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Overview

Gottfried Schlaug is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience and medicine, producing a substantial body of work primarily focused on brain stimulation techniques, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging.

Their research contributions include investigations in these main fields of study:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Schlaug's work covers a range of subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Epidemiology
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Key topics in their scientific work include:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Brain Tumor Detection and Classification

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Schlaug illustrate their research focus and collaborations. Notable publications include:

  • "Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • "Effects of tDCS dose and electrode montage on regional cerebral blood flow and motor behavior," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "A checklist for assessing the methodological quality of concurrent tES-fMRI studies (ContES checklist): a consensus study and statement," 2022, Nature Protocols
  • "Neural Dynamics of Improved Bimodal Attention and Working Memory in Musically Trained Children," 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Putting music to trial: Consensus on key methodological challenges investigating music-based rehabilitation," 2022, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Anant Shinde
  • Sovesh Mohapatra
  • Gesa Hartwigsen
  • Karl D. Lerud
  • Teppo Särkämö

Publications from Schlaug often appear in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Stroke
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Brain Structures Differ between Musicians and Non-Musicians

    Christian Gaser;Gottfried Schlaug

  • Magnetic resonance imaging profiles predict clinical response to early reperfusion: the diffusion and perfusion imaging evaluation for understanding stroke evolution (DEFUSE) study.

    Gregory W. Albers;Vincent N. Thijs;Lawrence Wechsler;Stephanie Kemp

  • Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development

    Krista L. Hyde;Jason Lerch;Andrea Norton;Marie Forgeard

  • Increased corpus callosum size in musicians

    Gottfried Schlaug;Lutz Jäncke;Yanxiong Huang;Jochen F. Staiger

  • In vivo evidence of structural brain asymmetry in musicians

    Gottfried Schlaug;Lutz Jäncke;Yanxiong Huang;Helmuth Steinmetz

  • Action Representation of Sound: Audiomotor Recognition Network While Listening to Newly Acquired Actions

    Amir Lahav;Elliot Saltzman;Gottfried Schlaug

  • Shared networks for auditory and motor processing in professional pianists: evidence from fMRI conjunction.

    Marc Bangert;Thomas Peschel;Thomas Peschel;Gottfried Schlaug;Michael Rotte

  • The brain of musicians. A model for functional and structural adaptation.

    Gottfried Schlaug

  • The ischemic penumbra Operationally defined by diffusion and perfusion MRI

    G. Schlaug;A. Benfield;A. E. Baird;B. Siewert

  • Music Making as a Tool for Promoting Brain Plasticity across the Life Span

    Catherine Y. Wan;Gottfried Schlaug

  • Effects of Music Training on the Child's Brain and Cognitive Development

    Gottfried Schlaug;Andrea Norton;Katie Overy;Ellen Winner

  • Enlargement of human cerebral ischemic lesion volumes measured by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging

    Alison E. Baird;Andrew Benfield;Gottfried Schlaug;Bettina Siewert

  • Time course of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) abnormality in human stroke

    G. Schlaug;B. Siewert;A. Benfield;R. R. Edelman

  • Bihemispheric brain stimulation facilitates motor recovery in chronic stroke patients

    R. Lindenberg;V. Renga;L.L. Zhu;D. Nair

  • Clinical experience with diffusion-weighted MR in patients with acute stroke.

    Karl Olof Lövblad;Hans Joachim Laubach;Alison E. Baird;François Curtin

  • Asymmetry in the human motor cortex and handedness.

    Katrin Amunts;Gottfried Schlaug;Axel Schleicher;Helmuth Steinmetz

  • Motor cortex and hand motor skills: structural compliance in the human brain.

    Katrin Amunts;Gottfried Schlaug;Lutz Jäncke;Helmuth Steinmetz

  • Adults and children processing music: An fMRI study

    Stefan Koelsch;Thomas Fritz;Katrin Schulze;David C. Alsop

  • Ischemic lesion volumes in acute stroke by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging correlate with clinical outcome.

    Karl Olof Lövblad;Alison E. Baird;Gottfried Schlaug;Andrew Benfield

  • Practicing a musical instrument in childhood is associated with enhanced verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.

    Marie Forgeard;Ellen Winner;Ellen Winner;Andrea Norton;Gottfried Schlaug

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert R. Edelman
Robert R. Edelman Northwestern University
Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke University of Zurich
Louis R. Caplan
Louis R. Caplan Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Nadine Gaab
Nadine Gaab Harvard University
Steven Warach
Steven Warach The University of Texas at Austin
David C. Alsop
David C. Alsop Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ellen Winner
Ellen Winner Boston College
Rüdiger J. Seitz
Rüdiger J. Seitz Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Christian Gaser
Christian Gaser Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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