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Speakers

Ansgar Büschges and Manfred Spitzer

Disciplines
Neurobiology

Course content

• Section 1: Linking Neural to Brain Function
• Section 2: Linking Neural Network Function to Brain Function
• Section 3: Cognitive Neuroscience
• Section 4: Affective and Social Neuroscience

Objectives

The course will give an introduction to neurobiology

Literature

• Schwarz J.H., Kandel E.R., Jessell T. (2006) Principles of Neural Sciences
• Orlovsky, G.N., Deliagina, T.G. and Grillner, S. Neural Control of Locomotion: From Mollusc to Man, Oxford University Press, 1999

CV 

Ansgar Büschges
Ansgar Büschges studied Biology at the Univ. of Bielefeld; 1989 Ph.D. in Biology at the Univ. of Kaiserslautern (with U. Bässler): neural basis of posture control in insects; 1989/91 postdoc with K. G. Pearson, Univ. of Alberta, Canada: functional recovery of locomotor patterns; 1991/97 research associate at the Univ. of Kaiserslautern with U. Bässler: insect walking pattern generation; 1995 Habilitation for Zoology; 1997/98 Heisenberg-Fellow, work with S. Grillner at the Nobel Inst. for Neurophysiol., Stockholm, Sweden: spinal networks for vertebrate locomotion; since 1998 head of the Animal Physiology Department at the Zool. Inst. in Cologne; 2001-02 convenor of the special research group on "Neural Control of Locomotion" at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin.

Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer studied Medicine (1977/83), Psychology (1978/84) and Philosophy (1978/85) at the Univ. of Freiburg; MD in Medicine and PhD Philosophy and a Diploma in Psychology; 1983/1988 Specialization in Psychiatry; 1989 Habilitation in Psychiatry, Univ. Freiburg with a study on delusions; 1990/97 senior physician (Oberarzt) at the Universityhospital for Psychiatry, Heidelberg; various research periods abroad: 1989/90 Visiting Assoc. Prof., Harvard Univ.; 1992 Visiting Scientist, Cogn. Neuroscience, University of Oregon; 1994 Visiting Full Prof., Clinical Psychology, Harvard University; since 1997 medical director of the Universityhospital for Psychiatry, Ulm; current research foci: general, experimental and clinical Psychpathology with specific emphasis on Neurobiology; combination of functional imaging approaches (multimodal Neuroimaging) for the identification of spatial and dynamic localizations of higher brain functions and their pathology.