Heinz Hafner

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Affiliation: Central Institute of Mental Health
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi Evidence for separate diseases?: Stages of one disease or different combinations of symptom dimensions?
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 258:85-96. 2008
  2. ncbi Khat use as risk factor for psychotic disorders: a cross-sectional and case-control study in Somalia
    Michael Odenwald
    Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Fach D25, D 78476 Konstanz, Germany
    BMC Med 3:5. 2005
  3. ncbi The course of schizophrenia in the light of modern follow-up studies: the ABC and WHO studies
    H Hafner
    Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 249:14-26. 1999
  4. ncbi Schizophrenia: still Kraepelin's dementia praecox?
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 13:99-112. 2004
  5. ncbi Early detection and secondary prevention of psychosis: facts and visions
    Heinz Hafner
    Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 254:117-28. 2004
  6. ncbi Modeling the early course of schizophrenia
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Schizophr Bull 29:325-40. 2003
  7. ncbi Gender differences in schizophrenia
    H Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 28:17-54. 2003
  8. ncbi Main risk factors for schizophrenia: increased familial loading and pre- and peri-natal complications antagonize the protective effect of oestrogen in women
    R Könnecke
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, D 68159, Mannheim, Germany
    Schizophr Res 44:81-93. 2000
  9. ncbi Precipitation and determination of the onset and course of schizophrenia by substance abuse--a retrospective and prospective study of 232 population-based first illness episodes
    Babette Bühler
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, D 68159, Mannheim, Germany
    Schizophr Res 54:243-51. 2002
  10. ncbi Schizophrenia and depression: challenging the paradigm of two separate diseases--a controlled study of schizophrenia, depression and healthy controls
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, D 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Schizophr Res 77:11-24. 2005

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Publications14

  1. ncbi Evidence for separate diseases?: Stages of one disease or different combinations of symptom dimensions?
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 258:85-96. 2008
    ..We tested Kraepelin's dichotomy model by studying the separability of schizophrenia and depression on the basis of symptoms and illness course...
  2. ncbi Khat use as risk factor for psychotic disorders: a cross-sectional and case-control study in Somalia
    Michael Odenwald
    Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Fach D25, D 78476 Konstanz, Germany
    BMC Med 3:5. 2005
    ..We aimed to explore the prevalence of psychotic disorders among the general population and the association between khat use and psychotic symptoms...
  3. ncbi The course of schizophrenia in the light of modern follow-up studies: the ABC and WHO studies
    H Hafner
    Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 249:14-26. 1999
    ..Although great variation in outcome between the patients is to be observed at each cross-section, the medium and long-term symptom-related course of schizophrenia shows a high degree of stability at the individual level...
  4. ncbi Schizophrenia: still Kraepelin's dementia praecox?
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 13:99-112. 2004
    ..Finally, the disease concept of schizophrenia, as it presents itself in the light of current knowledge, will be outlined and compared with Kraepelin's earlier and later view of the disorder...
  5. ncbi Early detection and secondary prevention of psychosis: facts and visions
    Heinz Hafner
    Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 254:117-28. 2004
    ....
  6. ncbi Modeling the early course of schizophrenia
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Schizophr Bull 29:325-40. 2003
    ..The influence of the traditional predictors, age and gender, type of onset (chronic, acute), and symptomatology, was mediated by these two variables assessed at the end of the prodromal stage...
  7. ncbi Gender differences in schizophrenia
    H Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 28:17-54. 2003
    ..Scarcity of the knowledge of differences in the development, morphology and functioning of the male and female brain does not yet allow any definitive conclusions about gender differences in schizophrenia...
  8. ncbi Main risk factors for schizophrenia: increased familial loading and pre- and peri-natal complications antagonize the protective effect of oestrogen in women
    R Könnecke
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, D 68159, Mannheim, Germany
    Schizophr Res 44:81-93. 2000
    ....
  9. ncbi Precipitation and determination of the onset and course of schizophrenia by substance abuse--a retrospective and prospective study of 232 population-based first illness episodes
    Babette Bühler
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, D 68159, Mannheim, Germany
    Schizophr Res 54:243-51. 2002
    ..Five-year outcome as based on treatment compliance, utilization of rehabilitative measures and rate of employment was also poorer for patients with than without early substance abuse...
  10. ncbi Schizophrenia and depression: challenging the paradigm of two separate diseases--a controlled study of schizophrenia, depression and healthy controls
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, D 68159 Mannheim, Germany
    Schizophr Res 77:11-24. 2005
    ..We studied descriptive and causal associations between schizophrenia, depressive symptoms and episodes of depression...
  11. ncbi [Developmental conditions and subjective experiences of children with a schizophrenic parent--qualitative and quantitative studies from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk]
    Regina Könnecke
    Zentralinstitut fur Seelische Gesundheit, J5, 68159 Mannheim
    Psychiatr Prax 33:269-76. 2006
    ..35 children 12-42 years of age of patients with schizophrenia (ABC-Cohort-12-year-follow-up) were interviewed for studying objective and subjective effects of growing up with a schizophrenic parent...
  12. ncbi The early course of schizophrenia and depression*
    Heinz Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 255:167-73. 2005
    ..Risk factors, emergence and accumulation of symptoms in the untreated early course were studied as a basis for understanding the relationship between schizophrenia and depression...
  13. ncbi Depression in the long-term course of schizophrenia
    Wolfram an der Heiden
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 255:174-84. 2005
    ..Depression occurring in the interval was not associated with an increased need for inpatient treatment...
  14. ncbi [Is the schizophrenia diagnosis still appropriate?]
    Heinz Hafner
    Zentralinstitut fur Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim
    Psychiatr Prax 34:175-80. 2007
    ..The depressive syndrome is an integral part of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia diagnosis should be replaced by a four-dimensional construct, with each dimension associated with a mainly specific indication for therapy...