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Björn Machner, MBA
Björn Machner, MBA
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Björn Machner, MBA

Profession

Chief physician - Hospital for Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology

Chief physician - Parkinson’s Specialised Clinic

Qualification

Specialist in Neurology
Additional qualification in Neurological Intensive Care
DGKN Certificates for EEG, EP, EMG
Certificate "Special Neurological Ultrasound Diagnostics" (DEGUM Level II, Instructor)

CV

since 2023
Chief Physician
Klinik für Neurologie und Klinische Neurophysiologie, Schön Klinik Neustadt
2016 - 2023
Senior Physician
Klinik für Neurologie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Lübeck
2013 - 2014
Assistant Physician
Zentrum für integrative Psychiatrie (ZiP), Lübeck
2010 - 2010
Research Fellow & Honorary Lecturer
University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London/UK
2006 - 2016
Assistant Physician and Research Associate
Klinik für Neurologie, UKSH, Campus Lübeck
1999 - 2005
Medical Studies
Universität zu Lübeck

Engagement

Membership
  • 2015 -

    Project funding "Spatial Neglect and Attention Networks in the Human Brain" by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

  • 2008 -
    • Principal/Sub-Investigator in various uni-/multicentre studies on vestibular disorders and cognitive deficits following stroke (neglect)

     

Scientific award
  • 2013 -

    Renate Maaß Prize for Brain Research

  • 2007 -

    State University Prize for the best dissertation at the Medical Faculty of Lübeck

Publications

2021
Usability of the head impulse test in routine clinical practice in the emergency department to differentiate vestibular neuritis from stroke

Machner B, Erber K, Choi JH, Trillenberg P, Sprenger A, Helmchen C
Eur J Neurol 28(5):1737-1744.

2021
Resting-state functional connectivity in the attention networks is not altered by offline theta-burst stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex or the temporo-parietal junction as compare

Machner B, Imholz J, Braun L, Koch PJ, Bäumer T, Münte TF, Helmchen C, Sprenger A
Neuroimage Reports. DOI: 10.1016/j.ynirp.2021.100013

2014
Randomized controlled trial on hemifield eye patching and optokinetic stimulation in acute spatial neglect

Machner B, Könemund I, Sprenger A, von der Gablentz J, Helmchen C
Stroke 45 (8):2465-8

2012
The effects of the dopamine agonist rotigotine on hemispatial neglect following stroke

Gorgoraptis N, Mah Y, Machner B, Singh-Curry V, Malhotra P, Hadji-Michael M, Cohen D, Simister R, Nair A, Kulinskaya E, Ward N, Greenwood R, Husain M
Brain 135 (8):2478-91

2010
Eye movement disorders are different in Parkin-linked and idiopathic early-onset PD

Machner B, Klein C, Sprenger A, Baumbach P, Pramstaller PP, Helmchen C, and Heide W
Neurology 75 (2):125-128