Division of General Psychiatry (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy)
Position: Professor
Phone: +43 (0)1 40400-35760
E-Mail: rupert.lanzenberger@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area
Functional Magnetic Resonance, Neuroimaging, Positron-Emission Tomography
Research Interests
addiction, Alzheimer Disease, Anxiety Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Biological Psychiatry, Cerebral Cortex, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Depression, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Epigenomics, Functional Neuroimaging, Genome-Wide Association Study, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mental Disorders, Mood Disorders, Multimodal Imaging, Neuropsychiatry, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Polymorphism, Genetic, Positron-Emission Tomography, Psychopharmacology, Schizophrenia, Stress, Physiological, Transsexualism, Ultrahigh field MRI
Interest Group(s)
Grant(s)
- Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy on Monoamine Oxidase A distribution volume in treatment-resistant depression investigated with PET (Head)
- The Norepinephrine Transporter in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder investigated with PET (Head)
- Effects of sex steroid hormones on serotonin synthesis and degradation measured with PET (Head)
- Enhancement of learning associated neural plasticity by Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (Head)
- Multimodal Neuroimaging in Clinical Neurosciences – Assessment of neurobiological markers for psychiatric disorders (Head)
Selected publications
- Lanzenberger R, Baldinger P, Hahn A, Ungersboeck J, Mitterhauser M, Winkler D, Micskei Z, Stein P, Karanikas G, Wadsak W, Kasper S, Frey R (2013) Global decrease of serotonin-1A receptor binding after electroconvulsive therapy in major depression measured by PET Mol Psychiatry, 18 (1): 93-100
- Hahn A, Wadsak W, Windischberger C, Baldinger P, Hoflich A, Losak J, Nics L, Philippe C, Kranz G, Kraus C, Mitterhauser M, Karanikas G, Kasper S, Lanzenberger R (2012) Differential modulation of the default mode network via serotonin-1A receptors PNAS, 109 (7): 2619-2624
- Savli M, Bauer A, Mitterhauser M, Ding Y, Hahn A, Kroll T, Neumeister A, Haeusler D, Ungersboeck J, Henry S, Isfahani S, Rattay F, Wadsak W, Kasper S, Lanzenberger R (2012) Normative database of the serotonergic system in healthy subjects using multi-tracer PET Neuroimage, 63 (1): 447-459
- Spindelegger C, Lanzenberger R, Wadsak W, Mien L, Stein P, Mitterhauser M, Moser U, Holik A, Pezawas L, Kletter K, Kasper S (2009) Influence of escitalopram treatment on 5-HT1A receptor binding in limbic regions in patients with anxiety disorders Mol Psychiatry, 14 (11): 1040-1050
- Lanzenberger R, Mitterhauser M, Spindelegger C, Wadsak W, Klein N, Mien LK, Holik A, Attarbaschi T, Mossaheb N, Sacher J, Geiss-Granadia T, Kletter K, Kasper S, Tauscher J. (2007) Reduced Serotonin-1A Receptor Binding in Social Anxiety Disorder. Biol Psychiatry, 61(9): 1081-9
