Jürgen Leo Müller (born 5 May 1963 in

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) is a German medical specialist for

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. He is a professor for

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at the

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as well as chief physician for forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Asklepios Clinic in Göttingen. His particular scientific interest lies in the empirical research of forensically relevant disorders with a particular focus on personality disorders, psychotherapy as well as violent and sex offenders. In addition to that he places special emphasis on the usability of empirical techniques to responding legal questions.Jürgen Leo Müller und Norbert Nedopil (2014) Neurowissenschaften in Foro: Hilfreiche Technik oder neue Quelle von Missverständnissen Zeitschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform

Biography

Müller studied human medicine at the

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from 1984 to 1990. After his specialist training in neurology and psychiatry he was clinically responsible and scientifically active in forensic psychiatry in

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. Müller finished his habilitation at the

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with a thesis on the contribution of functional

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to the connectivity model of neuro psychiatric diseases in 2003. Since 2006 he has been working as a professor of forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Ludwig Meyer Institute of the University of Göttingen.Jürgen Müller am Ludwig-Meyer-Institut
/ref> At the same time Müller is senior consultant of the Asklepios Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Göttingen.Jürgen Müller als Chefarzt an der Asklepios für Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
/ref> Jürgen Müller is a forensic Mental status examination, psychiatric expert in a range of criminal and civil law. Amongst others he was charged as a forensic psychiatric expert with the case of the double-murderer of Bodenfelde (Germany) and with that of the amok driver of Graz (Austria).Grazer Amokfahrer: Anstalt statt Gefängnis
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Scientific contribution

Müller completed his doctoral thesis in psychiatric history about the Munich psychiatrist and writer

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with

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.Müller, J.L. Der „Pazjent“ als Psychiater – Oskar Panizzas Weg vom Irrenarzt zum Insassen. Mit einem Vorwort von Christian Müller Edition „Das Narrenschiff“ rsg.v. Asmus Finzen Psychiatrie-Verlag 1999Müller, J.L. Oskar Panizza – Versuch einer immanenten Interpretation. edizinische Dissertation in Würzburg 1990Tectum-Verlag Marburg 1999 Edition Wissenschaft, Unterreihe „Humanmedizin“, Band 264/ref>Müller, J.L. Imperjalja. Manuskript germ. qu. 1838 der Handschriftenabteilung der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz zu Berlin, in Textübertragung herausgegeben und mit Anmerkungen versehen, Guido Pressler Verlag, Hürtgenwald 1993 Müller's research has since been focusing on the empirical research of forensically relevant disorders.Müller, J.L., „Neurobiologe forensisch relevanter Störungen“. Hrsg. v. Jürgen L. Müller.

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: 2009 During his time in Regensburg, he implemented numerous research projects on forensically relevant disorders of personality (“Psychopathy”). As head of the interdisciplinary working group "Emotion processing and emotion regulation"Müller, J. L., Gänßbauer, S., Sommer, M., Weber, T., Döhnel, K., Hajak, G. (2007) Volumenminderung und reduzierte emotionale Aktivierbarkeit des rechten superioren temporalen Gyrus bei krimineller „Psychopathy“. Untersuchungen mit Voxel-basierter Morphometrie und funktioneller Magnetresonanztomographie. Psychiatrische Praxis (S1): 165-167Müller, J. L. (2006) Neurobiologie der Aggressionsgenese. I. Neurochemische Befunde. Nervenheilkunde 25 11: 953-961Müller, J. L., Sommer, M., Taschler, H., Lange, K., Wagner, V., Hajak, G. (2003) Abnormalities in Emotion Processing within Cortical and Subcortical Regions in Criminal Psychopaths. Evidence from an fMRI Study using Pictures with Emotional Contents. Biological Psychiatry 54: 152-162 of

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Müller, J. L., Putzhammer, A., Hajak, G. (2005) fMRT – Studien zur funktionellen Neuroanatomie motorischer Regelkreise. Einfluss von Krankheit und Antipsychotika auf die motorische Hirnaktivierbarkeit schizophrener Patienten. Psychiatrische Praxis 35 47-52Müller, J. L., Sommer, M., Weber, T., Hajak, G. (2004) Neurobiologie der Gewalt: Empirische und experimentelle Befunde zu reaktiven Formen der Gewalt. Psychiatrische Praxis 31: 50-51 he carried out research projects on impulsive control and emotion regulationMüller, J. L., Sommer, M., Taschler, H., Lange, K., Wagner, V., Hajak, G. (2003) Abnormalities in Emotion Processing within Cortical and Subcortical Regions in Criminal Psychopaths. Evidence from an fMRI Study using Pictures with Emotional Contents. Biological Psychiatry as well as on reactive and proactive forms of aggression.Müller, J. L. (2006) Neurobiologie der Aggressionsgenese. II. Bildgebende Befunde. Nervenheilkunde 25 11: 962-968. He conducted studies on

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and

pedophilia Pedophilia ( alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Although girls typically begin the process of pube ...

in Göttingen. He used objective methods such as

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Jordan K, Fromberger P, Laubinger H, Dechent P, Müller JL: Changed processing of visual sexual stimuli under GnRH-therapy - a single case study in pedophilia using eye tracking and fMRI. BMC Psychiatry (2014), 14:142. doi:10.1186/1471-244X-14-142Fromberger, P., Jordan, K., & Muller, J. L. (2014). Use of

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in forensic psychiatry: A new paradigm? nwendung virtueller Realitäten in der forensischen Psychiatrie: Ein neues Paradigma?Der Nervenarzt, 85(3), 298-303.doi: 10.1007/s00115-013-3904-7Fromberger, P., Jordan, K., Steinkrauss, H., von Herder, J., Stolpmann, G., Kroner-Herwig, B., & Muller, J. L. (2013). Eye movements in pedophiles: Automatic and controlled attentional processes while viewing prepubescent stimuli. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122(2), 587-599. doi: 10.1037/a0030659 in combination with

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to evaluate the potential benefits of using empirical investigator-independent parameters for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy evaluation.Jürgen Leo Müller und Norbert Nedopil (2014) Neurowissenschaften in Foro: Hilfreiche Technik oder neue Quelle von Missverständnissen Zeitschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform (2015 in press)Müller, J. L. (2008) Forensische Psychiatrie im Zeitalter der „Neuroscience“: Stand und Perspektive neurobiologischer Forschung bei der Beantwortung forensisch-psychiatrischer Fragestellungen. Nervenarzt 1-8 In 2006, Müller was invited to the Lower Saxony State Court Bückeburg and in 2011 to the Federal Constitutional Court, as an expert regarding negotiations of the privatisation of forensic psychiatric facilities. In 2012, he created an expert report for the Federal Constitutional Court on the issue of "mental disorder" as part of the Therapy Accommodation Act.Müller, J.L. (2012) Die Regelungen der Sicherungsverwahrung im Lichte des Bundesverfassungsgerichtsurteils vom 04.05.2011 in ihren Auswirkungen auf Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. In NK Neue Kriminalpolitik – Forum für Praxis, Recht und Kriminalwissenschaften. Nomosverlag 02: 54-61Müller, J.L., Saimeh, N., Habermeyer, E., Nedopil, N., Falkai, P. (Hrsg). Die Neuregelung der Sicherungsverwahrung. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin Verlag (2012) This acted on the arguments given in the case of K.J. L. Müller, Vom BayUBG zum BayStrUBG: Rückfallprävention zwischen staatlichem Sicherheitsanspruch, Selbstverständnis psychiatrischer Kliniken und individuellen Freiheitsrechten. In: Über die Zerbrechlichkeit der Willensbestimmung. Hrsg. v. J. L. Müller und G. Hajak Springer Verlag: Reihe MedizinRecht (2005): 21-35J. L. Müller, Vom BayUBG zum BayStrUBG: Rückfallprävention zwischen staatlichem Sicherheitsanspruch, Selbstverständnis psychiatrischer Kliniken und individuellen Freiheitsrechten. In: Über die Zerbrechlichkeit der Willensbestimmung. Hrsg. v. J. L. Müller und G. Hajak. Regensburg (Selbstverlag) 2004: 55-77 from 2003 to the question on whether society could be protected from highly dangerous, but in legal sense sane, that is legally responsible people with the help of the Bavarian accommodation law.Müller, J. L., Klein, H. E,, Cording, C. (2002) Missbrauch der Psychiatrie? Konflikte zwischen staatlichem Sicherheitsanspruch und dem Selbstverständnis psychiatrischer Kliniken. Psychiatrische Praxis 8 Bd 28: 446 – 420. Müller researched on the problem of

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(regarding individuals who were detained preemptively even though they might not have gone on to commit a crime) in danger forecasts: The study by Müller et al. on "Recidivism after Final Rejection of a Subsequent Order of Preventive Detention" is continued after including further cases and excerpts from the Federal Central Criminal Register. Catamnesis comprises now a period of 6.5 years and a greater number of cases.Müller, J.L., Haase, K.-A., Stolpmann, G. (2013) Recidivism and characteristics of highly dangerous offenders being released from retrospectively imposed preventive detetntion. Behav. Sci. Law DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2069Müller, J.L., Stolpmann, G., Fromberger, P., Haase, K.-A., Jordan, K. (2012, in press) Legalbewährung nach nicht angeordneter nachträglicher Sicherungsverwahrung – Implikationen für die Neuregelung der Sicherungsverwahrung. Nervenarzt Currently, Müller is involved in the construction and the use of virtual realityFromberger, P., Meyer, P., Kempf, C., Jordan, K., Müller, J.L. Virtual Viewing Time: the relationship between presence and sexual interest. PLOS One (in revision)Fromberger, P., Jordan, K., & Muller, J. L. (2014). Use of virtual reality in forensic psychiatry: A new paradigm? nwendung virtueller Realitäten in der forensischen Psychiatrie: Ein neues Paradigma?Der Nervenarzt, 85(3), 298-303.doi: 10.1007/s00115-013-3904-7 in the diagnosis, treatment and risk assessment in forensic psychiatric patients as well as in dangerous offenders in cooperation with the central facility for preventive detention in Lower Saxony Rosdorf. The projects Virprotect (development of a virtual environment for the treatment of

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perpetrators), ViVT (development of a virtual environment for the objective detection of sexual interest in

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children) and VIRAC (development of virtual environments for the risk assessment of child abuse perpetrators) aimed at the exploration and use of sex offenders. In addition, an appropriate use in the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of violent offenders is being prepared. As head of an interdisciplinary working group, which was launched by the scientific society DGPPN (''The German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics'') interdisciplinary working group, Müller works to achieve a consensus for nationwide minimum standards to be established for psychiatric hospital treatment. These aim at establishing professionally anchored lower limits for financial and human resources and call for science-based recommendations on process, structure and outcome of treatments. The need to improve the quality of treatment in psychiatric hospitals has been shown on several levels: by the decisions on preventive detention of the

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and the

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through the resonance of the public in the event MollathSüddeutsche.de: Fall Mollath - Justizskandal in Bayern
/ref> as well as the hitherto rising numbers of patients in forensic psychiatry.
/ref> In 2014, Müller was charged by the Ministry of Social Affairs Rheinland Pfalz with the development of appropriate quality indicators. By the Ministry of Justice of Austria, he was involved as a member of the working group "dangerousness" in the reform of the law. With the support of the Ministry for Social Affairs of Lower Saxony he initiated a study on long-term accommodated patients in forensic psychiatry (> 10 years accommodation duration). Currently, nationwide nearly one third of forensic patients serves sentences longer than 10 years, thus dismissal barriers will be focused on in particular. Since 2012 Müller has been managing a project funded by the state of Lower Saxony, by the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Asklepios GmbH Niedersachsen on the prevention of sexual abuse (PSM).Schulz, T., Stolpmann, G., & Müller, J. L. (2013). Prävention sexuellen Missbrauchs (PsM): Sexuellen Straftaten vorbeugen. Dtsch Ärztebl International, 12(10), -468-470 Together with P. Briken, Hamburg and M. Rösler, Homburg, Saar, Müller initiated the conference Empirical Research in forensic psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy (EFPPP) in 2010. With the aim of encouraging young scientists to do empirical research on forensically relevant disorders, the Ludwig Meyer Prize, the Herrmann Witter Prize and the Eberhardt Schorsch Prize are awarded.Rösler, M., Müller, J.L., Briken, P.,, Retz-Junginger, P., Retz, W., Philipp-Wiegmann, F. (Hrsg) Empirische Forschung in Forensischer Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychologie EFPPP. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin Verlag: (2014)Briken, P., Müller, J. L., Rösler, M., Rettenberger, M., Klein, V., & Yoon, D. (2013). EFPPP Jahrbuch 2013 - Empirische Forschung in der forensischen Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie. Berlin: MWV Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft.Müller, J.L., Briken, P. Rösler, M., Formberger, P. Jordan, K. (Hrsg) Empirische Forschung in Forensischer Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychologie EFPPP. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin Verlag: (2012) Since 2010 Müller is spokesman of the Boeard of Forensic Psychiatry of DGPPN, Between 2012 and 2014 he was a regular member of the board of the DGPPN. Müller is committed to the development of standards of criminal and civil assessment (Müller and Saimeh). Since 2013 he is Chairman of the certification committee of the DGPPN.

Memberships in scientific organisations

Since 2012 Müller has been acting as speaker of the department of Forensic Psychiatry of the ''German Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology'' (DGPNN) and head of the certification committee of the DGPPN. Müller was appointed co-organiser of the seminar Forensic Psychiatry in Europe in 2012.

Publications

Books (selection): * Saimeh, N., Müller, J. L., Nedopil, N., Habermeyer, E., & Falkai, P. (Hrsg.). (2012). Sicherungsverwahrung-wissenschaftliche Basis und Positionsbestimmung: Was folgt nach dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 04.05. 2011?. Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft. * Müller, J. L. (Hrsg.). (2014). Forensische Begutachtung bei Persönlichkeitsstörungen. Stand und Stellenwert bildgebender Verfahren. Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft. * Rösler, M., Müller, J. L., Briken, P., Retz-Junginger, P., Retz, W., & Philipp-Wiegmann, F. (Hrsg.). (2014). EFPPP Jahrbuch 2014 - Empirische Forschung in Forensischer Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychologie. Berlin: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft. * Müller, J. L., et al. (Hrsg.): Sicherungsverwahrung - wissenschaftliche Basis und Positionsbestimmung. Was folgt nach dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 04.05.2011? MWV Verlag, 2012. * Nedopil, N. & Müller, J.L. Forensische Psychiatrie. 4., überarbeitete Auflage: Thieme 2012 * Nedopil, N., & Müller, J. L. (Hrsg.). Forensische Psychiatrie - Klinik, Begutachtung und Behandlung zwischen Psychiatrie und Recht (4th ed.). Stuttgart: Thieme 2012. * Müller, J.L. (Hrsg.) Neurobiologie forensische relevanter Störungen: Kohlhammer 2010

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