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Overview

Klaus Funke is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and specializes in neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields including neurology, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, clinical psychology, and developmental neuroscience.

The main topics of their work focus on transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, neural dynamics and brain function, vestibular and auditory disorders, neurological disorders and treatments, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and sleep and wakefulness research.

Frequent publication venues where Funke's research appears include Clinical Neurophysiology, European Journal of Neuroscience, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Neurobiology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain: What is stimulated? - A consensus and critical position paper, 2022, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic and deep brain stimulation on long-range synchrony of oscillatory activity in a rat model of developmental schizophrenia, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reverses reduced excitability of rat visual cortex induced by dark rearing during early critical period, 2020, Developmental Neurobiology
  • Effects of iTBS-rTMS on the Behavioral Phenotype of a Rat Model of Maternal Immune Activation, 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Methodological comparison of different approaches to cultivate postnatal organotypic hippocampal cultures, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors in their work include Gleb Barmashenko, B. Lippmann, Verena Aliane, Hartwig R. Siebner, and Aman S. Aberra.

Best Publications

  • Ten Years of Theta Burst Stimulation in Humans: Established Knowledge, Unknowns and Prospects

    A. Suppa;Y.-Z. Huang;K. Funke;M.C. Ridding

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain: What is stimulated? – A consensus and critical position paper

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  • Neurobiological after-effects of non-invasive brain stimulation

    G. Cirillo;G. Di Pino;F. Capone;F. Ranieri

  • Effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation on single-unit activity in the cat primary visual cortex

    Vera Moliadze;Yongqiang Zhao;Ulf Eysel;Klaus Funke

  • Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Alters Cortical Inhibition

    Alia Benali;Jörn Trippe;Elke Weiler;Annika Mix

  • Modulation of cortical inhibition by rTMS – findings obtained from animal models

    Klaus Funke;Alia Benali

  • State-dependent receptive-field restructuring in the visual cortex

    Florentin Wörgötter;Katrin Suder;Yongqiang Zhao;Nicolas Kerscher

  • Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces plasticity of inhibitory synapses

    Maximilian Lenz;Christos Galanis;Florian Müller-Dahlhaus;Alexander Opitz

  • High- and low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation differentially activates c-Fos and zif268 protein expression in the rat brain.

    Selcen Aydin-Abidin;Jörn Trippe;Klaus Funke;Ulf T. Eysel

  • Theta burst and conventional low-frequency rTMS differentially affect GABAergic neurotransmission in the rat cortex

    Jörn Trippe;Annika Mix;Selcen Aydin-Abidin;Klaus Funke

  • Locus Coeruleus Activation Facilitates Memory Encoding and Induces Hippocampal LTD that Depends on β-Adrenergic Receptor Activation

    Neal Lemon;Selcen Aydin-Abidin;Klaus Funke;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Dose-Dependence of Changes in Cortical Protein Expression Induced with Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Theta-Burst Stimulation in the Rat

    Lukas J. Volz;Alia Benali;Annika Mix;Ute Neubacher

  • Somatosensory areas in the telencephalon of the pigeon

    K. Funke

  • Effects of repetitive TMS on visually evoked potentials and EEG in the anaesthetized cat: dependence on stimulus frequency and train duration.

    Selcen Aydin-Abidin;Vera Moliadze;Ulf T. Eysel;Klaus Funke

  • Continuous and intermittent transcranial magnetic theta burst stimulation modify tactile learning performance and cortical protein expression in the rat differently.

    Annika Mix;Alia Benali;Ulf T. Eysel;Klaus Funke

  • EEG-dependent modulation of response dynamics of cat dLGN relay cells and the contribution of corticogeniculate feedback.

    Klaus Funke;Ulf T. Eysel

  • The influence of corticofugal feedback on the temporal structure of visual responses of cat thalamic relay cells.

    F. Wörgötter;E. Nelle;B. Li;K. Funke

  • Inverse correlation of firing patterns of single topographically matched perigeniculate neurons and cat dorsal lateral geniculate relay cells

    Klaus Funke;Ulf T. Eysel

  • Time-course of changes in neuronal activity markers following iTBS-TMS of the rat neocortex.

    Kathrin Hoppenrath;Klaus Funke

  • GABA-from Inhibition to Cognition: Emerging Concepts.

    T Schmidt-Wilcke;E Fuchs;K Funke;A Vlachos

  • Paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol applied to visual cortex of anaesthetized cat: effects on visually evoked single-unit activity

    Vera Moliadze;Dimitrios Giannikopoulos;Ulf T. Eysel;Klaus Funke

  • Somatosensory areas in the telencephalon of the pigeon. I. Response characteristics.

    K. Funke

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf T. Eysel
Ulf T. Eysel Ruhr University Bochum
Andreas Vlachos
Andreas Vlachos University of Freiburg
Ulf Ziemann
Ulf Ziemann University of Tübingen
Christine Winter
Christine Winter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Thomas Deller
Thomas Deller Goethe University Frankfurt
Alexander Opitz
Alexander Opitz University of Minnesota
Richard Anthony Edward Edden
Richard Anthony Edward Edden Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hans-Christian Pape
Hans-Christian Pape University of Münster
Nicolaas A.J. Puts
Nicolaas A.J. Puts King's College London
Michael A. Nitsche
Michael A. Nitsche TU Dortmund University

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