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2026

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18992
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

Zoltan Rihmer is affiliated with Semmelweis University in Hungary and has built a research profile primarily focused on medicine and psychology. Their academic output spans several subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Diabetes Management and Education
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Rihmer's work has been published in various scientific journals, with the most frequent venues including:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Orvosi Hetilap
  • Lege Artis Medicinae
  • Annals of General Psychiatry
  • European Psychiatry

Their recent papers include:

  • "Untreated depressive symptoms significantly worsen quality of life in old age and may lead to the misdiagnosis of dementia: a cross-sectional study," 2020, Annals of General Psychiatry
  • "Clinical characteristics of treatment-resistant depression in adults in Hungary: Real-world evidence from a 7-year-long retrospective data analysis," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Evaluation of affective temperaments and arterial stiffness in different hypertension phenotypes," 2020, Hypertension Research
  • "Investigation of the association between lithium levels in drinking water and suicide mortality in Hungary," 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Nature and Nurture: Effects of Affective Temperaments on Depressive Symptoms Are Markedly Modified by Stress Exposure," 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in Rihmer's research include:

  • Xénia Gonda
  • Péter Döme
  • János Nemcsik
  • Péter Torzsa
  • Beáta Kőrösi

Throughout their career, Zoltan Rihmer has contributed extensively to understanding the interaction between mental health and cardiovascular conditions, as well as the clinical aspects of affective disorders. Their work also addresses important public health topics such as suicide risk and treatment-resistant depression.

Best Publications

  • Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review.

    John J Mann;Alan Apter;Jose Bertolote;Annette Beautrais

  • The International Society for bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders

    Isabella Pacchiarotti;David J. Bond;Ross J. Baldessarini;Willem A. Nolen

  • Suicide risk in mood disorders.

    Zoltán Rihmer

  • The European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance on suicide treatment and prevention.

    Danuta Wasserman;Zoltan Rihmer;D. Rujescu;M. Sarchiapone

  • Agitated "unipolar" depression re-conceptualized as a depressive mixed state: implications for the antidepressant-suicide controversy.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Franco Benazzi;Giulio Perugi;Zoltán Rihmer

  • International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force on Suicide: meta-analyses and meta-regression of correlates of suicide attempts and suicide deaths in bipolar disorder.

    Ayal Schaffer;Erkki T. Isometsä;Leonardo Tondo;Doris H Moreno

  • Epidemiology of suicide in bipolar disorders: a systematic review of the literature.

    Maurizio Pompili;Xenia Gonda;Gianluca Serafini;Marco Innamorati

  • Current research on affective temperaments

    Zoltán Rihmer;Kareen K Akiskal;Annamária Rihmer;Hagop S Akiskal

  • A suicide prevention program in a region with a very high suicide rate.

    Katalin Szanto;Sandor Kalmar;Herbert Hendin;Zoltan Rihmer

  • Prevention of male suicides: lessons from Gotland study

    Wolfgang Rutz;Lars von Knorring;Hans Pihlgren;Zoltan Rihmer

  • Suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder: epidemiology, characteristics and major risk factors.

    Xenia Gonda;Maurizio Pompili;Maurizio Pompili;Gianluca Serafini;Franco Montebovi

  • Smoking, nicotine and neuropsychiatric disorders

    Peter Dome;Judit Lazary;Miklos Peter Kalapos;Zoltan Rihmer

  • Retrospective psychiatric assessment of 200 suicides in Budapest

    M. Arato;E. Demeter;Zoltan Rihmer;E. Somogyi

  • Suicide Risk in Bipolar Disorder: A Brief Review.

    Peter Dome;Zoltan Rihmer;Xenia Gonda

  • Association of the s allele of the 5-HTTLPR with neuroticism-related traits and temperaments in a psychiatrically healthy population

    Xenia Gonda;Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis;Gabriella Juhasz;Zoltan Rihmer

  • Bipolar disorders and suicidal behaviour

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  • The role of cognitive dysfunction in the symptoms and remission from depression.

    Xénia Gonda;Maurizio Pompili;Gianluca Serafini;Andre Ferrer Carvalho

  • The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for the Biological Treatment of Bipolar Disorders, Part III: Maintenance Treatment

    Heinz Grunze;Siegfried Kasper;Guy Goodwin;Charles Bowden

  • Do antidepressants t(h)reat(en) depressives? Toward a clinically judicious formulation of the antidepressant-suicidality FDA advisory in light of declining national suicide statistics from many countries.

    Zoltan Rihmer;Hagop S. Akiskal

  • Epidemiology, neurobiology and pharmacological interventions related to suicide deaths and suicide attempts in bipolar disorder: Part I of a report of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force on Suicide in Bipolar Disorder.

    Ayal Schaffer;Erkki T Isometsä;Leonardo Tondo;Doris H Moreno

  • The 5HTTLPR polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene is associated with affective temperaments as measured by TEMPS-A

    Xenia Gonda;Zoltan Rihmer;Terezia Zsombok;Gyorgy Bagdy

  • Extreme sensory processing patterns show a complex association with depression, and impulsivity, alexithymia, and hopelessness

    Gianluca Serafini;Xenia Gonda;Giovanna Canepa;Maurizio Pompili

  • Relationship of suicide rates to economic variables in Europe: 2000-2011

    Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis;Wolfram Kawohl;Pavlos N. Theodorakis;Ad J.F.M. Kerkhof

Frequent Co-Authors

Xenia Gonda
Xenia Gonda Semmelweis University
Gianluca Serafini
Gianluca Serafini University of Genoa
Mario Amore
Mario Amore University of Genoa
Hagop S. Akiskal
Hagop S. Akiskal University of California, San Diego
Marco Innamorati
Marco Innamorati European University of Rome
Gyorgy Bagdy
Gyorgy Bagdy Semmelweis University
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
David Lester
David Lester Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Giulio Perugi
Giulio Perugi University of Pisa
Batya Engel-Yeger
Batya Engel-Yeger University of Haifa

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