Tilo Kircher
Tilo Thomas Josef Kircher (born 1965 in Buchloe, Germany) is a German psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He has been a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Marburg University since 2009..[1]
Education
Kircher studied medicine, as well as literature and psychology, at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1985 to 1992. From 1988 to 1989, he received a scholarship at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. He earned his medical degree in 1992 and completed his doctoral thesis in developmental neurology in 1994 on the topic of "Long-term follow-up of febrile seizures in childhood".[2]
Career
From 1992 to 1994 Kircher worked at the Department of Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital, Munich and at the Bezirkskrankenhaus Haar/Munich. From 1994 to 2004, he completed his clinical training as a psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Tübingen. Between 1998 and 2000, he was a DFG-funded postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London[2].
He received his board certification in psychiatry in 2001 and his habilitation in 2002 from the University of Tübingen with the thesis "Neural Correlates of Psychopathological Symptoms"[3]. From 2004 to 2008, he was Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Vice Chair at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at RWTH Aachen University. In addition, from 2006 to 2008, he headed the Brain Imaging Center West at RWTH Aachen.[2]
Research and achievements
Kircher's research focuses on cognitive neuropsychiatry, formal thought disorders, long-term courses of mental disorders, and neural correlates of affective and psychotic disorders. He has contributed to understanding the vulnerability-stress model of mental disorders, functional and structural brain networks, and the mechanisms of psychotherapy.[1] Notably, he demonstrated that positive formal thought disorder (disordered thinking) is related to a down-regulation of the left hemispheric speech centre in the superior temporal lobe[4]. He developed the Thought and Language Disorder (TALD) rating scale for formal thought disorder, which was translated to several languages[5].
His work also contributed to the understanding of the phenomenology and cognitive neuroscience of self-other distinction and ego disorders [6][7][8][9]. His studies have examined the effects of cognitive behavioural therapy on brain activation patterns in patients with panic disorder[10], as well as neural correlates of treatment response and fear conditioning[11][12]. He has also explored common neural features across various mental disorders[13], and identified brain activation patterns shared among depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders[14].
Academic Functions
Kircher was spokesperson for the DFG-funded Research Unit FOR2107 "Neurobiology of Affective Disorders" (2013-2023)[15] and is spokesperson for the DFG SFB/TRR 393 "Trajectories of Affective Disorders" since 2024[16]. He has been a member of the executive board of the German Society for Biological Psychiatry (DGBP) since 2016, and in 2023, he assumed the role of president of the society[2]. Since 2023, he has also served as vice president of the German Medical Society for Behavioral Therapy[17]
Awards
For his contributions to psychiatry and neuroscience, Kircher has received several awards[2][17], including:
- Research Award of the European Psychiatric Association (2005)
- Senior Research Awards at the Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia (2002, 2004)
- Attempto Research Award of the University of Tübingen (2002)
- Research Award of the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (2003)
Personal Life
Kircher is married and father of two children.
Books
- Tilo Kircher, Anthony David, ed. (2003), The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-80387-8
- Tilo Kircher, Siegfried Gauggel (2007), Neuropsychologie der Schizophrenie: Symptome, Kognition, Gehirn (1. ed.), Heidelberg: Springer Berlin, p. 681, ISBN 978-3-540-71146-9
- Tilo Kircher, ed. (2018), Kompendium der Psychotherapie: Für Ärzte und Psychologen (Für Ärzte und Psychologen) (2. Aufl. ed.), Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-662-57286-3
- Tilo Kircher, ed. (2012), Pocket Guide Psychotherapie (1. ed.), Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-642-30008-0
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Profile at the Marburg University website". Marburg University. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Curriculum Vitae Tilo Kircher". German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
- ↑ Kircher, Tilo (2003). Neuronale Korrelate psychopathologischer Syndrome – Denk- und Sprachprozesse bei Gesunden und Patienten mit Schizophrenie. [Neuronal Correlates of Psychopathological Syndromes – Thought and Language Processes in Healthy Individuals and Patients with Schizophrenia.] (in German). Darmstadt: Steinkopff Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7985-1377-8.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
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- ↑ Kircher, Tilo T. J.; Liddle, P. F.; Brammer, Michael J.; Williams, Steve C. R.; Murray, Robin M.; McGuire, Philip K. (2001-08-01). "Neural Correlates of Formal Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia: Preliminary Findings From a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study". Archives of General Psychiatry. 58 (8): 769–774. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.58.8.769. ISSN 0003-990X. PMID 11483143.
- ↑ Kircher, Tilo; Krug, Axel; Stratmann, Mirjam; Ghazi, Sayed (2001). "A rating scale for the assessment of objective and subjective formal thought and language disorder (TALD)". Schizophr Res. 160 (1–3): 216–221. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2014.10.024. PMID 25458572.
- ↑ Kircher, Tilo; David, Anthony (2003). Kircher, Tilo; David, Anthony, eds. The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521803878. Search this book on
- ↑ Pazen, M; Uhlmann, L; van Kemenade, BM; Steinsträter, O (2020). "Predictive perception of self-generated movements: Commonalities and differences in the neural processing of tool and hand actions". NeuroImage. 206: 116308. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116309. PMID 31669300. Unknown parameter
|article-number=ignored (help) - ↑ Leube, DT; Knoblich G; Erb M; Schlotterbeck P; Kircher TT (2010). "The neural basis of disturbed efference copy mechanism in patients with schizophrenia". Cogn Neurosci. 1 (2): 111–117. doi:10.1080/17588921003646156. PMID 24168277.
- ↑ Kircher, Tilo T.J; Senior, Carl; Phillips, Mary L; Benson, Philip J; Bullmore, Edward T; Brammer, Mick; Simmons, Andrew; Williams, Steven C.R; Bartels, Mathias; David, Anthony S (2000). "Towards a functional neuroanatomy of self processing: effects of faces and words". Cognitive Brain Research. 10 (1–2): 133–144. doi:10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00036-7. PMID 10978701.
- ↑ Yang, Y; Lueken, U; Richter, J; Hamm, A (2020). "Effect of CBT on Biased Semantic Network in Panic Disorder". Am J Psychiatry. 177 (3): 254–264. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19020202. PMID 31838872.
- ↑ Lueken, U; Straube, B; Konrad, C; Wittchen, U (2013). "Neural substrates of treatment response to cognitive-behavioral therapy in panic disorder with agoraphobia". Am J Psychiatry. 1828 (2): 391–397. doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.08.029. PMID 22982252.
- ↑ Kircher, Tilo; Arolt, V; Jansen, A; Pyka, M (2013). "Effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy on neural correlates of fear conditioning in panic disorder". Biol Psychiatry. 73 (1): 93–101. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.07.026. PMID 22921454.
- ↑ Thomas-Odenthal, F; Ringwald, K; Teutenberg, L; Stein, F (2024). "Neural foundation of the diathesis-stress model". Molecular Psychiatry. 29 (9): 2724–2732. doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02526-4. PMC 11420061 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 38553539 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Brosch, K; Stein, F; Schmitt, S; Pfarr, JK (2022). "Reduced hippocampal gray matter volume is a common feature of patients with major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders". Molecular Psychiatry. 27 (10): 4234–4243. doi:10.1038/s41380-022-01687-4. PMC 9718668 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 35840798 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ "FOR 2107 Website". Retrieved 2025-02-14.
- ↑ "SFB/TRR 393 Announcement". Universität Marburg. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "CV of Tilo Kircher on the SFB/TRR 393's website" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-06-10.
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