Welcome to the Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
| Announcement
New OCC PhD Student - Martina Saltafossi
In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Martina Saltafossi. Her research is based on the contexts "Recent research has unveiled the profound influence of respiration on behavior and neural activity, suggesting it acts as a clock mechanism aligning behavior with brain dynamics. These findings open up intriguing avenues for understanding the translational implications of fundamental research in clinical contexts." The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Joachim Gross and Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe. The PhD Committee is completed by Dr. Daniel Kluger.
| Thesis Defense
PhD for Olga Holtmann
We congratulate Dr. Olga Holtmann on successfully defending her thesis "The role of the insular cortex in emotional processing: Evidence from a multi-dimensional lesion-based approach" at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Straube, apl. Prof. Dr. Jens Bölte and Prof. Dr. Pienie Zwitserlood.
| Announcement
New OCC member - Thomas Kroker
We welcomeThomas Krokerfrom the Institute of Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2024.