Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Fuß

Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Fuß

LVR-Klinikum Essen
Kliniken/Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen
Institut für Forensische Psychiatrie und Sexualforschung
Postfach 103043
45030 Essen

Johannes.Fuss@uni-due.de

Inga Drachenberg (Secretary):
Tel.: +49 (0) 201 4396636-11
inga.drachenberg@lvr.de

Vita

Since 2022 2nd Chairman of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sexualforschung" (www.dgfs.info)
Since 2021 Director and Professor (W3) at the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2021 Additional qualification in Sexual Medicine from the Hamburg Medical Association (“Ärztekammer Hamburg”)
2018-2021 Senior physician at the Institute of Sexual Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, Head of the Prison Psychiatry Unit and Deputy Head of the Department of Forensic Psychiatry (Head: Prof. Dr. P. Briken)
2018-Present Working Group Leader of the "Human Behavior Laboratory" at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
2016-2018 Researcher at the Institute of Systemic Neuroscience (Head: Prof. Dr. C. Büchel) and at the Institute of Sexual Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry (Head: Prof. Dr. P. Briken)
2016+2017 Visiting Scientist at the University of Cape Town, South Africa with Prof. Dr. D. Stein
2016 Specialist Qualification in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
2014-2016 Resident at the Institute of Sexual Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry (Director: Prof. Dr. P. Briken)
2013-2014 Resident at the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Heidelberg (Director: Prof. Dr. W. Hacke)
2011-2013 Resident at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim (Director: Prof. Dr. A. Meyer-Lindenberg)
2010 Visiting Scientist at Columbia University, New York (USA), with Prof. Dr. C. Kellendonk
2004-2011 Medical studies at the University of Heidelberg

Selected Publications

  • Biedermann, S. V., Asmuth, J., Schröder, J., Briken, P., Auer, M. K., & Fuss, J. (2021). Childhood adversities are common among trans people and associated with adult depression and suicidality. Journal of psychiatric research, 141, 318-324.
  • Siebers, M., Biedermann, S.V., Bindila, L., Lutz, B., Fuss, J. (2021). Exercise-induced euphoria and anxiolysis do not depend on endogenous opioids in humans. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 126, 105173.
  • Fuss, J., Marquardt, I., Briken, P., & Konrad, N. (2021). Zwangsmedikation psychisch erkrankter Menschen im Justizvollzug. Der Nervenarzt, 92(1), 27-35.
  • Fuss, J., Voulgaris, A., & Briken, P. (2020). Schuldfähigkeit bei Personen, die wegen Nutzung von Missbrauchsabbildungen angeklagt sind. Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie, 1-9.
  • Dekker, A., Wenzlaff, F., Biedermann, S. V., Briken, P., & Fuss, J. (2020). VR Porn as “Empathy Machine”? Perception of Self and Others in Virtual Reality Pornography. The Journal of Sex Research, 1-6.
  • Fuss, J., Jais, L., Grey, B. T., Guczka, S. R., Briken, P., & Biedermann, S. V. (2019). Self-reported childhood maltreatment and erotic target identity inversions among men with paraphilic infantilism. Journal of sex & marital therapy, 45(8), 781-795.
  • Fuss, J., Claro, L., Ising, M., Biedermann, S. V., Wiedemann, K., Stalla, G. K., ... & Auer, M. K. (2019). Does sex hormone treatment reverse the sex-dependent stress regulation? A longitudinal study on hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity in transgender individuals. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104, 228-237.
  • Fuss, J., Lemay, K., Stein, D. J., Briken, P., Jakob, R., Reed, G. M., & Kogan, C. S. (2019). Public stakeholders’ comments on ICD‐11 chapters related to mental and sexual health. World Psychiatry, 18(2), 233.
  • Klein, V., Briken, P., Schröder, J., & Fuss, J. (2019). Mental health professionals’ pathologization of compulsive sexual behavior: Does clients’ gender and sexual orientation matter?. Journal of abnormal psychology, 128(5), 465.
  • Fuss, J., Briken, P., Stein, D. J., & Lochner, C. (2019). Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in obsessive–compulsive disorder: Prevalence and associated comorbidity. Journal of behavioral addictions, 8(2), 242-248.
  • Fuss, J., Briken, P., & Klein, V. (2018). Gender bias in clinicians’ pathologization of atypical sexuality: a randomized controlled trial with mental health professionals. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1-9.
  • Fuss, J., Bindila, L., Wiedemann, K., Auer, M. K., Briken, P., & Biedermann, S. V. (2017). Masturbation to orgasm stimulates the release of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol in humans. The journal of sexual medicine, 14(11), 1372-1379.
  • Biedermann, S. V., Biedermann, D. G., Wenzlaff, F., Kurjak, T., Nouri, S., Auer, M. K., ... & Fuss, J. (2017). An elevated plus-maze in mixed reality for studying human anxiety-related behavior. BMC biology, 15(1), 1-13.
  • Fuss, J., Dressing, H., & Briken, P. (2015). Neurogenetic evidence in the courtroom: a randomised controlled trial with German judges. Journal of medical genetics, 52(11), 730-737.
  • Fuss, J., Steinle, J., Bindila, L., Auer, M. K., Kirchherr, H., Lutz, B., & Gass, P. (2015). A runner’s high depends on cannabinoid receptors in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(42), 13105-13108.
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