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 |