Current Studies

Studies on Multiple Sclerosis

• VALKINECT Study: Determining the accuracy, reliability, validity and responsiveness of video-perceptual motion analysis using Microsoft Kinect
• COGEMS Study: Neural mechanisms of cognitive and emotional processes in MS and their relevance for disease severity
• NAMS Study: Nutritional therapy in multiple sclerosis
• CIS Study: Clinically isolated syndrome and newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis: diagnostic, prognostic and therapy-response markers 
• PreCoMS Study: Database on family planing and pregnancies in multiple sclerosis 
• VIMS Study: Follow-up examination of visual parameters for the creation of a database (neuro-ophthalmologic register) in patients with multiple sclerosis versus healthy subjects
• MSIM Study: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the characterization of cerebral lesions in inflammatory versus non-inflammatory CNS disorders and their association over the course of a clinical disease

Studies on Susac's Syndrome

• SUSAC Study: Examination of suitable biomarkers in patients with Susac's syndrome and suitable control individuals

Studies on Stroke

• MUCINS Study: Mucociliary Clearance in Stroke
• QI follow-up

Studies on Myasthenia Gravis

• MYASTHENIA Cohort: Myasthenia Gravis: diagnostic, prognostic and therapy response markers

• LEMS-BoD: A questionnaire survey for systematically recording and characterizing limitations on the quality of life within the scope of Lambert-Eaton myasthenia syndrome 

• MYA-IN-DEPTH: Myasthenia gravis - In depth-characterization of antibody-specific pathomechanisms at the neuromuscular junction and identification of novel autoantibodies

Studies on Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy CIDP

• CIDP Cohort: Chronically inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: diagnostic, prognostic and therapy response markers

Studies on Developmental Disorders of the Nervous System (e.g. Epilepsy)

• Development of software for the evaluation of gene variants and pathogenic mutations in humans
• Genetic causes of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
• Genetic causes of severe epilepsy in early childhood
• The causes of febrile seizure 

Studies on Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's Disease

• NeuroMET2 Study: metrology and innovation for the early diagnosis and accurate stratification of patients with neurodegenerative diseases

Studies on Brain Functions

• DISC Study: Intraoperative stimulation of the human cerebral cortex to investigate cognitive functions

Studies on Psychiatric Diseases

• SIMCODE Study: Simvastatin as add-on therapy to antidepressant medication with escitalopram in patients with depression and obesity 
• REPOSE Register for Experiencers of Psychosis: A systematic multilevel comparison of the physiological and psychopathological features of exogenous and endogenous psychoses
• SyMoNe - a study on schizophrenia
• StressBrainAge Study: Does early childhood stress promote long-term neuroinflammation in adult women? To understand the early developmental origins of accelerated brain aging

Studies on Parkinson Syndrome

• BiStiP Study: Imaging-based selection of stimulation parameters for deep brain stimulation in patients with Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease

Studies on Neuroprognostics