2016
23. October 2016: New publication on the functional representation of tactile finger stimulation in "Neuroscience": Pfannmöller J.P., Greiner, M., Balasubramanian M., Lotze M. (2016) Precise evaluation of primary functional somatosensory representation using high resolution fMRI. Neuroscience, in press.
5. October 2016: New article in "Brain Stimulation" about the effect of somatosensory stimulation of the finger tips on long-term hand motor training in healthy volunteers
Lotze, M., Ladda, A-M., Roschka, S., Platz, T., Dinse, H.R. (2016) Priming hand motor training with repetitive electric stimulation of the finger tips; performance gain and neural training effects, Brain Stimulation, in press.
Talk at the MPI Leipzig 20. September 2016: Funktional representation of long-term motor training in healthy individuals and after cerebral stroke; Martin Lotze
16. September 2016:Talk at the Jahreskongress Gesellschaft für Nervenheilkunde: Functional imaging of creativity and musical expertise; Martin Lotze
14. September 2016; Greifswald: Das Dentale. Zähne im Kontext; Bernd Kordass & Martin Lotze
Contributions for the TMS-meeting, Göttingen, 7th-9th September 2016:
-Effect of long term comprehensive training of the left hand in strongly right handed participants: reduction of interhemispheric asymmetry in intracortical facilitation (ICF);
Lotze M, Doppl K, Roschka S, Grothe M, Platz T
- Effects of inhibitory theta burst TMS to different brain sites involved in visuospatial attention – a combined neuronavigated cTBS and behavioural study;
Platz T, Schüttauf J, Aschenbach J, Mengdehl C, Lotze M
23.08.2016: New review on MRI-biomarker for monitoring and prognosis of upper limb motor outcome after stroke:
Horn U., Grothe M., Lotze M. (2016) MRI-Biomarkers for hand motor outcome-prediction and therapy-monitoring following stroke. Neural Plasticity, in press.
Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain mapping; Geneva 26.-30. June 2016
Contributions of our group:
- High resolution fMRI of CRPS associated reorganization in Brodmann Area 3b (Jörg Pfannmöller)
- Higher fractional anisotropy in the left pyramidal tract but no association with handedness in cohort data (Martin Domin)
- Motivational characteristics of expert performance (Nicola Neumann)
- Increase of motor gain and changes in neural representation after tactile primed hand training (Martin Lotze)
- Functional imaging correlates of recovered swallowing after dysphagia (Paul Glad Mihai)
- fMRI activation and connectivity of the ventral premotor cortex in a longitudinal stroke study (Ulrike Horn)
Summer School Neurorehabilitation 2016; Greifswald 15.-18. June 2016
www.wiko-greifswald.de/de/veranstaltung/article/summer-school-neurorehabilitation-2016.html
Open Talks at the Summer School at 7 p.m.:
Wednesday, 15. of June: A humanoid robot as 'therapist' in neurorehabilitation? (Fernando Fernández Rebollo)
Friday, 17. of June: Erholt sich das Gehirn, wenn ja, wie? (Martin Lotze)
27.5.2016: Prize for the best PHD-projects 2016 of the University Greifswald for Dr. Katharina Erhard and our work on neural correlates of creative writing
New article on the representation of chewing:
Lotze M., Domin M., Kordass B. (2016) Symmetry of fMRI activation in the primary sensorimotor cortex during unilateral chewing. Clinical Oral Investigations, in press.
New article about restitution of neurogenic dysphagia after stroke: Mihai, P.G., Otto, M., Domin, M., Platz, T., Hamdy, S., Lotze, M. (2016) Brain imaging correlates of recovered swallowing after dysphagic stroke: an fMRI and DWI study. Neuroimage Clinical, in press.
New article about restitution of hand motor function and representation of hand movements:
Horn, U., Roschka, S., Eyme, K., Walz, A.D., Platz, T., Lotze, M. (2016) Increased ventral premotor cortex recruitment after arm training in an fMRI study with subacute stroke patients. Behavioral Brain Research, in press.
International Symposium on Music Performance: Art and Neuroscience in Dialogue in Tübingen from 29.4. to 1.5.2016: ismp2016.de
Latest voxel-based-morphometry article on grey matter increase in professional singers in Neuroimage: Kleber, B., Veit, R. , Moll, C.V., Gaser, C., Birbaumer, N., Lotze, M. (2016) The brain of opera singers revisited: increased gray-matter density in right somatosensory and auditory regions revealed by voxel-based morphometry. Neuroimage, in press.
März 2016: New article on Prediction of motor outcome after subacute stroke in frontiers human neuroscience: Lindow, J., Domin, M., Grothe, M, Horn, U, Eickhoff, S.B., Byblow, W.D., Lotze, M. (2016) Connectivity-based predictions of hand motor outcome for mildly affected patients at the sub-acute stage after stroke. Frontiers Human Neuroscience, in press.
journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00101/full
February 2016: New article on theta-burst stimulation to induce a neglect in healthy volunteers: Platz, T., Schüttauf, J., Aschenbach, J., Mengdehl C., Lotze, M. (2016) Effects of neuronavigated cTBS to different brain sites involved in visuospatial attention. Rest. Neurol Neurosci., in press. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26923615
New BIM-blog on our Pain-article entitled:“Anaesthetizing forearm decreases sensorimotor impairment and cortical excitability in CRPS"
www.bodyinmind.org/pain-physiology-crps