Philipp Homan

Philipp Homan, PhD, Prof. Dr. med. univ.

Deputy Director
Head - Center for Acute Psychotic Disorders
Group Leader

Phone: +41 (0)58 384 22 26

Curriculum vitae

Philipp is a member of the medical faculty at the University of Zurich and Deputy Director of the University Hospital of Psychiatry, where he also serves as Chief Physician (Stv. Klinikdirektor und Chefarzt). He chairs Fachbereich 4 (Clinical Neurosciences and Psychiatry) within the faculty and leads the Homan-Lab at the Neuroscience Center Zurich.

Philipp studied business and computer science at the Technical University and medicine at the Medical University of Vienna. He completed his residency in psychiatry with Werner Strik and earned a PhD in clinical neuroscience with Thomas Dierks at the University of Bern, where he also led the Brain Stimulation Unit as attending physician. He then spent several years in New York, first as a postdoctoral fellow with Daniela Schiller at Mount Sinai, and later as faculty at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and the Zucker School of Medicine. He returned to Switzerland to take up his current clinical and academic roles in Zurich.

His research combines theory- and data-driven approaches to the study of severe mental illness, particularly psychosis. His group integrates cognitive neuroscience and data science to study language, thought, and decision processes in psychiatric disorders. Philipp serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including the British Journal of Psychiatry and BMC Medicine. His work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC).

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2019
- Kunzelmann, K., Grieder, M., Van Swam, C., Homan, P., Winkelbeiner, S., Hubl, D., & Dierks, T. (2019). Am I hallucinating or is my fusiform cortex activated? Functional activation differences in schizophrenia patients with and without hallucinations European Journal of Psychiatry, 33, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpsy.2018.06.002

2018
- Hu, J., Wang, W., Homan, P., Wang, P., Zheng, X., & Schiller, D. (2018). Author Correction: Reminder duration determines threat memory modification in humans Scientific Reports, 8, 17777. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36665-w
- Winkelbeiner, S., Cavelti, M., Federspiel, A., Kunzelmann, K., Dierks, T., Strik, W., Horn, H., & Homan, P. (2018). Decreased blood flow in the right insula and middle temporal gyrus predicts negative formal thought disorder in schizophrenia Schizophrenia Research, 201, 432–434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2018.06.009
- Cavelti, M., Winkelbeiner, S., Federspiel, A., Walther, S., Stegmayer, K., Giezendanner, S., Laimböck, K., Dierks, T., Strik, W., Horn, H., & Homan, P. (2018). Formal thought disorder is related to aberrations in language-related white matter tracts in patients with schizophrenia Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 279, 40–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.05.011
- Cavelti, M., Kircher, T., Nagels, A., Strik, W., & Homan, P. (2018). Is formal thought disorder in schizophrenia related to structural and functional aberrations in the language network? A systematic review of neuroimaging findings Schizophrenia Research, 199, 2–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2018.02.051
- Hu, J., Wang, W., Homan, P., Wang, P., Zheng, X., & Schiller, D. (2018). Reminder duration determines threat memory modification in humans Scientific Reports, 8, 8848. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27252-0
- Winkelbeiner, S., Suker, S., Bachofner, H., Eisenhardt, S., Steinau, S., Walther, S., Federspiel, A., Dierks, T., Strik, W., & Homan, P. (2018). Targeting Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms With rTMS and Perfusion Imaging American Journal of Psychiatry, 175, 81–83. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17060634

2017
- Homan, P., Lin, Q., Murrough, J. W., Soleimani, L., Bach, D. R., Clem, R. L., & Schiller, D. (2017). Prazosin during threat discrimination boosts memory of the safe stimulus Learning & Memory, 24, 597–601. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.045898.117
- Homan, P., Reddan, M. C., Brosch, T., Koenigsberg, H. W., & Schiller, D. (2017). Aberrant link between empathy and social attribution style in borderline personality disorder Journal of Psychiatric Research, 94, 163–171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.07.012
- Homan, P., Ely, B. A., Yuan, M., Brosch, T., Ng, J., Trope, Y., & Schiller, D. (2017). Aversive smell associations shape social judgment Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, 86–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.07.004

2016
- Homan, P., & Schiller, D. (2016). Neuroscience: This Is Not a Spider Current Biology, 26, R898–R900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.037
- Cavelti, M., Homan, P., & Vauth, R. (2016). The impact of thought disorder on therapeutic alliance and personal recovery in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: An exploratory study Psychiatry Research, 239, 92–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.02.070

2015
- Kindler, J., Jann, K., Homan, P., Hauf, M., Walther, S., Strik, W., Dierks, T., & Hubl, D. (2015). Static and dynamic characteristics of cerebral blood flow during the resting state in schizophrenia Schizophrenia Bulletin, 41, 163–170. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbt180
- Homan, P., Grob, S., Milos, G., Schnyder, U., Eckert, A., Lang, U., & Hasler, G. (2015). The role of BDNF, leptin, and catecholamines in reward learning in bulimia nervosa International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 18, pyu092. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyu092

2014
- Homan, P., Drevets, W. C., & Hasler, G. (2014). The effects of catecholamine depletion on the neural response to fearful faces in remitted depression International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 17, 1419–1428. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1461145714000339
- Homan, P., Vermathen, P., Van Swam, C., Federspiel, A., Boesch, C., Strik, W., Dierks, T., Hubl, D., & Kreis, R. (2014). Magnetic resonance spectroscopy investigations of functionally defined language areas in schizophrenia patients with and without auditory hallucinations NeuroImage, 94, 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.009
- Woodward, T. S., Jung, K., Hwang, H., Yin, J., Taylor, L., Menon, M., Peters, E., Kuipers, E., Waters, F., Lecomte, T., Sommer, I. E., Daalman, K., van Lutterveld, R., Hubl, D., Kindler, J., Homan, P., Badcock, J. C., Chhabra, S., Cella, M., … Erickson, D. (2014). Symptom dimensions of the psychotic symptom rating scales in psychosis: a multisite study Schizophrenia Bulletin, 40, S265–S274. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu014
- Homan, P., Drevets, W. C., & Hasler, G. (2014). Neural correlates of free T3 alteration after catecholamine depletion in subjects with remitted major depressive disorder and in controls Psychopharmacology, 231, 409–417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-013-3250-2

2013
- Homan, P., Drevets, W. C., & Hasler, G. (2013). Growth hormone response to catecholamine depletion in unmedicated, remitted subjects with major depressive disorder and healthy controls Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 33, 621–626. https://doi.org/10.1097/JCP.0b013e31829a8284
- Kindler, J., Homan, P., Flury, R., Strik, W., Dierks, T., & Hubl, D. (2013). Theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations: results of a randomized controlled study Psychiatry Research, 209, 114–117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2013.03.029

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Philipp Homan, PhD, Prof. Dr. med. univ.

Curriculum vitae

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

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