Heinz Boeker

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Affiliation: University of Zurich
Country: Switzerland

Publications

  1. ncbi [Self concept and object relations of patients with affective disorders--individual centered diagnosis with the repertory-grid technique]
    H Böker
    Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
    Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 50:328-34. 2000
  2. ncbi Personality and object relations in patients with affective disorders: idiographic research by means of the repertory grid technique
    H Böker
    Psychiatric University Hospital, Postfach 68, CH 8029 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Affect Disord 60:53-9. 2000
  3. ncbi Deliberate self-harm in female patients with affective disorders: investigation of personality structure and affect regulation by means of operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics
    Heinz Boeker
    Hospital for Affective Disorders and General Psychiatry Zurich East, Center for Affective and Anxiety Disorders, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    J Nerv Ment Dis 196:743-51. 2008
  4. ncbi [Automutilistic behaviour in female patients with affective disorders: investigation of personality structure and affect regulation by means of Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics (OPD)]
    Heinz Böker
    Klinik für affektive Erkrankungen und Allgemeinpsychiatrie Zürich Ost, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
    Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 57:319-27. 2007
  5. ncbi [Neurotoxicity related to lithium-risperidon combination treatment in a patient with schizoaffective disorder]
    Heinz Böker
    Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Psychiatr Prax 34:38-41. 2007
  6. ncbi Executive dysfunction, self, and ego pathology in schizophrenia: an exploratory study of neuropsychology and personality
    Heinz Boeker
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
    Compr Psychiatry 47:7-19. 2006
  7. ncbi [Reconstruction of mutism. Studies of subjective experiences of former patients with the modified Landfield categories]
    H Böker
    Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
    Psychiatr Prax 27:389-96. 2000
  8. ncbi Altered negative BOLD responses in the default-mode network during emotion processing in depressed subjects
    Simone Grimm
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Neuropsychopharmacology 34:932-843. 2009
  9. ncbi Affective judgment and beneficial decision making: ventromedial prefrontal activity correlates with performance in the Iowa Gambling Task
    Georg Northoff
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Hum Brain Mapp 27:572-87. 2006
  10. ncbi Increased self-focus in major depressive disorder is related to neural abnormalities in subcortical-cortical midline structures
    Simone Grimm
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Hum Brain Mapp 30:2617-27. 2009

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Publications16

  1. ncbi [Self concept and object relations of patients with affective disorders--individual centered diagnosis with the repertory-grid technique]
    H Böker
    Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
    Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 50:328-34. 2000
    ..The idiographic results contribute to a differentiation of the spectrum of affective disorders. They underline the importance of the interpersonal dimension of depression and may be used as a basis of a therapeutic orientation...
  2. ncbi Personality and object relations in patients with affective disorders: idiographic research by means of the repertory grid technique
    H Böker
    Psychiatric University Hospital, Postfach 68, CH 8029 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Affect Disord 60:53-9. 2000
    ..This paper presents an idiographic approach to evaluate the self concept and the self-object-relationship of patients suffering from affective disorders...
  3. ncbi Deliberate self-harm in female patients with affective disorders: investigation of personality structure and affect regulation by means of operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics
    Heinz Boeker
    Hospital for Affective Disorders and General Psychiatry Zurich East, Center for Affective and Anxiety Disorders, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    J Nerv Ment Dis 196:743-51. 2008
    ..OPD has been shown to be a useful tool for empirical research into therapeutically relevant dimensions of personality...
  4. ncbi [Automutilistic behaviour in female patients with affective disorders: investigation of personality structure and affect regulation by means of Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics (OPD)]
    Heinz Böker
    Klinik für affektive Erkrankungen und Allgemeinpsychiatrie Zürich Ost, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
    Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 57:319-27. 2007
    ..Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics can reveal therapeutically relevant personality dimensions for empirical research...
  5. ncbi [Neurotoxicity related to lithium-risperidon combination treatment in a patient with schizoaffective disorder]
    Heinz Böker
    Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Psychiatr Prax 34:38-41. 2007
    ..The case of a schizoaffective patient with a neurotoxic encephalopathy related to lithium-risperidon combination treatment is explored...
  6. ncbi Executive dysfunction, self, and ego pathology in schizophrenia: an exploratory study of neuropsychology and personality
    Heinz Boeker
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
    Compr Psychiatry 47:7-19. 2006
    ..It can therefore be concluded that ego pathology must be distinguished from positive and negative symptoms in both underlying neuropsychological dysfunction and predisposing changes in personality...
  7. ncbi [Reconstruction of mutism. Studies of subjective experiences of former patients with the modified Landfield categories]
    H Böker
    Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
    Psychiatr Prax 27:389-96. 2000
    ..The subjective experience of catatonic patients was investigated with the repertory grid-technique after recovery from the acute state of disease and compared with non-catatonic schizoaffective and depressive patients...
  8. ncbi Altered negative BOLD responses in the default-mode network during emotion processing in depressed subjects
    Simone Grimm
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Neuropsychopharmacology 34:932-843. 2009
    ..In sum, our findings demonstrate that default-mode network NBRs are reduced in MDD and modulate these patients' abnormally negative emotions...
  9. ncbi Affective judgment and beneficial decision making: ventromedial prefrontal activity correlates with performance in the Iowa Gambling Task
    Georg Northoff
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Hum Brain Mapp 27:572-87. 2006
    ..These findings suggest that the degree to which subjects recruit the VMPFC during affective judgment is related to beneficial performance in decision making in gambling...
  10. ncbi Increased self-focus in major depressive disorder is related to neural abnormalities in subcortical-cortical midline structures
    Simone Grimm
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Hum Brain Mapp 30:2617-27. 2009
    ..In conclusion, we present first evidence that the abnormally increased negative self-attribution as hallmark of the increased self-focus in MDD might be mediated by altered neural activity in subcortical-cortical midline structures...
  11. ncbi Imbalance between left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in major depression is linked to negative emotional judgment: an fMRI study in severe major depressive disorder
    Simone Grimm
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Biol Psychiatry 63:369-76. 2008
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  12. ncbi Reduced negative BOLD responses in the default-mode network and increased self-focus in depression
    Simone Grimm
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    World J Biol Psychiatry 12:627-37. 2011
    ..Functional imaging studies in major depressive disorder (MDD) indicate abnormal resting state neural activity and negative blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) responses (NBRs) in regions of the default-mode network (DMN)...
  13. ncbi Segregated neural representation of distinct emotion dimensions in the prefrontal cortex-an fMRI study
    Simone Grimm
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Neuroimage 30:325-40. 2006
    ..In conclusion, our results indicate segregated neural representation of the different emotion dimensions in different prefrontal cortical regions...
  14. ncbi How does our brain constitute defense mechanisms? First-person neuroscience and psychoanalysis
    Georg Northoff
    Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
    Psychother Psychosom 76:141-53. 2007
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  15. ncbi NMDA hypofunction in the posterior cingulate as a model for schizophrenia: an exploratory ketamine administration study in fMRI
    Georg Northoff
    Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Schizophr Res 72:235-48. 2005
    ..We therefore conducted an fMRI study using the NMDA antagonist ketamine in healthy human subjects during episodic memory retrieval, which is supposed to activate the posterior cingulate...
  16. ncbi Rapid cerebral hemodynamic modulation during mental planning and movement execution: evidence of time-locked relationship with complex behavior
    Daniel Schuepbach
    Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, PO Box 1931, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
    Clin Neurophysiol 118:2254-62. 2007
    ..The present study examined the linkage between hemodynamic modulation in basal cerebral arteries and performance in a non-routine planning task by means of functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD)...