Interventional Biological Psychiatry

• since 2016 Director of the Division of Interventional Biological Psychiatry, University Hospital Freiburg (Germany)
• since 2016 Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida (Gainsville)
• 2003-2016 Vice Chair of the Department pf Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn (Germany)
• 1997 - 2003 Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Bern (CH)
• 1994 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Hygiene and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
• 1981 - 1993 Medical School, University of Bern (CH) and graduate programs in Bern and Baltimore (USA)

Research Focus

• Development of new methods of neuromodulation for the treatment of resistant depression
• Improvement of the understanding of the neurobiology of affective disorders using neuromodulation procedures
• Development of a patient- oriented lecture (POL) in psychiatry

Selected Publications

• Schlaepfer TE. Deep Brain Stimulation for Major Depression-Steps on a Long and Winding Road. Biol Psychiatry. 2015;78(4):218-219. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.06.020.
• Schlaepfer TE, Bewernick BH, Kayser S, Mädler B, Coenen VA. Rapid effects of deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant major ' depression. Biol Psychiatry. 2013; 73(12):1204-12.
• Schlaepfer TE, Fins JJ. Deep brain stimulation' and the neuroethics of responsible publishing: when one is not enough. JAMA. 2010;303(8):775-6.
• Lieb K, Schlaepfer TE. Deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. N Engl J Med. 2006; 355(21):2256.
• Schlaepfer TE, Lieb K. Deep brain stimulation for treatment of refractory depression. Lancet. 2005; 366(9495):1420-2.