Mapping the functional organization of the human brain
We are a neuroimaging research group at the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering focused on the development and application of methods for pushing the limits of functional MRI (fMRI). Closely connected to clinics of the Vienna General Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in the world, and not too far away from the University of Vienna, the MR Centre is an ideal place for our fMRI group for interdisciplinary clinical and basic biomedical research, as well as collaborations in biological psychology and cognitive science projects. Furthermore, the improvement and development of novel acquisition, data processing and analysis methods are central topics of our group. Our newest hardware and methods developments allow for concurrent TMS/fMRI applications.
Research Area
Team members
Principal Investigator
Christian Windischberger
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Members
David Linhardt
Martin Tik
Maria Vasileiadi
Michael Woletz
- Jacqueline Atanelov
- Roland Fischer
- Nicole Geissberger
- Florian Gerstl
- André Hoffmann
- Wolfgang Huf
- Allan Hummer
- Emrah Kacar
- Christian Kasess
- Martin Küblböck
- Elmar Laistler
- Carmen Morawetz
- Lucia Navarro de Lara
- Matic Princic
- Anna-Lisa Schuler
- Ronald Sladky
- Jürgen Suntinger
- Jasmin Tröstl
- Closed-loop Individualized image-guided Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation CITRUS
EU Horizon ID: 101071008, Project coordinator - Calibrated Brain Stimulation by Concurrent TMS/fMRI Stimulation
Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Principal Investigator - Convergent evolution of the social brain
WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund), Co-PI - Multimodal assessment of macular function
Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Co-PI - PRIZEPRINT
AWS, Project Partner - CREAM - Creativity Enhancement Through Advanced Brain Mapping and Stimulation
EU, FP7-ICT-2013-10, Project Partner - Man4Gen - Manual Control of 4th Generation Airliners
EU, FP7-AAT-2012-RTD-1, Project Partner - LIKE ME
WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund), Cognitive Sciences Call, Co-PI - OPIOIDEMPATHY
WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund), Cognitive Sciences Call, Co-PI - Networks of Anxiety
OeNB (Oesterreichische Nationalbank), Anniversary Fund, Principal Investigator
Selected peer-reviewed publications
- Geissberger N & Tik M, Sladky R, Woletz M, Schule AL, Willinger D, Windischberger C. Reproducibility of amygdala activation in facial emotion processing at 7T. Neuroimage. 2020 Jan 26:116585. 2020.
- Woletz M, Hoffmann A, Tik M, Sladky R, Lanzenberger R, Robinson S, Windischberger C. Beware detrending: Optimal preprocessing pipeline for low-frequency fluctuation analysis. Hum Brain Mapp. 2019 Apr 1;40(5):1571-1582. 2019.
- Hummer A, Ritter M, Woletz M, Ledolter AA, Tik M, Dumoulin SO, Holder GE, Schmidt-Erfurth U, Windischberger C. Artificial scotoma estimation based on population receptive field mapping. Neuroimage. 2018 Apr 1;169:342-351. 2018.
- Tik M, Sladky R, Luft CDB, Willinger D, Hoffmann A, Banissy MJ, Bhattacharya J, Windischberger C. Ultra-high-field fMRI insights on insight: Neural correlates of the Aha!-moment. Human Brain Mapping 2018 Apr 17. 2018.
- Biswal BB, Mennes M, Zuo XN, Gohel S, Kelly C, Smith SM, Beckmann CF, Adelstein JS, Buckner RL, Colcombe S, Dogonowski AM, Ernst M, Fair D, Hampson M, Hoptman MJ, Hyde JS, Kiviniemi VJ, Kötter R, Li SJ, Lin CP, Lowe MJ, Mackay C, Madden DJ, Madsen KH, Margulies DS, Mayberg HS, McMahon K, Monk CS, Mostofsky SH, Nagel BJ, Pekar JJ, Peltier SJ, Petersen SE, Riedl V, Rombouts SA, Rypma B, Schlaggar BL, Schmidt S, Seidler RD, Siegle GJ, Sorg C, Teng GJ, Veijola J, Villringer A, Walter M, Wang L, Weng XC, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Williamson P, Windischberger C, Zang YF, Zhang HY, Castellanos FX, Milham MP. Toward discovery science of human brain function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107:4734-9, 2010.
- Tik M, Hoffmann A, Sladky R, Tomova L, Hummer A, Navarro de Lara L, Bukowski H, Pripfl J, Biswal B, Lamm C, Windischberger C. Towards understanding rTMS mechanism of action: Stimulation of the DLPFC causes network-specific increase in functional connectivity. Neuroimage. 2017 Nov 15;162:289-296.
- Navarro de Lara L & Tik M, Woletz M, Frass-Kriegl R, Moser E, Laistler E, Windischberger C. High-sensitivity TMS/fMRI of the Human Motor Cortex Using a Dedicated Multichannel MR Coil. NeuroImage. 150:262-9. 2017.
- Kraus C, Klöbl M, Tik M, Auer B, Vanicek T, Geissberger N, Pfabigan DM, Hahn A, Woletz M, Paul K, Komorowski A, Kasper S, Windischberger C, Lamm C, Lanzenberger R. The pulvinar nucleus and antidepressant treatment: dynamic modeling of antidepressant response and remission with ultra-high field functional MRI. Mol Psychiatry. 2018 Feb 8. 2018.
- Rütgen M, Seidel EM, Silani G, Riečanský I, Hummer A, Windischberger C, Petrovic P, Lamm C. Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Oct 13;112(41):E5638-46, 2015.
- Hahn A, Wadsak W, Windischberger C, Baldinger P, Höflich A, Losak J, Nics L, Philippe C, Kranz GS, Kraus C, Mitterhauser M, Karanikas G, Kasper S, Lanzenberger R. Differential modulation of self-referential processing in the default mode network via serotonin-1A receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 109(7):2619-24, 2012.