Johannes Kornhuber

Johannes Kornhuber
Kornhuber in 2014
Born	(1959-09-11) 11 September 1959 (age 65) Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Occupation(s)	Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist

Johannes Kornhuber (born 11 September 1959) is a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

Work

His research interests include the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease, the early diagnosis and treatment of dementia syndromes, the pathophysiology of alcohol addiction and the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 Journal articles. Kornhuber described novel molecular mechanisms of approved psychotropic drugs, namely that memantine, amantadine, budipine and orphenadrine act as low-affinity NMDA-receptor antagonists. ^{[1] [2]} The data obtained with memantine formed an important basis for its worldwide approval as an antidementive drug. Kornhuber developed the pharmacokinetic hypothesis explaining the delayed therapeutic effects of antidepressant drugs. ^[3] Furthermore, he found that antidepressant drugs like amitriptyline and fluoxetine mediate their effects on neurogenesis and behavior by lowering ceramide abundance in the brain. ^{[4] [5]} Among his coauthors has been Peter Riederer.^{[ citation needed ]}

Honors

• Scientific Award of the German Society for Psychiatry (1990)
• Organon-Award of the German Society for Biological Psychiatry (1990)
• Rafaelsen Award of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (1994)
• Scientific Award of the Senator Dr. Franz Burda-Foundation (1995)
• Klaesi-Award, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (1995)
• Scientific Award for Psychopharmacology of the AGNP (1999)
• Ehrenpreis – Deutscher Förderpreis für Schmerzforschung und Schmerztherapie (2000)
• Award „ZukunftErfindenNRW“ Der HochschulWettbewerb 2011 3. Preis (together with Wiltfang J, Maler M, et al.) (2011)
• Annika Liese-Award (together with Gulbins E) (2014)
• Awards for Good Teaching, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2006, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015)

References

1. Kornhuber J, Bormann J, et al. Memantine displaces [³H]MK-801 at therapeutic concentrations in postmortem human frontal cortex. In: European Journal of Pharmacology . 166:589-590,1989, PMID   2680528
2. Kornhuber J, Weller M Psychotogenicity and NMDA receptor antagonism: implications for neuroprotective pharmacotherapy. In: Biological Psychiatry . 41:135-144,1997, PMID   9018383
3. Kornhuber J, Retz W, Riederer P. Slow accumulation of psychotropic substances in the human brain. Relationship to therapeutic latency of neuroleptic and antidepressant drugs? In: Journal of Neural Transmission. Suppl. 46:311-319,1995, PMID   8821068
4. Gulbins E, Palmada M, et al. Acid sphingomyelinase/ceramide system mediates effects of antidepressant drugs. In: Nature Medicine . 19:934-938,2013, PMID   23770692
5. Kornhuber J, Müller CP, et al. The ceramide system as a novel antidepressant target. In: Trends in Pharmacological Sciences . 35:293-304,2014, PMID   24793541

External links

• Publications in PubMed, Publications in Google scholar