Professional Background - Education and Past Positions

 

1976-1982:University of Athens, School of Dentistry

1984-1988: University of Ioannina, School of Medicine
1988-1989: Obligatory Service, Platanos-Nafpaktos, Greece
1989-1990: Resident, Department of Neurology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
1990-1993: Resident, Department of Psychiatry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
1994-2000: Private Practice
2000-2008: Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
2008-2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
2010-2014: Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
2014- Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Clinical Skills - First Aid (Semester: 2nd)
• Psychiatry (Semester: 7th)
• Psychology (Clinical Training) (Semester: 9th & 10th)

Selected Publications

1. S Beratis, P Gourzis, J Gabriel. Anniversary reaction as seasonal mood disorders. Psychopathology, 27:14-18, 1994
2. S Beratis, P Gourzis, J Gabriel. Psychological factors in the development of mood disorders with a seasonal pattern. Psychopathology, 29:331-339, 1996
3. S Beratis, A Katrivanou, P Gourzis. Factors affecting smoking in schizophrenia. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 42:393-402, 2001
4. S Torres, E Leroy, X Hu, A Katrivanou, P Gourzis, A Papachadjopoulou, A Athanasiadou, S Beratis, D Collier, M Polymeropoulos. Mutation screening of the Wolfram syndrome gene in psychiatric patients. Molecular Psychiatry, 6:39-43, 2001
5. P Gourzis, A Katrivanou, S Beratis. Symptomatology of the initial prodromal phase in the schizophrenia subtypes. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 28:415-429, 2002
6. P Gourzis, P Polychronopoulos, S Papapetropoulos, K Assimakopoulos, AA Argyriou, S Beratis. Quetiapine in the treatment of focal tardive dystonia induced by other atypical antipsychotics: a report of 2 cases. Clinical Neuropharmacology, 28(4):195-196, 2005
7. S Beratis, A Katrivanou, S Georgiou, A Monastirli, E Pasmatzi, P Gourzis, D Tsambaos. Major depression and risk of depressive symptomatology associated with short-term and low-dose interferon-a treatment. Journal Psychosomatic Research, 58(1):15-18, 2005
8. P Polychronopoulos, AA Argyriou, V Sirrou, V Huliara, M Aplada, P Gourzis, A Economou, E Terzis, E Chroni. Lunar phases and seizure occurrence: just an ancient legend? Neurology, 66(3):1442-1443, 2006
9. P Polychronopoulos, AA Argyriou, V Huliara, V Sirrou, P Gourzis, E Chroni. Factors associated with poor compliance of patients with epilepsy driving restriction. Neurology, 67(5):869-871, 2006
10. Papapetropoulos S, Argyriou AA, Polychronopoulos P, Spyridonidis T, Gourzis P, Chroni E. Frontotemporal and striatal SPECT abnormalities in myoclonus-dystonia: phenotypic and pathogenetic considerations. Neurodegener Disorders, 5(6):355-358, 2008
11. Stathopoulou A, Christopoulos P, Soubasi E, Gourzis P. Personality characteristics and disorders in multiple sclerosis patients: Assessment and treatment. International Review Psychiatry, 22(1):43-54, 2010
12. Moukas G, Gourzis P, Beratis IN, Beratis S. Sex differences in prepsychotic “prodromal” symptomatology and its association with positive and negative syndrome scale active phase psychopathology in male and female patients. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 51(5):546-551, 2010
13. Alexopoulos P, Ebert A, Richter-Schmidinger T, Schöll E, Natale B, Aguilar, CA, Gourzis P, Kurnhuber J. Validation of the german revised addenbrooke’s cognitive examination for detecting mild cognitive impairment, mild dementia in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Dem & Ger Cogn Dis, 29(5):448-456, 2010
14. Moukas G, Stathopoulou A, Gourzis P, Beratis IN, Beratis S. Relationship of “prodromal” symptoms with severity and type of psychopathlogy in the active phase of schizophrenia. Compr Psychiatry, 51(1):1-7, 2010
15. Skokou M, Katrivanou A, Andriopoulos I, Gourzis P. Active and prodromal phase symptomatology of young-onset and late-onset paranoid schizophrenia. Revi Psych y Sal Mental, 5(3):150-159, 2012

 

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