Institut für Systemische Neurowissenschaften
Zentrum für Experimentelle Medizin
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Martinistr. 52
20246 Hamburg
Tel: +49-40-7410-59189
Fax: +49-40-7410-59955
Email: may@uke.de
 

June 07, 1961
 

1984-1991    

1991

1991-1995

1996-1998

1998-1999

1999-2004

 
 
2001

1994-2005

 
currently

Studies of Medicine, University of Göttingen

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

Registrarship, University of Essen, Dept. of Neurology (Prof. HC. Diener)

Postdoc Fellowship and honorary clinical assistent to Prof. P.J.
Goadsby, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK

Registrarship, University of Essen, Dept. of Psychiatry (Prof. Gastpar)

Clinical Consultant, University of Regensburg, Dept. of Neurology (Prof. U. Bogdahn), head of the headache outpatient department and headache of the functional imaging group

PhD-Thesis accepted (Habilitation und Privatdozent)

Clinical Consultant, University of Hamburg, Dept. of Neurology (Prof. C. Weiller), head of the headache outpatient department

Associated Professor, Deputy Director of the Dept. of Systems
Neuroscience (Prof. C. Büchel) Head of the headache outpatient clinic, Dept. of Neurology (Prof. C. Gerloff), University of Hamburg
 

Since 1998 2 PhD-students and 14 MD students
 

 
Associate editor of Cephalalgia

Associate editor of Journal of Headache and Pain

Associate editor of Der Schmerz
 

Functional and structural changes of Headache and Pain

Chronicity of Pain and Habituation to nociceptive stimulation

Structural Brain Plasticity and Reorganisation
 

• May A, Bahra A, Büchel C, Frackowiak RSJ, Goadsby PJ (1998) Hypothalamic Activation in Cluster Headache Attacks. Lancet 352: 275-278

• May A, Ashburner J, Buchel C, McGonigle DJ, Friston KJ, Frackowiak RS, Goadsby PJ (1999) Correlation between structural and functional changes in brain in an idiopathic headache syndrome. Nature Med 5: 836-838

• B Draganski, C Gaser, G Kempermann, HG Kuhn, J Winkler, C Büchel & A May (2006); Temporal & spatial dynamics of brain structure changes during extensive learning; Journal of Neuroscience 26 :3589-93.

• Draganski B, Geisler P, Hajak G, Schuierer G, Bogdahn U, Winkler J & May A (2002) Hypothalamic gray matter changes in narcoleptic patients. Nature Med 8: 1186-1188

• Draganski B, Gaser C, Busch V, Schuierer G, Bogdahn U, & May A (2004) Neuroplasticity: Changes in grey matter induced by training. Nature 427: 311-312

• May A (2005) Cluster Headache: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management. Lancet: 366: 843-855

• May A, Leone M, Boecker H, Draganski B, Sprenger T, Bussone G, Toelle TR (2006) Deep brain stimulation in cluster headache: preventing intractable pain by activating the pain network. Journal of Neuroscience 26: 3589-3593

• May A, Hajak G, Gänßbauer S, Steffens T, Langguth B, Kleinjung T, Eichhammer P (2007) Structural brain alterations following 5 days of intervention: dynamic aspects of neuroplasticity. Cerebral Cortex: 17: 205-10

• J Boyke, J. Driemeyer, C Gaser, C Büchel and A May (2008) Training induced brain structure changes in the Elderly; J Neuroscience (2008) 28: 7031-7035

• A May (2009) New insights into Headache: An Update on the application of functional and structural imaging; Nature Reviews Neurology (2009) in press