von Steinbüchel-Rheinwall, Nicole, Prof. Dr.
Professor, Director of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology
2005 Director of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Georg August University of Göttingen
since 2004 editor of the series „Psychomed Compact“, UTB textbooks series
2004-2005 Member of the board and vice-treasurer of the Academia Multidisciplinaria Neurotraumatologica
2004 Director of the Department of Medical Psychology, Georg August University of Göttingen
2001-2005 Member of the board of the Swiss Society of Psychology
2001 Associate Professor of Gerontopsychology at Geneva University and Head of the Department of Neurogerontopsychology at the Unit of Psychogeriatrics at Geneva University Hospital
1999 Professor of the Dorothea-Erxleben Foundation, Magdeburg University
since 1998 editorship of the section „Quality of life and disease coping“of the „Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie“
1998-2002 Vice-chairperson of the German Society of Medical Psychology
1993 Professor of Medical Psychology, Institute of Medical Psychology (IMP), Munich University (LMU)
Major Research Interests
Medical Psychology
• Cross-cultural Outcome
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Neuropsychology
• Quality and communication improvement in medicine
Medical Sociology
• Assessment of the Consequences of Technology in Medicine
• Professionalisation
Homepage Department/Research Group
http://www.medpsych.med.uni-goettingen.de/
Selected Recent Publications
Bruggimann L, Annoni JM, Staub F, v. Steinbüchel N, van der Linden M, Bogousslavsky J (2006) Chronic posttraumatic stress symptoms after nonsevere stroke. Neurology 66(4), 513-516
v Steinbüchel N, Lischetzke T, Gurny M, Eid M (2006) Assessing quality of life in older people: Psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF. European Journal of Ageing 3, 116-122
v Steinbüchel N, Petersen C, Bullinger M, and the QOLIBRI Group (2005) Assessment of health-related quality of life in persons after traumatic brain injury – development of the Qolibri, a specific measure. Acta Neurochirurgica 93, 43-49
v Steinbüchel N, Richter S, Morawetz C, Riemsma R (2005) Assessment of subjective health and health-related quality of life in persons with acquired or degenerative brain injury. Current Opinion in Neurology 18, 681-691
Wittmann M, Burtscher A, Freis W, von Steinbüchel N (2004) Effects of brain-lesion size and location on temporal-order judgement. Neuroreport, 15 (15): 2401-2405
Kagerer F, Wittmann M, Szelag E, v. Steinbüchel N (2002) Cortical involvement in temporal reproduction: Evidence for differential roles of the hemispheres. Neuropsychologia 40 (3), 357-66
Wittmann M, v. Steinbüchel N, Szelag E (2001) Hemispheric specialisation for self-paced motor sequences. Cognitive Brain Research 10 (3), 341-344
Lotze M, Wittmann M, v. Steinbüchel N, Pöppel E, Roenneberg T (1999) Daily rhythm of temporal resolution in the auditory system. Cortex. 35, 89-100
v Steinbüchel N (1998) Temporal ranges of central nervous processing - clinical evidence. Exp. Brain Research 123, 220-223