Wolfgang Grodd

Wolfgang Grodd
Born (1942-07-25) July 25, 1942 (age 84)
Detmold
CitizenshipGerman
Scientific career
FieldsAnatomy, MRI, Neuroradiology, Neurosciences
WorkplacesMax Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Wolfgang Grodd (born 25 July 1942 in Detmold, Germany) is a German neuroradiologist and professor emeritus of the university hospital at the University of Tübingen. He is known for his scientific works on the development and application of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in metabolic diseases, sensorimotor representation, language production, and cognitive processing, cerebellum, thalamus, and basal ganglia. He is a research scientist at the Department of the High-Field MR at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

Early life, family and education

He served as a temporary soldier in the German Army from 1959 to 1964 and trained as an electronics technician. He subsequently obtained his Abitur (high school diploma) in 1968 at Westfalen Kolleg in Bielefeld. Thereafter he studied biology from 1968 to 1977 and medicine from 1974 to 1981 at the University of Tübingen. From 1972 to 1975, he was a scholarship holder of the Protestant Student Union Villigst. He received his diploma in biology in 1977 and his license to practice medicine in 1981.

Career

Gross's residency training as a radiologist was at the Medical Radiation Institute of the University of Tübingen (1981–1986). However during that period he held a DFG research fellowship at the Department of Radiology at the University of San Francisco (1984–1985).

In 1987, he initially moved to the Department of Neuroradiology at the University of Tübingen as a consultant, where he worked as a senior physician from 1991 to 1995. In 1991, he habilitated in the field of radiology/neuroradiology on the topic of experimental and clinical investigations of volume-selective proton spectroscopy of the human brain, and in the same year he was granted a teaching license in the field of neuroradiology. The following year, Grodd was appointed Professor of Neuroradiology at the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin, but he declined. From 1995, he was professor and head of the scientific section Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of the Central Nervous System at the University Hospital of Tübingen, where he gave his farewell lecture in 2010. Grodd is at the Department High-field Magnetic Resonance at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

Scientific focus

Awards

For his scientific research activity, Grodd was awarded the Kurt-Decker Award of the German Society for Neuroradiology in 1988, 1989, 1992 and in 1998. In 1989 the German Society for Neurotraumatology honored him for his outstanding scientific work.

Dr. Grodd was ranked 463 globally and 33 in Germany in research.com’s 2023 Ranking of Best Scientists in Neuroscience. The same year, they granted him the Neuroscience Leader Award.

Memberships in scientific organizations

Grodd is a member of various national and international scientific organizations:

Publications

Grodd is the author and co-author of over 280 publications in neuroscientific journals and 26 chapters in monographs and books.

References

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  1. ↑ Grodd, W.; Krägeloh-Mann, I.; Petersen, D.; et al. (1990). "In vivo assessment of N-acetylaspartate in the brain in spongy degeneration (Canavan's disease) by proton spectroscopy". Lancet. 336 (8712): 437–438. doi:10.1016/0140-6736(90)91982-g. PMID 1974962.
  2. ↑ Grodd, W.; Krägeloh-Mann, I.; Klose, U.; et al. (1991). "Metabolic and destructive brain disorders in children: findings with localized proton MR spectroscopy". Radiology. 181 (1): 173–181. doi:10.1148/radiology.181.1.1887030. PMID 1887030.
  3. ↑ Grodd, W. (1993). "Normal and abnormal patterns of myelin development of the fetal and infantile human brain using magnetic resonance imaging". Curr Opin Neurol Neurosurg. 6 (3): 393–397. PMID 8507909.
  4. ↑ Staudt, M.; Krägeloh-Mann, I.; Grodd, W. (2000). "Die normale Myelinisierung des kindlichen Gehirns in der MRT — eine Metaanalyse" [Normal myelination in childhood brains using MRI--a meta analysis]. RöFo (in German). 172 (10): 802–811. doi:10.1055/s-2000-7898. PMID 11111291.
  5. ↑ Wilke, M.; Staudt, M.; Juenger, H.; et al. (2009). "Somatosensory system in two types of motor reorganization in congenital hemiparesis: topography and function". Hum Brain Mapp. 30 (3): 776–788. doi:10.1002/hbm.20545. PMC 6870922. PMID 18286510.
  6. ↑ Eichler, F.; Grodd, W.; Grant, E.; et al. (2009). "Metachromatic leukodystrophy: a scoring system for brain MR imaging observations". American Journal of Neuroradiology. 30 (10): 1893–1897. doi:10.3174/ajnr.A1739. PMC 7051299. PMID 19797797.
  7. ↑ Birbaumer, N.; Veit, R.; Lotze, M.; et al. (2005). "Deficient fear conditioning in psychopathy: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study". Arch. Gen. Psychiatry. 62 (7): 799–805. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.62.7.799. PMID 15997022.
  8. ↑ Veit, R.; Flor, H.; Erb, M.; et al. (2002). "Brain circuits involved in emotional learning in antisocial behavior and social phobia in humans". Neuroscience Letters. 328 (3): 233–236. doi:10.1016/s0304-3940(02)00519-0. PMID 12147314.
  9. ↑ Wild, B.; Rodden, F.A.; Rapp, A.; et al. (2006). "Humor and smiling: cortical regions selective for cognitive, affective, and volitional components". Neurology. 66 (6): 887–893. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000203123.68747.02. PMID 16567707.
  10. ↑ Wild, B.; Rodden, F.A.; Grodd, W.; et al. (2003). "Neural correlates of laughter and humour". Brain. 126 (Pt 10): 2121–2138. doi:10.1093/brain/awg226. PMID 12902310.
  11. ↑ Heun, R.; Klose, U.; Jessen, F.; et al. (1999). "Functional MRI of cerebral activation during encoding and retrieval of words". Hum Brain Mapp. 8 (4): 157–169. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0193(1999)8:4<157::aid-hbm1>3.0.co;2-g. PMC 6873330. PMID 10619411.
  12. ↑ Heun, R.; Freymann, K.; Erb, M.; et al. (2007). "Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and actual retrieval performance affect cerebral activation in the elderly". Neurobiology of Aging. 28 (3): 404–413. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.01.012. PMID 16530885.
  13. ↑ Heun, R.; Jessen, F.; Klose, U.; et al. (2004). "Response-related fMRI of veridical and false recognition of words". European Psychiatry. 19 (1): 42–52. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2003.09.005. PMID 14969780.
  14. ↑ Wildgruber, D.; Ackermann, H.; Grodd, W. (2001). "Differential contributions of motor cortex, basal ganglia, and cerebellum to speech motor control: effects of syllable repetition rate evaluated by fMRI". NeuroImage. 13 (1): 101–109. doi:10.1006/nimg.2000.0672. PMID 11133313.
  15. ↑ Riecker, A.; Ackermann, H.; Wildgruber, D.; et al. (2000). "Opposite hemispheric lateralization effects during speaking and singing at motor cortex, insula and cerebellum". NeuroReport. 11 (9): 1997–2000. doi:10.1097/00001756-200006260-00038. PMID 10884059.
  16. ↑ Lidzba, K.; Wilke, M.; Staudt, M.; et al. (2008). "Reorganization of the cerebro-cerebellar network of language production in patients with congenital left-hemispheric brain lesions". Brain and Language. 106 (3): 204–210. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2007.11.003. PMID 18158178.
  17. ↑ Brendel, B.; Hertrich, I.; Erb, M.; et al. (2010). "The contribution of mesiofrontal cortex to the preparation and execution of repetitive syllable productions: an fMRI study". NeuroImage. 50 (3): 1219–1230. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.039. PMID 20080191.
  18. ↑ Grodd, W.; Hülsmann, E.; Ackermann, H. (2005). "Functional MRI localizing in the cerebellum". Neurosurgery Clinics of North America. 16 (1): 77–99, v. doi:10.1016/j.nec.2004.07.008. PMID 15561530.
  19. ↑ Sokolov, A.A.; Erb, M.; Grodd, W.; et al. (2014). "Structural loop between the cerebellum and the superior temporal sulcus: evidence from diffusion tensor imaging". Cereb. Cortex. 24 (3): 626–632. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhs346. PMID 23169930.
  20. ↑ Anders, S.; Birbaumer, N.; Sadowski, B.; et al. (2004). "Parietal somatosensory association cortex mediates affective blindsight". Nature Neuroscience. 7 (4): 339–340. doi:10.1038/nn1213. PMID 15034586.
  21. ↑ Staudt, M.; Gerloff, C.; Grodd, W.; et al. (2004). "Reorganization in congenital hemiparesis acquired at different gestational ages". Annals of Neurology. 56 (6): 854–863. doi:10.1002/ana.20297. PMID 15562409.
  22. ↑ Lotze, M.; Grodd, W.; Birbaumer, N.; et al. (1999). "Does use of a myoelectric prosthesis prevent cortical reorganization and phantom limb pain?". Nature Neuroscience. 2 (6): 501–502. doi:10.1038/9145. PMID 10448212.
  23. ↑ Lotze M, Erb M, Flor H, et al. (2000). "fMRI evaluation of somatotopic representation in human primary motor cortex". NeuroImage. 11 (5): 473–481. doi:10.1006/nimg.2000.0556. PMID 10806033.
  24. ↑ Lotze M, Montoya P, Erb M, Hulsmann E, Flor H, Klose U, Birbaumer N, Grodd W (1999) Activation of cortical and cerebellar motor areas during executed and imagined hand movements: an fMRI study. J Cogn Neurosci 11:491-501. PMID 10511638
  25. ↑ Lotze M, Grodd W, Rodden FA, Gut E, Schönle PW, Kardatzki B, Cohen LG. Neuroimaging patterns associated with motor control in traumatic brain injury. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2006 Mar;20(1):14-23. PMID 16467275
  26. ↑ Kumar, V.; Mang, S.; Grodd, W. (2014). "Direct diffusion-based parcellation of the human thalamus". Brain Struct Funct. 220 (3): 1619–1635. doi:10.1007/s00429-014-0748-2. PMID 24659254.
  27. ↑ Mang, S.C.; Busza, A.; Reiterer, S.; et al. (2012). "Thalamus segmentation based on the local diffusion direction: A group study". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 67 (1): 118–126. doi:10.1002/mrm.22996. PMID 21656553.
  28. ↑ Kourtzi, Z., Bülthoff, H.H., Erb, M., and Grodd, W. (2002). Object-selective responses in the human motion area MT/MST. Nat. Neurosci. 5, 17–18. PMID 11740503
  29. ↑ Bilalić, M., Turella, L., Campitelli, G., Erb, M., and Grodd, W. (2012). Expertise modulates the neural basis of context dependent recognition of objects and their relations. Hum. Brain Mapp. 33, 2728–2740. PMID 21998070
  30. ↑ Bilalić, M., Langner, R., Ulrich, R., and Grodd, W. (2011). Many faces of expertise: fusiform face area in chess experts and novices. J. Neurosci. 31, 10206–10214. PMID 21752997
  31. ↑ Bilalić, M., Langner, R., Campitelli, G., Turella, L., and Grodd, W. (2015). Editorial: Neural implementation of expertise. Front. Hum. Neurosci 545. PMID 26483662
  32. ↑ Chassy, P., and Grodd, W. (2012). Comparison of Quantities: Core and Format-Dependent Regions as Revealed by fMRI. Cereb. Cortex 22, 1420–1430. PMID 21878489
  33. ↑ Chassy, P., and Grodd, W. (2016). Editorial: Abstract Mathematical Cognition. Front. Hum. Neurosci 719. PMID 26858630
  34. ↑ Kurt-Decker Award, German Society for Neuroradiology
  35. ↑ Curriculum Vitae of Wolfgang Grodd, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
  36. ↑ "World's Best Neuroscience Scientists: H-Index Neuroscience Science Ranking 2025". Research.com.
  37. ↑ "Wolfgang Grodd: Neuroscience H-index & Awards - Academic Profile". Research.com.
  38. ↑ "Wolfgang GRODD | Senior Researcher | MD PhD | Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen | KYB | Department of High-Field Magnetic Resonance | Research profile".
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