Prof Dr Björn Machner, MBA

Position Chief physician - Hospital for Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology
Chief physician - Parkinson’s Specialised Clinic
Qualifications Specialist in Neurology
Additional qualification in Neurological Intensive Care
DGKN Certificates for EEG, EP, EMG
Certificate "Special Neurological Ultrasound Diagnostics" (DEGUM Level II, Instructor)
To the specialist center Hospital for Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology
Parkinson’s Specialised Clinic

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Curriculum vitea

Medical Studies

Universität zu Lübeck

Assistant Physician and Research Associate

Klinik für Neurologie, UKSH, Campus Lübeck

Research Fellow & Honorary Lecturer

University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London/UK

Assistant Physician

Zentrum für integrative Psychiatrie (ZiP), Lübeck

Senior Physician

Klinik für Neurologie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Lübeck

Chief Physician

Klinik für Neurologie und Klinische Neurophysiologie, Schön Klinik Neustadt

Engagement

Memberships

2014 - Project funding "Spatial Neglect and Attention Networks in the Human Brain" by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2011 - Member of the German Society of Neurology (DGN), German Stroke Society (DSG) German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging (DGKN) German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM)
2007 - Principal/Sub-Investigator in various uni-/multicentre studies on vestibular disorders and cognitive deficits following stroke (neglect)

Awards

2012 - Renate Maaß Prize for Brain Research
2006 - State University Prize for the best dissertation at the Medical Faculty of Lübeck

Publications

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

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

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

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

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