Neuroplasticity and learning

The Neuroplasticity and Learning group investigates the extent to which learning processes lead to neuroplastic changes in the brain and how these learning processes can be improved in psychiatric and neurological disorders by non-invasive brain stimulation methods.

Contact

Management:

frontend.sr-only_#{element.icon}: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ahmed A. Karim Dipl.-Psych. Psychological psychotherapist, neuroscientist

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E-mail address: ahmed.karim@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Cooperation partner

Prof. Dr. Niels Birbaumer and Prof. Dr. Boris Kotchoubey, Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen.
Prof. Dr. Martin Hautzinger, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Nürk, Department of Diagnostics and Cognitive Neuropsychology, University of Tübingen.
Dr. Dr. Elise Klein, Neurocognition Research Group, Leibnitz Institute for Knowledge Media, University of Tübingen.
Prof. Dr. Eman Khedr, University Clinic of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut, Egypt.
Dr. Martin Krippl, Institute of Psychology, University of Magdeburg.
Dr. Stephan Schleim, Department of Theory and History of Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Dr. Jérome Daltrozzo, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States

Selected publications

Hodzic A, Veit R, Karim AA, Erb M, Godde B. (2004). Improvement and decline in tactile behavior after cortical plasticity induced by passive tactile coactivation. Journal of Neuroscience 24:442-446.
Karim AA, Hinterberger T, Richter J, Mellinger J, Neumann N, Flor H, Kübler A, Birbaumer N. (2006). Neural Internet: Web surfing with brain potentials for the completely paralyzed. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 20:508-515
Karim AA, Schueler A, Hegner YL, Friedel E, Godde B. (2006). Facilitating effect of 15 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on tactile perceptual learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18:1577-1585.
Sauseng P, Klimesch W, Hummel FC, Heise K, Gruber WR, Karim AA, Gerloff C, Birbaumer N. (2009). Brain oscillatory correlates of human short-term memory capacity. Current Biology. 19(21): 1846-1852.
Karim AA, Schneider M, Lotze M, Veit R, Sauseng P, Braun C, Birbaumer N. (2010). The truth about lying: inhibition of the anterior prefrontal cortex improves deceptive behavior. Cerebral Cortex 20(1): 205-213.