In search of the human engram

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N. Axmacher
Studied medicine and philosophy inBerlinandParis. Followingadissertationat the Institute of Physiology and the Institute of Theoretical Biology in Berlin, hemoved to theDepartment of Epileptology at theUniversity of Bonn, where he completed his habilitation in CognitiveNeuroscience in 2009 and became an EmmyNoether research group leader in 2011. The same year, he also became a junior research group leader at the German Centre for NeurodegenerativeDiseases in Bonn. Since 2014 he is head of theDepartment ofNeuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology, RuhrUniversity Bochum. Axmacher is working on the neuralmechanisms ofmemory processes (short-termmemory maintenance, long-term memory formation,memory consolidation, autobiographicalmemory) andmemory dysfunctions (due to repression of intrapsychical conflicts, in posttraumatic stress disorder and related to Alzheimer’s disease). He combines fMRI, EEG and simultaneous EEG/fMRI recordings in healthy participants and Alzheimer’s disease risk carrierswith intracranial EEGrecordings in neurological and psychiatric patients.

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