Working Groups of Department Neurology

Research in the department of neurology focuses on risk factors leading to stroke and functional recovery after stroke as well as underlying mechanisms.

As illustrated in the figure the groups can be roughly allocated to the three main research areas "risk factors", "recovery", and "mechanisms". Click on a group to see more details at their website.


Below all groups at the Department are listed. Please note that – beside Max Planck Society and University Hospital Leipzig – several of these groups are funded by “third parties”, i.e., external grants.

The main institutions involved are the Department of Neurology at MPI CBS (MPI-Nro), the Clinic for Cognitive Neurology at the University Hospital Leipzig (Cog-Nro), and the satellite labs at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (M&B) and at the Max Planck Dahlem Campus of Cognition (MPDCC).
The main partner institutions and cooperative center grants are the CRC (SFB) 1052 “Obesity Mechanisms”, the HI-MAG (Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research), the CRC Transregio 295 “Retune”, the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases (LIFE), the Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS) at the University of Leipzig, the Excellence Cluster NeuroCure in Berlin, the Research Training Group (DFG RTG 2386/1) “Extrospection” at the Humboldt University Berlin, and several graduate schools of the Max Planck Society, most notably the Max Planck School of Cognition (MPS Cog) and the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Cognitive Neuroimaging at MPI CBS as well as the IMPRS LIFE, and the IMPRS on Computational Methods in Psychiatry and Ageing Research (IMPRS COMP2PSYCH) at the MPI for Human Development in Berlin (with MPI CBS and University College London).

The main external funding agencies are the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Groups and topics of the Department of Neurology:

Group General Area Institutions Partner Institutions Group Leader(s)
Mind-Body-Emotion Risk Factors MPI-Nro
MPDCC
M&B
MPS Cog
M&B
MPDCC
Michael Gaebler
EGG Lab Risk Factors MPI-Nro
Leipzig University
Julia Sacher
Obesity & Aging (OMEGA Lab) Risk Factors MPI-Nro
Cog-Nro
CRC 1052 Veronica Witte
Heart-Brain Interactions Risk Factors MPI-Nro
Cogn-Nro
M&B
MPS Cog Arno Villringer
Neural Interactions & Dynamics Mechanisms MPI-Nro
Cog-Nro
MPS Cog
Charité
Vadim Nikulin
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Mechanisms Cogn-Nro
MPI-Nro
Matthias Schroeter
Somatosensory Mechanisms MPI-Nro
M&B
MPDCC
MPS Cog
NeuroCure
IMPRS
Arno Villringer
Stroke Damage Mechanisms Mechanisms MPI-Nro Charité Cooperation with Charité, Berlin (Ahmed Khalil, Jochen Fiebach, Jan Scheitz)
Focused Ultrasound Mechanisms (& Methods) MPI-Nro
Cog-Nro
ICCAS Cooperation with Andreas Melzer, ICCAS
Music-evoked Brain Plasticity Recovery Cogn-Nro
MPI-Nro
Max Planck
Innovation
Thomas Fritz
Plasticity of Language Recovery Cogn-Nro
MPI-Nro
Hellmuth Obrig
Neurorehabilitation &
Motor Plasticity
Recovery MPI-Nro
Cogn-Nro
Uni-Halle
LIFE
IMPRS CoNI
Bernhard Sehm
Neuropsychology Recovery Cogn-Nro
MPI-Nro
Angelika Thöne-Otto

 

Affiliated and former Group Leaders of the Department of Neurology (still collaborating):

Group General Area Institutions Group Leader
"The O'Brain Project"
Neurobiology of decision-making in obesity
Risk Factors University of Helsinki, Finland Annette Horstmann
Motor Plasticity Recovery Leipzig University Patrick Ragert
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