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Matthias C. Angermeyer

Matthias C. Angermeyer

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D-Index
129
Citations
80214
World Ranking
2544
National Ranking
125

Overview

Matthias C. Angermeyer is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a focused interest in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Mental Health Treatment and Access, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Psychiatric Care and Mental Health Services, Family Caregiving in Mental Illness, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, and broader Mental Health and Psychiatry.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthias C. Angermeyer include:

  • Changes in mental illness stigma over 30 years - Improvement, persistence, or deterioration? (2022), European Psychiatry
  • Active elderly and health-can moderate exercise improve health and wellbeing in older adults? Protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2021), Trials
  • Do self-reported hearing and visual impairments predict longitudinal dementia in older adults? (2021), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Mental health care in Italy: Basaglia's ashes in the wind of the crisis of the last decade (2020), International Journal of Social Psychiatry
  • Some good news for psychiatry: resource allocation preferences of the public during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), World Psychiatry

Matthias C. Angermeyer has frequently published in several venues, notably Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, International Review of Psychiatry, BMC Public Health, and the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

Their collaborators include the following frequent co-authors:

  • Georg Schomerus
  • Eva Baumann
  • Mauro Giovanni Carta
  • Christian Sander
  • André Hajek

Best Publications

  • Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Demyttenaere K;Bruffaerts R;Posada-Villa J;Gasquet I

  • Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts

    Matthew K. Nock;Guilherme Borges;Evelyn J. Bromet;Jordi Alonso

  • Prevalence of mental disorders in Europe: Results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) project

    J Alonso;M C Angermeyer;S Bernert;R Bruffaerts

  • Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Ronald C Kessler;Matthias Angermeyer;James C Anthony;Ron De Graaf

  • Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Katie A. McLaughlin;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber

  • Use of mental health services for anxiety, mood, and substance disorders in 17 countries in the WHO world mental health surveys

    Philip S Wang;Philip S Wang;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Matthias C Angermeyer

  • Cross-national prevalence and correlates of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    J. Fayyad;R. De Graaf;R. Kessler;J. Alonso

  • Cross-National Associations Between Gender and Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Soraya Seedat;Kate Margaret Scott;Matthias C. Angermeyer;Patricia Berglund

  • The prevalence and correlates of binge eating disorder in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Patricia A. Berglund;Wai Tat Chiu;Anne C. Deitz

  • Common Chronic Pain Conditions in Developed and Developing Countries: Gender and Age Differences and Comorbidity With Depression-Anxiety Disorders

    Adley Tsang;Michael Von Korff;Sing Lee;Jordi Alonso

  • Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: Findings from the WHO world mental health surveys

    Louisa Degenhardt;Wai Tat Chiu;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Matthew K. Nock;Irving Hwang;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Subjective experiences of stigma. A focus group study of schizophrenic patients, their relatives and mental health professionals.

    Beate Schulze;Matthias C Angermeyer

  • Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Guilherme Borges;Matthew K. Nock;Josep Maria Haro Abad;Irving Hwang

  • The Stigma of Alcohol Dependence Compared with Other Mental Disorders: A Review of Population Studies

    Georg Schomerus;Michael Lucht;Anita Holzinger;Herbert Matschinger

  • Mental disorders among persons with chronic back or neck pain: results from the World Mental Health Surveys.

    Koen Demyttenaere;Ronny Bruffaerts;Sing Lee;José Posada-Villa

  • Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Philip S Wang;Matthias C Angermeyer;Guilherme Borges;Ronny Bruffaerts

  • Disability and quality of life impact of mental disorders in Europe: results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) project.

    J Alonso;M C Angermeyer;S Bernert;R Bruffaerts

  • Mild cognitive impairment: Long-term course of four clinical subtypes

    A. Busse;A. Hensel;U. Gühne;M. C. Angermeyer

  • The stigma of mental illness: effects of labelling on public attitudes towards people with mental disorder

    M. C. Angermeyer;H. Matschinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Matschinger
Herbert Matschinger Leipzig University
Steffi G. Riedel-Heller
Steffi G. Riedel-Heller Leipzig University
Georg Schomerus
Georg Schomerus Leipzig University
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Josep Maria Haro
Josep Maria Haro University of Barcelona
Giovanni de Girolamo
Giovanni de Girolamo Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli
Jose Posada-Villa
Jose Posada-Villa Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca
Hans-Helmut König
Hans-Helmut König Universität Hamburg

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