Wolfgang Grodd

Wolfgang Grodd
Born	(1942-07-25) July 25, 1942 Detmold
Residence	Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	radiology, metabolism
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Known for	Development and application of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in metabolic diseases, sensorimotor representation, language production, cognitive processing

Wolfgang Grodd (born 25 July 1942 in Detmold) is a German radiologist and professor emeritus of the University of Tübingen. He is known for his scientific works on the development and application of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in metabolic diseases, sensorimotor representation, language production and cognitive processing. Currently, Grodd is research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.^[1]

Biography

After serving his required military duty (Air Force) from 1960 to 1964, Grodd completed his training to become an electronic technician. In 1968 he completed his high-school education at the Westfalen Kolleg in Bielefeld and started his university studies in biology (1968–1977) and medicine (1974–1981), both at the University of Tübingen.^[2] From 1972 until 1975 he was rewarded a scholarship of the Evangelisches Studentenwerk Villigst. In 1977 he received his degree in biology and in 1981 his MD – along with his license to practice medicine. From 1981 until 1986 Grodd was a resident physician in the Department of Medical Radiology at the University of Tübingen augmented in 1984–85 by a research fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to work with the Department of Radiology at the University of San Francisco. In 1987, Grodd shifted to the Department of Neuroradiology at the University of Tübingen, where he worked as a senior physician from 1991 until 1995. In 1991 he qualified himself as a German professor ("habilitation") in the discipline of radiology/neuroradiology by presenting his research findings on the topic of "Experimental and clinical investigations on selective proton spectroscopy of the human brain". In the same year he attained lectureship status for the subject of neuroradiology. From 1995 until his retirement in 2010, he was professor and head of the section of Experimental Magnetic Resonance of the Central Nervous System of the University Hospital of Tübingen. Currently, Grodd is an independent researcher at the department High-field Magnetic Resonance of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.^[1]

Scientific focus

• Clinical use of proton spectroscopy^[3][4][5]
• Maturation, abnormalities and metabolic diseases of children's brains^[6][7][8]
• Functional imaging of fear, sociopathy, humour and laughing^{[9][10][11][12]}
• Memory performance in Alzheimer's disease and dementia^[13][14][15]
• Language processing and speech production^{[16][17][18][19]}
• Functional anatomy of cerebellum and thalamus^{[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]} Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Grodd was able to demonstrate somatotopic activation areas for the motor activities of lips, tongue, hands and feet in the cortex of the cerebellum.
• Cognitive processing of visual processes^{[30][31][32][33][34][35]}

Awards

For his scientific research activity, Grodd was awarded the "Kurt-Decker Award" of the German Society for Neuroradiology in 1988, 1989, 1992 and in 1998.^[36] In 1989 the German Society for Neurotraumatology honored him for his outstanding scientific work.^[2]

Memberships in scientific organizations

Grodd is member in various national and international scientific organizations:

• since 1985 German Roentgen-Ray Society (DRG)
• since 1985 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
• since 1988 German Society for Neuroradiology (DGNR)
• since 1988 International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
• since 1988 European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB)
• since 1990 European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR)
• since 1992 Professional Association German Neuroradiologists
• since 1996 Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
• since 1998 American Society of Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• since 2000 German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (DGKN)
• since 2001 Society for Neuroscience (SNS)

Publications

Grodd ist author and co-author of more than 250 publications in neuroscientific journals and 26 chapters in monographs and books.

• list of publications Wolfgang Grodd, ResearchGate
• list of publications Wolfgang Grodd, PubMed

External links

• MPG Tübingen Wolfgang Grodd

References

1. 1 2 Wolfgang Grodd, research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
2. 1 2 Curriculum Vitae of Wolfgang Grodd, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
3. ↑ Grodd, W., Krägeloh-Mann, I., Petersen, D., Trefz, F.K., and Harzer, K. (1990). In vivo assessment of N-acetylaspartate in brain in spongy degeneration (Canavan’s disease) by proton spectroscopy. Lancet 336, 437–438. PMID 1974962
4. ↑ Grodd, W., Krägeloh-Mann, I., Klose, U., and Sauter, R. (1991). Metabolic and destructive brain disorders in children: findings with localized proton MR spectroscopy. Radiology 181, 173–181. PMID 1887030
5. ↑ Grodd, W. (1993). Normal and abnormal patterns of myelin development of the fetal and infantile human brain using magnetic resonance imaging. Curr Opin Neurol Neurosurg 6, 393–397. PMID 8507909
6. ↑ Staudt, M., Krägeloh-Mann, I., and Grodd, W. (2000). [Normal myelination in childhood brains using MRI--a meta analysis]. Rofo 172, 802–811. PMID 11111291
7. ↑ Wilke, M., Staudt, M., Juenger, H., Grodd, W., Braun, C., and Krägeloh-Mann, I. (2009). Somatosensory system in two types of motor reorganization in congenital hemiparesis: topography and function. Hum Brain Mapp 30, 776–788. PMID 18286510
8. ↑ Eichler, F., Grodd, W., Grant, E., Sessa, M., Biffi, A., Bley, A., Kohlschuetter, A., Loes, D.J., and Kraegeloh-Mann, I. (2009). Metachromatic leukodystrophy: a scoring system for brain MR imaging observations. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 30, 1893–1897. PMID 19797797
9. ↑ Birbaumer, N., Veit, R., Lotze, M., Erb, M., Hermann, C., Grodd, W., and Flor, H. (2005). Deficient fear conditioning in psychopathy: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 62, 799–805. PMID 15997022
10. ↑ Veit, R., Flor, H., Erb, M., Hermann, C., Lotze, M., Grodd, W., and Birbaumer, N. (2002). Brain circuits involved in emotional learning in antisocial behavior and social phobia in humans. Neurosci. Lett. 328, 233–236. PMID 12147314
11. ↑ Wild, B., Rodden, F.A., Rapp, A., Erb, M., Grodd, W., and Ruch, W. (2006). Humor and smiling: cortical regions selective for cognitive, affective, and volitional components. Neurology 66, 887–893. PMID 16567707
12. ↑ Wild, B., Rodden, F.A., Grodd, W., and Ruch, W. (2003). Neural correlates of laughter and humour. Brain 126, 2121–2138. PMID 12902310
13. ↑ Heun, R., Klose, U., Jessen, F., Erb, M., Papassotiropoulos, A., Lotze, M., and Grodd, W. (1999). Functional MRI of cerebral activation during encoding and retrieval of words. Hum Brain Mapp 8, 157–169. PMID 10619411
14. ↑ Heun, R., Freymann, K., Erb, M., Leube, D.T., Jessen, F., Kircher, T.T., and Grodd, W. (2007). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and actual retrieval performance affect cerebral activation in the elderly. Neurobiol. Aging 28, 404–413. PMID 16530885
15. ↑ Heun, R., Jessen, F., Klose, U., Erb, M., Granath, D.-O., and Grodd, W. (2004). Response-related fMRI of veridical and false recognition of words. Eur. Psychiatry 19, 42–52. PMID 14969780
16. ↑ Wildgruber, D., Ackermann, H., and Grodd, W. (2001). Differential contributions of motor cortex, basal ganglia, and cerebellum to speech motor control: effects of syllable repetition rate evaluated by fMRI. Neuroimage 13, 101–109. PMID 11133313
17. ↑ Riecker, A., Ackermann, H., Wildgruber, D., Dogil, G., and Grodd, W. (2000). Opposite hemispheric lateralization effects during speaking and singing at motor cortex, insula and cerebellum. Neuroreport 11, 1997–2000. PMID 10884059
18. ↑ Lidzba, K., Wilke, M., Staudt, M., Krägeloh-Mann, I., and Grodd, W. (2008). Reorganization of the cerebro-cerebellar network of language production in patients with congenital left-hemispheric brain lesions. Brain Lang 106, 204–210. PMID 18158178
19. ↑ Brendel, B., Hertrich, I., Erb, M., Lindner, A., Riecker, A., Grodd, W., and Ackermann, H. (2010). The contribution of mesiofrontal cortex to the preparation and execution of repetitive syllable productions: an fMRI study. Neuroimage 50, 1219–1230. PMID 20080191
20. ↑ Grodd, W., Hülsmann, E., and Ackermann, H. (2005). Functional MRI localizing in the cerebellum. Neurosurg. Clin. N. Am. 16, 77–99, v. PMID 15561530
21. ↑ Sokolov, A.A., Erb, M., Grodd, W., and Pavlova, M.A. (2014). Structural loop between the cerebellum and the superior temporal sulcus: evidence from diffusion tensor imaging. Cereb. Cortex 24, 626–632. PMID 23169930
22. ↑ Anders, S., Birbaumer, N., Sadowski, B., Erb, M., Mader, I., Grodd, W., and Lotze, M. (2004). Parietal somatosensory association cortex mediates affective blindsight. Nat. Neurosci. 7, 339–340. PMID 15034586
23. ↑ Staudt, M., Gerloff, C., Grodd, W., Holthausen, H., Niemann, G., and Krägeloh-Mann, I. (2004). Reorganization in congenital hemiparesis acquired at different gestational ages. Ann. Neurol. 56, 854–863. PMID 15562409
24. ↑ Lotze, M., Grodd, W., Birbaumer, N., Erb, M., Huse, E., and Flor, H. (1999). Does use of a myoelectric prosthesis prevent cortical reorganization and phantom limb pain? Nat. Neurosci. 2, 501–502. PMID 10448212
25. ↑ Lotze M, Erb M, Flor H, Huelsmann E, Godde B, Grodd W (2000) fMRI evaluation of somatotopic representation in human primary motor cortex. Neuroimage 11:473-481. doi:10.1006/nimg.2000.0556
26. ↑ Lotze M, Montoya P, Erb M, Hulsmann E, Flor H, Klose U, Birbaumer N, Grodd W (1999) Activation of cortical and cerebellar motor areas during executed and imagined hand movements: an fMRI study. J Cogn Neurosci 11:491-501. PMID 10511638
27. ↑ Lotze M, Grodd W, Rodden FA, Gut E, Schönle PW, Kardatzki B, Cohen LG. Neuroimaging patterns associated with motor control in traumatic brain injury. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2006 Mar;20(1):14-23. PMID 16467275
28. ↑ Kumar, V., Mang, S., and Grodd, W. (2014). Direct diffusion-based parcellation of the human thalamus. Brain Struct Funct 220, 1619–1635.^ PMID 24659254
29. ↑ Mang, S.C., Busza, A., Reiterer, S., Grodd, W., Klose, and Uwe (2012). Thalamus segmentation based on the local diffusion direction: A group study. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 67, 118–126. PMID 21656553
30. ↑ Kourtzi, Z., Bülthoff, H.H., Erb, M., and Grodd, W. (2002). Object-selective responses in the human motion area MT/MST. Nat. Neurosci. 5, 17–18. PMID 11740503
31. ↑ Bilalić, M., Turella, L., Campitelli, G., Erb, M., and Grodd, W. (2012). Expertise modulates the neural basis of context dependent recognition of objects and their relations. Hum. Brain Mapp. 33, 2728–2740. PMID 21998070
32. ↑ Bilalić, M., Langner, R., Ulrich, R., and Grodd, W. (2011). Many faces of expertise: fusiform face area in chess experts and novices. J. Neurosci. 31, 10206–10214. PMID 21752997
33. ↑ Bilalić, M., Langner, R., Campitelli, G., Turella, L., and Grodd, W. (2015). Editorial: Neural implementation of expertise. Front. Hum. Neurosci 545. PMID 26483662
34. ↑ Chassy, P., and Grodd, W. (2012). Comparison of Quantities: Core and Format-Dependent Regions as Revealed by fMRI. Cereb. Cortex 22, 1420–1430. PMID 21878489
35. ↑ Chassy, P., and Grodd, W. (2016). Editorial: Abstract Mathematical Cognition. Front. Hum. Neurosci 719. PMID 26858630
36. ↑ German Society for Neuroradiology, Kurt-Decker Award