Professor of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, MD, hon. doctorate, FRCP, FAAN, FANA, FEAN 

Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Department of Neurology and German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders

Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany 

Research interests:

- Immunological mechanisms of bilateral vestibulopathy and Cogan's syndrome and the viral pathogenesis of vestibular neuritis

- Vestibular compensation: effects of vestibular exercises and somatosensory substitution

- Interaction between the vestibular system and spatial memory

- High-resolution MRI studies on vestibular neuritis, diffusion-weighted MRI studies on transient global amnesia, fMRI and PET studies on locomotion

- Prevention of post-lumbar puncture headache

- Interaction between the vestibular, ocular motor, and sensorimotor systems during walking and running

- Treatment of vestibular, ocular motor, cerebellar and gait disorders

Research activities:

- Clinical trials: pharmacotherapy of vestibular, ocular motor, cerebellar and other neurodegenerative disorders

- Otolith function in peripheral and central vestibular and cerebellar disorders; studies with vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials

- Evaluation of the central ocular motor and vestibular system in neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Niemann-Pick Type C)

- Imaging in Menière’s disease

- Animal models to evaluate the mode of actions of aminopyridine, acetyl-DL-leucine and betahistine