Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie

Education

• studies in philosophy and medicine at the University of Freiburg, University of Manchester - UK, New York University, NY – USA, University of Zürich – Switzerland;
• neurological and psychiatric training at the University of Freiburg, Dept. of Neurology; Institute of Neurology, UCL-London, Dept of Neuropsychiatry; University of Freiburg, Dept. of Psychiatry & Psychotherapy

Position

• Professor for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
• Deputy Director of University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
• Head of Section for Experimental Neuropsychiatry

Fields of Special Clin. Interest

• neurobiology and psychotherapy of neurodevelopmental disorders (autism, ADHD, tic disorders and Gilles-de-la-Tourette syndrome
• neurobiology and therapy of organic and schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Fields of Research

• differential diagnosis, neurobiology and differential therapy of neurodevelopmental disorders (autism, ADHD, tic disorders)
• diagnosis and treatment of immunological encephalopathy and other organic variants of psychotic, affective and schizophreniform disorders
• Methodological focus: neuroimaging, neuroinflammation, visual neuroscience
• Theoretical medicine and philosophy: psychobiology of perception, thinking, emotion and behaviour; free will; intentional structure of metacognition

Academic achievements and awards

• Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk (1989 – 1995)
• Dissertation at the clinic of psychiatry of the university clinic Freiburg; »Neurobiology and Psychology of Depression« (1992-1995)
• Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); studies at the University of Manchester (1991-1992)
• Research scholarship of the Scientific Society of the University of Freiburg (Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, UCL, London; 1997 - 1998)
• Research Scholarship of the Raymond Way Neuropsychiatry Researchs Funds (Post-Doc; Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, UCL, London; 1997 - 1998)
• Gerok Scholarship of the University of Freiburg (set up of research lab for neuroimaging in psychiatry; 1998)
• Award of the British Neuropsychiatric Association (February 2000)
• Wilhelm Griesinger Award of the Berlin Societry for Neurology and Psychiatry (2002)
• Habilitation in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: »On the pathophysiology of the amygdala and related frontobasal circuits in impuslive and emotional unstable syndromes« (2004)
• Call onto the list for Biological Psychiatry (C3) of the Humboldt University Berlin (2004)
• Call onto the chair for C3-Professorship (a.L.) for Psychiatry & Psychotherapy of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (2005, rejected)
• Call onto the chair Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (W3, Ordinariat) of the Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel (2014, rejected)

Publications

More than 145 peer reviewed publications in English language

• Effectiveness of Psychotherapy in Adult ADHD: What Do Patients Think? Results of the COMPAS Study.
• Manual morphometry of hippocampus and amygdala in adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Steroid-Responsive Chronic Schizophreniform Syndrome in the Context of Mildly Increased Antithyroid Peroxidase Antibodies.
• Intrathecal Thyroid Autoantibody Synthesis in a Subgroup of Patients With Schizophreniform Syndromes.
• Restoring effects of oxytocin on the attentional preference for faces in autism.
• Altered white matter integrity in adults with autism spectrum disorder and an IQ >100: a diffusion tensor imaging study.
• Glutathione metabolism in the prefrontal brain of adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: an MRS study.
• Mona Lisa is always happy - and only sometimes sad.
• Altered Intermittent Rhythmic Delta and Theta Activity in the Electroencephalographies of High Functioning Adult Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Schizophrenia Associated with Epileptiform Discharges without Seizures Successfully Treated with Levetiracetam.
• Alterations in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Patients with Bipolar Syndromes.
• Methodological Problems on the Way to Integrative Human Neuroscience.
• Vitamin D Deficiency in Adult Patients with Schizophreniform and Autism Spectrum Syndromes: A One-Year Cohort Study at a German Tertiary Care Hospital.
• The effect of methylphenidate intake on brain structure in adults with ADHD in a placebo-controlled randomized trial.
• Distinctive time-lagged resting-state networks revealed by simultaneous EEG-fMRI.
• On the Effect of Sex on Prefrontal and Cerebellar Neurometabolites in Healthy Adults: An MRS Study.
• The medial forebrain bundle as a target for deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• Steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT) presenting as major depression.
• Electroencephalographic findings in schizophreniform and affective disorders.
• Ambiguity in Tactile Apparent Motion Perception.
• Evidence of cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities in patients with depressive syndromes.
• Quality of Life of Adult Patients With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Taking Methylphenidate-Reply.
• Autism as a Disorder of Altered Global Functional and Structural Connectivity.
• Increased Prevalence of Intermittent Rhythmic Delta or Theta Activity (IRDA/IRTA) in the Electroencephalograms (EEGs) of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.
• Effects of Group Psychotherapy, Individual Counseling, Methylphenidate, and Placebo in the Treatment of Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Correction: Increased Blood-Reelin-Levels in First Episode Schizophrenia.
• Neural response during anticipation of monetary loss is elevated in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Immunological findings in psychotic syndromes: a tertiary care hospital's CSF sample of 180 patients.
• Normal Neurochemistry in the Prefrontal and Cerebellar Brain of Adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
• Normal Visual Acuity and Electrophysiological Contrast Gain in Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Increased hippocampal volumes in adults with high functioning autism spectrum disorder and an IQ>100: A manual morphometric study.
• Increased Blood-Reelin-Levels in First Episode Schizophrenia.
• Hypoglutamatergic state is associated with reduced cerebral glucose metabolism in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: a case report.
• Discrete Global but No Focal Gray Matter Volume Reductions in Unmedicated Adult Patients With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
• Case report: low-titre anti-Yo reactivity in a female patient with psychotic syndrome and frontoparieto-cerebellar atrophy.
• [Well Educated Unemployed--On Education, Employment and Comorbidities in Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders in Germany].
• Oxytocin Modulates Amygdala Reactivity to Masked Fearful Eyes.
• Elevated background noise in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is associated with inattention.
• Retinal dysfunction of contrast processing in major depression also apparent in cortical activity.
• Freiburg Questionnaire of linguistic pragmatics (FQLP): psychometric properties based on a psychiatric sample.
• Neuropsychological and cerebral morphometric aspects of negative symptoms in schizophrenia: negative symptomatology is associated with specific mnestic deficits in schizophrenic patients.
• Magnetic resonance spectroscopy comparing adults with high functioning autism and above average IQ.
• Disturbed cingulate glutamate metabolism in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: evidence in support of the excitatory/inhibitory imbalance hypothesis.
• [High-functioning autism spectrum disorders in adulthood].
• No significant brain volume decreases or increases in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and above average intelligence: a voxel-based morphometric study.
• Working memory in schizophrenia: behavioral and neural evidence for reduced susceptibility to item-specific proactive interference.
• A different view on the checkerboard? Alterations in early and late visually evoked EEG potentials in Asperger observers.
• Interindividual synchronization of brain activity during live verbal communication.
• Reduced subicular subdivisions of the hippocampal formation and verbal declarative memory impairments in young relatives at risk for schizophrenia.
• A randomized controlled multicenter trial on the multimodal treatment of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: enrollment and characteristics of the study sample.
• High-functioning autism spectrum disorder as a basic disorder in adult psychiatry and psychotherapy: psychopathological presentation, clinical relevance and therapeutic concepts.
• Automatic metaphor processing in adults with Asperger syndrome: a metaphor interference effect task.
• Toward the development of a supported employment program for individuals with high-functioning autism in Germany.
• Cerebellar volume is linked to cognitive function in temporal lobe epilepsy: a quantitative MRI study.
• Neural and psychophysiological markers of delay aversion in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Retinal contrast transfer functions in adults with and without ADHD.
• Fiber density estimation from single q-shell diffusion imaging by tensor divergence.
• Altered cingulate and amygdala response towards threat and safe cues in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Psychiatric side-effects of bilateral deep brain stimulation for movement disorders.
• ['Optimal care for depression': Freiburg model of integrated care for depressive disorders].
• Clarifying the role of the rostral dmPFC/dACC in fear/anxiety: learning, appraisal or expression?
• Emotional modulation of motor response inhibition in women with borderline personality disorder: an fMRI study.
• Distinct functional and structural cerebral abnormalities in eating disorders in the light of diagnostic classification systems.
• Alterations in the cerebral white matter of genetic high risk offspring of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
• Effect of antidepressive therapy on retinal contrast processing in depressive disorder.
• Neural correlates of interference inhibition, action withholding and action cancelation in adult ADHD.
• Medial prefrontal dysfunction and prolonged amygdala response during instructed fear processing in borderline personality disorder.
• Psychiatric comorbidity in patients with pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy and psychiatric outcome after epilepsy surgery.
• ADHD as a serious risk factor for early smoking and nicotine dependence in adulthood.
• Small amygdala-high aggression? The role of the amygdala in modulating aggression in healthy subjects.
• Orbitofrontal reward sensitivity and impulsivity in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• International consensus clinical practice statements for the treatment of neuropsychiatric conditions associated with epilepsy.
• Generalised spike-and-slow-wave complexes without seizures in schizophrenia.
• Frontocingular dysfunction in bulimia nervosa when confronted with disease-specific stimuli.
• Local area network inhibition: a model of a potentially important paraepileptic pathomechanism in neuropsychiatric disorders.
• Voltage-gated potassium channel/LGI1 antibody-associated encephalopathy may cause brief psychotic disorder.
• Evaluation of the efficacy and effectiveness of a structured disorder tailored psychotherapy in ADHD in adults: study protocol of a randomized controlled multicentre trial.
• Amygdala hyperreactivity in restrictive anorexia nervosa.
• Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the anterior cingulate cortex in eating disorders.
• Severity of childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder--a risk factor for personality disorders in adult life?
• Grey matter deficit in long-term recovered anorexia nervosa patients.
• Visual cortex abnormalities in adults with ADHD: a structural MRI study.
• [Psychotherapy of Asperger syndrome in adults].
• Postictal psychosis: Evidence for extrafocal functional precursors.
• Voxel-based morphometry in eating disorders: correlation of psychopathology with grey matter volume.
• Management and health implications of epilepsy in older women.
• Seeing gray when feeling blue? Depression can be measured in the eye of the diseased.
• Neurochemical alterations in women with borderline personality disorder and comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Reduced interhemispheric structural connectivity between anterior cingulate cortices in borderline personality disorder.
• Extraction of prefronto-amygdalar pathways by combining probability maps.
• Cerebral correlates of heart rate variations during a spontaneous panic attack in the fMRI scanner.
• Reduced amygdala volume in newly admitted psychiatric in-patients with unipolar major depression.
• [Effects and mechanisms of psychotherapy in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adults].
• The psychosocial impact of epilepsy in older people.
• Hippocampus and amygdala morphology in adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Are amygdalar volume alterations in children with Tourette syndrome due to ADHD comorbidity?
• Spectroscopic findings in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: review and meta-analysis.
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adulthood: diagnosis, etiology and therapy.
• Corpus callosum dysplasia in adult attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder: a case report.
• Structured group psychotherapy in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: results of an open multicentre study.
• Corpus callosum abnormalities in women with borderline personality disorder and comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Frontolimbic glutamate alterations in first episode schizophrenia: evidence from a magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.
• Vision in depressive disorder.
• Chronic insomnia and MRI-measured hippocampal volumes: a pilot study.
• Cerebral correlates of muscle tone fluctuations in restless legs syndrome: a pilot study with combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and anterior tibial muscle electromyography.
• Neurochemical and structural correlates of executive dysfunction in schizophrenia.
• Voxel-based morphometry in unmedicated patients with restless legs syndrome.
• Evidence of disturbed amygdalar energy metabolism in patients with borderline personality disorder.
• Reduced cingulate glutamate/glutamine-to-creatine ratios in adult patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- a magnet resonance spectroscopy study.
• Inferior frontal white matter microstructure and patterns of psychopathology in women with borderline personality disorder and comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Amygdala volume status might reflect dominant mode of emotional information processing.
• Amygdala size in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis without dementia: an in vivo study using MRI volumetry.
• Depression--augmentation or switch after initial SSRI treatment.
• Aripiprazole in patients with Tourette syndrome.
• Serum creatine kinase elevation as a possible complication of therapy with olanzapine.
• Increased prefrontal and hippocampal glutamate concentration in schizophrenia: evidence from a magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.
• Amygdala morphometry in affective disorders.
• Chronic antidopaminergic medication might affect amygdala structure in patients with schizophrenia.
• Depression but not seizure frequency predicts quality of life in treatment-resistant epilepsy.
• Absence of cortical gray matter abnormalities in psychosis of epilepsy: a voxel-based MRI study in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
• Religiosity is associated with hippocampal but not amygdala volumes in patients with refractory epilepsy.
• Mesial temporal structures and comorbid anxiety in refractory partial epilepsy.
• A voxel-based morphometric MRI study in female patients with borderline personality disorder.
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults-early vs. late onset in a retrospective study.
• Frontolimbic brain abnormalities in patients with borderline personality disorder: a volumetric magnetic resonance imaging study.
• Psychopathological profile in patients with severe bilateral hippocampal atrophy and temporal lobe epilepsy: evidence in support of the Geschwind syndrome?
• A psychopathological study into the relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adult patients and recurrent brief depression.
• The amygdala and psychopathology studies in epilepsy.
• Aggression and Violence in Patients with Epilepsy. To the Editor.
• Psychotherapy of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults--a pilot study using a structured skills training program.
• Different striatal dopamine D2 receptor occupancy in alcohol dependent patients with or without physical withdrawal symptoms --a study using IBZM-SPECT.
• Frontoorbital volume reductions in adult patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• On the role of quantitative brain imaging in the differential diagnosis of speech disorders.
• Amygdala pathology in psychosis of epilepsy: A magnetic resonance imaging study in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
• Dual brain pathology in patients with affective aggressive episodes.
• Subtle prefrontal neuropathology in a pilot magnetic resonance spectroscopy study in patients with borderline personality disorder.
• Attention-deficit disorder in adults with or without hyperactivity: where is the difference? A study in humans using short echo (1)H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
• Hippocampus and amygdala pathology in depression.
• Increased amygdala volumes in female and depressed humans. A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study.
• Visual contrast response functions in Parkinson's disease: evidence from electroretinograms, visually evoked potentials and psychophysics.
• Affective aggression in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: a quantitative MRI study of the amygdala.
• Reduction of frontal neocortical grey matter associated with affective aggression in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: an objective voxel by voxel analysis of automatically segmented MRI.
• Amygdala enlargement in dysthymia--a volumetric study of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
• On some clinical implications of the ventral striatum and the extended amygdala. Investigations of aggression.
• Contrast detection, discrimination and adaptation in patients with Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy.

More than 35 book chapters, monographies and editor books:

1. Monographie: Tebartz van Elst L. Neuere psychologische und neurobiologische Erkenntnisse zur Depression. Versuch einer Integration. 1-263. 1995. Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg i. Thesis/Dissertation
2. Tebartz van Elst L. (translation): Epilepsy as a seizure disorder and as a psychosis: on alternative psychoses of a paranoid type with ‚forced normalisation‘ (Landolt) of the electroencephalogram of epileptics. H. Tellenbach. In: Forced normalisation and alternative psychosis of epilepsy. Chapter 4. Editors M.R. Trimble, B. Schmitz. Wrightson Biomedical Publishing LTD. Bristol, PA, USA pp: 49-66; (1998)
3. Tebartz van Elst L: Aggression and epilepsy. In: Psychobiological aspects of epilepsy. Editors: M.R. Trimble, B. Schmitz. Pp: 81-106 Cambridge University Press. Cambridge (2002)
4. Monographie: Tebartz van Elst L: BioLogik. Leben, Denken, Wirklichkeit. Eine Genealogie der Logik. NoRa-Verlag. Berlin (2003)
5. Tebartz van Elst L, Ebert D.: Bildgebende Befunde bei Affektiven Störungen. In: Walter, Spitzer: Funktionelle Bildgebung in der klinischen Neurowissenschaft. Schattauer Verlag (2004)
6. Tebartz van Elst L, Trimble MR: Episodic Dyscontrol. In: Epilepsy. A Comprehensive Textbook, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia (2007)
7. Tebartz van Elst L, Trimble MR: Disorders of Impulse Control. In: Epilepsy. A Comprehensive Textbook, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia (2007)
8. Tebartz van Elst L: Persönlichkeitsstörungen als Frontalhirnsyndrom. Eine integrative neuropsychiatrische Modellvorstellung. In: S. Barnow. Persönlichkeitsstörungen. Springer Verlag. 2007
9. Tebartz van Elst L: Alles so schön bunt hier. Gehirn-Scans sagen viel weniger aus, als in sie hineininterpretiert wird. DIE ZEIT 34/2007
10. Tebartz van Elst L: Freiheit im Neuronalen Netz. In: Entscheidungsfreiheit und ihre Grenzen. Universität Freiburg (2007)
11. Tebartz van Elst L: Von der Traumdeutung zur Hirndeutung: Wie aus statistischen Ergebnisabbildungen Rorschachbilder einer diffusen Theorie des Geistes werden. Wiener Zeitschrift für Suchtforschung 2009 32(3/4): 41-46
12. Tüscher O, Tebartz van Elst L: Depression and Movement Disorders. In: Depression in Neurologic Disorders: Diagnosis and Management edited by Andres Kanner, M.D.; Cambridge University Press (2012)
13. Freiburger Asperger Studiengruppe: Ebert, T. Fangmeier, A. Lichtblau, J. Peters, A. Riedel, L. Tebartz van Elst. Asperger-Autismus und hochfunktionaler Autismus bei Erwachsenen. Das Therapiemanual der Freiburger Autismus Studiengruppe. Hogrefe 2013
14. Berger M, Berger R, Tebartz van Elst L. Der psychisch Erkrankte als Versuchsteilnehmer – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Krankheitsbildes der Depression. Ethikkommission Freiburg 2011
15. Ebert D, Tebartz van Elst L.: Kapitel 26. Das Asperger-Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter. In Berger: Psychische Störungen . 4. Auflage. Urban & Fischer 4. Auflage 2012: 839-89
16. Tebartz van Elst L., Walden J, Hesslinger B, Stieglitz R Kapitel 4. Zusatzdiagnostik. In Berger: Psychische Störungen . 4. Auflage. Urban & Fischer 4. Auflage 2012: 63-89
17. Tebartz van Elst L. Personality & Personality Disorder. In: A. Kanner, The Borderland of Epilepsy Revisited. Oxford University Press. 2012
18. Tüscher O, Tebartz van Elst L.: Depression in Movement Disorder. In: A. Kanner: Depression in Neurologic Disorders: Diagnosis and Management. John Wiley & Sons 2012
19. Klöppel S, Tebartz van Elst L. Voxelbasierte Morphometrie. In:  Gruber, Falkai: Systemische Neurowissenschaften in der Psychiatrie. Kohlhammer Verlag 2014
20. Tebartz van Elst L. (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
21. Tebartz van Elst L., Ebert D. Asperger-Syndrom und Autismusbegriff: historische Entwicklung und moderne Nosologie. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
22. Tebartz van Elst L., Ebert D. Die hochfunktionalen Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen im Erwachsenenalter - Symptomatik und Klassifikation. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
23. Tebartz van Elst L., Ebert D. Die Bedeutung der Autismus-spektrum-Störungen für die Erwachsenenpsychiatrie & -psychotherapie. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
24. Tebartz van Elst L. Zusatzuntersuchungen. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
25. Tebartz van Elst L. Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen und Ticstörungen. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
26. Tebartz van Elst L. Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen und schizophreniforme Störungen. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
27. Tebartz van Elst L. Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen und Borderline Persönlichkeitsstörungen. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
28. Tebartz van Elst L. Die Organisation der Nische. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
29. Tebartz van Elst L. Medikamentöse Therapie im Erwachsenenalter. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
30. Winter K, Pick M, Tebartz van Elst L. Stationäre Therapie von Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. In: Tebartz van Elst (Hrsg.) Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Med Wiss Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin  2013
31. Monographie: Tebartz van Elst L., Perlov E. Epilepsie & Psyche. Psychische Störungen bei Epilepsie, Epileptische Phänomene in der Psychiatrie. Kohlhammer Verlag Stuttgart 2013
32. Gross CM & Tebartz van Elst L. Psychological and Psychiatric Contraindications for Bariatric Surgery. In: Karcz K, Thomusch O (Hrsg.) Principles of Metabolic Surgery. Springer Verlag Berlin 2012
33. Monographie: Tebartz van Elst L. Freiheit. Psychobiologische Errungenschaft und neurokognitiver Auftrag. Kohlhammer Verlag 2015
34. Tebartz van Elst L (Hrsg.) 2. Auflage. Das Asperger Syndrom im Erwachsenenalter und andere hochfunktionale Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft. Berlin 2015
35. Monographie: Tebartz van Elst L. Autismus und ADHS. Zwischen Normvariante, Persönlichkeitsstörung und neuropsychiatrischer Krankheit. Kohlhammer Verlag 2016
36. Tebartz van Elst L. Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen als Differentialdiagnose und Basisstörung in der Psychiatrie. In: Klaus Lieb, Fritz Hohagen, Dieter Riemann (Hrsg.) Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie 2.0. Elsevier Verlag 2016; Kapitel 22: SS 203-213
37. Tebartz van Elst L. Autismus im hohen Alter. In: Stefan Klöppel, Frank Jessen (Hrsg.) Praxishandbuch Gerontopsychiatrie und –psychotherapie. Elsevier Verlag 2016; Kapitel 18. SS: 277-283
38. Monographie: Tebartz van Elst L. Vom Anfang und Ende der Schizophrenie. Eine neuropsychiatrische Analyse des Schizophreniekonzepts. Kohlhammer Verlag 2017