Rebekka Lencer

Senior Consultant, Head of the Track for Psychotic Disorders, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

• Dr Claudia Lange (psychologist)
• Dr Inga Meyhöfer (psychologist)
• Jan-Ole Radecke (post-doc, psychologist)
• Dr Benjamin Sack (physician)
• Dr Wido Rippe (physician)
• David Jakob Derad (MD candidate)
• Jannes Ewen (MD candidate)
• Lisa Espeter (MD candiate)
• Alexander Kühn (MD candidate)
• Philipp Mench (MD candidate)
• Jan-Peter Müller (MD candidate)
• Sogand Rashidi (MD candidate)
• Hannah Stöckler (MD candidate)
• Lara Thomann (MD candidate)

2001-2010 Consultant psychiatrist, University Hospital Lübeck 2007-2009 Visiting professor at the Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

2010-2020 Deputy director and section head for psychotic disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Münster, Germany

2014-2020 Speaker of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, WWU Münster, Germany

2018 Visiting professor Institute of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia

Since 2020 Head of the Track for Psychotic Disorders, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Since 2020 Adjunct professor at the Institute for Translational Psychiatry, University Münster, Germany

Prof. Lencer pursues clinical work and research activities in parallel following a translational approach by using knowledge from non-human primate studies to advance understanding of disease mechanisms in brain disorders and develop novel therapeutic approaches, e.g. cutting-edge brain stimulation techniques. This is exemplified in her most recent project on individually optimized mc-tDCS (DFG, LE 1122/7-1).

(1) Neural and functional disease mechanisms involved in major psychiatric disorders by studying familial neurobiological markers, e.g. visual information processing and eye movement control using novel methodological approaches from brain imaging, neurophysiology, brain stimulation (e.g. t-DCS), and molecular genetics in large sample multi-site studies.
(2) Studying psychological aspects of self-stigmatization and attitude towards medication to foster treatment adherence.

For publications please use the link below:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=lencer+r&sort=date&size=100 

Believing that tight collaborations between different disciplines from basic neuroscience to clinical research across Germany are heavily needed to face the challenges of future mental health care I am very enthusiastic about bringing in my extensive clinical research expertise gained in large, international multisite consortia including recruitment, deep phenotyping for biomarkers, data management and analyses to build the German Center for Mental Health.