Stephan Heckers, M.D., M.Sc.
Chairman
James G. Blakemore Chair of Psychiatry and Professor of Radiology
Stephan.Heckers@Vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Stephan Heckers joined the Vanderbilt faculty as Chair of Psychiatry in 2006. He studies the neural basis of psychiatric disorders and is particularly interested in the disease mechanisms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is the Associate Editor of the Archives of General Psychiatry and member of the Scientific Council of NARSAD.
Education
M.D., University of Bonn, Germany
M.Sc. in Clinical Investigation, Harvard University
Postgraduate Training
Intern in Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Resident in Adult Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Clinical Expertise
Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder
Research interests
Psychosis, Neuroimaging, Neuroanatomy
Representative publications
1. Ongur D, Cullen TJ, Wolf DH, Rohan M, Barreira P, Zalesak M, Heckers S (2006). The neural basis of relational memory deficits in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 63, 356-65. [pubmed]
2. Heckers S, Zalesak M, Weiss AP, Ditman T, Titone D (2004). Hippocampal activation during transitive inference in humans. Hippocampus 14,153-162. [pubmed]
3. Heckers S, Stone D, Walsh J, Shick J, Koul P, Benes FM (2002). Differential hippocampal expression of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 and 67messenger RNA in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 59, 521-529. [pubmed]
4. Heckers S, Rauch SL, Goff D, Savage CR, Schacter DL, Fischman AJ, Alpert NM (1998). Impaired recruitment of the hippocampus during conscious recollection in schizophrenia. Nature Neuroscience 1,318-323. [pubmed]
5. Heckers S, Heinsen H, Geiger B, Beckmann H (1991). Hippocampal neuron number in schizophrenia. A stereological study. Archives of General Psychiatry 48,1002-1008. [pubmed]
