Neural Homeostasis

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor of Physiology. Emeritus since 2003

EDUCATION:
• Study of medicine 1960-1966 (Tübingen, Hamburg)
• Dissertation in 1967 in Physiology Heidelberg (equivalent to PhD)

MEMBERSHIPS:
• American Physiological Society
• International Association of the Study of Pain (IASP)
• German Pain Society
• German Physiological Society
• International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN)

HONORS/AWARDS:
• Max-Planck-Prize 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1) Cellular organization of the sympathetic nervous system. Functional specification of sympathetic systems by the effector organs in vivo
2) Neural mechanisms of visceral pain: physiology and pathophysiology
3) Neural mechanisms of neuropathic pain. Mechanisms of generation of short-term and long-term ectopic impulses generation and of specific mechano-, thermo- and chemosensitivity in axotomized afferent cutaneous and muscle neurons
4) Sympathetic nervous system and pain
5) Mechanisms underlying complex regional pain syndromes.
6) Neuroendocrine and neural control of inflammation and hyperalgesia