Prof. Dr. Herta Flor

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPersonality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
KeywordsPsychobiologische und interdisziplinäre (psychol.), Behandlung von chronischen Schmerzen, ..., Psychobiologie der Angststörungen (2000), Antisoziale Persönlichkeitsstörung (2000), Drogengedächtnis: Neurophysiol. Grundlagen
Honours and awards

2022: Honorary Membership awarded by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

2019: Honorary doctorate by the Medical Faculty of Aalborg University

2016: John D. Loeser Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the Clinical Science of Pain by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), International Pain Congress, Yokohama, Japan

2015: Honorary doctorate by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2015: Koselleck Award of the German Research Foundation

2014: Lifetime Achievement Award by the German Psychological Association

2008: Fellow at the Marsilius Kolleg (Center for Advanced Study) at the Heidelberg University, Germany

2008: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

2005: Chair person at the 11th IASP World Congress on Pain, Sydney, Australia

2004: Award for Basic Research of the State of Baden-Württemberg

2004: Member of the Academia Europaea

2003: Research Award of the German Society for Neurotraumatology and Clinical Neuropsychology

2002: German Psychology Award

2001: Max-Planck-Award for Basic Research and International Cooperation

2001: Muscle Pain Research Award of the International Myopain Society

2000: Research Award of the German Society for the Study of Pain

1999: Sertürner Award for Pain Research

1996: Prize for Clinical Research of the SmithKline-Beecham Foundation

1995: Member of the Claude Bernard Club of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

1992: Research Award of the German Society for the Study of Pain

1991: Heisenberg Career Development Award, German Research Foundation

1991: Member of the Research Committee of the International Association for the Study of Pain

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityMannheim
InstitutionZentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit (ZI)
InstituteInstitut für Neuropsychologie und Klinische Psychologie

Host during sponsorship

Start of initial sponsorship01/12/1997

Programme(s)

2000Max Planck Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

1999Bruno Kopp, Annett Kunkel, Werner Mühlnickel, Kersten Villringer, Edward Taub, Herta Flor: Plasticity in the motor system related to therapy-induced improvement of movement after stroke. In: NeuroReport, 1999, 807-810
1998Werner Mühlnickel, Thomas Elbert, Edward Taub, Herta Flor: Reorganization of auditory cortex in tinnitus. In: Psychology, 1998, 10340-10343
1997Niels Birbaumer, Werner Lutzenberger, Pedro Montoya, Wolfgang Larbig, Klaus Unertl, Stephanie Töpfer, Wolfgang Grodd, Edward Taub, Herta Flor: Effects of Regional Anestesia on Phantom Limb Pain Are Mirrored in Changes in Cortical Reorganization. In: The Journal of Neuroscience, 1997, 5503-5508
1997Pedro Montoya, Wolfgang Larbig, Norbert Grulke, Herta Flor, Edward Taub, Niels Birbaumer: The relationship of phantom limb pain to other phantom limb phenomena in upper extremity amputees. In: Pain, 1997, 87-93
1995Herta Flor, Thomas Elbert, S. Knecht, C. Wienbruch, Christo Pantev, N. Birbaumer, W. Larbig, Edward Taub: Phantom-limb pain as a perceptual correlate of cortical reorganization following arm amputation. In: Nature , 1995, 482-484