Thomas Eduard Schlaepfer
University of Bonn, Germany
Biography
Schläpfer studied medicine at the University of Bern. After residency training at the University Hospital in Bern, he was there head physician of the psychiatric outpatient clinic. Schläpfer is in the area of translational research on mood disorders active. Particular areas of interest are Transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and ethical aspects of interventional procedures in psychiatry. In 1992 he moved as a Fellow to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where he was appointed Associate Professor 1997th In 2003 he became a university professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn appointed. Since 2006 he has been Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the local medical school.
Abstract
Abstract : Deep Brain Stimulation targets for Depression – On the way to personalized treatment?