Team

Werdegang

2022- 2024: Director of Clinical Trials, Carolina Center for Neurostimulation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

2015 - 2021: Facharztweiterbildung Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen

2012-2013: Auslandsstudium Brown University, Rhode Island, USA

2007-2014: Studium der Humanmedizin Universität Tübingen

Wissenschaftliche Schwerpunkte

Nicht-invasive Hirnstimulation zur Behandlung von Angst, Depression, akustischen Halluzinationen, kognitiven Störungen (TMS, tDCS, tACS, closed-loop)

Durchführung randomisiert kontrollierter Studien zur Anwendung nicht-invasiver Hirnstimulation (multizentrisch, Industrie gesponsert)

Messung und Modulation von oszillatorischer und aperiodischer Hirnaktivität (EEG)

Arbeitsgedächtnistraining bei Schizophrenie und im Alter

Implizite Assoziation bei Alkoholabhängigkeit

Neurophysiologische Effekte von Esketamine

Preise und Auszeichnungen

• 2025 LIPPS – Junior Research Award
• 2024 Society of Biological Psychiatry Travel Award
• 2023 Innovative Young Investigator in Brain Stimulation Award
• 2019 World Psychiatry Association Early Career Psychiatrists Fellowship
• 2018 Posterblitz Award, German Society of Neurophysiology  

Publikationen

• Schwippel, T., Schroeder, P. A., Philipp, J., Weller, S., & Plewnia, C. (2025). Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Does Not Change Implicit Associations Against Alcohol in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Preregistered Clinical Trial. Addiction Biology, 30(3), e70029.

• Schwippel, T., Pupillo, F., Feldman, Z., Walker, C., Townsend, L., Rubinow, D., Frohlich, F. (2024). Closed-loop transcranial alternating current stimulation for the treatment of major depressive disorder: An open-label pilot study. American Journal of Psychiatry, appi-ajp.

• Schwippel, T., Schroeder, P. A., Hasan, A., & Plewnia, C. (2022). Implicit measures of alcohol approach and drinking identity in alcohol use disorder: A preregistered double‐blind randomized trial with cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Addiction Biology, 27(4), e13180.

• Schroeder, P. A., Schwippel, T., Wolz, I., & Svaldi, J. (2020). Meta-analysis of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on inhibitory control. Brain stimulation, 13(5), 1159-1167.

• Papazova, I., Strube, W., Wienert, A., Henning, B., Schwippel, T., Fallgatter, A. J., […] & Hasan, A. (2020). Effects of 1 mA and 2 mA transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory performance in healthy participants. Consciousness and Cognition, 83, 102959.

• Schwippel, T., Schroeder, P. A., Fallgatter, A. J., & Plewnia, C. (2019). Clinical review: The therapeutic use of theta-burst stimulation in mental disorders and tinnitus. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 92, 285-300.

• Schwippel, T., Papazova, I., Strube, W., Fallgatter, A. J., Hasan, A., & Plewnia, C. (2018). Beneficial effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on spatial working memory in patients with schizophrenia. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 28(12), 1339-1350.