Neurozentrum der Schön Klinik Hamburg-Eilbek
Dehnhaide 120,
22081 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 40 20 92-16 71
Fax: +49 40 20 92-16 70
www.schoen-kliniken.de/hh-neurologie
Email: sknecht@schoen-kliniken.de
and Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie des Universitätsklinikum Münster, 48129
Münster
 

November 15, 1961
 

1981-1997

1989

1988-1994

1992-1993

1995

since 1997

2000-2006

2002-2008

since 2009

Studies of Medicine, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Boston, San Francisco

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

Training in Neurology, University of Düsseldorf and Münster

Research Fellow in Sensorimotor Physiology, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Training in Neuroradiology, University of Münster

Attending in Neurology

Head of Junior Research Group funded by North-Rhine Westfalia since

Vice-chair of the Dept. of Neurology at the University of Münster

additionally chair of the Neurocenter at Schön Klinik Hamburg-Eilbek
 

Since 2007 4 PhD-students and 10 MD students
 

Learning and Memory: mechanisms, risk of impairment and means for enhancement
 

• Knecht S, Deppe M, Dräger B, Bobe L, Lohmann H, Ringelstein EB, Henningsen H. Language lateralization in healthy right-handers. Brain 2000; 123: 74-81.

• Knecht S, Drager B, Deppe M, Bobe L, Lohmann H, Floel A, Ringelstein EB, Henningsen H. Handedness and hemispheric language dominance in healthy humans. Brain 2000; 123: 2512-2518.

• Knecht S, Drager B, Floel A, Lohmann H, Breitenstein C, Deppe M, Henningsen H, Ringelstein EB. Behavioural relevance of atypical language lateralization in healthy subjects. Brain 2001; 124: 1657-1665.

• Knecht S, Floel A, Dräger B, Breitenstein C, Sommer J, Henningsen H, Ringelstein EB, Pascual-Leone A. Degree of language lateralization determines susceptibility to unilateral brain lesions. Nature Neurosci 2002; 5: 695-699.

• Amedi A, Floel A, Knecht S, Zohary E, Cohen LG. Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the occipital pole interferes with verbal processing in blind subjects. Nature Neurosci 2004; 7: 1266-1270.

• Knecht S, Breitenstein C, Bushuven S, Wailke S, Kamping S, Floel A, Zwitserlood P, Ringelstein EB. Levodopa: Faster and better word learning in normal humans. Ann Neurol 2004; 56: 20-26.

• Knecht S. Does language lateralization depend on the hippocampus? Brain 2004; 127: 1217-1218.

• Knecht S, Ellger T, Levine JA. Obesity in neurobiology. Prog Neurobiol. 2008; 84: 85-103.

• Knecht S, Wersching H, Lohmann H, Bruchmann M, Duning T, Dziewas R, Berger K, Ringelstein EB. High-normal blood pressure is associated with poor cognitive performance. Hypertension 2008; 51: 663-668.

• Witte AV, Fobker M, Gellner R, Knecht S, Floel A. Caloric restriction improves memory in elderly humans. PNAS U S A 2009; 106: 1255-1260.

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