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PD Maximilian Pilhatsch, MD

Research focus

  • Substance use disorders
  • Affective disorders
  • Neurobiology (functional neuroimaging & neuroendocrinology)
  • Development of new technologies and digital applications

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​Official position 

Physician-in-Chief, Psychiatric Hospital and Outpatient Clinics, Elblandklinikum Radebeul

Head of outpatient Center for Addictive Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus

Institution 

Elblandklinikum Radebeul, Academic teaching-hospital of the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Business address 

Fetscherstraße 74
01307 Dresden

Academic education and degrees

​1997 - 2001

​Medicine, Medical School, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn

​2001 - 2005

Medicine, Medical School, Charité Berlin, MD 2005

​2011

Dissertation, TU Dresden (thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Bauer)

​2016

Habilitation, Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia legendi) in Psychiatry TU Dresden

 

Professional career

​2005 - 2006

Residency in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Berlin, Germany

​2007 - 2013

Residency in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, TU Dresden, Germany

​2011 - 2013

Postdoctoral researcher, Neuroimaging Center, TU Dresden

​2013 - 2018

Attending physician (Oberarzt), Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, TU Dresden

​2018 - 2020

Head of Clinical Center for Addictive Disorders, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, TU Dresden

​Since 2020

Physician-in-Chief, Psychiatric Hospital and Outpatient Clinics, Elblandklinikum Radebeul (Academic teaching-hospital of the Technische Universität Dresden)

​Since 2020

Head of Outpatient Center for Addictive Disorders, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, TU Dresden

 

Honors, awards and positions

​1996

A-levels with top marks (1,0)

​2011

Medical doctor thesis work with “summa cum laude”

​2013

Selection for “Hot Topics book” of the SfN 2013

​2013

Travel Grant (DAAD) SfN / San Diego

​2017

​Posterpreis „Mitteldeutsche Psychiatrietage“

​2017

​“MeDDrive” Grant, TU Dresden

​Since 2019

Project leader, Collaborative Research Centre TRR 265: Losing and Regaining Control over Drug Intake, DFG

​Since 2014

Member International Group for the Study of Lithium-Treated Patients (IGSLI)

 

Current Journal Editorial positions

​Since 2018

Guest Editor, Frontiers in Psychiatry

 

10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 51, Scopus h-index: 18)

  1. Bernhardt N, Petzold J, Groß C, Scheck A, Pooseh S … Pilhatsch M. Neurocognitive Dysfunctions and their Therapeutic Modulation in Patients with Methamphetamine Dependence: A Pilot Study. Front Psychiatry. 2020;11:581.

  2. Petzold J, Weber B, Bassett TR, Bauer M, Bernhardt N … Pilhatsch M. Effectiveness of the First German-Language Group Psychotherapy Manual to Accompany Short-Term Treatment in Methamphetamine Dependence. Front Psychiatry. 2020;11:130.

  3. Kohno M, Beste C, Pilhatsch M. Editorial: The Global Methamphetamine Problem: Approaches to Elucidate the Neurobiology, Epidemiology, and Therapeutic Effectiveness. Front Psychiatry. 2020;11:850.

  4. Pilhatsch M, J Stamm T, Stahl P, Lewitzka U, Berghöfer A et al. Treatment of bipolar depression with supraphysiologic doses of levothyroxine: a randomized, placebo-controlled study of comorbid anxiety symptoms. Int J Bipolar Disord. 2019;7(1):21.

  5. Pilhatsch M, Berghöfer A, Mayer-Pelinski R, Berghöfer G, Ricken R et al. Long-term treatment with supraphysiologic doses of levothyroxine in treatment-refractory mood disorders – a prospective study of cardiovascular tolerability. J Affective Disorders. 2018;238:213-217.

  6. Pilhatsch M, Glenn T, Rasgon N, Alda M, Sagduyu K et al. Regularity of self-reported daily dosage of mood stabilizers and antipsychotics in patients with bipolar disorder. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders. 2018;6(1):1-9.

  7. Pilhatsch M, Vetter NC, Hübner T, Ripke S, Müller KU et al. Amygdala-function perturbations in healthy mid-adolescents with familial liability for depression. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2014;53(5):559-68.

  8. Pilhatsch M, Schlagenhauf F, Silverman DH, Berman SM, London ED et al. Antibodies in autoimmune thyroiditis affect glucose metabolism of anterior cingulate. Brain, Behavior & Immunity. 2014;37:73-7.

  9. Pilhatsch M, Wolf R, Schön S, Bauer M. Comparison of paroxetine and amitriptyline as adjunct to lithium maintenance therapy in bipolar depression: a reanalysis of a randomised, double-blind study. J Affective Disorders. 2010;126(3):453-7.

  10. Pilhatsch M, Winter C, Nordström K, Vennström B, Bauer M, Juckel G. Increased learned helplessness in mice harboring the mutant thyroid hormone receptor alpha 1. Behavioral Brain research. 2010;214(2):187-92.

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