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Hertie Foundation establishes a new institute combining artificial intelligence and neuroscience

Aim of the Hertie Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Brain Health (Hertie AI) is to use advances in artificial intelligence for patients with neurological diseases.
... read the press release of the Hertie Foundation (in German only)
"Hertie Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience“ is extended

Following a successful review, the Hertie Foundation has extended the "Hertie Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience“ funding program for a further three years. Tübingen is one of six neuroscience locations to receive support. HIH researchers are also involved.

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“Our neuro-biobank is like a treasure chest for research”

PD Dr. Kathrin Brockmann leads the research group “Clinical Parkinson Research” at the HIH. In an interview with the Hertie Foundation, she explains what the neuro-biobank at the HIH is all about - and how she wants to stand up to Parkinson's dementia in young people.

Read the interview (in German only)
Frequent genetic cause and possible treatment of late-onset ataxia uncovered

An international team with significant participation of Tübingen researchers led by Professor Dr. Matthis Synofzik has uncovered what is currently probably the most frequent genetic cause of ataxia in later adulthood. This was reported by the team in the top-ranking medical journal, the New England Journal of Medicine. ... more information
Brain tumor: patients in focus

More than 8000 people in Germany are diagnosed with a primary brain tumor every year. In children, brain tumors are even the second most common cancer. The Center for Neurology offers patients an innovative range of treatments.
Learn more in our video (in German only)
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative supports search for therapy for rare hereditary neurological disease PCH2

A pioneering collaborative project between a Baden-Württemberg research team and patient association receive two million U.S. dollars
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Departments

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
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
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
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
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
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
Independent Research Groups

The independent research groups at the HIH focus on a variety of research topics ...more information

Research groups

Ziemann Lab

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
Himmelbach Lab

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
Neher Lab

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
Gasser Lab

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
Laske Unit

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
Weber Lab

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
Ilg Lab

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
Jucker Lab

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
Mayer Lab

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
Kowarik Lab

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
Siegel Lab

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
Helfrich Lab

Human Intracranial Cognitive Neurophysiology

The goal of the Helfrich lab is to unravel the neural network mechanisms supporting higher cognitive functions ...more info
Hedrich-Klimosch Lab

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

Brockmann Lab

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
Kronenberg-Versteeg Unit

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
Naumann Lab

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
Unit

Käser Unit

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
Gasser Lab

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
Poli Lab

Stroke and Neuroprotection

The research focus of our Stroke and Neuroprotection Laboratory is to find new and to optimize existing neuroprotective strategies ...more information
Lerche Lab

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
Hafed Lab

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
Fitzgerald Lab

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
Grimm Lab

Neuromuscular Imaging Group

The group works on different projects concerning nerve imaging, particularly high-resolution ultrasound in neuromuscular disorders ...more information
Tabatabai Lab

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
Kühn Lab

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

Schöls Lab

Section for Clinical Neurogenetics

Neurogenetic diseases like cerebellar ataxia, hereditary spastic paraplegia and leukodystrophy are rare disorders. ...more information
Thier Lab

Cognitive Neurology

The lab addresses a variety of topics that, at first glance, may look disparate. Yet, there is a common denominator ...more information
Schüle Lab

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
Giese Lab

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
Karnath Lab

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
Kahle Lab

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
Schwarz Lab

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
Weiß Lab

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
Häufle Lab

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
Merk Lab

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
Snaidero Lab

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
Renovanz Lab

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
Synofzik Lab

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