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Overview

Ralf Pukrop is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with key subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health as well as Pharmacology.

Their work addresses several main topics, particularly Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment. These topics align closely with their research output and publication focus.

Pukrop has contributed to academic literature with papers published in venues such as Frontiers in Pharmacology. A notable publication authored in 2021 is titled Cannabidiol and Amisulpride Improve Cognition in Acute Schizophrenia in an Explorative, Double-Blind, Active-Controlled, Randomized Clinical Trial, which appeared in Frontiers in Pharmacology and has received citations reflecting engagement from the scientific community.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • F. Markus Leweke
  • Cathrin Rohleder
  • C.W. Gerth
  • Martin Hellmich
  • Dagmar Koethe

The integration of pharmacological approaches with psychiatry and mental health underpins the thematic context of Pukrop's work. Their focus on therapeutic interventions for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder highlights an intersection between clinical applications and experimental research on cannabinoid compounds.

Best Publications

  • Effects of psychosocial interventions on quality of life in adult cancer patients: meta analysis of 37 published controlled outcome studies

    Barbara Rehse;Ralf Pukrop

  • Outcome in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: 1 to 10-year follow-up in 164 patients.

    Markus Reuber;Ralf Pukrop;Jürgen Bauer;Christoph Helmstaedter

  • Preventing progression to first-episode psychosis in early initial prodromal states

    Andreas Bechdolf;Michael Wagner;Stephan Ruhrmann;Susan Harrigan

  • Sensory Gating in Schizophrenia: P50 and N100 Gating in Antipsychotic-Free Subjects at Risk, First-Episode, and Chronic Patients

    Anke Brockhaus-Dumke;Frauke Schultze-Lutter;Ralf Mueller;Indira Tendolkar

  • Neurocognitive indicators for a conversion to psychosis: comparison of patients in a potentially initial prodromal state who did or did not convert to a psychosis.

    Ralf Pukrop;Stephan Ruhrmann;Frauke Schultze-Lutter;Andreas Bechdolf

  • Impaired mismatch negativity generation in prodromal subjects and patients with schizophrenia

    Anke Brockhaus-Dumke;Indira Tendolkar;Ralf Pukrop;Frauke Schultze-Lutter

  • Neurocognitive Functioning in Subjects at Risk for a First Episode of Psychosis Compared with First- and Multiple-episode Schizophrenia

    Ralf Pukrop;Frauke Schultze-Lutter;Stephan Ruhrmann;Anke Brockhaus-Dumke

  • Subjective and objective neuropsychological abnormalities in a psychosis prodrome clinic.

    Martin Hambrecht;Michael Lammertink;Joachim Klosterkötter;Eveline Matuschek

  • A randomized comparison of group cognitive-behavioural therapy and group psychoeducation in patients with schizophrenia.

    Andreas Bechdolf;B. Knost;C. Kuntermann;S. Schiller

  • Neuropsychological Profiles in Different At-Risk States of Psychosis: Executive Control Impairment in the Early—and Additional Memory Dysfunction in the Late—Prodromal State

    Ingo Frommann;Ralf Pukrop;Jürgen Brinkmeyer;Andreas Bechdolf

  • Multidimensional assessment of personality in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

    M Reuber;R Pukrop;J Bauer;R Derfuss

  • Determinants of subjective quality of life in post acute patients with schizophrenia.

    Andreas Bechdolf;Joachim Klosterkötter;Martin Hambrecht;Bärbel Knost

  • Familiality of obsessive-compulsive disorder in nonclinical and clinical subjects.

    Hans Joergen Grabe;Stephan Ruhrmann;Susan Ettelt;Friederike Buhtz

  • Clinical significance of recurrent psychogenic nonepileptic seizure status.

    Markus Reuber;Ralf Pukrop;Alex J Mitchell;Jürgen Bauer

  • Subjective quality of life in subjects at risk for a first episode of psychosis: A comparison with first episode schizophrenia patients and healthy controls

    Andreas Bechdolf;Ralf Pukrop;Daniel Köhn;Stefanie Tschinkel

  • Somatization, dissociation and general psychopathology in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.

    Markus Reuber;Allan O. House;Ralf Pukrop;Jürgen Bauer

  • Reliability and validity of Quality of Life assessed by the Short-Form 36 and the Modular System for Quality of Life in patients with schizophrenia and patients with depression.

    Ralf Pukrop;Volker Schlaak;Anne Maria Möller-Leimkühler;Margot Albus

  • Dimensions of working memory dysfunction in schizophrenia

    Ralf Pukrop;Eveline Matuschek;Stephan Ruhrmann;Anke Brockhaus-Dumke

  • Impulsiveness in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from a family study.

    S. Ettelt;S. Ruhrmann;S. Barnow;F. Buthz

  • Remembering or knowing: electrophysiological evidence for an episodic memory deficit in schizophrenia.

    I. Tendolkar;S. Ruhrmann;A. Brockhaus;R. Pukrop

Frequent Co-Authors

Indira Tendolkar
Indira Tendolkar Radboud University
H.-J. Möller
H.-J. Möller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University
Ronald Bottlender
Ronald Bottlender Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz University of Basel
Harald J. Freyberger
Harald J. Freyberger University of Greifswald
Corinna Reck
Corinna Reck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hans-Jörgen Grabe
Hans-Jörgen Grabe Greifswald University Hospital
Margot Albus
Margot Albus Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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