The Robert-Sommer Award is a prize awarded for scientific work done in the field of schizophrenia research. It has been awarded since 1996 by the Robert-Sommer Research Society. It commemorates Robert Sommer, a German psychiatrist born in Grottkau and first director of the Psychiatric University Hospital in Giessen. He is remembered for his work in

experimental psychology Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, in ...

.Traditionally the award is given to the recipient during th
GISS conference
in Giessen.

Recipients

* 2023 Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (Mannheim, Germany) * 2016 Barbara Sahakian & Trevor Robbins (Cambridge, Great Britain) * 2013

Christos Pantelis Professor Christos Pantelis is an Australian professor of medicine who is the Director of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre. Profile Prof. Christos Pantelis is an Australian of Greek background. He completed his medical degree at the Uni ...

(Melbourne, Australia) * 2010

David A. Lewis David A. Lewis is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist, currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Thomas Detre Professor of Academic Psychiatry and also Director of Conte Center for Translational Mental Health Res ...

(Pittsburgh, United States) * 2008 Shitij Kapur (London, Great Britain) * 2006

Lynn DeLisi Lynn Eleanor DeLisi () is an American psychiatrist known for her research on schizophrenia. She is an attending psychiatrist at the VA Boston Healthcare System and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the editor-in-chief of ...

(New York, United States) * 2004 Uta Frith and Chris Frith (London, Great Britain) * 2002

Daniel Weinberger Daniel R. Weinberger (born 1947) is a professor of psychiatry, neurology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and Director and CEO of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, which opened in 2011. Life He is an alumnus of the Univers ...

(Bethesda, United States) * 2000

Robin Murray Sir Robin MacGregor Murray FRS (born 31 January 1944 in Glasgow) is a Scottish psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatric Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He has treated patients with schizophrenia and bipolar illn ...

(London, Great Britain) * 1998 Nancy Andreasen (Iowa, United States) * 1996 Timothy Crow (Oxford, Great Britain)

References

Robert Sommer (psychiatrist) Karl Robert Sommer (19 December 1864, in Grottkau – 2 February 1937, in Giessen) was a german psychiatrist and genealogist born in Grottkau. He is remembered for his work in experimental psychology. He coined the term „Psychohygiene� ...

* schizophrenia *

* Grottkau * Giessen

Reference section

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External links

GISS symposium
Medicine awards Psychology awards Awards established in 1996