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Munich Area, Germany Germany

Independent Junior Research Group Leader

Education

Brain Injury Research Group My laboratory is interested in understanding key mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration after traumatic brain injury. It has recently become evident that individuals with brain injury can further suffer from chronic consequences including dementia, epilepsy, psychiatric and neuroendocrine & metabolic disorders. While these chronic complications are suggestive of continuous alterations in the injured brain circuitry, virtually nothing is known about how the initial trauma alters the brain structure and ultimately its function. One of the main struggles in Neuroscience in general is the difficulty to accurately analyze long connections in the brain using tiss...