Lecturer: Arno Villringer
Fields: Brain-Body Interactions, Neurological Disorders, Neurophysiology and Functional Neuroimaging Methods
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Arno Villringer studied medicine at University of Freiburg where he also received a Doctor of Medicine with work in molecular biology. After a fellowship at the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School, he was neurology resident at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, became a board-certified neurologist, and gained his habilitation. In the following 14 years, at Charité, Berlin, he headed a DFG-funded clinical research group, received a professorship and worked at the Department of Neurology, first as a consultant, and later as clinical director at the Benjamin Franklin Campus. Since 2007 he is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and at the Clinic for Cognitive Neurology at the University Hospital in Leipzig. His research focusses on brain-body interactions as well as neural and behavioral processes underlying the development of risk factors for neurological disorders, particularly stroke and dementia. Expertise lies in neurophysiology and functional neuroimaging methods some of which he pioneered (MR-based brain perfusion imaging, functional optical imaging). Clinically, he attempts to individualize preventive and therapeutic approaches for neurological disorders, particularly stroke. He founded the BMBF-funded national Competence Network Stroke, the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, the Berlin Neuroimaging Center, and was/is PI of two Clusters of Excellence (Neurocure @Charité, LEICEM @University Leipzig), as well as the founder and spokesperson of two graduate schools (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Germany-wide Max Planck School of Cognition). He was/is also a PI in several DFG-funded integrated research centers on stroke and obesity (IFB), SFB, research groups, and graduate research colleges.
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Homepage: https://www.cbs.mpg.de/employees/villringer.html