Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Grodd (born 25 July 1942 in

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of ...

) is a German neuroradiologist and professor emeritus of the University hospital at the University of Tübingen. He is known for his scientific works on the development and application of structural and

functional magnetic resonance imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area o ...

in metabolic diseases, sensorimotor representation, language production, and cognitive processing, cerebellum, thalamus, and basal ganglia. Currently, Wolfgang Grodd is a research scientist at the Department of the High-Field MR at the

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is located in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft). The institute is studying signal and information processin ...

Biography

After serving as a temporary soldier in the German Army from 1959 to 1964 and training as an electronics technician, W. Grodd obtained his Abitur (high school diploma) in 1968 at Westfalen Kolleg in Bielefeld and studied biology from 1968 to 1977 and medicine from 1974 to 1981 at the University of Tübingen. From 1972 to 1975 he was a scholarship holder of the Protestant Student Union Villigst. He received his diploma in biology in 1977 and his license to practice medicine in 1981. This was followed by residency training as a radiologist at the Medical Radiation Institute of the University of Tübingen (1981-1986), which was interrupted by a DFG research fellowship at the Department of Radiology at the University of San Francisco from 1984 to 1985. In 1987, he initially moved to the Department of Neuroradiology at the University of Tübingen as a consultant, where he worked as a senior physician from 1991 to 1995. In 1991, he habilitated in the field of radiology/neuroradiology on the topic of experimental and clinical investigations of volume-selective proton spectroscopy of the human brain, and in the same year he was granted a teaching license in the field of neuroradiology. The following year, W. Grodd was appointed Professor of Neuroradiology at the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin, but declined. From 1995, he was professor and head of the scientific section Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of the Central Nervous System at the University Hospital of Tübingen, where he gave his farewell lecture in 2010. Currently, Grodd is at the Department High-field Magnetic Resonance at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

Scientific focus

* Clinical use of proton

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter wa ...

* Maturation, abnormalities and metabolic diseases of children's brains *

Functional imaging Functional imaging (or physiological imaging) is a medical imaging technique of detecting or measuring changes in metabolism, blood flow, regional chemical composition, and absorption. As opposed to structural imaging, functional imaging center ...

of fear,

sociopathy Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits. Different conceptions of psychopathy have been u ...

, humour and laughing * Memory performance in

Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in short-term me ...

and

dementia Dementia is a disorder which manifests as a set of related symptoms, which usually surfaces when the brain is damaged by injury or disease. The symptoms involve progressive impairments in memory, thinking, and behavior, which negatively affe ...

* Language processing and

speech production Speech production is the process by which thoughts are translated into speech. This includes the selection of words, the organization of relevant grammatical forms, and then the articulation of the resulting sounds by the motor system using the vo ...

* Functional anatomy of

cerebellum The cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") is a major feature of the hindbrain of all vertebrates. Although usually smaller than the cerebrum, in some animals such as the mormyrid fishes it may be as large as or even larger. In humans, the cerebel ...

and

thalamus The thalamus (from Greek θάλαμος, "chamber") is a large mass of gray matter located in the dorsal part of the diencephalon (a division of the forebrain). Nerve fibers project out of the thalamus to the cerebral cortex in all directions, ...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Grodd was able to demonstrate somatotopic activation areas for the motor activities of lips, tongue, hands and feet in the cortex of the cerebellum. * Cognitive processing of visual processes

Awards

For his scientific research activity, Grodd was awarded the "Kurt-Decker Award" of the German Society for Neuroradiology in 1988, 1989, 1992 and in 1998.German Society for Neuroradiology, Kurt-Decker Award
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Memberships in scientific organizations

Grodd is a member of various national and international scientific organizations: * since 1988 International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine(ISMRM) * since 1988 European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) * since 1996 Organization for Human Brain Mapping(OHBM) * since 1998 American Society of Advancement of Science(AAAS) * since 2000 German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology(DGKN) * since 2001 Society for Neuroscience(SNS)

Publications

Grodd is the author and co-author of more than 250 publications in neuroscientific journals and 26 chapters in monographs and books.
list of publications Wolfgang Grodd, ResearchGate

list of publications Wolfgang Grodd, PubMed

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References

External links

MPG Tübingen Wolfgang Grodd
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