Official position
Consultant, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Psychiatric Hospital and Outpatient Clinics
Institution
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus,Technische Universität Dresden,
Dresden, Germany
transCampus® Technische Universität Dresden – King’s College London
Business address
Fetscherstraße 74
01307 Dresden
Academic education and degrees
1996 - 2001 | University College London Medical School (MBBS) |
2012 | PhD in Medicine (TUD) |
2020 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia legendi) in Psychiatry (TUD) |
Professional career
2001 - 2002 | House Officer, Gastroenterology and General Surgery, Royal Devon, Exeter and Royal United Hospital, Bath (UK) |
2002 - 2003 | Senior House Officer, Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital (Australia) |
2003 - 2005 | Senior House Officer in Neurology, Hamburg |
2005 - 2008 | Senior House Officer in Psychiatry, Hamburg |
2008 - 2014 | Senior House Officer and Junior Researcher in Psychiatry, TUD |
2014 - present | Study Coordinator, German Network for the Study of Bipolar Disorder (BipoLife) |
2016 - present | Consultant Psychiatrist, head of affective disorders unit |
2020 - present | “Managerial” Consultant |
Honors, awards and positions
Current journal editorial positions
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 51, Scopus h-index: 16)
- Vares E, Lehmann S, Sauer C, Pariante C, Wieland F ...
Ritter P. Association of pro-inflammatory cytokines with clinical features in euthymic patients with Bipolar-I-Disorder. J. Affective Disorders. 2020.
- Findeis H, Sauer C, Cleare A, Bauer M,
Ritter P. Urothelial toxicity of esketamine in the treatment of depression. Psychopharmacology. 2020;1-8.
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Ritter P, Wieland F, Skene D, Pfennig A, Weiss M et al. Melatonin suppression by Melanopsin-weighted Light in Patients with Bipolar-I-Disorder compared to Healthy Controls. J. Psychiatr Neuroscience. 2019;44.
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Ritter P, Schwabedal J, Brandt M et al. Sleep spindles in bipolar disorder – a comparison to healthy control subjects. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2018;138.
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Ritter P, Brandt M, Schrempf W, Brezan F, Krupka A et al. Role of the IL-6-Receptor expression in CD14+ monocytes in modulating sleep in patients with bipolar disorder. J Affect Disord. 2018;239.
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Ritter P, Bermpohl F, Gruber O, Hautzinger M, Jansen A et al. Aims and structure of the German Research Consortium BipoLife for the study of bipolar disorder. Int J Bipolar Disord. 2016;4.
- Pfennig A*,
Ritter P*, Höfler M, Lieb R, Bauer M et al. Symptom characteristics of depressive episodes prior to the onset of mania or hypomania. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2016;133. *shared first authorship
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Ritter P, Höfler M, Wittchen H-U, Lieb R, Bauer M et al. Disturbed sleep as risk factor for the subsequent onset of bipolar disorder – Data from a 10-year prospective-longitudinal study among adolescents and young adults. J Psychiatr Res. 2015;68.
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Ritter P, Marx C, Lewtschenko N, Pfeiffer S, Leopold K et al. The characteristics of sleep in patients with manifest bipolar disorder, subjects at high risk of developing the disease and healthy controls. J Neural Transm. 2012;119.
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Ritter P, Marx C, Bauer M, Lepold K, Pfennig A, Leopold K. The role of disturbed sleep in the early recognition of bipolar disorder: a systematic review. Bipolar Disord. 2011;13.
