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Thomas Stephan

Dr. Thomas Stephan

GSN associate faculty

Responsibilities

Scientist "German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders"

Contact

Munich University Hospital (LMU)
Dept. of Neurology, Neurologisches Forschungshaus
Feodor-Lynen-Str. 19
D-81377 Munich

Phone: +49 (0)89 / 4400-74819
Fax: +49 (0)89 / 4400-74801

Website: http://www.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de/Klinik-und-Poliklinik-fuer-Neurologie/de/Forschung/Experimentelle_Neurologie/AG_Dieterich/team/Projekleiter/Stephan/index.html

Further Information

Research focus: Functional neuroimaging, visual-vestibular interactions, multisensory processing, visual-auditory interactions, statistical analysis of functional neuroimaging data, spatiotemporal preprocessing of functional neuroimaging data

Key words: Functional imaging, clinical neuroscience, sensorimotor research

Selected publications:

Boegle R, Stephan T, Ertl M, Glasauer S, Dieterich M. (2016) Magnetic vestibular stimulation modulates default mode network fluctuations. Neuroimage. 127:409-21

Baier B, Conrad J, Stephan T, Kirsch V, Vogt T, Wilting J, Müller-Forell W, Dieterich M. (2016) Vestibular thalamus: Two distinct graviceptive pathways. Neurology. 86(2):134-40

Feddersen B, Vollmar C, Rémi J, Stephan T, Flanagin VL, Noachtar S. Seizures From Solving Sudoku Puzzles. JAMA Neurol. 2015 Dec;72(12):1524-6. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2015.2828. PubMed PMID: 26501194.

Cyran CA, Boegle R, Stephan T, Dieterich M, Glasauer S. (2016) Age-related decline in functional connectivity of the vestibular cortical network. Brain Struct Funct. 221(3):1443-63

Hummel N, Hüfner K, Stephan T, Linn J, Kremmyda O, Brandt T, Flanagin VL.(2014) Vestibular loss and balance training cause similar changes in human cerebral white matter fractional anisotropy. PLoS One. 9(4):e95666

Stefanova I, Stephan T, Becker-Bense S, Dera T, Brandt T, Dieterich M. (2013) Age-related changes of blood-oxygen-level-dependent signal dynamics during optokinetic stimulation. Neurobiol Aging. 34(10):2277-86

Hüfner K, Binetti C, Hamilton DA, Stephan T, Flanagin VL, Linn J, Labudda K, Markowitsch H, Glasauer S, Jahn K, Strupp M and Brandt T. (2010) Structural and functional plasticity of the hippocampal formation in professional dancers and slackliners. Hippocampus. (Epub ahead of print 22 Jun 2010).

Stephan T, Hüfner K and Brandt T. (2009) Stimulus profile and modeling of continuous galvanic vestibular stimulation in functional magnetic resonance imaging. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1164: 472-475.

Hüfner K, Hamilton DA, Kalla R, Stephan T, Glasauer S, Ma J, Brüning R, Markowitsch HJ, Labudda K, Schichor C, Strupp M and Brandt T. (2007) Spatial memory and hippocampal volume in humans with unilateral vestibular deafferentation. Hippocampus 17(6): 471-85.

Stephan T, Deutschländer A, Nolte A, Schneider E, Wiesmann M, Brandt T and Dieterich M. (2005) Functional MRI of galvanic vestibular stimulation with alternating currents at different frequencies. Neuroimage 26(3): 721-32.

Stephan T, Mascolo A, Yousry TA, Bense S, Brandt T and Dieterich M. (2002) Changes in cerebellar activation pattern during two successive sequences of saccades. Hum Brain Mapp. 16(2): 63-70.

Stephan T, Marx E, Brückmann H, Brandt T and Dieterich M. (2002) Lid closure mimics head movement in fMRI. Neuroimage 16(4):1156-8.