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Overview

Thomas Brandt is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant concentration on neurology and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to vestibular and auditory disorders, ophthalmology and eye disorders, visual perception and processing mechanisms, glaucoma and retinal disorders, balance, gait, and falls prevention, as well as spatial cognition and navigation.

Frequent publication venues for Brandt's work include:

  • Journal of Neurology
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Opinion in Neurology
  • Neurology

Brandt's research collaborations often involve the following coauthors:

  • Marianne Dieterich
  • Andreas Zwergal
  • Doreen Huppert
  • Klaus Jahn

Their recent papers highlight research in neurological gait disorders, vestibular compensation, and spatial navigation. Notable publications include:

  • Fall prediction in neurological gait disorders: differential contributions from clinical assessment, gait analysis, and daily-life mobility monitoring (2021, Journal of Neurology)
  • Modern machine-learning can support diagnostic differentiation of central and peripheral acute vestibular disorders (2020, Journal of Neurology)
  • Real-space navigation testing differentiates between amyloid-positive and -negative aMCI (2020, Neurology)
  • Dynamic whole-brain metabolic connectivity during vestibular compensation in the rat (2020, NeuroImage)
  • Bilateral vestibulopathy causes selective deficits in recombining novel routes in real space (2021, Scientific Reports)

Brandt's expertise spans several subfields, including neurology, cognitive neuroscience, pathology and forensic medicine, ophthalmology, and physical therapy and rehabilitation.

Among the awards received are membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina with a focus on neurosciences, awarded in 2000, and membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • Visual-Vestibular Interaction: Effects on Self-Motion Perception and Postural Control

    Johannes Dichgans;Thomas Brandt

  • Vertigo: Its Multisensory Syndromes

    Thomas Brandt

  • Physical Therapy for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

    Thomas Brandt;Robert B. Daroff

  • Visual stabilization of posture. Physiological stimulus characteristics and clinical aspects.

    W. M. Paulus;A. Straube;Th. Brandt

  • Diagnostic criteria for persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD): Consensus document of the committee for the Classification of Vestibular Disorders of the Bárány Society

    Jeffrey P. Staab;Annegret Eckhardt-Henn;Arata Horii;Rolf Jacob

  • Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: Diagnostic criteria

    Michael von Brevern;Pierre Bertholon;Thomas Brandt;Terry Fife

  • Episodic vertigo related to migraine (90 cases): vestibular migraine?

    M. Dieterich;Thomas Brandt

  • Vestibular loss causes hippocampal atrophy and impaired spatial memory in humans

    Thomas Brandt;Franz Schautzer;Derek A. Hamilton;Roland Brüning

  • Methylprednisolone, Valacyclovir, or the Combination for Vestibular Neuritis

    Michael Strupp;Vera Carina Zingler;Viktor Arbusow;Daniel Niklas

  • Dominance for Vestibular Cortical Function in the Non-dominant Hemisphere

    M. Dieterich;S. Bense;S. Lutz;A. Drzezga

  • Reciprocal inhibitory visual-vestibular interaction. Visual motion stimulation deactivates the parieto-insular vestibular cortex.

    Thomas Brandt;Peter Bartenstein;Anika Janek;Marianne Dieterich

  • Moving visual scenes influence the apparent direction of gravity.

    Johannes Dichgans;Richard Held;Laurence R. Young;Thomas Brandt

  • Multisensory Cortical Signal Increases and Decreases During Vestibular Galvanic Stimulation (fMRI)

    Sandra Bense;Thomas Stephan;Tarek A. Yousry;Thomas Brandt

  • The Vestibular Cortex: Its Locations, Functions, and Disorders

    Thomas Brandt;Marianne Dieterich

  • Ocular torsion and tilt of subjective visual vertical are sensitive brainstem signs

    Marianne Dieterich;Thomas Brandt

  • Real versus imagined locomotion: a [18F]-FDG PET-fMRI comparison.

    Christian la Fougère;Andreas Zwergal;Axel Rominger;Stefan Förster

  • Brain activation patterns during imagined stance and locomotion in functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Klaus Jahn;Angela Deutschländer;Thomas Stephan;Michael Strupp

  • Vertigo and dizziness

    Thomas Brandt;Marianne Dieterich;Michael Strupp.

  • Vestibular syndromes in the roll plane: Topographic diagnosis from brainstem to cortex

    Thomas Brandt;Marianne Dieterich

  • Phobic postural vertigo

    Thomas Brandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Strupp
Michael Strupp Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Marianne Dieterich
Marianne Dieterich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Klaus Jahn
Klaus Jahn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stefan Glasauer
Stefan Glasauer Brandenburg University of Technology
Peter Bartenstein
Peter Bartenstein Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Tarek A. Yousry
Tarek A. Yousry University College London
Alois Knoll
Alois Knoll Technical University of Munich
Tobias Derfuss
Tobias Derfuss University Hospital of Basel
Markus Schwaiger
Markus Schwaiger Technical University of Munich
Andreas Straube
Andreas Straube Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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