Tilman Schulte

Biography

Dr. Schulte joined SRI International as a Research Scientist in 2004 and became a Program Director in the Center of Health Sciences in 2013 (Biosciences Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA). His research interests are to advance a mechanistic understanding of the effects of normal aging, chronic alcoholism, HIV-infection, and Parkinson’s disease on the brain using a variety of in vivo neuroimaging such as MRI, DTI, fMRI, and rs-fcMRI. He has extensive knowledge in Cognitive Psychology and its translation into functional MRI paradigms to test the neural correlates of cognition and behavior in the MRI scanner environment in healthy and pathological aging. He has investigated several component brain functions such as automatic and selective aspects of attention, working memory, executive control, conflict resolution, and their interaction with emotion and reward, as well visuomotor coordination, interhemispheric communication and transfer of information, and laterality of brain functions. In his experimental work and clinical neuroscience approach he has used different kinds of brain-imaging modalities and analysis techniques to quantify group differences and age-related brain trajectories in structure such as regional tissue volumes, microstructural white matter fiber integrity, and functional brain network connectivity. 

Research Interest

Cognition and Behavior, Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology