News from the neurosciences of the CRC
Highlights from the IRTG Retreat 2024
The final IRTG Retreat of the first funding period has come to…
Final Call: Female Career Days 2024
Please note – the registration for this year’s Female Career Days ends…
Save-the-date: This year’s CRC General Meeting
All CRC members are cordially invited to this year’s CRC General Meeting…
Heinz Beck from the University of Bonn as a guest
As part of “Leibniz Lecture IX”, another exciting lecture will take place…
OWN Award 2024 – apply now
As in the past two years, the Collaborative Research Centre 1436 would…
Cinema Visit For Your Career
You are cordially invited to Oli-Kino in Magdeburg on October 17th at…
Daniela Dieterich remains at the head of the medical Faculty in Magdeburg
Daniela Dieterich has been re-elected as Dean for her second term of…
Limited Slots: Register now for our Female Career Days 2024
Our Female Career Days 2024 will begin October 17th, 2024, with the theme…
September 21, 2024 is World Alzheimer’s Day
The Magdeburg Dementia Network invites all interested parties to the 3rd Magdeburg…
OWN Award 2024 – submit proposals
For the third time in a row, the Collaborative Research Center 1436…
Our research focus
Is it possible to increase the performance of memory?
What is the hidden potential of the brain and what are its limits?
How can the brain’s cognitive potential be mobilized and enhanced?
The architecture of our brain provides biological limits for the performance of memory, attention, and our capacity for learning; this is evident on both the micro and macro scale. However, there is large variability within these limits and individual cognitive abilities can be improved through directed training. The goal of our Collaborative Research Center (CRC) is to uncover the performance limits of the human brain and to explore methodological approaches for improving this performance. We aim to understand which neurobiological principles limit cognitive resources and how these resources can be fully accessed or even enhanced. Further, we will identify new ways to preserve neural resources across the lifespan with targeted interventions.
More than 40 scientists in 22 individual projects are currently working in our CRC towards this exciting neuroscientific topic, which is also highly relevant in our current society.
Using the latest neuroscientific technologies and innovative methods, human and animal experimental studies will examine individual variability and transferable improvement in cognitive function. We place a specific focus on how performance improvements in one task can be transferred to other tasks and when task performance comes at the expense of other abilities. We also ask, why do cognitive abilities decline with age? And what are the tremendous resources of “super-agers”? Further, we are investigating how molecular and biochemical processes affect cognitive performance, for instance, with the deposition of tau and amyloid in the brain, or those that occur with sleep deprivation or other environmental influences. This project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and encompasses both the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology, as well as the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Magdeburg site, Freie Universität Berlin, Charitè Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the universities of Düsseldorf, Heidelberg, and Göttingen.
Co-Spokesperson Dr. Michael Kreutz & Spokesperson Prof. Dr. med. Emrah Düzel
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