SFB 936 Lecture Series
22.05.2023, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Tools for multi-scale, multi-modal annotation of brain networks
17.04.2023, 5 pm – Online Lecture
(Higher-Order) informational interactions: Ideas, implementations, and applications in neuroscience and behavioral science
Prof. Dr. Daniele Marinazzo
Data Analysis Department, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
27.03.2023, 5 pm – Online Lecture
How the brain transforms sensory input into choice
Prof. Dr. Thomas Mrsic-Flogel
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London, London, United Kingdom
20.03.2023, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Neural mechanisms underlying visual plasticity in health and disease during development and in adulthood
Prof. Dr. Miguel Castelo Branco
Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research & Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
25.01.2021, 5 pm – Online Lecture
The entangled brain: The integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition
Computational principles of event memory
Epidemiological spread models of alphasynuclein in Parkinson’s Disease
Prof. Dr. Alain Dagher
26.09.2022, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Targeting brain oscillations with non-invasive brain stimulation
Prof. Dr. Alexander Opitz
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
11.07.2022, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Non-invasive steerable, deep electrical brain stimulation and phase-locking to probe and treat aberrant brain activities
Prof. Dr. Nir Grossmann
Imperial College London (ICL) & UK Dementia Research Institute (UK-DRI), London, UK
13.06.2022, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Ultrasonic neuromodulation
30.05.2022, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Circuit-based strategies for long-lasting motor recovery following dopamine depletion
Prof. Dr. Aryn Gittis
Biological Sciences and Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon, University Pittsburgh, PA, US
02.05.2022, 5 pm – Online Lecture
How GIN(GABAergic interneurons)& TONIC activity of cholinergic interneutons (CIN) affects the striatal microcircuitry
Prof. Dr. Joshua A. Goldberg
Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
11.04.201,2 5 pm – Online Lecture
Distributed dynamics and cognition in large-scale brain circuits
Prof. Dr. Xiao-Jing Wang
07.02.2022, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Exploring multi-regional neural circuits underlying decision-making and movement planning
Optically probing the neural basis of perception
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
05.07.2021, 11 pm – Online Lecture
Quantitative Electroencephalographic Tomography
Prof. Dr. Pedro A. Valdés-Sosa
Joint China Cuba Laboratory for Neurotechnology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China & Cuban Neuroscience Center, Havana City, Cuba
07.06.2021, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Neurophysiological mechanisms of memory guided behavior
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
31.05.2021, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Large-scale oscillatory networks involved in action, inhibition, reward processing and default-mode function
12.04.2021, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Synaptic Basis of Reduced Serial Dependence in Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis and Schizophrenia
Dr. Albert Compte
Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques, August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
29.03.2021, 5 pm – Online Lecture
The Role of the Thalamus in Parkinson’s Disease
Prof. Dr. Thomas Wichmann
Emory University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
15.02.2021, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Relevant Oscillopathies for Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s disease
Stanford Movement Disorders Center (SMDC), Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
25.01.2021, 5 pm – Online Lecture
Making sense of the senses
Oscillatory network activity related to normal and pathological movements
23.11.2020, 5 pm – Online Lecture (access will be announced)
Human brain mapping – past, present and future
16.11.2020, 5 pm – Online Lecture (access will be announced)
Cortical interneuron wiring in health and disease
Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King’s College London, London, UK
09.11.2020, 5 pm – Online Lecture (access will be announced)
Perception with new sensory signals
26.10.2020, 4 pm – Online Lecture (access will be announced)
How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions
Prof. Dr. Daphna Shohamy
Department of Psychology & Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
19.10.2020, 5 pm – Online Lecture (access will be announced)
Unique molecular regulation of prefrontal cortex confers vulnerability to cognitive disorders
Prof. Dr. Amy F. Arnsten
Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
24.08.2020, 5 pm – Online Lecture (access will be announced)
Intention understanding at the intersection of kinematic encoding and readout
Prof. Dr. Cristina Becchio
Cognition, Motion and Neuroscience, Center for Human Technologies Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
15.06.2020, 5 pm – Online Lecture (access will be announced)
Mathematical methods for studying the neural population mechanisms of sensory information coding and decision-making
Laboratory of Neural Computation, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Rovereto, Italy
20.04.2020, 5 pm – Online Lecture (access will be announced)
Plasticity of language networks: Investigations with non-invasive brain stimulation and after stroke
10.02.2020, 5 pm – Campus Forschung, N27, room 14, UKE
Non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation: The state is the art
Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Copenhagen Center for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research
Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
23.09.2019, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55,room 310/11, UKE
Hierarchical Specialization of Cortex: Large-scale Gradients Linking Microcircuitry, Anatomy, and Function
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
17.06.2019, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Brain network changes in the context of vascular lesions
Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
08.04.2019, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Emotions, Network Dynamics, and Brain States
Department of Basic Neurosciences and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
26.03.2019, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Human Neocortical Neurosolver: A Neural Modeling Tool to Link Mechanism to Meaning of EEG/MEG Signals
Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
11.02.2019, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Do GABAergic interneurons act as a scaffold for the developing neocortex?
Prof. Dr. Simon Butt
Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
21.01.2019, 4 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Alpha oscillations, travelling waves and predictive coding
Prof. Dr. Rufin VanRullen
CerCo, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CHU Purpan Pavillon Baudot, Toulouse, France
17.12.2018, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Neuronal avalanches during sensory and motor activity in cortex
Dr. Dietmar Plenz
Principal Investigator, Section on Critical Brain Dynamics, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
12.11.2018, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
The importance of inter-individual variability in understanding the external and internal factors modulating conditioned responses in mice
15.10.2018, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Understanding Variability in Brain and Behavior
Prof. Dr. Tobias Donner
Institute of Neurophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
27.08.2018, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Neurobiology and systems neuroscience of X-linked dystonia parkinsonism – a prototype basal ganglia-medial frontal network disease
16.07.2018, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Age-related changes in brain function and connectivity and effects on motor behavior
Prof. Dr. Stephan Swinnen
Motor Control Laboratory, Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
28.05.2018, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Listening to the brain to personalize neuromodulation
Prof. Dr. Franca Tecchio
Laboratory of Electrophysiology for Translational NeuroScience, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
16.04.2018, 3 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
High-dimensional geometry of the cortical population code revealed by 10,000-neuron recordings
Prof. Dr. Kenneth Harris
UCL Institute of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience Physiology, and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK
19.03.2018, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/11, UKE
Predictions, perception, and psychosis
Prof. Dr. Philipp Sterzer
Department of Psychiatry, Campus Charité Mitte & Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
26.02.2018, 5 pm – Campus Forschung, N27, room 14, UKE (please note: different room!)
The perception of sounds that do not exist: On auditory hallucinations in clinical and non-clinical populations
Prof. Dr. Kenneth Hugdahl
Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen Division of Psychiatry and Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital Bergen, Bergen, Norway
15.01.2018, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
A causal test for V1’s role in visual awareness
Prof. Dr. Laura Busse
Division of Neurobiology, Department Biology II, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
4.12.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Pain and pain modulation: from spinal to cortical processing
Prof. Dr. Christian Büchel
Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
27.11.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UK
How the interactions between cortical neurons enable visual thinking and conscious perception
Prof. Dr. Pieter Roelfsema
Department of Vision & Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitve Research, VU University
Psychiatry Department, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
09.10.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
From the genome to the brain: A physics perspective on information processing in networks
Prof. Dr. Stefan Bornholdt
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
25.09.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Perceptual and neural basis of bodies and bodily expressions
Prof. Dr. Beatrice de Gelder
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Neuroscience and Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
07.09.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Looking for critical mediators for the pathophysiology of major mental illnesses
Prof. Dr. Akira Sawa
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
26.06.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Cognition without cortex
Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün
Biopsychology, Institut of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
12.06.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Advanced lesion symptom mapping analyses
Prof. Dr. Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Associate Professor CNRS UMR 7225, Head of the Brain connectivity and Behaviour group, Institut du cerveau et la moelle épinière, Paris, France
29.05.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Only time will tell: intertwined trajectories of neural and cognitive aging
Prof. Dr. Naftali Raz
Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
03.04.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Linking brain architecture and connectivity
Prof. Dr. Claus C. Hilgetag
Institute of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
20.03.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Cognitive ontogeny in health and mental illness: a story of right communication
Prof Dr. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz
Developmental Neurophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
27.02.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 210/211, UKE
Current hypotheses to mechanisms of action of deep brain stimulation
PD Dr. Monika Pötter-Nerger
Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
09.01.2017, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Local oscillations and large-scale network synchronization in cognition
Dr. Satu Palva
Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki & BioMag laboratory, HUS Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki, Finland
12.12.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
How artificial intelligence is used to control the world and our behavior
Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing
Computational Social Science, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
21.11.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Translational neuroscience: From large-scale brain modeling to individual patient prediction
Prof. Dr. Viktor Jirsa
Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, INS UMR_S 1106, 13005, Marseille, France
10.10.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Experimental and translational MRI studies on brain reorganization after stroke
Prof. Dr. Rick Dijkhuizen
Biomedical MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Group, Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
19.09.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
How activity patterns shape hippocampal connectivity
Prof. Dr. Thomas Oertner
Institute for Synaptic Physiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), UKE, Hamburg, Germany
12.09.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Neural evidence accumulation in perceptual vs value-based decision making
Prof. Dr. Christian Ruff
University of Zurich, Laboratory for Social an Neural Systems Research (SNS-Lab), Department of Economics, Zurich, Switzerland
18.07.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Eye movements as a central part of cognitive processes
Prof. Dr. Peter König
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
20.06.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Stress and the modulation of multiple memory systems
Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe
Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
25.04.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Neuronal circuits for perceptual decision-making in primates
Prof. Dr. Kristine Krug
Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
18.04.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Alpha oscillations, excitability, and perceptual bias
Prof. Dr. Niko Busch
Department of Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
11.04.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Communication by Resonance?
Prof. Dr. Ad Aertsen
Faculty of Biology, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
21.03.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Meta-analytic approaches to mapping the brain, its connections and functions
Prof. Dr. Simon Eickhoff
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany
15.03.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
The dynamics of resting fluctuations in the brain: metastability and its dynamical cortical core
Prof. Dr. Dr. Gustavo Deco
Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
15.02.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Brain-scale simulations of cortical networks at cellular and synaptic resolution
Prof. Dr. Markus Diesmann
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Computational and Systems Neuroscience & Institute for Advanced Simulations, JARA
08.02.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Searching for memory in brain waves – The synchronization/desynchronization conundrum
Dr. Simon Hanslmayr
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
18.01.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Parsing distinct levels of processing underpinning human perceptual decision formation
Prof. Dr. Redmond O’Connell
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
11.01.2016, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Processing of somatosensory stimuli in the human brain
Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer
Max PIanck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Dept. of Cognitive Neurology, University Hospital, Leipzig
Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Charité and Humboldt-University, Berlin
23.11.2015, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Building the engram: Content-specific neural representations in the human brain
Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher
Department of Neuropsychology, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
27.07.2015, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Complex neural connectivity and activity: perspective from cost-efficiency trade-off
Prof. Dr. Changsong Zhou
Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
29.06.2015, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Reverse engineering the human brain – collectively
PD. Dr. Petra Ritter
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, BrainModes Group, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
22.06.2015, 5 pm – Neues Klinikum, O10, room 411, UKE
Ubiquitous neurorehabilitation using recent ICT technology
Prof. Dr. Nam-Jong Paik
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
27.04.2015, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
Synaptic mechanism regulating large-scale activity propagation: combined fMRI-electrophysiology experiments
Prof. Dr. Santiago Canals Gamoneda
Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández – CSIC Campus de San Juan, Sant Joan d’Alacant Alicante, Spain
13.04.2015, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 210/211, UKE
Studying brain systems organization in health and disease using intrinsic connectivity fMRI in awake mice
Prof. Dr. Itamar Kahn
Department of Cellular and
Systems Neuroscience
, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
, Haifa, Israel
02.03.2015, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 210/211, UKE
Exploring the human connectome: the rich club as a backbone for communication and integration in neural systems
Prof. Dr. Martijn van den Heuvel
Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
16.02.2015, 5 pm – Campus Lehre, N55, room 310/311, UKE
High-frequency network synchronisation within the hippocampal formation
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schmitz
Neuroscience Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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