News
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New HIH research group
Since September, Professor Dr. Esther Kühn has started her research group “Translational Imaging of Cortical Microstructure” at the HIH. The neurobiologist investigates the neuronal mechanisms underlying healthy and pathological brain states.
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Neuroscience Campus Get Together 2022
After a two-year break, the HIH, the CIN, the DZNE and the Clinic of Neurology jointly celebrated a Neuroscience Campus Get Together on July 28, 2022. One highlight of the event was the presentation of the "HIH Paper of the Year Award". This year, the prize went to Dr. Ulrike Hedrich-Klimosch and Dr. Stephan Lauxmann.
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Johannes-Dichgans doctoral scholarship
Congratulations to Luca Braunger from Prof. Gasser's Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Peter Paßlack from Prof. Tabatabai's Department of Neurology and Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology for receiving the Johannes-Dichgans doctoral scholarship
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Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: New gene therapy launched
A current study investigates the tolerability and efficacy of a novel therapeutic technique for treating Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) - new participants may be included
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HIH at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience
After a long break due to the pandemic, HIH was again represented at the FENS Forum this year. Together with Research in Germany and Neurocenters in Germany the HIH informed interested scientists about research opportunities.
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Out of sight, quickly out of mind
We are very bad at recalling objects at our gaze direction from short-term memory - even though this is the area we see most sharply, report brain researchers from Tübingen led by Professor Ziad Hafed.
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Departments
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Neurology and Stroke
The Department of Neurology and Stroke has the main focuses in neurovascular medicine (vessel diseases of the brain, cerebral stroke), neuro-oncology (brain tumors, brain metastases), neuro-immunology (e.g., multiple sclerosis) and neuro-intensive medicine. ...more information
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
The Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases treats in-patients on a ward of about 20 beds and in several out-patient clinics. The clinical focus lies on neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, the ataxias, spastic paraplegias, and dementias. ...more information
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Neurology and Epileptology
The Department of Neurology and Epileptology has a focus on epilepsy and other paroxysmal neurological disorders. In these diseases, the excitability of nerve cells temporarily changes either due to genetic or acquired defects. ...more information
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Department of Neurology and Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology
The Department of Neurology and Interdisciplinary Neuro-oncology (Director: Prof. Ghazaleh Tabatabai) is a department covering both inpatient and outpatient clinical care... More information
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Neural Dynamics and Magnetoencephalography
The Department of Neural Dynamics and Magnetoencephalography was founded in the year 2020 and Prof. Dr. Markus Siegel was appointed head of the department. ...more information
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Cellular Neurology
Our research focus is on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases, with a special emphasis on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer´s disease and other cerebral proteopathies ...more information
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Independent Research Groups
The independent research groups at the HIH focus on a variety of research topics ...more information
Research groups
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Neurology and Stroke
Brain Networks and Plasticity
The human brain possesses the remarkable capacity of reorganization, which is the basis for adapting to constantly changing environmental conditions. This plasticity is of paramount importance ...more information
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Independent Research Group
Neuropsychology of Action
The Research Group "Neuropsychology of Action" is dedicated to investigations of human action control. We study clinical impairments of action control and their neural substrates in patients with brain damage ...more information
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Cellular Neurology
Experimental Neuroimmunology
An immune response is part of most neurological diseases, and the development of late-onset Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has been linked to immune related genes and most recently also to epigenetic modifications. ...more information
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Genetics of Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's syndrome (PS) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's dementia. The vast majority of patients are ill with no apparent cause. ...more information
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Cellular Neurology
Dementia Research Unit
The Dementia Research Unit is a clinical research unit of the Department of Cellular Neurology and the Department of Psychiatry. It closely collaborates with the outpatient Memory Clinic. ...more information
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Neurology and Epileptology
Clinical Genetics of Paroxysmal Neurological Diseases
Paroxysmal neurological disorders include a broad spectrum of clinical entities such as migraine, episodic ataxia or myotonia. The research group is focussed on the clinical genetics ...more information
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Independent Research Group
Oculomotor Laboratory
Playing video-games is a widely distributed leisure activity in our society. In order to estimate the consequences of video-game play, we study the details of eye movements and pupil light responses ... more information
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Cellular Neurology
Experimental Neuropathology
Cerebral proteopathy is a unifying term for cerebral neurodegenerative diseases in which aggregated proteins are abnormally deposited in the brain. The hallmark proteopathy is Alzheimer's disease (AD) ...more information
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Independent Research Group
Molecular Brain Development
The mammalian neocortex is a highly complex and spatially heterogeneous structure, which has expanded significantly in mammalian evolution. Neocortical network function is at the heart of cognitive function ...more info
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Neurology and Stroke
Neurological B cell Immunology
The research group “Neurological B cell Immunology” is focused on the role of B cells in neuro-inflammatory diseases including multiple sclerosis (MS) and... more information
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Neural Dynamics and Magnetoencephalography
Neural Dynamics and Magnetoencephalography
The central goal of the laboratory is to investigate how cognition and behavior emerges from dynamic interactions across widely distributed neuronal ensembles... more information
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Independent Research Group
Human Intracranial Cognitive Neurophysiology
The goal of the Helfrich lab is to unravel the neural network mechanisms supporting higher cognitive functions ...more info
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Neurology and Epileptology
Experimental Neurophysiology of Channelopathies
Our research group uses transgenic mouse models to investigate the molecular mechanisms of disease-associated variants in genes encoding neuronal ion channels. ...more information
Research groups
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Clinical Parkinson's Disease Research
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease and affects about 1 to 2 % of individuals over the age of 65. The number is steadily increasing due to demographic changes in Western countries. ...more information
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Cellular Neurology
Glia Biology Unit
Glial cells are highly abundant in the mammalian brain, yet many questions regarding their development, function, and involvement in disease remain unanswered. ...more information
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Neurology and Stroke
Molecular Neurooncology
Three to five of 100.000 people are annually diagnosed with a glioblastoma (GBM), the most malignant brain tumor in adults. Despite aggressive multimodal treatment including surgical resection and ...more information
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Unit
Cellular Neurology
Molecular Biomarkers Unit
Processes related to Alzheimer ́s disease (AD) and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases start many years before the onset of the first clinical symptoms. At the moment of the first clinical complaints, the disease has already caused ...more information
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Neurology and Epileptology
Translational Imaging
The focus of our research group is the structural and functional imaging of neurological diseases with a particular focus on epileptology. We use multi-modal imaging techniques to improve the understanding of disease development ...more information
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dystonia
Dystonia is the third most common movement disorder, and mutations in a growing number of genes have been identified as causes for hereditary forms in many cases. The aim of the group, which brings together clinical experience ...more information
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Neurology and Stroke
Stroke and Neuroprotection
The research focus of our Stroke and Neuroprotection Laboratory is to find new and to optimize existing neuroprotective strategies ...more information
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Neurology and Epileptology
Experimental Epileptology
Our research group is interested to unravel the mechanisms of well defined, mainly genetic, neurological, paroxysmal diseases, to understand correlations with clinical symptoms and to find new treatment options. ...more information
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Independent Research Group
Active Perception Lab
Humans are tremendously reliant on the sense of vision to interact with their environment. Such interaction often involves the generation of motor outputs ...more information
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mitochondrial Biology of Parkinson’s Disease
Neurodegenerative disorders are associated in a proportion of cases with genetic risk and gene mutations. However, the vast majority …more info
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Neurology and Epileptology
Neuromuscular Imaging Group
The group works on different projects concerning nerve imaging, particularly high-resolution ultrasound in neuromuscular disorders ...more information
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Neuro-Oncology
Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Neuro-Oncology
The Interdisciplinary Division of Neuro-Oncology at the Hertie-Institut for Clinical Brain Research is the result of the, in the context of the Excellent Initiative, newly created W3-Professorship in Neuro-Oncology ... more information
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Independent Research Group
Translational Imaging of Cortical Microstructure
My Research Group uses translational MR imaging to understand how cortical microstructure links to human brain function in health and disease... more information
Research groups
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Section for Clinical Neurogenetics
Neurogenetic diseases like cerebellar ataxia, hereditary spastic paraplegia and leukodystrophy are rare disorders. ...more information
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Independent Research Group
Cognitive Neurology
The lab addresses a variety of topics that, at first glance, may look disparate. Yet, there is a common denominator ...more information
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Genomic of Rare Movement Disorders
Our group specializes in rare diseases. A disease is called rare, when it affects no more than 5 of 100,000 people. However, in the grand-scheme of things, rare diseases are not quite so rare ...more information
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Independent Research Group
Section for Computational Sensomotorics
The Section for Computational Sensomotorics investigates theoretical principles in the perception and control of motor actions. Research is organized around three main topics ...more information
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Independent Research Group
Section for Neuropsychology
The Section for Neuropsychology focuses on the investigation of spatial cognition and object recognition in humans. The current issues of our work comprise the action control and sensorimotor coordination ...more information
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Functional Neurogenetics
Age-related neurodegenerative diseases are a severe and increasingly worrisome burden for our aging population. Most of the chronic neurodegenerative diseases ...more information
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Independent Research Group
Systems Neurophysiology Lab
The overarching goal of our work is to understand the operating principles of the neocortex, a unique brain structure, which mainly evolved in mammals. There is clear evidence that the neocortex, in the broadest sense, endows the subject with cognitive capabilities. ...more information
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Deep Brain Stimulation
The working group aims to uncover mechanisms of action of deep brain stimulation therapy and to translate the pathophysiological insights into future developments. …more information
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Independent Research Group
Motor Control Modeling
The research group „Multi-Level Modeling in Motor Control and Rehabilitation Robotics“ focuses on the generation and control of active biological movements. We develop ...more information
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Neuro-Oncology
Experimental Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in infants, children, and adolescents. Our lab is mostly focusing on embryonal brain tumors including ... more information
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Independent Research Group
Neuron-Glia Interactions
The goal of the Snaidero lab is to decipher and control cellular interactions between neurons and glia cells in the cortex, focussing on the dynamic processes underlying myelination. ... more information
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Neuro-Oncology
Health Care Research in Neuro-Oncology
The group focuses on the health-related quality of life, psychosocial burden and unmet needs in neuro-oncological patients. Our key question is... more information
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Independent Research Group
Translational Genomics of Neurodegenerative Diseases
The translational research of our Research Division is fully geared by a systematic translational pipeline of developing therapy strategies for a broad range of genetically stratified neurodegenerative diseases ...more info
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