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.
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 |
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 |
2020, Januar | |
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)
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2015, October |
Keynote speech, II International Conference on Stuttering, Rome, Italy, on Neurophysiology of Stuttering
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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“
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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)
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2013, November |
Speech at the UCL CDCN WORKSHOP: “SPEECH DISORDERS THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN”, London, UK, Topic: Stuttering: neural and genetic bases
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2013, November |
Keynote speech, Werkstattgespräche, Interdisziplinäre Vereinigung von Stottertherapeuten. Fulda, Topic: Stand der Wissenschaft zu neurologischen Korrelaten des Stotterns und von Therapie.
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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
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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.
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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.
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2011, September |
Keynote speech at the 9th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, Oxford, UK;
Topic: On fibers, currents and action potentials: Neurophysiology of stuttering.
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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.
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2010 |
Invited scientific discussant, International Symposium on “Stuttering: A Clinical Symposium”
organized by the Australian Stuttering Research Center, Cavtat, Croatia;
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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.
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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
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