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BIOGRAPHY
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Konrad Maurer, MD
Professor Center of Psychiatry Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
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Konrad Maurer, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Psychotherapy, Head and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Dr Maurer studied medicine at the University of Goettingen (Germany), and spent 12 months at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry in London, (England). He completed his medical dissertation on “Electrophysiological investigations on the lateral geniculate body with special regard to binocular interaction" in 1973 under the direction of Prof. Dr. O. Creutzfeldt. He served as Assistant Physician and later as Senior Physician of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Universities of Goettingen and Mainz between 1973 and 1978. During that time, he also underwent training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. In 1974, he completed a research term at the National Hospital for Nervous Disease in London, England. Dr Maurer has also held the posts of Professor of Psychiatry at the Wuerzburg University Clinic, Head of the Laboratory for Clinical Psychophysiology, Electroencephalography and Neuroimaging. Dr Maurer has organized many meetings and was head of laboratories including the laboratory for auditory, visual and somatosensory evoked potentials, the organized the “First International Symposium and Workshop - Topographic Brain Mapping of EEG and Evoked Potentials” in Wuerzburg, Germany, the “Second International Symposium - Imaging of the Brain in Psychiatry and Related Fields”, also in Wuerzburg, as well as the ”Fourth International Symposium - Imaging of the Brain in Psychiatry and Related Field” in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Dr Maurer also organized the International Symposium on the occasion of the 125th birthday of A. Alzheimer, and a symposium on occasion of the 80th anniversary of Alzheimer’s death and the inauguration of Alzheimer’s birthplace as a memorial and conference center. He is the recipient of grants for the study of visual evoked potential in multiple sclerosis, the diagnostic value of evoked potentials in psychiatry and neurology, isometric and isotonic muscular contraction in myopathies, brain mapping in dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), intercerebral generators of the EEG and MEG in endogenous psychoses and dementia, and many others. Dr Maurer is the recipient of the Boehringer-Ingelheim Award, the Founder and Chairman of the Alzheimer Society of Wuerzburg, Founder and Chairman of the “International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP), and Founder of the “International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography”. He is also the Founder and Editor of the scientific journal Psychiatry Research- Neuroimaging (Elsevier). In 1995, Dr Maurer discovered the hospital file of Auguste D., described in an article published in The Lancet (Maurer et al. Lancet. 1997;349:1546-1549.). Together with his wife he wrote the first Alzheimer biography, recently published in the USA (Columbia University Press, 2003) ISBN: 0-231-11896-1. |
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