Course Directors

Prof. Deuschl

Name: Deuschl, Günther, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.

Position: Senior-Professor of Neurology

Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Department: Neurology

Address: Schittenhelmstrasse 10, 24105 Kiel, Germany

Education

1970-1974                               Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: Mathematics, Philosophy History

1974-1980                               Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: Medicine

1980                                        MD-Thesis: Spinal anatomy of the Autonomic Nervous System

Clinical career

1980-1982      Neurology Training at the Departments of Neurology, Technical University of Munich (Prof. A, Struppler)

1982-1986      Neurology Training at the Department of Neurology, University of Freiburg, Germany (Prof. C.H. Lücking)

1988               Habilitation (precondition for academic teaching) for Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology: Long loop reflexes of hand muscles 

1986-1995      Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Freiburg, Germany 

1986-1991      Board examinations/teaching certificates for Neurology, Pain therapy, Neurological Intensive Care, Laboratory Medicine in Neurology, Geriatric Neurology. Electromyography, Evoked Potentials and Electroencephalography. 

1995- 2016     Head of the Department of Neurology, University of Kiel, Germany

Scientific career

1976-1981      Fellow of the ‚Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes‘

1976-1980      Experimental Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, München University (Prof. M. Illert) 

1991-1992      National Institute of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Human Motor Control Section, (Prof. M. Hallett), Bethesda/Maryland, USA.

1994               Professor of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Freiburg

1995-2016      Full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel and Head of the Department of Neurology

2016-              Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, PI at the Department of Neurology

2018-              First Senior Professor of the Christian-Albrechts University Kiel

2018-              Guest ProfessorDepartment of Neurology, Zürich University Hospital

Scientific commitments

Since 1998      Editor of Aktuelle Neurologie 

2004-2010      Editor of ‘Movement Disorders’

Since 2001      Editor of ‚Referenzreihe Neurologie’ Thieme Publishers Neurology Book Series,

Since 1999      Spokesperson of the ‘German Competence Net Parkinson’

Since 1996      Reviewer of the DFG, BMBF, Wellcome Trust, European, Australian and Asian            national research funds.

1993-1997      Member of the Executive Committee of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology 

1995-2013      Member of the Senate of the Christian-Albrechts-University

1994-1998      Member of the International Executive Committee of the Movement Disorder Society.

1997-2001      Member-at-large of the International Federation of Societies for Clinical Neurophysiology

2006-2008      President of the German Society of Neurology

2011-2013      President of the Movement Disorder Society

2014-2018      President of the European Academy of Neurology

Honors

1986                Kornmüller-Award German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology 

1994                Parkinson-Award of the German Neurological Society 

2001-              Member of the Academie Royale de Medicine de Belgique

2000-              Visiting Professor Zhejang- University Hangzhou/China

2004                Dingebauer Parkinson Award of the German Neurological Society 

2012

2012                Max-Nonne Gedenkmünze of the German Neurological Society

                        Honorary member of the Austrian Parkinson Society

2013 2014-     Berger Award of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology

                        Visiting Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

2015                Wilhelm Griesinger Award, Berlin

2015                Doctor honoris causa of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova 

2015                Honorary member of the Societe Francaise de Neurologie

2016                Gheorghe Marinescu Medal and Honorary Membership of the Romanian Society for Neurology

2016               Honorary member of the Movement Disorder Society

2018                Wilhelm Erb award of the German Society of Neurology

Major grants

2002- 2006     Neuroimage Nord BMBF 

1999- 2009     Kompetenznetz Parkinson

2002- 2009     DFG- 3 Tesla Kernspintomogramm für Neuroimage Nord

2004- 2011     DFG- Popgen Parkinson

2003- 2006     DFG- Training bei Schreibkrampf

2005- 2012     DFG/BMBF Förderprogramm: Clinical study program - Earlystim Studie

2012-2018      Earlystim follow-up Studie

2010-2013      SFB 855, TP D2, deputy speaker

2016-2020       SFB 1261, TP B5, deputy speaker

Shortened list of lifetime achievements 

• Contributing to the development of Botulinumtoxin therapy 
• Defining the first classification of tremors 
• Developing clinical and electrophysiologic tools for the differential diagnosis of tremors 
• Developing deep brain stimulation as an evidence-based treatment for Parkinson’s disease 
• Explaining the physiology of many effects of DBS on the motor system, the autonomic system, cognition and emotion 
• Building up a clinical research center for tremor and deep brain stimulation at Kiel University 
• Developing the Journal Movement Disorders as one of the third generation editors 
• Developing the Movement Disorder Society as member, Journal Editor and President 
• Developing Neurology in Germany and Europe as President of the respective Societies

Important publications

Citation indexes (Google Scholar) (2018)

Publication list see: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=SNnXK9kAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

Quotations : >46.000; h-index : 108; Pubmed-listed papers: >600

Deuschl, G., P. Bain, M. Brin, and Ad Hoc Scientific Committee. "Consensus Statement of the Movement Disorder Society on Tremor." Mov Disord 13, no. Suppl 3 (1998): 2-23. 

Deuschl G,Schade-Brittinger C, Krack P, Volkmann J, Schafer H, Botzel K, Daniels C, Deutschlander A, Dillmann U, Eisner W, Gruber D, Hamel W, Herzog J, Hilker R, Klebe S, Kloss M, Koy J, Krause M, Kupsch A, Lorenz D, Lorenzl S, Mehdorn HM, Moringlane JR, Oertel W, Pinsker MO, Reichmann H, Reuss A, Schneider GH, Schnitzler A, Steude U, Sturm V, Timmermann L, Tronnier V, Trottenberg T, Wojtecki L, Wolf E, Poewe W, Voges J. A randomized trial of deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. N Engl J Med 2006; 355: 896-908 

Kupsch A, Benecke R, Muller J, Trottenberg T, Schneider GH, Poewe W, Eisner W, Wolters A, Muller JU, Deuschl G, Pinsker MO, Skogseid IM, Roeste GK, Vollmer-Haase J, Brentrup A, Krause M, Tronnier V, Schnitzler A, Voges J, Nikkhah G, Vesper J, Naumann M, Volkmann J. Pallidal deep-brain stimulation in primary generalized or segmental dystonia. N Engl J Med 2006; 355: 1978-90. 

Witt, K., C. Daniels, J. Reiff, P. Krack, J. Volkmann, M.O. Pinsker, M. Krause, V. Tronnier, M. Kloss, A. Schnitzler, L. Wojtecki, K. Botzel, A. Danek, R. Hilker, V. Sturm, A. Kupsch, E. Karner, G. Deuschl, Neuropsychological and psychiatric changes after deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease: a randomised, multicentre study. Lancet Neurol, 2008. 7(7): p. 605-14.

Bartsch T, Schonfeld R, Muller FJ, Alfke K, Leplow B, Aldenhoff J, Deuschl G, Koch JM. Focal lesions of human hippocampal CA1 neurons in transient global amnesia impair place memory. Science 2010; 328: 1412-5. 

Bartsch T, Deuschl G.Transient global amnesia: functional anatomy and clinical implications. Lancet Neurol 2010; 9: 205-214. 

Schuepbach, W. M., Rau, J., Knudsen, K., Volkmann, J., Krack, P., Timmermann, L., Halbig, T. D., Hesekamp, H., Navarro, S. M., Meier, N., Falk, D., Mehdorn, M., Paschen, S., Maarouf, M., Barbe, M. T., Fink, G. R., Kupsch, A., Gruber, D., Schneider, G. H., Seigneuret, E., Kistner, A., Chaynes, P., Ory-Magne, F., Brefel Courbon, C., Vesper, J., Schnitzler, A., Wojtecki, L., Houeto, J. L., Bataille, B., Maltete, D., Damier, P., Raoul, S., Sixel-Doering, F., Hellwig, D., Gharabaghi, A., Kruger, R., Pinsker, M. O., Amtage, F., Regis, J. M., Witjas, T., Thobois, S., Mertens, P., Kloss, M., Hartmann, A., Oertel, W. H., Post, B., Speelman, H., Agid, Y., Schade-Brittinger, C., and Deuschl, G.(2013) Neurostimulation for Parkinson's disease with early motor complications. N Engl J Med 368, 610-622 

Deuschl, G.,and Agid, Y. (2013) Subthalamic neurostimulation for Parkinson's disease with early fluctuations: balancing the risks and benefits. Lancet Neurol 12, 1025-1034 

Berg D, Postuma RB, Adler CH, Bloem BR, Chan P, Dubois B, Gasser T, Goetz CG, Halliday G, Joseph L, Lang AE, Liepelt-Scarfone I, Litvan I, Marek K, Obeso J, Oertel W, Olanow CW, Poewe W, Stern M, Deuschl G.MDS research criteria for prodromal Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord. 2015 Oct;30(12):1600-11.

Bhatia KP, Bain P, Bajaj N, Elble RJ, Hallett M, Louis ED, Raethjen J, Stamelou M, Testa CM, Deuschl G,Tremor Task Force of the International P, Movement Disorder S. Consensus Statement on the classification of tremors. Mov Disord. 2018Jan;33(1):75-87.

Pasquini J, Ceravolo R, Qamhawi Z, Lee JY, Deuschl G, Brooks DJ, Bonuccelli U, Pavese N. Progression of tremor in early stages of Parkinson's disease: a clinical and neuroimaging study. Brain 2018.

Muthuraman M, Raethjen J, Koirala N, Anwar AR, Mideksa KG, Elble R, Groppa S, Deuschl G. Cerebello-cortical network fingerprints differ between essential, Parkinson's and mimicked tremors. Brain 2018;141(6):1770-1781.

L’hommee E, Wojtecki L, Czernecki V, Witt K, Maier F, Tonder L, Timmermann L, Halbig TD, Pineau F, Durif F, Witjas T, Pinsker M, Mehdorn M, Sixel-Doring F, Kupsch A, Kruger R, Elben S, Chabardes S, Thobois S, Brefel-Courbon C, Ory-Magne F, Regis JM, Maltete D, Sauvaget A, Rau J, Schnitzler A, Schupbach M, Schade-Brittinger C, Deuschl G, Houeto JL, Krack P, group Es. Behavioural outcomes of subthalamic stimulation and medical therapy versus medical therapy alone for Parkinson's disease with early motor complications (EARLYSTIM trial): secondary analysis of an open-label randomised trial. Lancet Neurol 2018;17(3):223-231.

Katzenschlager R, Poewe W, Rascol O, Trenkwalder C, Deuschl G, Chaudhuri KR, Henriksen T, van Laar T, Spivey K, Vel S, Staines H, Lees A. Apomorphine subcutaneous infusion in patients with Parkinson's disease with persistent motor fluctuations (TOLEDO): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Neurol 2018;17(9):749-759.