Dr. Michael Nitsche of Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors

Non-invasive brain stimulation has been developed during the last ten years as an interesting new tool to modulate cortical excitability, activity, and plasticity at the regional and network level. One of these tools is transcranial electric stimulation (tES), which alters respective physiology via application of weak direct currents (tDCS) or alternating currents (tACS) through the intact skull. This talk will deliver an overview about basic mechanisms of action of the respective techniques, including new results, and also an introduction with respect to effects on psychological and behavioural processes in health and disease.

Biography:

Dr. Michael A. Nitsche is Director of the Dept. Psychology and Neurosciences at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Dortmund, and holds a position as scientific staff member at the Dept. Neurology of the University Medical Center Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany. He studied Psychology and Medicine at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen, and performed his Dissertation in Medicine at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen. From 1999-2015, he was resident and consultant at the Dept. Clinical Neurophysiology of the University Medical Center in Goettingen. His main research topics are plasticity research in humans, including non-invasive brain stimulation, neuropsychopharmacology, and cognition. 

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cKxeGqQAAAAJ&hl=de