Axel Steiger
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Axel Steiger, Prof. Dr. med.Research group leaderSenior psychiatrist Head of the sleep outpatient clinic Haed of the sleep laboratory 
RG Steiger: Endocrinology of Sleep
Psychiatrische Stationen der Klinik
Ambulanz für Schlafmedizin
Schlaflabor |
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| Phone: | 089/30622-236 | |
| Fax: | 089/30622-552 | |
| Email: | steiger[a]mpipsykl.mpg.de | |
| Interests: | Sleep research, sleep endocrinology, psychiatric neuroendocrinology, psychopharmacology, antidepressants, hypnotics, affective disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders | |
| CV: Born in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Study of medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Vienna. 1981 -1987 staff physician and head of sleep laboratory, University of Mainz. 1987 - 1991 senior psychiatrist and head of sleep laboratory, University of Freiburg. Since 1991 research group leader and head of a clinical department at MPI Psychiatry. Since 1998 Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Since 2009 head of the sleep outpatient clinic and head of the sleep laboratory at MPI Psychiatry.  CV (pdf) |
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| Selected publications: Dresler M., Kluge M., Genzel L., Schüssler P., Steiger A. (2010) Impaired off-line memory consolidation in depression. Eur. Neuropsychopharmacol., 20, 553-561 Schüssler P., Yassouridis A., Uhr M., Kluge M., Weikel J.C., Holsboer F., Steiger A. (2006) Growth hormone-releasing hormone and corticotropin-releasing hormone enhance non-rapid-eye-movement-sleep after sleep deprivation. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab., 291, E549-E556 Antonijevic I.A., Steiger A. (2003) Depression-like changes of the sleep-EEG during high dose corticosteroid treatment in patients with multiple sclerosis. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 28, 780-795 Steiger A., von Bardeleben U., Herth T., Holsboer F. (1989) Sleep EEG and nocturnal secretion of cortisol and growth hormone in male patients with endogenous depression before treatment and after recovery. J. Affect. Disord., 16, 189-195 |
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