Born 1961 in Bayreuth Germany. Study of medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. 1990-1996 research fellow and 1996-1998 group leader and senior staff psychiatrist at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Munich. In 1998 change as senior staff psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the LMU Munich. 2002 appointment as a C3 professor and since 2004 vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the LMU Munich. 2007 appointment as a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. Since 2011 Director of the Clinic and Policlinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg.
Further activities:
  • Since 2000 Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
  • Since 2007 President of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Neuropsychopharmakologie und Pharmakopsychiatrie (AGNP, German College of Neuropsychopharmacology).
Selected publications:
Rupprecht R, Papadopoulos V, Rammes G, Baghai TC, Fan J, Akula N, Groyer G, Adams D, Schumacher M. (2010) Translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) as a therapeutic target for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Nat Rev Drug Discov; 9(12):971-88. Review

Rupprecht R, Rammes G, Eser D, Baghai T C, Schüle C, Nothdurfter C, Troxler T, Gentsch C, Kalkman H O, Chaperon F, Uzunov V, McAllister K H, Bertaina-Anglade V, Drieu La Rochelle C, Tuerck D, Floesser A, Kiese B, Schumacher M, Landgraf R, Holsboer F, Kucher K (2009) Translocator Protein (18 kDa) as Target for Anxiolytics Without Benzodiazepine-Like Side Effects. Science, Online-Vorabpublikation Science Express 18. Juni 2009. Text Link Intern Link zum Abstract (pdf); Text Link Intern PDF zum Download (pdf)

Eisensamer B, Uhr M, Meyr S, Gimpl G, Deiml T, Rammes G, Lambert J, Zieglgänsberger W, Holsboer F, Rupprecht R (2005) Antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs co-localize with serotonin type 3 (5-HT3) receptors in raft-like domains. Journal of Neuroscience 25: 10198-10206

Ströhle A, Romeo E, di Michele F, Pasini A, Hermann B, Gajewski G, Holsboer F, Rupprecht R (2003) Induced panic attacks shift GABA A receptor modulatory steroid composition in patients with panic disorder: preliminary results. Archives of General Psychiatry 60: 161-168

Rupprecht R, Reul JMHM, Trapp T, van Steensel B, Wetzel C, Damm K, Zieglgänsberger W, Holsboer F (1993) Progesterone receptor mediated effects of neuroactive steroids. Neuron 11: 523-530