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Jena Bernstein Group: “Model-based, spatiotemporal systems analysis of the brain’s neuromatrix of pain” The Jena Bernstein Group (BG) was officially approved on March 01, 2007. The BG is part of the „National Network Computational Neuroscience“ which was initiated and funded by the BMBF http://www.bernstein-zentren.de/. The project coordinator of the BG is Prof. Herbert Witte. Objectives: The scientific objectives of the Bernstein group focus on the identification and quantification of time-variant directed information transfer between interacting areas of the brain’s neuromatrix of pain on the basis of data derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG). To achieve this, new developments of appropriate time-variant multivariate methods of analysis and strategies of adapted dynamic modelling are indispensable. A combination of advanced functional neuroimaging techniques and new analysis methods is required to solve questions in basic and applied neuroscience of pain and to deepen current concepts about how the brain processes noxious input and generates pain. The EU-research fellow Dr. Mihaela Ungureanu (Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship; MEIF-CT-2006-041452) cooperated with the Bernstein Group. Description of the NADIBA project (nadiba.pdf). |
