Contact
Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Nußbaumstr. 7
D-80336 Munich
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 4400-53371
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 4400-54548
Email:
andrea.schmitt@med.uni-muenchen.de
Website:
http://www.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de/Klinik-und-Poliklinik-fuer-Psychiatrie-und-Psychotherapie/de/mitarbeiter/index.html
Further Information
Research focus: Neurobiology of schizophrenia
Key words: schizophrenia, post-mortem, animal model, gene expression, stereology
Selected publications:
Schmitt A, Steyskal C, Bernstein HG, Parlapani E, Schaeffer EL, Gattaz WF, Bogerts B, Schmitz C and Falkai P. (2009) Stereologic investigation of the posterior part of the hippocampus in schizophrenia. Acta Neuropathologica, 117 (4): 395-407.
Schmitt A, Leonardi-Essmann F, Durrenberger P, Parlapani E, Schneider-Axmann T, Spanagel R, Arzberger T, Kretzschmar H, Herrera-Marschitz M, Gruber O, Reynolds R, Falkai P and Gebicke-Haerter P. (2011) Regulation of immune-modulatory genes in left superior temporal cortex of schizophrenia patients: a genome-wide microarray study. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 12(3): 201-215.
Schmitt A, Hasan A, Gruber O and Falkai P. (2011) Schizophrenia as a disorder of disconnectivity. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 261(Suppl 2): S150-S154.
Schmitt A, Leonardi-Essmann F, Durrenberger P, Schneider-Axmann T, Wichert S, Spanagel R, Arzberger T, Kretzschmar H, Herrera-Marschitz M, Rossner M, Reynolds R, Falkai P and Gebicke-Haerter P. (2012) Differential expression of structural synaptic elements in superior temporal cortex of schizophrenia patients. European Arch. Clin. Neurosci., 262 (7): 565-577.
Fendt M, Lex A, Falkai P, Henn FA and Schmitt A. (2008) Behavioural alterations after postnatal hypoxia and effects of clozapine: implications for schizophrenia. Pharmacopsychiatry, 41 (4): 138-145.