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Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck

Member, Steering-Committee Member

Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research

Medical Faculty, University of Bonn University Hospital of Bonn Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25 53127 Bonn

heinz.beck@ukbonn.de

+49 228 6885270

My group has an overarching interest in neuronal integration and the function of neuronal networks in the intact brain. We also have a strong track record investigating basic mechanisms of epilepsy in animal models and tissue obtained from epilepsy surgery. To achieve insights into the network motifs govering normal and aberrant behavior, we are employing in-vivo electrophysiology and imaging together with opto- and chemogenetic approaches in awake rodents.

Heinz Beck

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Recent publications

  • In-vivo analysis of medial perforant path-evoked excitation and inhibition in dentate granule cells.

    eNeuro

    Authors: Martin Pofahl, Daniel Müller-Komorowska, Jonas Klussmann, Ilan Lampl, Heinz Beck

  • Optogenetic silencing by combining a rhodopsin cyclase with an engineered cGMP-gated potassium channel.

    Science advances

    Authors: Anika Spreen, Nidish Ponath Sadanandan, Martin Winfried Schneider, Enrico Kuehn, Andries Napo Leemisa, Roberta De Zio, Niklas Meyer, Wayne Busse, Bela Erlinghagen, Lea Adenauer, Thoralf Opitz, Wolfgang Bönigk, Enrico Schiewer, Jonas Heer, Dietmar Schmitz, Johannes Vierock, Heinz Beck, Peter Hegemann, Herwig Baier, Franziska Schneider-Warme, Yinth Andrea Bernal Sierra, Reinhard Seifert

  • Hippocampal spreading depolarization as a driver of postictal ambulation.

    Science translational medicine

    Authors: Bence Mitlasóczki, Adrián Gutiérrez Gómez, Midia Kamali, Natalia Babushkina, Mayan Baues, Laura Kück, André Nathan Haubrich, Theodoros Tamiolakis, Annika Breuer, Simon Granak, Merlin Schwering-Sohnrey, Ingo Gerhauser, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Martin Karl Schwarz, Laura Ewell, Thoralf Opitz, Julika Pitsch, Simon Musall, Rainer Surges, Florian Mormann, Heinz Beck, Michael Wenzel

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