Dr. Notger Müller

Biography

Prof. Dr. Notger Müller studied human medicine in Heidelberg, Tübingen and Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1996 in the working group of Prof. Axel Mecklinger at the Institute of Psychology of the Free University of Berlin on the topic "electrophysiological correlates of spatial and object memory". The work was rated summa cum laude. From 1997-98 he conducted research at the University of California in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Knight on the influence of brain injuries on the visual working memory. This was followed by two years of medical and scientific work at the Day Clinic for Cognitive Neurology at the University Hospital Leipzig, which at that time was headed by Prof. Yves von Cramon. In 2000 he moved to the Neurological Clinic of the Charité, where he joined the clinical research group headed by Prof. Arno Villringer ("New Methods for Non-Invasive Functional Diagnostics of the CNS") into functional imaging using MRI. From 2002-2008 he worked at the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Frankfurt / M. There he took over the management of the working group cognitive neurology in 2005 from Prof. Andreas Kleinschmidt and was significantly involved in setting up the Brain Imaging Center. He also directed the memory consultation there and most recently the Neurological Polyclinic. In 2006, he completed his habilitation on "Attention beyond the Spotlight Metaphor: Neurophysiological Evidence for a Center-Surround Zoom Lens Model for Visuospatial Selection", and in the same year he also took the specialist exam to become a neurologist. In 2008 he moved to the University Department of Neurology in Magdeburg, where he took over the management of the section "Dementia". Since 2009, he has also been head of the Neuroprotection Working Group at DZNE, Magdeburg.

Research Interest

The focus of his research is currently on early diagnosis and prevention of dementia. All modern imaging techniques are used, with a focus on functional MRI with the aim of developing experimental paradigms that will provide early warning of brain pathology in dementia. He also continues his earlier research on how attention and memory affect our perceptions.