Walter Paulus

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Walter Paulus (born March 3, 1953 in Monschau ) is a German neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist . Since 1992 he has been director of the Clinic for Clinical Neurophysiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen . Since 2018 he has been President of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 'International Federation for Clinical Neurophysiology' (IFCN).

Life

Walter Paulus attended the Einhard grammar school in Aachen . From 1972 to 1978 he studied human medicine at the University of Düsseldorf and received his doctorate there in 1978 ( summa cum laude ). The specialist training took place at the Neurological University Clinic in Düsseldorf and in 1980 at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. From 1982 to 1984 he worked at the Alfried Krupp Hospital in Essen and in 1984 moved to the Neurological University Clinic of the LMU Munich in Großhadern. In 1987 he was in the Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology habilitation .

In 1992 he accepted the professorship for clinical neurophysiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen.

From 1998 to 1999 he was President of the DGKN , from 2014 to 2018 Chairman of the European Chapter of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN). He has been President of IFCN since 2018, with a term of office until 2022. Template: future / in 2 yearsSince 2016 he has been a member of the Foundation Committee of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Foundation Council of the University of Göttingen.

As part of his doctorate, he worked scientifically on color perception , retinal color circuit models and the neurophysiology of human color perception. The habilitation took place via visual stance stabilization. Since 1995 the scientific focus has been on human neuroplasticity research. Paulus was involved in the introduction of new brain stimulation methods such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and transcranial noise stimulation (tRNA). He has coordinated various research alliances (International Research Training Group of the DFG ; Marie Curie Training of the European Commission ; Volkswagen Foundation ; dopaminergic stem cells, BMBF ) and received third-party funding from the DFG, BMBF, Rose Foundation, Migraine Research Foundation, German RLS Association, Lower Saxony- Israel Cooperation Program u. a.

He is listed among the 1% most cited scientists, more than 650 publications and more than 40,000 citations in the Web of Science and 57,000 in Google Scholar .

Paul is married and has two children.

Honors

  • 1978/1979: Prize for the best doctoral thesis from the University of Düsseldorf
  • 2016: Hans Berger Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Clinical Neurophysiology

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WM Paulus, V. Hömberg, K. Cunningham, AM Halliday: Color and brightness coding in the central nervous system: theoretical aspects and visual evoked potentials to homogeneous red and green stimuli . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . Series B, Biological Sciences . tape 227 , no. 1246 , February 1986, doi : 10.1098 / rspb.1986.0009 (English).
  2. ^ WM Paulus, A. Straube, TH. Brandt: Visual stabilization of posture. Physiological stimulus characteristics and clinical aspects . In: Brain . tape 107 , no. 4 , December 4, 1984, pp. 1143–1163 , doi : 10.1093 / brain / 107.4.1143 (English).
  3. ↑ Michael A. Nitsche, Walter Paulus: Excitability changes induced in the human motor cortex by weak transcranial direct current stimulation . In: The Journal of Physiology . tape 527 , no. 3 , August 13, 2004, doi : 10.1111 / j.1469-7793.2000.t01-1-00633.x (English).
  4. ↑ Andrea Antal, Klára Boros, Csaba Poreisz, Leila Chaieb, Daniella Terney, Walter Paulus: Comparatively weak after-effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on cortical excitability in humans . In: Brain Stimulation . tape 1 , no. 2 , April 2008, doi : 10.1016 / j.brs.2007.10.001 (English).
  5. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers 2018. In: hcr.clarivate.com. Accessed August 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Walter Paulus. In: Publons. Accessed August 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Walter Paulus. In: Google Scholar Citations. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist and neurophysiologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Monschau