Rainer Schwarting

Rainer Schwarting (born July 27, 1955 in Berlin ) is a German neuropsychologist and professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Schwarting passed his Abitur in 1974 at the Josephinum grammar school in Hildesheim. In 1976 he began studying psychology at the University of Hamburg . He obtained his diploma in 1982 at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . After a few years as a scientific employee at the Institute for Physiological Psychology , he was also promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. After a further five years as a research assistant, he acquired the Venia legendi in psychology with his habilitation in Düsseldorf in 1993 .

From 1994 to 1998 he received a Heisenberg grant and from 1996 to 1999 he headed a research group at the Biological-Medical Research Center of the University of Düsseldorf. Since 1999 he has been Professor of General and Biological Psychology at the Philipps University of Marburg. His scientific focuses are: basal ganglia functions and dysfunctions , biopsychology of learning, memory, motivation and emotion, individuality in the animal model , psychopharmacology , neuropsychoimmunology . He and his team are involved in the EU-funded project to research the molecular causes of epilepsy : "Micro-RNAs in the pathogenesis, therapy and prevention of epilepsy" (EpiMiRNA).

Schwarting is a member of the scientific societies: Neuroscientific Society , German Society for Psychology , Neurotoxicity Society , European Brain and Behavior Society, European Behavioral Pharmacology Society and the Society for Neuroscience . He took on the role of reviewer for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , the Leibniz Association , the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Culture and the German Research Foundation . For several years he has been an editor of several neuroscientific journals, including Neurotoxicity Research (since 1999), Neuroforum (since 2007) and Behavioral Brain Research (since 2008). He has been a member of the advisory board of the journal Neuropsychobiology since 1994 , and has been the review editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience since 2007.

Rainer Schwarting is married and the couple has two children. He lives and works in Marburg .

Fonts

• with N. Jegan and M. Wöhr: Situational factors, conditions and individual variables which can determine ultrasonic vocalizations in male adult Wistar rats. In: Behavioral Brain Research. 182, 2007, pp. 208-222.
• with M. Wöhr: Ultrasonic communication in rats: Can playback of 50-kHz calls induce approach behavior? In: PLoS One. 2, 2007, pp. 1-12.
• with V. Ludwig and Y. Mihov: Behavioral and neurochemical consequences of multiple MDMA administrations in the rat: role of individual differences in anxiety-related behavior. In: Behavioral Brain Research. 189, 2008, pp. 52-64.
• with C. Natusch: Using bedding in a test environment critically affects 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in laboratory rats. In: Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 96, 2010, pp. 251-259.
• with MT Eckart and MC Hülse-Matia: Dorsal hippocampal lesions boost performance in the rat sequential reaction time task. In: Hippocampus. 22, 2012, pp. 1202-1214.
• with M. Wöhr: Testing social acoustic memory in rats: Effects of stimulus configuration and long-term memory on the induction of social approach behavior by appetitive 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations. In: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 98, 2012, pp. 154-164.

Web links

• Scientist profile on the website of the Philipps University of Marburg
• Studium generale: Researchers show insights into the brain , Oberhessische Presse March 17, 2015
• Laughing rats at the University of Marburg , Science meets Society March 4, 2009

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Curriculum Vitae R. Schwarting on the website of the Neuroscientific Society
2. ↑ EpiMiRNA - 11.5 million euros for research into epilepsy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Society for Neurology September 26, 2013.