Structural and functional organisation of the brain

At INM-1, a 3D model of the human brain is being developed that takes into account cytoarchitectonics, connectivity, molecular structure as well as genetics and brain function.

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Brain Researcher Katrin Amunts Receives Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

On Wednesday, 16 March 2022, Prof. Katrin Amunts was the recipient of a very special honour in recognition of her outstanding commitment to the neurosciences. At the Ministry of Culture and Science in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia’s Science Minister Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen presented the 59-year-old with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

New study reveals how the volumes of brain regions change in Parkinson’s disease

A team of researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine (INM-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and Ernst-von-Bergmann Klinikum Potsdam found that in Parkinson’s disease the volumes of certain brain regions decrease over time in a specific pattern that is associated with clinical symptoms and largely coincides with the pattern described in Braak’s famous staging theory.

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