1. Neurobiology Sleep and Anesthesiology

1.1.1. The research group was established in 2018/19 and applies neurobiological methods to reveal particular interplays between sleep and anesthesia.

In our research group we connect our knowledge and experimental expertise about sleep and the clinical knowledge about anesthesiology. We apply modern methods from neurobiological research and in vivo electrophysiology with neuro-ethological experiments.


Present Scientists:

  • Thomas Fenzl (group leader)
  • Stefan Schwerin (postdoc)
  • Leesa Joyce (PhD Student)
  • Alp Altunkaya (PhD Student)
  • Monika Vadkertiova (PhD Student)
  • Philipp Tamas (PhD Student)
  • Tom Happe (PhD Student)
  • David Killing (PhD Student)
  • Pablo Moreno Esbri (Master Student)
  • Theresa Franz (Master Student)
  • Kim Mengel (Master Student)
  • Clara Carrillo Mas (Master Student)
  • Carlo Mejia (Master Student)
  • Alena Pospelova (Bachelor Student)


1.1.2. Research focus:

  • Preoperative EEG-biomarker during sleep to evaluate cognitive deficits after general anesthesia in Alzheimer´s disease.
  • Systemic interactions between sleep and anesthesia.
  • Fundamental systemic studies on the neurobiology of loss and recovery of consciousness in the framework of a general anesthesia.
  • Interactions between preoperative anxiety, anesthesia and postoperative delirium.


1.1.3. Internal and external scientific co-operations:


Gerhard Schneider, Gerhard Rammes, Matthias Kreuzer: Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive care, TU Munich, inhouse
Meinrad Drexel: Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
Helmuth Adelsberger: Institut of Neuroscience, TU Münich

Chadi Touma: Institut für Verhaltensbiologie, University Osnabrück

Matthias Schmidt, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, Gernany

Christian Alzheimer, Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany

Paul Garcia, Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University New York, USA

Michela Guglielmotto, Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri-Ottolenghi (NICO), University of Turin, Italy

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