Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

Hannover Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Socialpsychiatry and Psychotherapy Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1 30625 Hannover Website Link
Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. med Kirsten Müller-Vahl Phone: 0511 532-5258 Fax: 0511 532-3187 Email: Mueller-Vahl.Kirsten@mh-hannover.de
Clinical Staff: Carolin Fremer Phone: 0511 532-5524 Email: Fremer.Carolin@mh-hannover.de
Bettina Baltin Phone: 0511 532-19313 Email: Baltin.Bettina@mh-hannover.de

Institute Description

The Hannover Medical School (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, MHH), founded in 1965, is one of the world’s leading university medical centres. Due to its interdisciplinary research MHH has strong collaborative links with many academic and industrial research organizations worldwide. At the Clinic of Psychiatry, Socialpsychiatry and Psychotherapy, in 1994 a specialised outpatient department was established for the diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from Tourette’s syndrome (TS) and other tic disorders. During the last years, more than 1.500 patients have been investigated at our centre. Today, it is the largest Tourette syndrome clinic in Germany. Several clinical trials in Tourette syndrome have been conducted during the last years, including national and international co-operations.

Short profile of group

Prof. Kirsten Müller-Vahl is a Professor of Psychiatry and a specialist in both general psychiatry and neurology. Since 1995, she is the head of the Tourette syndrome (TS) outpatient department at her clinic, the largest specialist Tourette clinic in Germany. She is the vice president of the European Society for the Study of Tourette syndrome (ESSTS) and is involved in several national, European and international scientific projects related to TS including EMTICS, TS-EUROTRAIN, and GWAS. Her special interest is in different clinical aspects, treatment and neuroimaging studies in TS patients. There is a close cooperation with several associated clinics and institutes at her university clinic. She is the author of several scientific papers, review articles and national and international guideline papers related to different aspects of TS.

Carolin Fremer, M.Sc., psychological psychotherapist, studied psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena and Martin-Luther University of Halle, Germany. Since 2016 she is part of Prof. Dr. Kristen Müller-Vahl’s outpatient clinic for Tourette syndrome and is involved in two international projects on genetic and enviornmental susceptibility factors of tic disorders, TIC Genetics and EMTICS.

Bettina Baltin studied nursing in Cottbus, Germany and has been working for the clinic of psychiatry at Hannover Medical School for 25 years. As former head of the addiction ward, she assisted in several (multi-centre) studies in addiction medicine. Since 2018, she is part of Prof. Dr. Kristen Müller-Vahl’s outpatient unit for Tourette syndrome and is involved in the international project on genetic factors of tic disorders TIC genetics.