Sports psychiatry
Many top athletes are under high pressure and high mental and physical stress. High training load, competitions and constant pressure to succeed are chronic stress factors, which can facilitate mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, sleep or eating disorders. The performance-based environment can make it difficult to admit and seek professional help.
Our special outpatient clinic offers comprehensive psychiatric-psychotherapeutic diagnostics and possibly also therapy to athletes in all performance categories. We are part of a Germany-wide network of university special consultation, which emerged from the Department of Sport Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN). They cooperate with the Robert-Enke-Foundation.
Furthermore, we are intensively involved both clinically and scientifically with the effects of physical activity and sport on the psyche of healthy people and people with mental illnesses. In this context, we conduct clinical and preclinical studies on the relationships between motor function, neuroplasticity and cognition.
Our offer
- A detailed initial diagnostic interview
- Development of individual therapy plans
- If necessary, recommendation of additional diagnostics
- Possibility for inpatient follow-up and clarification of comorbidities
- Participation in clinical trials
Our team
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Gellner
Aileen Sitter
Contact
References
- Mehren A, Diaz Luque C, Brandes M, Lam AP, Thiel CM, Philipsen A, Özyurt J. Intensity-Dependent Effects of Acute Exercise on Executive Function. Neural Plast. 2019 Jun 4;2019:8608317. doi: 10.1155/2019/8608317.
- Mehren A, Özyurt J, Lam AP, Brandes M, Müller HHO, Thiel CM, Philipsen A. Acute Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Executive Function and Attention in Adult Patients With ADHD. Front Psychiatry. 2019 Mar 26;10:132. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00132.
- Gellner AK, Reis J, Holtick C, Schubert C, Fritsch B. Direct current stimulation-induced synaptic plasticity in the sensorimotor cortex: structure follows function. Brain Stimul. 2019 Aug 1. pii: S1935-861X(19)30341-9. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2019.07.026.
