Institut für Systemische Neurowissenschaften
Zentrum für Experimentelle Medizin
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Martinistr. 52
20246 Hamburg
Tel: +49-40-7410-54726
Fax: +49-40-7410-59955
Email: buechel@uke.de
 

December 14, 1965
 

1987-1993

1994-1995

1995

1995-1999
 

1998-1999

since 2000

since 2005
 

since 2005

Studies of Medicine, Heidelberg University

Registrar, University of Essen, Dept. of Neurology

Medical Doctorate (Dr. med.), University of Heidelberg

Postdoc Fellowship and honorary clinical assistant to Prof. R.S.J. Frackowiak, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK

Registrar, University of Hamburg, Dept. of Neurology

Head of Junior Research Group funded by Volkswagenstiftung

Full Professor, Director of the Dept. of Systems Neuroscience,
University of Hamburg

Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Hamburg
University
 

Since 1999 8 PhD-students and 2 MD students
 

Associate editor of the European Journal of Neuroscience

Member of the FENS program committee

Founding member of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences
 

Learning and Memory in relationship to emotional contexts

Motivation and reward

Genetics of Reward and Motivation and related endophenotypes
 

• Büchel C, Coull JT, Friston KJ (1999) The predictive value of changes in effective connectivity for human learning. Science 283: 1538-1541

• Rose M, Haider H, Weiller C, Büchel C (2002) Medial temporal lobe involvement in implicit learning: an event-related fMRI study. Neuron 36: 1221:31

• Reuter J, Raedler T, Rose M, Hand I, Glascher J, Büchel C (2005) Pathological gambling is linked to reduced activation of the mesolimbic reward system. Nature Neurosci 8: 147-148

• Heinz, A., D.F. Braus, M.N. Smolka, J. Wrase, I. Puls, D. Hermann D, Klein S, Grusser SM, Flor H, Schumann G, Mann K, Büchel C (2005) Amygdala-prefrontal coupling depends on a genetic variation of the serotonin transporter. Nature Neurosci 8: 20-21

• Gläscher J, Büchel C (2005) Formal learning theory dissociates brain regions with different temporal integration. Neuron 47: 295-306

• Bingel U, Rose M, Glascher J, Büchel C (2007) FMRI reveals how pain modulates visual object processing in the ventral visual stream. Neuron 55:157-167.

• Rasch B, Büchel C, Gais S, Born J (2007) Odor cues during slow-wave sleep prompt declarative memory consolidation. Science 315:1426-1429.

• Yacubian J, Sommer T, Schroeder K, Glascher J, Kalisch R, Leuenberger B, Braus DF, Büchel C (2007) Gene-gene interaction associated with neural reward sensitivity. PNAS 104:8125-8130.

• Eippert F, Bingel U, Schoell E, Yacubian J, Büchel C (2008) Blockade of endogenous opioid neurotransmission enhances acquisition of conditioned fear in humans. J Neurosci 28:5465-5472.

• Wolbers T, Hegarty M, Büchel C, Loomis JM (2008) Spatial updating: how the brain keeps track of changing object locations during observer motion. Nature Neurosci, epub ahead of print.