Official position
- Associated scientist, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Physician-in-Chief, Department of Addiction Medicine and Psychotherapy
Institution
- University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- kbo Isar-Amper-Klinikum Haar
Business address
Ringstr. 9
85540 Haar
Academic education and degrees
1983 - 1991 | MD in Medicine, School of Medicine, FU Berlin |
1995 | MD in Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
2005 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia legendi) in Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg |
2014 | Appointment as a Professor of Psychiatry, Technische Universität Dresden |
Professional career
1991 - 1993 | Residency in Gynaecology, University Hospital Erlangen |
1993 - 1994 | Residency in Psychiatry, University Hospital Erlangen |
1994 - 1995 | Residency in Psychiatry, psychiatrisches Landeskrankenhaus Weissenau, Ravensburg |
1995 - 2003 | Residency in Psychiatry. Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich |
2003 | Visiting Research Scholar, University of Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA |
2004 - 2007 | Supervising Psychiatrist, Dept. of Addictive Behaviors and Addiction Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim |
2007 - 2018 | Deputy Director, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Dresden |
Since 2018 | Physician-in-Chief, Department of Addiction Medicine and Psychotherapy, kbo Isar-Amper-Klinikum Haar |
Honors, awards and positions
Current journal editorial positions
Since 2006 | Receiving Editor, “Addiction Biology” |
Since 2012 | Advisory Board, “Pharmacophychiatry” |
Since 2017 | Associate editor, “Sucht” |
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 104, SCOPUS h-index: 33)
- Sommer C, Birkenstock J, Garbusow M, Obst E, Schad DJ ...
Zimmermann US. Dysfunctional approach behavior triggered by alcohol-unrelated Pavlovian cues predicts long-term relapse in alcohol dependence. Addict Biol. 2020;25(1):e12703.
- Bernhardt N, Obst E, Nebe S, Pooseh S, Wurst FM ...
Zimmermann US. Acute alcohol effects on impulsive choice in adolescents. J Psychopharmacol. 2019;33(3):316-325.
- Sommer C, Garbusow M, Jünger E, Pooseh S, Bernhardt N ...
Zimmermann US. Strong seduction: impulsivity and the impact of contextual cues on instrumental behavior in alcohol dependence. Transl Psychiatry. 2017;7(8):e1183.
- Jünger E, Javadi AH, Wiers CE, Sommer C, Garbusow M ...
Zimmermann US. Acute alcohol effects on explicit and implicit motivation to drink alcohol in socially drinking adolescents. J Psychopharmacol. 2017;31(7):893-905.
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Zimmermann US, O'Connor S, Ramchandani VA. Modeling alcohol self-administration in the human laboratory. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2013;13:315-53.
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Zimmermann US, Mick I, Laucht M, Vitvitskiy V, Plawecki MH et al. Offspring of parents with an alcohol use disorder prefer higher levels of brain alcohol exposure in experiments involving computer-assisted self-infusion of ethanol (CASE). Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2009;202(4):689-97.
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Zimmermann US, Mick I, Vitvitskyi V, Plawecki MH, Mann KF, O'Connor S. Development and pilot validation of computer-assisted self-infusion of ethanol (CASE): a new method to study alcohol self-administration in humans. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008;32(7):1321-8.
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Zimmermann US, Blomeyer D, Laucht M, Mann KF. How gene-stress-behavior interactions can promote adolescent alcohol use: the roles of predrinking allostatic load and childhood behavior disorders. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2007;86(2):246-62.
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Zimmermann US, Spring K, Kunz-Ebrecht SR, Lachner G, Uhr M et al. Effect of ethanol on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system response to psychosocial stress in sons of alcohol-dependent fathers. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2004;29:1156-1165.
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Zimmermann US, Hundt W, Spring K, Grabner A, Holsboer F. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system adaptation to detoxification in alcohol-dependent patients is affected by family history of alcoholism. Biol Psychiatry. 2003;53:75-84.
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