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Overview

Bernd Löwe is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their work spans significant subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Philosophy, General Health Professions, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research focuses on several key topics in health and mental health, notably:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Liver Diseases and Immunity
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Bernd Löwe has contributed recent papers covering diverse issues in health sciences and mental health. Some of these publications include:

  • "Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from commonly reported quantiles in meta-analysis," 2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • "Sensitivity to change and minimal clinically important difference of the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7)," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Functional somatic disorders: discussion paper for a new common classification for research and clinical use," 2020, BMC Medicine
  • "Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis," 2020, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • "Persistent physical symptoms: definition, genesis, and management," 2024, The Lancet

Their publications are frequently found in scientific journals such as:

  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • BMJ Open
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Bernd Löwe has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Angelika Weigel, Anne Toussaint, Sebastian Kohlmann, Christoph Schramm, and Martin Härter, reflecting interdisciplinary teamwork in mental health and related fields.

Best Publications

  • A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The GAD-7

    RL Spitzer;K Kroenke;JB Williams;B Lowe

  • Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care: Prevalence, Impairment, Comorbidity, and Detection

    Kurt Kroenke;Robert L. Spitzer;Janet B.W. Williams;Patrick O. Monahan

  • Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the General Population

    Bernd Löwe;Oliver Decker;Stefanie Müller;Elmar Brähler

  • The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review.

    Kurt Kroenke;Robert L. Spitzer;Janet B.W. Williams;Bernd Löwe

  • An ultra-brief screening scale for anxiety and depression: the PHQ-4.

    Kurt Kroenke;Robert L. Spitzer;Janet B.W. Williams;Bernd Löwe

  • A 4-item measure of depression and anxiety: Validation and standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population.

    Bernd Löwe;Inka Wahl;Matthias Rose;Carsten Spitzer

  • Measuring depression outcome with a brief self-report instrument: sensitivity to change of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).

    Bernd Löwe;Bernd Löwe;Kurt Kroenke;Wolfgang Herzog;Kerstin Gräfe

  • Detecting and monitoring depression with a two-item questionnaire (PHQ-2).

    Bernd Löwe;Bernd Löwe;Kurt Kroenke;Kerstin Gräfe

  • Monitoring depression treatment outcomes with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9

    Bernd Löwe;Jürgen Unützer;Christopher M Callahan;Anthony J Perkins

  • Comparative validity of three screening questionnaires for DSM-IV depressive disorders and physicians' diagnoses.

    Bernd Löwe;Robert L. Spitzer;Kerstin Gräfe;Kurt Kroenke

  • Depression, anxiety and somatization in primary care: syndrome overlap and functional impairment

    Bernd Löwe;Robert L. Spitzer;Janet B.W. Williams;Monika Mussell

  • Screening psychischer Störungen mit dem “Gesundheitsfragebogen für Patienten (PHQ-D)“

    Kerstin Gräfe;Stephan Zipfel;Wolfgang Herzog;Bernd Löwe

  • The somatic symptom scale-8 (SSS-8): a brief measure of somatic symptom burden.

    Benjamin Gierk;Sebastian Kohlmann;Kurt Kroenke;Kurt Kroenke;Kurt Kroenke;Lena Spangenberg

  • Long-term prognosis in anorexia nervosa: lessons from a 21-year follow-up study

    Stephan Zipfel;Bernd Löwe;Deborah Lynn Reas;Hans-Christian Deter

  • Focal psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, and optimised treatment as usual in outpatients with anorexia nervosa (ANTOP study): randomised controlled trial

    Stephan Zipfel;Beate Wild;Gaby Groß;Hans-Christoph Friederich

  • Sensitivity to change and minimal clinically important difference of the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7)

    Anne Toussaint;Paul Hüsing;Antje Gumz;Katja Wingenfeld

  • Long-term outcome of anorexia nervosa in a prospective 21-year follow-up study.

    B. Löwe;S. Zipfel;C. Buchholz;Y. Dupont

  • Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination With the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Brooke Levis;Brooke Levis;Ying Sun;Chen He;Yin Wu;Yin Wu

  • Equivalency of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8 and PHQ-9: A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

    Yin Wu;Brooke Levis;Kira E. Riehm;Nazanin Saadat

  • Diagnosing ICD-10 Depressive Episodes: Superior Criterion Validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire

    Bernd Löwe;Kerstin Gräfe;Stephan Zipfel;Steffen Witte

  • Detecting panic disorder in medical and psychosomatic outpatients: comparative validation of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire, a screening question, and physicians' diagnosis.

    Bernd Löwe;Kerstin Gräfe;Stephan Zipfel;Robert L Spitzer

  • Recognition of distress and psychiatric morbidity in cancer patients: a multi-method approach

    M. Keller;S. Sommerfeldt;C. Fischer;L. Knight

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Rose
Matthias Rose Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Stephan Zipfel
Stephan Zipfel University of Tübingen
Katja Wingenfeld
Katja Wingenfeld Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Karl Wegscheider
Karl Wegscheider Universität Hamburg
Carsten Spitzer
Carsten Spitzer University of Rostock
Kurt Kroenke
Kurt Kroenke Indiana University
Martin Härter
Martin Härter Universität Hamburg
Peter Henningsen
Peter Henningsen Technical University of Munich
Hans-Helmut König
Hans-Helmut König Universität Hamburg
Björn Meyer
Björn Meyer City, University of London

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