Name

Prof. Dr. med. Martin Sommer

Oberarzt (Consultant)

Robert-Koch-Strasse 40

37075 Göttingen

msommer@gwdg.de

Phone +49-551-39 66650 (Frau Kurze, secretary to Prof. Paulus)

Fax +49-551-39 8126

Research and Clinical Interests

Movement disorders, motor cortex excitability, Parkinson's disease, stuttering

Methods: Transcranial magnetic stimulation, somatosensory evoked potentials, structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Group meetings: Friday 12.00 hrs. Room 2 C1 205. Interested students are welcome.

Curriculum Vitae

2017	Board certification "Specific Neurological Pain Treatment"
2015	Epilepsy certificate of the German Society for Epileptology (written and oral exam)
2010	Professor extraordinarius
2006	Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) for Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology
2005	Consultant (Oberarzt)
2003	Board certified Neurologist (Facharzt)
2001-2002	Visiting Fellow at the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Universtiy of Hamburg ( Dr. C. Weiller, Dr. C. Büchel), project on Diffusion Tensor Imaging in persistent developmental stuttering.
2000	Residency in Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Göttingen (Prof. E. Rüther).
from 1997 on	Residency and fellowship in Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Center for Neurological Medicine, University of Göttingen (Dr. W. Paulus). Clinical focus on movement disorders, studies on motor cortex excitability in movement and speech disorders.
1996-1997	Visiting fellow in the Human Motor Control Section, National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (Prof. M. Hallett). Studies on implicit learning and movement planning in healthy humans and patients with movement disorders.
1993-1994	Academic Year at the Faculté de Médecine de Toulouse-Rangueil, France, within the European University Exchange Program “Erasmus“
1989-1996	Medical Faculty, University of Aachen, Germany

Formal Qualifications

2017	Board certification "Specific Neurological Pain Treatment"
2015	Epilepsy certificate
2010	Professor extraordinarius
2006	Special Training in Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders, introduction of deep brain stimulation in Goettingen in cooperation with the department of Neurosurgery (Prof. V. Rohde)
2006	Electromyography certificate of of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging (DGKN), renewal 2012
2005	DKGN: Neurological Ultrasound certificate
2004	DGKN: Evoked potential certificate
2003	German Board Examination in Neurology
2000	DKGN: EEG certificate
1999	Universal Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates Examinations
1996	Medical Licence

Invited lectures

2020, Januar	SinDem4juniors Winter School, Bressanone/Brixen; lKeynote speech: "Brain Hacking with Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation"
2019, Dezember	30 Jahre Bonner Stottertherapie \| Symposium Stottern \| Vortrag \| Stand Ursachen- und Therapieforschung
2019, November	Neurologische Korrelate des Stotterns - ein update. Vortrag bei den 30. Werkstattgesprächen der Interdisziplinären Vereinigung für Stottertherapeuten e.V. (Video)
2019, November	24. Bad Nenndorfer Therapietage, Eröffnungsvortrag
2018, September	Invited lecture at the Advanced TMS Techniques Workshop, London, UK (organized by Rogue Resolutiions Ltd.)
2017, September	11th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, Keynote speech
2017, July	7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, Keynote speech
2016, Juni	Speech at the Low Grade Glioma Meeting, Graz: "Principles of transcranial magnetic stimulation and applications in language and speech"
2016, Avril	Speech at the 7ème colloque international de l'Association Parole Bégaiement, Paris, France: "Typologie du bégaiement et recherches sur l'anticipation " (keynote speech in French)
2015, October	Keynote speech, II International Conference on Stuttering, Rome, Italy, on Neurophysiology of Stuttering
2015, September	Keynote speech, 15th European Congress on Clinical Neurophysiology, Brno
2015, February	Invited lecture, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), University of Copenhagen (Prof. Siebner): “Motor cortex structure, excitability and plasticity in fluent and dysfluent speakers“
2014, Avril	Speech at the 6ème colloque international de l'Association Parole Bégaiement, Paris, France: "Ce qu’il est utile de savoir de la neurologie du bégaiement" (keynote speech in French)
2013, November	Speech at the UCL CDCN WORKSHOP: “SPEECH DISORDERS THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN”, London, UK, Topic: Stuttering: neural and genetic bases
2013, November	Keynote speech, Werkstattgespräche, Interdisziplinäre Vereinigung von Stottertherapeuten. Fulda, Topic: Stand der Wissenschaft zu neurologischen Korrelaten des Stotterns und von Therapie.
2013, June	Speech at the 10th World Congress for people who stutter, Lunteren, Netherlands. Topic: Stuttering: Overview of neuronal mechanisms and resulting future questions for therapy in a professional and self-help setting - See more at: http://www.demosthenes.nl/wc2013/index.php/program/accepted-abstracts/new-development-research#sthash.U8xwxeCK.dpuf Stuttering: Overview of neuronal mechanisms and resulting future questions for therapy in a professional and self-help setting. Stuttering: Overview of neuronal mechanisms and resulting future questions for therapy in a professional and self-help setting - See more at: http://www.demosthenes.nl/wc2013/index.php/program/accepted-abstracts/new-development-research#sthash.U8xwxeCK.dpuf Stuttering: Overview of neuronal mechanisms and resulting future questions for therapy in a professional and self-help setting - See more at: http://www.demosthenes.nl/wc2013/index.php/program/accepted-abstracts/new-development-research#sthash.U8xwxeCK.dpuf
2013, May	Keynote speech at the International Symposium on “Basic Science and Stuttering: Research for Clinicians” organized by the Australian Stuttering Research Center. Cavtat, Croatia; Topic: Stuttering, Brain Structure and Function.
2013, March	Keynote speech at the 78th Meeting of the German Society for Speech Science and Speech Education (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprechwissenschaft und Sprecherziehung, DGSS), Magdeburg, Germany; Topic: Brain plasticity and stuttering therapy.
2011, September	Keynote speech at the 9^th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, Oxford, UK; Topic: On fibers, currents and action potentials: Neurophysiology of stuttering.
2011, March	Invited lecture at the DFG-sponsored “Japan-Germany Joint workshop on Computational Neuroscience, Okinawa, Japan; Topic: Transcranial stimulation by magnetic fields and direct currents: Mechanisms of action, functional effects, and questions open for computational neuroscience.
2010	Invited scientific discussant, International Symposium on “Stuttering: A Clinical Symposium” organized by the Australian Stuttering Research Center, Cavtat, Croatia;
2006	Invited oral presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, USA; Topic: Orientation-specific, non NMDA-receptor dependent facilitation in the human motor cortex elicited by fast biphasic repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Grants

2014-17	DFG grant So-429/4-1 (two years post-doc plus expenses): "Plastizität weißer Substanz bei Stotternden im Kindes- und Erwachsenenalter"
2005-08	DFG grant So-429/2-2 (1 years of BAT II a) "Wirkmechanismen und funktionelle Relevanz monophasischer und biphasischer repetitiver transkranieller Magnetstimulation"
2004	Forschungsfreistellung der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen.
2002-05	DFG grant So-429/2-1 (2 years of BAT II a) "Wirkmechanismen und funktionelle Relevanz monophasischer und biphasischer repetitiver transkranieller Magnetstimulation"
2001	Forschungsfreistellung der Fakultät (4 months of BAT II a) "Neurophysiology and brain imaging of stuttering"
1996	DAAD grant for stay at NIH

Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Neurophysiologie

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epileptologie e.V.

President of the Bundesereinigung Stottern & Selbsthilfe (German Stuttering Association; www.bvss.de)
Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Deutschen Theaters in Göttingen e.v.
Kunstverein Göttingen e.V.