Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Gerhard Bühringer
Senior Professor
Contact information
School of Science, Faculty of Psychology
Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Work Group Addictive Behaviors, Risk Analysis and Risk Management
Technische Universität Dresden
Chemnitzer Straße 46, 01187 Dresden
Phone: +49 (0)351 463-39828
E-Mail:
Research Statement
Gerhard Bühringer has longstanding experience in the field of addiction research, including substance use disorders and behavioral addictions such as gambling disorder. His work comprises clinical research (treatment of alcohol, cannabis and heroin use disorders and gambling disorder), epidemiology (national adult population surveys including substance use and gambling disorders ), public health research (e.g. gambling regulation; treatment system analyses) and in recent years basic research on the role of cognitive control and learning in the aetiopathology of addictive behaviours.
Scientific Education
| 1981 | Dr. rer. soc., Eberhard Karls University Tübingen |
| 1973 | Diploma in Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich |
Professional Experience
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Since 2016 |
Senior Professor, Director Work Group Addictive Behaviors, Risk Analysis and Risk Management, Technische Universität Dresden |
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2005 – 2016 |
Professor for Addiction Research, Technische Universität Dresden |
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2000 – 2005 |
Visiting Professor, University Konstanz |
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1973 – 2012 |
Director, IFT Institut für Therapieforschung, Munich |
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1973 – 1987 |
Head, Project Group „Substance Dependence“, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich |
Other Scientific Activities, Honors, Awards
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2017 |
Diotima Award of the German Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists |
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2014 – 2016 |
President, International Organisation of Alcohol, Tobacco, other Drugs and Behavioural Addictions Research Association (ICARA) |
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2010 - 2015 |
Member Steering Committee, S3-Treatment Guidelines for Substance Use Disorders |
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2008 – 2015 |
Director, European Graduate School in Addiction Research (ESADD), Technische Universität Dresden & Dresden International University |
| 2008- 2019 |
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, European Monitory Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon (EMCDDA) (2014-2017 Chairman) |
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2004 – 2010 |
Board Member, International Society for Addiction Journal Editors (President 2006-2008) |
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2001 – 2008 |
Member, Board of Directors, BMBF Addiction Research Program ASAT (2001-2008) |
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1997 – 2003 |
Board member, Bayerische Akademie für Suchtfragen in Forschung und Praxis BAS e.V. |
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1993 – 1995 |
Chairman, Expert group for the development of standards for methadone maintenance in Germany |
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1993 |
Founding member of the European Association of Substance Abuse Research (EASAR); Board member from 2000 to 2010 |
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Since 1990 |
Reviewer, national and international research organizations (BMG, BMBF, DFG, EU, EMCDDA) |
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1987 – 1989 |
Chairman, WHO-Expert Committee, Study on early intervention in drug abuse careers, Munich |
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1982 – 1994 |
Board Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Suchtforschung und Therapie e.V. |
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1982 – 1984 |
Chairman, Committee for the Development/Revision (1989 – 1991) of Follow-up Standards, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Suchtforschung und Therapie e.V. |
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1980 – 1985 |
Member, Governmental German-American Joint Program for Future Cooperation in the Field of Control of Drug and Narcotics Abuse |
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Since 1980 |
Chairman, co-chairmen or board member of about 15 scientific conferences |
Selected Publications
Kräplin, A., Höfler, M., Pooseh, S., Wolff, M., Krönke, K.-M., Goschke, T., Bühringer, G. & Smolka, M. N. (2020). Impulsive decision-making predicts the course of substance-related and addictive disorders. Psychopharmacology. doi:10.1007/s00213-020-05567-z
Bühringer, G., Czernecka, R., Kotter, R. & Kräplin, A. (2019). Zur Relevanz der Merkmale von Spielstätten für die Regulierung des Glücksspielens am Beispiel der Geldspielgeräte. In J. Krüper (Eds.), Strukturfragen der Glücksspielregulierung (S. 47-72). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Kräplin, A., Scherbaum, S., Bühringer, G., & Goschke, T. (2019). Decision-making and inhibitory control after smoking-related priming in nicotine dependent smokers and never-smokers. Addictive Behaviors, 88, 114-121. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.08.020
Kräplin, A., Scherbaum, S., Bühringer, G., Goschke, T., & Schmidt, A. (2018). Negative interpersonal scenes decrease inhibitory control in healthy individuals but not in gambling disorder patients. International Gambling Studies, 18(2), 178-194. doi:10.1080/14459795.2018.1448426
Krönke, K.-M., Wolff, M., Mohr, H., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G. & Goschke, T. (2018). Monitor yourself! Deficient error-related brain activity predicts real-life self-control failures. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(4), 622-637. doi: 10.3758/s13415-018-0593-5
Bühringer, G., Kotter, R. & Kräplin, A. (2017). Ätiologie von Glücksspielstörungen - Implikationen für den Verbraucherschutz. In J. Krüper (Hrsg.), Zertifizierung und Akkreditierung als Instrumente qualitativer Glücksspielregulierung (S. 35-57). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Wolff, M., Krönke, K.-M., Venz, J., Kräplin, A., Bühringer, G., Smolka, M. N., & Goschke, T. (2016). Action versus state orientation moderates the impact of executive functioning on real-life self-control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1635–1653. doi: 10.1037/xge0000229
Braun, B., Kräplin, A., & Bühringer, G. (2014). Verhaltensprävention von pathologischem Glücksspielen. In K. Mann (Ed.), Verhaltenssüchte - Grundlagen, Diagnostik, Therapie, Prävention (pp. 177-193). Heidelberg: Springer.
Bühringer, G., Wittchen, H.-U., Gottlebe, K., Kufeld, C. & Goschke, T. (2008). Why people change? The role of cognitive control processes in the onset and cessation of substance abuse disorders. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 17(S1), S4-S15.