Dietrich Lehmann: Curriculum Vitae
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Dietrich Lehmann, Professor Dr. med., Dr. med. h.c.
born Dec. 3, 1929 in Heidelberg, Germany
Office address
The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research,
University Hospital of Psychiatry,
Lenggstr. 31
CH-8029 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41-1-384-2711; e-mail: dlehmann@key.unizh.ch
Institute Home Page: http://www.keyinst.unizh.ch
Training
Medical studies: Universität Heidelberg 1950-1953,
Université de Paris 1953, Universität Heidelberg 1954-1956;
Medical State Board Examination Germany, Heidelberg 1956;
Doctoral Dissertation in Medicine, Universität Heidelberg 1957
Positions
Assistant physician, Dept. of Neurology, Heidelberg University
Hospital, 1956-57,
Assistant physician, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Munich
University Hospital, 1958,
Assistant physician, Dept. of Neurology and Neurophysiology,
Freiburg University Hopsital, 1961-62,
Visiting Fellow, Lab. d'EEG, Hopital Universitaire Marseille
(Prof. Gastaut) April/May 1961,
Research Fellow in Neurophysiology, Brain Res. Institute, Univ.
of California, Los Angeles, CA, 1963-1964,
Visiting Physiologist, Computing Center, California Institute of
Technology (CALTECH), Pasadena, CA 1964,
Senior Researcher, Institute of Medical Sciences, Pacific Medical
Center, San Francisco, CA, 1965-1970,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Visual Sciences, University of the
Pacific, San Francisco, CA, 1969-1970,
Acting Chairman, Dept. of Visual Sciences, University of the
Pacific, San Francisco, CA, 1969-1970,
Oberassistent, Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital Zürich,
1971,
Privat-Dozent in Neurology (esp. Clin. Neurophysiology) Medical
Faculty, University of Zürich, 1972; Titular-Professor 1978
AO Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty,
University of Zürich, 1988 - 1997 (now emeritus)
Director, The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, University
Hospital of Psychiatry, Zürich, 1995-1997.
Present Positions
Senior Scientist, The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research,
University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zürich, 1998 - present.
Senior Scientist and Advisor, University Hospital of Psychiatry
"Sector Ost", Zürich, 1998 - present.
Membership in Scientific Societies
American Physiological Society 1965-1984
Association for Research in Ophthalmology 1966-1973
American EEG Society 1968-1986
Schweiz. Neurol. Gesellschaft 1971-1989
German EEG Society / Deutsche Gesellschaft Klinische
Neurophysiologie (Lifetime Corresponding Member)
Hungarian EEG Society (Honorary Member)
European Sleep Research Society
International Brain Research Organization IBRO
IBRO Suisse / Swiss Society for Neurosciences
Schweiz. Gesellschaft Klin. Neurophysiologie
Schweiz. Gesellschaft Biologische Psychiatrie
Section Psychophysiology of the World Psychiatric Association
(WPA)
International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) (Honorary
Fellow 1982)
International Pharmaco-EEG Society (IPEG)
Polish Sleep Research Society (Honorary Member 1994)
International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography
(ISBET) (Founding Member)
International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP)
(Founding Member)
Past Functions in Scientific Societies
Member, Board of Governors, Internat. Organization of
Psychophysiology (IOP)
Teasurer, then Member-at-Large, Internat. Pharmaco-EEG Society
(IPEG)
Co-Chairman, Internat. Society for Brain Electromagnetic
Topography (ISBET) (1989-2001)
Present Functions in Scientific Foundation
Director, The KEY Foundation for Brain-Mind Research, Zürich
Organisation of Scientific Congresses
"Functional States of the Brain", ETP Summer School,
Sounion/Greece 1976.
"Event-Related Potentials in Man: Applications and
Problems" Konstanz 1978.
"Functional States of the Brain: Their Determinants",
Patras, Greece 1979.
"International Swiss Brain Mapping Meetings", Zürich
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994.
"8th World Congress of the Internat. Soc. for Brain
Electromagnetic Topography" (ISBET), Zürich 1997
Co-Organizer of various other congresses.
Invited organizer of various symposia within international
congresses.
Editorial Work
IBRO News, Section Editor "Reports", and
"Announcements" 1974-1975
Neuroscience Letters (Edit. Board) 1975-1980
Waking and Sleeping (Edit. Board) 1976-1981
Journal of Altered States of Consciousness (Edit. Board)
1977-1979
Int. J. Psychophysiology (Edit. Board) 1983-1999
Neuropsychobiology/Sect. Pharmaco-EEG (Advis. Board) 1984-present
Human Neurobiology (Advisary Board) 1985-1988
Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. (Consulting Editor) 1986-1996
Brain Topography (Edit. Board) 1988-1999
Springer Series in Brain Dynamics (Edit. Board) 1990-1995
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging (Edit. Board) 1990-present
Cognitive Brain Research (Edit. Board) 1992-present
Stipends, Fellowships and Scientific Honours
Post-Graduate Stipend of the State of France 1961
DAAD Post-Graduate NATO Fellowship 1962
Hans-Berger-Award of the German EEG Society 1979
Honorary Member, Hungarian EEG Society 1981
Corresponding Member, German EEG Society 1981
Senior Scientist Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science 1985
Honorary Member, Polish Sleep Research Society 1994
Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Jena, Germany 1997
Honorary Emeritus Chairman, International Society for Brain
Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET) 2000
Research Work
Development of multichannel evoked ("ERP") and
spontaneous ("EEG") brain electric field mapping and of
spatial analysis of the field data (start 1968), including source
and microstate analysis of brain electric fields; studies of
human brain electric field properties in relation to normal and
pathological perception, cognition and emotion, incl. effects of
medication.
First evoked potential mapping study with dipole source modeling
published in 1969 (Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol.). A
48-channel recording and analysis system became operational in
1969 at the San Francisco lab, resulting in a first paper using
numerical spatial analysis (map landscape assessment) of alpha
EEG in 1971 (Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol.). Dipole source
modeling in the time domain 1969 (Electroenceph. Clin.
Neurophysiol.) and 1978 (IEEE Journal) and in the frequency
domain 1990 (Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol.). Reference-free
measures of brain field map strength and map landscape
dissimilarity 1980 (Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol.).
Segmentation of brain field map series into temporal, functional
microstates using numerical map landscape assessments 1983/4
(Int. J. Psychophysiol.) and 1987 (Electroenceph. Clin.
Neurophysiol.). Dipole source modelling in the frequency domain
(Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 1990). Studies on the
functional significance of the brain electric microstates in
perception, cognition and emotion, and their pathological
aberrations in schizophrenia. Studies on spatial organisation of
brain electric activity during emotional states and altered
states of consciousness.
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