Digital dementia in the age of new media- Keynote Prof. Dr. Manfred Spitzer - Stiftung Louisenlund

Professor Manfred Spitzer studied medicine, philosophy and psychology at the University of Freiburg in Southern Germany. His first appointment as professor was at the University of Heidelberg, Department of Psychiatry. He has completed three research fellowships (Neurobiology, Psychology and Psychiatry) in the USA at the University of Harvard and the University of Oregon. Since 1997 Professor Spitzer has been the director of the Psychiatric Clinic in Ulm, Bavaria. In 2004 he founded the Transfer Centre for Neuroscience and Learning which carries educational research, evaluates educational institutions, as well as concerning itself with pedagogical development. Manfred Spitzer is the author of a number of bestsellers.