Michael Landgrebe MD, PhD

Michael Landgrebe is a Deputy Director of kbo-Lech-Mangfall-Kliniken gGmbH and Chief Physician of kbo-Lech-Mangfall-Klinik Agatharied. In 2018 and again in 2020, Prof. Dr. Michael Landgrebe was named a top physician in the field of schizophrenia by Focus Gesundheit magazine. In addition to clinics and hospitals, every year the top physicians from various disciplines in Germany are included in a current list of doctors as the best in their field. Professor Dr. Michael Landgrebe has been chief physician at the kbo-LMK in Agatharied since 2014 and has also been working as a specialist at the kbo-Medizinischen Versorgungszentrum Bad Tölz gGmbH since 2018. Previously, since 2003, the doctor worked as a senior physician and staff physician at the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg. As part of his duties, Professor Landgrebe set up and managed the depression ward at the University of Regensburg.

In March 2012, he moved to the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy at the Bamberg Social Foundation as a senior physician, where he also took over the management of the Neurostimulation Center. His clinical and scientific work focuses on neurostimulation methods such as transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroconvulsive therapy, as well as on investigating the neurobiological basis of somatoform disorders using chronic tinnitus and electrosensitivity as examples, which was also the subject of his habilitation thesis. He has been involved in a wide variety of research activities for years, including being a founding member of the German Society for Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry and being closely involved in the activities of the Tinnitus Research Initiative from day one, where he is the head of an international working group with the aim of better clinical characterization of chronic tinnitus. In the field of schizophrenia research, he has been involved as a study leader in a wide variety of clinical studies in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich. Clinical focuses include the treatment of affective and schizophrenic disorders as well as psychosomatic disorders such as chronic tinnitus, depressive exhaustion, etc. In addition to modern, evidence-based psychopharmacology and psychotherapy, non-invasive stimulation methods such as transcranial magnetic stimulation and other biologically oriented therapy methods represent essential pillars of treatment.