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Dr. Anja Westram

Research Scientist

Harding Center for Risk Literacy and
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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+49 (0)30 824 06 292
Fax: +49 (0)30 824 06 394
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Curriculum Vitae

Anja Westram is a research scientist who has been working at the Harding Center for Risk Literacy since April 2011. She is working on a project funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) on the cognitive strategies of general practitioners in primary care. Her research focuses on processes of medical decision making, in particular the cognitive rules potentially underlying it.
The project is being conducted in cooperation with the Department of General Medicine, Philipps-Universität Marburg.


Since 2011

Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin, Germany
2009–2011 Research Scientist at the University of Luebeck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Luebeck, Germany
2009 Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technologies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2008 Diplom in psychology (equivalent to Master's Degree), Free University Berlin

Selected Publications

Linden M., Westram A. (2011) What do psychiatrists talk about with their depressed patients parallel to prescribing an antidepressant? International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. Vol.15(1), 35-41.

Linden M., Westram A. (2010). Prescribing of a sedative antidepressant for patients at work and on sick
leave under conditions of routine care. Pharmacopsychiatry, 43(1),1-6.

Linden M., Westram A., Schmidt L.G., Haag C. (2008). Impact of the WHO depression guideline on patient
care by psychiatrists: A randomized controlled trial. Eur Psychiatry, 23(6), 403- 408.

Linden M., Westram A. (2008). Psychiatric psychotherapy, a specialist treatment additional to
psychotherapy according to health insurance guidelines or general patient counselling. Die Psychiatrie, 5 (4), 282-288.

Westram A., Lloyd J.R., Roessner U., Riesmeier J., Kossmann J. (2002). Increases of 3-phosphoglyceric
acid in potato plants through antisense reduction of cytoplasmic phosphoglycerate mutase impair
photosynthesis and growth, but does not increase starch contents. Plant, Cell and Environm., 25, 16-22.