Professor of Paediatrics, Managing Director University Children's Hospital
Medical Director Department of Paediatrics and Developmental Neurology, Tübingen, Germany
Training
- Undergraduate at the University of Tübingen
- Postgraduate: paediatrics and paediatric neurology in Tübingen (R. Michaelis); Paris (Jean Aicardi)
- Habilitation Tübingen (1994)
Fields of clinical and research interest
The Tübingen department of Paediatric and Developmental Neurology has a traditional special interest in Cerebral Palsy, which was centered first on phenomenology and epidemiology, was then extended on imaging in CP children. We could characterize CP as a mainly lesional CNS disease and are now specially interested in the organization and reorganization after early brain lesions (for motor functions, language and visuo-perception), which we characterize on a morphological and functional level, including functional imaging and also behavioural and cognitive measures. Another associated interest is measurement of cerebral blood flow during brain development from preterm to adult using colour coded duplex sonography.
Memberships
- Editorial board of Neuropediatrics.
- Editorial board of Develomental Medicine and Child Neurology.
- Board of the Gesellschaft für Neuropädiatrie
- Board of the EACD (European Academy of Childhood disablities)