Prof. Dr. med. Dominique Endres
Phone: +49 (0)761 270-66360
E-Mail: dominique.endres@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Research group I (englisch) and Research group II (englisch)
Education and professional experience
| 2005–2012 | Study of Medicine, University of Freiburg |
| 2013–2018 | Psychiatry and Neurology training at the University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Department of Neurology |
| 2016 | Dissertation (summa cum laude) |
| 2018 | Habilitation (Assistant Professor) |
| 2018 | Senior Physician (Psychiatrist) |
| 2022 | Managing Senior Physician |
| 2022 | Visiting Professorship, King's College, Department of Psychosis Studies, London, UK |
Fields of Special Clinical Interest
- Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD)
- Schizophreniform psychosis
- Organic psychiatric syndromes (especially autoimmune psychoses/ OCD/ depression)
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Affective disorders
- Sports psychiatry
Fields of Research
- Immunological causes of mental disorders (autoimmune psychosis, autoimmune OCD etc.)
- Neurobiology and psychotherapy of OCD
- Neurobiology of schizophreniform psychosis and borderline personality disorder
- Sports psychiatry
- Methodological focus: Establishment of novel cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, multimodal brain imaging (MR spectroscopy, diffusion tensor imaging, morphometry, EEG, EEG-fMRI), disorder-specific psychotherapy programs
Awards
- Young Researcher Award of the German Society for Biological Psychiatry (DGBP) 2018
- Advanced Clinician Scientist in the Berta Ottenstein Program 2019
- Eleonore and Fritz Hodeige Award 2019
- Eugen Graetz Prize 2020
- Research Award "Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry and Neurology" of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN), 2020
- Young Investigator Award of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) 2021
- Rising Star Award of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) 2021
- Young Investigator Award of the German Chairs of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy e.V. (LIPPs e.V.) 2022
Professional Memberships
- German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
- German Society for Biological Psychiatry (DGBP)
- Founding member of the German Network for Research on Autoimmune Encephalitis (GENERATE)
- German Society for CSF Diagnostics and Clinical Neurochemistry (DGLN)
- World Psychiatric Association (WPA) – Section on Immunology and Psychiatry
- European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) – Core Member of the Network for Immuno-NeuroPsychiatry
- German Society of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (DGZ)
Research groups
Research group: Endres / Schiele - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Research group: Tebartz van Elst / Endres - Immunological encephalopathies
Selected Publications
- Endres D, et al. Clinical manifestations and immunomodulatory treatment experiences in psychiatric patients with suspected autoimmune encephalitis: a case series of 91 patients from Germany. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 19. doi:10.1038/s41380-021-01396-4.
- Endres D, et al. Spectrum of novel anti-CNS autoantibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid of 119 patients with schizophreniform and affective disorders. Biol Psychiatry. 2022, in press. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.010.
- Endres D, et al. Autoimmune obsessive-compulsive disorder with novel anti-basal ganglia antibodies. Psychother Psychosom. 2022, in press. doi:10.1159/000522136.
- Endres D, et al. Novel Neuronal Autoantibodies in Huntington's Disease. Biol Psychiatry. 2022 Feb 15;91(4):e21-e23. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.12.032. Epub 2021 Mar 12.
- Endres D, et al. Probable Autoimmune Catatonia With Antibodies Against Cilia on Hippocampal Granule Cells and Highly Suspicious Cerebral FDG-Positron Emission Tomography Findings. Biol Psychiatry. 2020 Feb 28. pii: S0006-3223(19)31982-1. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.12.020.
- Endres D, et al. Cerebrospinal fluid, antineuronal autoantibody, EEG, and MRI findings from 992 patients with schizophreniform and affective psychosis. Transl Psychiatry. 2020 Aug 12;10(1):279. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-00967-3.
- Endres D, et al. Autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes – A systematic literature review resulting in 145 cases. Psychol Med. 2020 Sep 7:1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0033291720002895.
- Endres D, et al. Immunological causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder: is it time for the concept of an "autoimmune OCD" subtype? Transl Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 10;12(1):5. doi: 10.1038/s41398-021-01700-4.
- Endres D, et al. Autoimmune encephalitis as a differential diagnosis of schizophreniform psychosis: clinical symptomatology, pathophysiology, diagnostic approach, and therapeutic considerations. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2020 Mar 12. doi: 10.1007/s00406-020-01113-2.
- Pollak TA, …, Endres D, et al. Autoimmune psychosis: an international consensus on an approach to the diagnosis and management of psychosis of suspected autoimmune origin. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020 Jan;7(1):93-108. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30290-1. Epub 2019 Oct 24.