Current Schizophrenia

Dieter Naber has been Director of the Psychiatric University Hospital in Hamburg, Germany, since 1995. After studying medicine in Göttingen and Bonn, Germany, Professor Naber worked at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Munich, Germany from 1977 to 1995 as a ward doctor then senior physician. In 1987, he gained a postdoctoral lecturing qualification with his lecture The etiological and therapeutic significance of endorphins in endogenous psychosis . Professor Naber carried out research work during two periods at the National Institute of Mental Health, in 1978 1980 and again in 1984 1985. His current research concentrates on neuroleptic longterm treatment, efficacy and side effects of second-generation neuroleptics, and the subjective effects of neuroleptics.