The Robert-Sommer Award is a prize awarded for scientific work done in the field of

schizophrenia Schizophrenia () is a mental disorder characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

research. It has been awarded since 1996 by the Robert-Sommer Research Society. It commemorates Robert Sommer, a German psychiatrist born in Grottkau and first director of the Psychiatric University Hospital in

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. He is remembered for his work in

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.Traditionally the award is given to the recipient during th
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Recipients

* 2023 Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (Mannheim, Germany) * 2016

Barbara Sahakian Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian is an English neuroscientist who is professor of clinical neuropsychology at the department of psychiatry and Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and C ...

Trevor Robbins Trevor William Robbins CBE FRS FMedSci (born 26 November 1949) is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and the former Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Robbins interests are in the fields of cognitive neuro ...

(Cambridge, Great Britain) * 2013

Christos Pantelis Professor Christos Pantelis is an Australian professor of medicine who is the Director of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre. Profile Prof. Christos Pantelis is an Australian of Greek background. He completed his medical degree at the Univ ...

(Melbourne, Australia) * 2010 David A. Lewis (Pittsburgh, United States) * 2008

Shitij Kapur Shitij Kapur is a medical doctor and administrator. He has served as the 21st president and principal of King's College London since 1 June 2021. Previously, he was the dean of the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences and assistant ...

(London, Great Britain) * 2006

Lynn DeLisi Lynn Eleanor DeLisi () is an American psychiatrist known for her research on schizophrenia. She is an attending psychiatrist at the VA Boston Healthcare System and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the editor-in-chief o ...

(New York, United States) * 2004

Uta Frith Dame Uta Frith ( Aurnhammer; born 25 May 1941) is a German-British developmental psychologist and emeritus professor in cognitive development at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University Coll ...

and

Chris Frith Christopher Donald Frith (born 16 March 1942) is a British psychologist and professor emeritus at the Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. He is also an affiliated research worker at the Interacting Minds Centre at Aar ...

(London, Great Britain) * 2002

Daniel Weinberger Daniel R. Weinberger (born 1947) is a professor of psychiatry, neurology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and Director and CEO of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, which opened in 2011. Life He is an alumnus of the Univer ...

(Bethesda, United States) * 2000

Robin Murray Sir Robin MacGregor Murray FRS (born 31 January 1944 in Glasgow) is a British psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatric Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He has treated patients with schizophrenia and bipolar illne ...

(London, Great Britain) * 1998

Nancy Andreasen Nancy Coover Andreasen (born November 11, 1938) is an American neuroscientist and neuropsychiatrist. She currently holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. E ...

(Iowa, United States) * 1996 Timothy Crow (Oxford, Great Britain)

References

Robert Sommer (psychiatrist) Karl Robert Sommer (19 December 1864, in Grodków, Grottkau – 2 February 1937, in Giessen) was a german psychiatrist and genealogist born in Grottkau. He is remembered for his work in experimental psychology. He coined the term „Psychoh ...

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