Peter Brugger (neuropsychologist)

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Peter Brugger (* 1957 in Zurich ) is a Swiss neuropsychologist and professor of behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry at the University of Zurich .

Life

Brugger initially trained as a primary school teacher before studying biology and psychology in Zurich . He received his doctorate in zoology in 1991 on the subject of "Subjective Chance: Implications for Neuropsychology and Parapsychology". Research stays in San Diego and Victoria (British Columbia) followed . After returning to Zurich , he completed his habilitation at the Medical Faculty on the subject of "From Phantom Limb to Phantom Body: The Neuropsychiatry of Extracorporal Awareness". Since 2003 he has headed the neuropsychological department of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Zurich . He is also a member of the Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP) at the University of Zurich.

Brugger is a father of three. His daughter Hazel Brugger is a well-known slam poet , cabaret artist and presenter .

research

His belief in telepathy and clairvoyance motivated Brugger to study. However, he recognized this as an error and henceforth devoted himself to researching the neurological basis of belief. Brugger's main research interests include the representation of space, body, number and time in the brain, as well as neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry of creativity and delusion . He also deals with amputation , unfamiliarity, hallucinations and identity disorders.

Brugger is a member of the Science Council of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences .

Publications (selection)

  • Andreas U. Monsch, Mark W. Bondi, Nelson Butters, Jane S. Paulsen, David P. Salmon, Peter Brugger, Michael R. Swenson: A comparison of category and letter fluency in Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease . In: Neuropsychology , 8, No. 1, 1994, pp. 25-30.
  • Daniel Bächtold, Martin Baumüller, PeterBrugger: Stimulus-response compatibility in representational space . In: Neuropsychologia , 36, No. 8, 1998, pp. 731-735.
  • Peter Brugger, Spyros S. Kollias, René M. Müri, Gérard Crelier, Marie-Claude Hepp-Reymond, Marianne Regard: Beyond re-membering: Phantom sensations of congenitally absent limbs . In: PNAS , 97, No. 11, 2000, pp. 6167-6172.
  • Patrik Vuilleumier, Stéphanie Ortigue, PeterBrugger: The Number Space and Neglect . In: Cortex , 40, No. 2, 2004, pp. 399-410.
  • Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr, Christoph M. Michel, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Peter Brugger, Margitta Seeck, Theodor Landis, Gregor Thut: Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction. In: Journal of Neuroscience , 25, No. 3, 2005, pp. 550-557.
  • Daria Knoch, Lorena RR Gianotti, Alvaro Pascual-Leone , Valerie Treyer, Marianne Regard, Martin Hohmann, Peter Brugger: Disruption of Right Prefrontal Cortex by Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Induces Risk-Taking Behavior. In: Journal of Neuroscience , 26, No. 24, 2006, pp. 6469-6472.
  • Martin H. Fischer, Peter Brugger: When digits help digits: spatial-numerical associations point to finger counting as prime example of embodied cognition . In: Front. Psychol. , 2, No. 260, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c GWUP - The Skeptics - Prof. Peter Brugger. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Neuropsychology: I am a converted believer. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b How neuropsychologist Peter Brugger researches (supra) belief. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Michael Baumann: “The brain leads us to believe that there are connections where there are none” - the neuropsychologist Peter Brugger. In: Science personally. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Barbara Reye: The Haunted Professor . In: Tages-Anzeiger . January 16, 2017, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed June 9, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Brugger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss neuropsychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich