Prof. Dr. IE (Iris) Sommer, Visiting professor Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, NorwayMy aim is to improve future perspectives for patients with schizophrenia, a complex disorder, with many different symptoms, most of them only partly understood. So far I have pursued my goal in three ways:
- by optimising currently existing therapies, such as antipsychotic medication and cognitive behavioural therapy
- by investigating re-purposing drugs that have been shown effective in other disorders, such as augmentation with simvastatin, clonidine, prednisolone and selective estrogen receptor modulators
- by better understanding the different symptoms of schizophrenia and designing new treatment strategies based on newly acquired knowledge, such as focal brain stimulation
