Prof. Dr. Frank Jessen
Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Jessen is deputy director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the psychiatric head of the interdisciplinary Clinial Research Center for Neurodegenera- tive Diseases (KBFZ) at the University Hopital Bonn.
German Center for Neurodegnerative Diseases(DZNE)
Sigmund-Freud-Straße 25
53105 Bonn
frank.jessen(at)dzne.de
+49 (0) 228 / 287-11109
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Areas of investigation/research focus
The main topics of Frank Jessen’s dementia related research are early disease recognition with focus on neuroimaging and clinical treatment trials.
He is an investigator in the German Study on Aging Cognition and Dementia (AgeCoDe) that focuses on dementia prediction and risk factor identification in a multicenter longitudinal cohort of elderly individuals (n>3000).
Selected Publications (2009-2011)
Evidence of neuronal compensation during episodic memory in subjective memory impairment
Erk S, Spottke A, Meisen A, Wagner M, Walter H, Jessen F; Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011 Aug;68(8):845-52. PubMed PMID: 21810648.
Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: academic, industry and regulatory perspectives
Hampel H, Frank R, Broich K, Teipel SJ, Katz RG, Hardy J, Herholz K, Bokde AL, Jessen F, Hoessler YC, Sanhai WR, Zetterberg H, Woodcock J, Blennow K.; Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2010 Jul;9(7):560-74. Review. PubMed PMID: 20592748.
German Study on Aging, Cognition and Dementia in Primary Care Patients Study Group. Prediction of dementia by subjective memory impairment: effects of severity and temporal association with cognitive impairment
Jessen F, Wiese B, Bachmann C, Eifflaender-Gorfer S, Haller F, Kölsch H, Luck T, Mösch E, van den Bussche H, Wagner M, Wollny A, Zimmermann T, Pentzek M, Riedel-Heller SG, Romberg HP, Weyerer S, Kaduszkiewicz H, Maier W, Bickel H; Arch Gen Psychiatry.2010 Apr;67(4):414-22. PubMed PMID: 20368517.
A multicenter (1)H-MRS study of the medial temporal lobe in AD and MCI
Jessen F, Gür O, Block W, Ende G, Frölich L, Hammen T, Wiltfang J, Kucinski T,
Jahn H, Heun R, Maier W, Kölsch H, Kornhuber J, Träber F; Neurology. 2009 May
19;72(20):1735-40. PubMed PMID: 19451528.