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Klaus Ebmeier M.D.

Foundation Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
Neurobiology of Ageing
Klaus is the clinical head of the research group. He qualified from Bonn in medicine in 1981 and trained in psychiatry in Aberdeen before spending four years as a lecturer in the Department of Mental Health in Aberdeen learning about neuroimaging and psychophysiology in dementia, schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease. After completing his M.D. he went to Edinburgh in 1989 as a Clinical Scientist and Consultant at the MRC Brain Metabolism Unit, where he helped set up the SPECT scanning facility to examine the pharmacology and in vivo brain activity of psychiatric disorders. He was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh in 1997 and moved to Oxford in 2006. He is interested in brain-behaviour relationships in ageing, and the psychiatry of old age, especially cognitive impairment and depression.

Research Areas

Medical Sciences Division Themes

  • Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience
  • Imaging
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Behavioural Science

Collaborators

  • Helen Dawes, Movement Science, Oxford Brookes University
  • Ken Fox, Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, University of Bristol
  • Archana Singh-Manoux, INSERM, U687, Paris, France
  • Mika Kivimaki, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Karl Herholz, Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, University of Manchester
  • Douglas Steele, Centre for Neuroscience, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Dundee
  • Mary Stewart, School of Life Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
  • Holly Lisanby, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University, Durham, SC, US
  • Mustafa Husain, Department of Psychiatry, Southwestern Medical School, TX, US

Caring for King Lear

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Biography

Klaus is a Professorial Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (London), and was Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh between 2006 and 2012. He has been cited widely (Hirsch index = 41) and is a.o. on the Editorial Boards of Biological Psychiatry (U.S. Society of Biological Psychiatry), Psychopharmacology (Berlin, 2006-09), the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum, CINP), the Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience (Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology, CCNP), American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease, Current Psychopharmacology & Depression Research and Treatment.

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