SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X Dr. Christian Merkel Christian Merkel studied Psychology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. He obtained his PhD in Prof. Ariel Schoenfelds lab investigating cortical mechanisms of visual attention. As part of the Clinical Neurophysiology group in the Leibnitz Institute Magdeburg his research currently focuses on exploring… Continue reading Dr. Christian Merkel
Month: August 2023
Abstracts_Grochowska
SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X Restoring excitation-transcription coupling prevents synaptic dysfunction and cognitive decline in AD mouse models In animal models of amyloid pathology, the earliest phenotype is neuronal hyperexcitability caused by suppression of glutamate reuptake. In this scenario, at an early stage of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), glutamate spillover to peri-… Continue reading Abstracts_Grochowska
Abstracts_Monyer
SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X GABAergic neurons in the context of spatial coding and memory GABAergic neurons play an essential role in governing the timing of principal neuron firing. My lab has focused for long on studying functional properties of GABAergic neurons in mice by taking advantage of genetic modifications that… Continue reading Abstracts_Monyer
Greetings_Minister_Willingmann
SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X Dear scientists, Magdeburg’s Neuroscience research enjoys an excellent national and international reputation. It looks back on a history of more than 50 years. The main research areas are learning and memory, physiological and pathophysiological processes of brain plasticity, neuromodulation and cognition. Special emphasis is placed… Continue reading Greetings_Minister_Willingmann
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SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X Visual object permanence for multiple moving objects – a tale of two representational accounts Keeping track of multiple visually identical and independently moving objects is a remarkable feature of the human visual system. Theoretical accounts to date for this mechanism focus solely on resource-based models that… Continue reading Abstracts_Merkel
Abstracts_Rogalski
SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X The SuperAging Research Initiative: Identifying protective factors to promote healthspan The SuperAging Research Initiative is an international multisite consortium focused on identifying factors promoting superior memory performance beyond the 8th decade. The designation of SuperAger is reserved for individuals age 80+ who have episodic memory capacity… Continue reading Abstracts_Rogalski
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SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X Developmental rhythms and their long shadow on adult cognition Synchronization of neuronal activity in oscillatory rhythms is of critical relevance for information processing in the adult cerebral cortex. While these rhythms emerge early in life, their function along development is still poorly understood. The talk will… Continue reading Abstracts_Hanganu-Opatz
Abstracts_Quiroga
SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X A unique coding of memories in the human brain I will describe single neuron recordings in the human hippocampal formation and how neurons in this area form and store memories. I will also discuss how the coding by these neurons is completely different to what has been described… Continue reading Abstracts_Quiroga
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SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X Mechanisms of Cognitive Control to Mobilize Neural Resources Perturbed by Sleep Deprivation Lack of sleep severely affects the majority of cognitive abilities, presumably because the available neural resources are transiently depleted. This depletion disturbs attention and working memory, incentive processing and emotional responses and increases the likelihood… Continue reading Abstracts_Tegelbeckers
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SPEAKER PROGRAM TEAMOpen menu CONTACT REGISTRATION LOCATION PARTNERS X Characterizing Brain Microstructure Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Towards In-Vivo Histology Understanding the normal and diseased human brain crucially depends on reliable knowledge of its microstructure. Until recently, the microstructure could only reliably be determined using invasive methods such as ex-vivo histology. I will discuss how an… Continue reading Abstracts_Weiskopf