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W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker

W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker

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D-Index
97
Citations
25618
World Ranking
9440
National Ranking
52

Overview

W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker is affiliated with Innsbruck Medical University in Austria, focusing primarily on research in medicine and psychology. Their work is concentrated on psychiatry and mental health, with significant contributions to clinical psychology, neurology, and social psychology as subfields.

The main topics explored in Fleischhacker's research include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology

Fleischhacker's recent publications highlight a focus on schizophrenia and related psychiatric conditions:

  • Efficacy and safety of the novel glycine transporter inhibitor BI 425809 once daily in patients with schizophrenia: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 2 study, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Amisulpride, aripiprazole, and olanzapine in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (BeSt InTro): a pragmatic, rater-blind, semi-randomised trial, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • European Validation of the Self-Evaluation of Negative Symptoms (SNS): A Large Multinational and Multicenter Study, 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • The transition from adolescence to adulthood in patients with schizophrenia: Challenges, opportunities and recommendations, 2022, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Relapse in clinically stable adult patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: evidence-based criteria derived by equipercentile linking and diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in Fleischhacker's work include:

  • René S. Kahn
  • Celso Arango
  • Alkomiet Hasan
  • Mark Weiser
  • Oliver Howes

The majority of Fleischhacker's research appears in the following venues:

  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • CNS Drugs

Best Publications

  • Pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia: a critical review of the pharmacology and clinical effects of current and future therapeutic agents

    S. Miyamoto;N. Miyake;Lars Jarskog;W. W. Fleischhacker

  • Sex differences in cognitive functions

    Elisabeth M. Weiss;Georg Kemmler;Eberhard A. Deisenhammer;W.Wolfgang Fleischhacker

  • Comorbid somatic illnesses in patients with severe mental disorders: clinical, policy, and research challenges.

    W Wolfgang Fleischhacker;Marcelo Cetkovich-Bakmas;Marc De Hert;Charles H Hennekens

  • Guidelines for depot antipsychotic treatment in schizophrenia

    John M.John Kane;Eugenio Aguglia;A. CarloA. Altamura;José Luis Ayuso Gutierrez

  • Cognitive Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs in First-Episode Schizophrenia and Schizophreniform Disorder: A Randomized, Open-Label Clinical Trial (EUFEST)

    Michael Davidson;Silvana Galderisi;Mark Weiser;Nomi Werbeloff

  • Comparison of acamprosate and placebo in long-term treatment of alcohol dependence.

    A.B Whitworth;H Oberbauer;W.W Fleischhacker;O.M Lesch

  • Treatment of schizophrenia with long-acting injectable risperidone: a 12-month open-label trial of the first long-acting second-generation antipsychotic.

    W Wolfgang Fleischhacker;Mariëlle Eerdekens;Keith Karcher;Gary Remington

  • Metabolic side effects of antipsychotic medication.

    A. Tschoner;J. Engl;M. Laimer;S. Kaser

  • Quality of life in breast cancer patients--not enough attention for long-term survivors?

    Bernhard Holzner;Georg Kemmler;Martin Kopp;Roland Moschen

  • Compliance with antipsychotic drug treatment: influence of side effects

    Fleischhacker Ww;Meise U;Günther;Kurz M

  • World Psychiatric Association Pharmacopsychiatry Section statement on comparative effectiveness of antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia.

    Rajiv Tandon;R.H. Belmaker;Wagner F. Gattaz;Juan J. Lopez-Ibor

  • Sex differences in brain activation pattern during a visuospatial cognitive task: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in healthy volunteers.

    E. Weiss;C.M. Siedentopf;A. Hofer;E.A. Deisenhammer

  • Stratified medicine for mental disorders

    Gunter Schumann;Elisabeth B. Binder;Arne Holte;E. Ronald de Kloet

  • Schizophrenia—Time to Commit to Policy Change

    W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker;Celso Arango;Paul Arteel;Thomas R. E. Barnes

  • Aripiprazole intramuscular depot as maintenance treatment in patients with schizophrenia: a 52-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

    John M. Kane;Raymond Sanchez;Pamela P. Perry;Na Jin

  • Association of olanzapine-induced weight gain with an increase in body fat.

    Ursula Eder;Barbara Mangweth;Christoph Ebenbichler;Elisabeth Weiss

  • Dose-related plasma levels of clozapine: influence of smoking behaviour, sex and age

    C Haring;U Meise;C Humpel;A Saria

  • The clinical implications of weight gain in schizophrenia.

    Ilsemarie Kurzthaler;W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker

  • Quality of life in schizophrenia: the impact of psychopathology, attitude toward medication, and side effects.

    Alex Hofer;Georg Kemmler;Ursula Eder;Monika Edlinger

  • A multicenter double-blind study of three different doses of the new cAMP-phosphodiesterase inhibitor rolipram in patients with major depressive disorder.

    W.W. Fleischhacker;H. Hinterhuber;H. Bauer;B. Pflug

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Kemmler
Georg Kemmler Innsbruck Medical University
René S. Kahn
René S. Kahn Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
John M. Kane
John M. Kane Zucker Hillside Hospital
Elisabeth M. Weiss
Elisabeth M. Weiss University of Innsbruck
Alois Saria
Alois Saria Innsbruck Medical University
Stefan Leucht
Stefan Leucht Technical University of Munich
Celso Arango
Celso Arango Complutense University of Madrid
Shôn Lewis
Shôn Lewis University of Manchester
Eske M. Derks
Eske M. Derks QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Silvana Galderisi
Silvana Galderisi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

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