Prof. Dr. med. Peter zu Eulenburg

Keywords: vestibular, ocular motor, neuroimaging, space flight, microgravity

Research methods: Structural and functional neuroimaging, deep-learning assisted video-oculography, blood-based brain biomarkers

Brief research description: Cartography of the central and peripheral human vestibular and ocular motor system by means of functional and structural neuroimaging. Investigation of the associated domains of self motion perception and egocentric referencing in health and in neurootological disease. Structural effects of Spaceflight on the human brain and eye. As of late quantifiable segmentation of the inner ear and the eye.

GSN PhD students (current and graduated): Ge Tang, Berk Olcay, Theresa Raiser, Juditha Huber, Pauline Popp

Selected publications:

Van Ombergen, A., S. Jillings, B. Jeurissen, E. Tomilovskaya, R. M. Ruhl, A. Rumshiskaya, I. Nosikova, L. Litvinova, J. Annen, E. V. Pechenkova, I. B. Kozlovskaya, S. Sunaert, P. M. Parizel, V. Sinitsyn, S. Laureys, J. Sijbers, P. Zu Eulenburg* and F. L. Wuyts (2018). "Brain Tissue-Volume Changes in Cosmonauts." N Engl J Med 379(17): 1678-1680. (*shared senior authorship) DOI:10.1056/NEJMc1809011 

Van Ombergen, A., S. Jillings, B. Jeurissen, E. Tomilovskaya, A. Rumshiskaya, L. Litvinova, I. Nosikova, E. Pechenkova, I. Rukavishnikov, O. Manko, S. Danylichev, R. M. Ruhl, I. B. Kozlovskaya, S. Sunaert, P. M. Parizel, V. Sinitsyn, S. Laureys, J. Sijbers, P. Zu Eulenburg and F. L. Wuyts (2019). "Brain ventricular volume changes induced by long-duration spaceflight." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. (*shared senior authorship) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820354116 

zu Eulenburg, P., S. Caspers, C. Roski and S. B. Eickhoff (2012). "Meta-analytical definition and functional connectivity of the human vestibular cortex." Neuroimage 60(1): 162-169. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.032

zu Eulenburg, P., P. Stoeter and M. Dieterich (2010). "Voxel-based morphometry depicts central compensation after vestibular neuritis." Ann Neurol 68(2): 241-249. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.22063

Ruhl, R. M., T. Bauermann, M. Dieterich and P. Zu Eulenburg (2018). "Functional correlate and delineated connectivity pattern of human motion aftereffect responses substantiate a subjacent visual-vestibular interaction." Neuroimage 174: 22-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.057