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prof. MUDr. Irena Rektorová, Ph.D.

Email: irena.rektorova@ceitec.muni.cz
Phone: +420 54949 7825

Steven Z Rapcsak, MD

Professor
(520)626-4551
(520)626-2111

Zsigmond Tamás Kincses, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Szeged
06 30 870 7979

Luboš Brabenec

Luboš is a psychologist and graduate of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. His main research focus is non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. In CoBeN he participates in administration of non-invasive repetitive transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (rTMS) and protocols focused on handwriting and speech prosody.

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Patrik Šimko

Patrik is a psychologist who graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. In his research, he studies cognitive function using the combination of Neuroimaging and Neurostimulation in Alzheimer's disease.

In CoBeN, he participates in administration of two types of non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS, rTMS) and protocols focused on visual processing.

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Lubomíra Anderková

Lubomira has her PhD in Neuroscience, Thesis: The Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Cognitive Functions in Patients with Neurodegenerative Diseases

Her research interest include Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, noninvasive brain stimulation, MR imaging, functional connectivity.

Her role in CoBeN covers coordination of protocols, data acquirement and analysis, neuropsychological assessment, interpretation of results, and writing publications with focus on noninvasive brain stimulation and imaging.

Sylvia Brustmanová

Sylvia graduated from Masaryk University in Psychology, 2015. Currently, she is a student of PhD Clinical Psychology Programme at Psychological Department of Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, where she lectures and teaches Psychology. Her research focuses mainly on neuropsychology, factors related to health as well as validation of psychodiagnostic methods.

For CoBeN she works as a psychologist performing neuropsychological assessment.

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Jiří Mekyska

Jiri Mekyska is a head of the Brain Diseases Analysis Laboratory (BDALab) at the Brno University of Technology. He deals especially with a research of non-invasive neurological disorders analysis methods based on speech and handwriting processing. In this field of science he develops diagnostic/monitoring systems focused on Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

In the frame of CoBeN, he designs acquisition protocols and performs quantitative speech/handwrirting analysis.

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Patrícia Klobušiaková

Patricia is a student of General Medicine at Masaryk University (Brno), a participant of pilot MD/PhD programme. In her research she focuses on neurodegenerative diseases imaging using various MRI techniques.

In CoBeN project she works on MR data analysis (also acquirement) and the interpretation of results.

Martin Gajdoš

Martin graduated from Brno University of Technology in Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics, 2012. He is part of the Core Facility CF MAFIL. His research focuses mainly on development of methods for analysis of fMRI data.

In CoBeN he participates in statistical analysis of behavioral data and in GLM and connectivity analyses of fMRI datasets.

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Alžběta Minsterova

Alžběta graduated from Brno University of Technology in Biomedical Engineering and Bionformatics. Currently she is a PhD student in Applied Neuroscience Research Group. She focuses mostly on diffusion and functional MRI and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and related dementias.

Within CoBeN she is involved in MR data acquisition and analysis of the image data.

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Ján Mucha

Jan is a PhD student at Brno University of Technology in field of signal processing. His research focuses mainly on prediction of motoric and cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s disease using acoustic analysis of speech. He is also researcher at Brain Diseases Analysis Laboratory (BDALab).

In the frame of CoBeN, he performs quantitative speech analysis, and mathematical modelling.

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Zoltán Galáž

Zoltán Galáž is a team leader/researcher in the Brain Diseases Analysis Laboratory (BDALab) at the Brno University of Technology. He deals especially with a research of neurological disorders analysis methods based on signal processing and machine learning. In this field of science, he develops algorithms and systems for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease analysis.

In the frame of CoBeN, he performs quantitative speech analysis, mathematical modelling and statistical processing.

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Tomáš Klail

Tomas is a student of General Medicine at Masaryk University (Brno), working as research assistant in different groups in CEITEC. Nowadays, he works on various tasks consisting mostly of data acquirement and analysis.

His main focus in CoBeN project is helping with MRI and rTMS data acquirement

Vojtěch Zvončák

Vojta is starting to study a second year of PhD program at Brno Univerity of Technology in the field of signal processing. His field of research is in the quantitative analysis of dysgraphia using digitized handwriting processing. He is part of the Brain Diseases Analysis Laboratory team (BDLab). He works there as a researcher.

In the frame of CoBeN, he performs speech data post-processing and quantitative handwriting analysis.

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Klára Stašková

Klára is a student of General Medicine and a participant of a research programme at Masaryk University in Brno.

Her research interests include non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and non-invasive repetitive transcranial magnetic brain stimulation.

In CoBeN she participates on data acquisition.

Tomáš Kiska

Tomas Kiska is currently a post-gradual student and researcher of the Brain Diseases Analysis Laboratory (BDALab) at the Brno University of Technology. He specializes in non-invasive neurodegenerative disorders analysis based on speech signal processing. His main interest is the analysis and quantification of speech production degradation caused by Parkinson´s disease called hypokinetic dysarthria. Currently, his aim is parametrization techniques describing speech and music performance.

Another focus of his research is methods of Music information retrieval.

In the frame of CoBeN, he designs speech acquisition setup and performs acoustic analysis.

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Monika Pupíková

Monika is a graduate psychologist from Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. Her main research interest is in non-invasive brain stimulation, neuroimaging and neurodegerative diseases.

Her role in the CoBeN project involves neuropsychological assessment, administration of brain stimulation and MR data acquisition.

Krisztián Kocsis

Krisztián Kocsis finished his studies in 2014 at the University of Szeged on the Faculty
of Biology as Neurobiologist. From 2012 to 2014 he was an undergraduate member of the Neuroimaging Research Group. During this period he was engaged in the analysis of computer tomography images of stroke patients. Later, he was involved in
a project on the long-term mirror-box assisted motor sequence learning. From 2014 he began his Ph.D. studies at the Neuroimaging Research Group. The main direction of his researches are neurophysiological investigations and non-invasive euromodulation of attention processes.

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Szabó Nikoletta

Dr. Szabó graduated as medical doctor at the University of Szeged in 2009. She started her research activity as a member of the Neuroimaging Research Group at
Szeged, working with electroneurography and APOE genetic. Later on, as PhD student
she participated in neuroimaging studies and learned image analysis approaches. She
started her residency in 2011. She earned her PhD degree in Clinical and Experimental Neurosciences at the University of Szeged in 2014. In the last two years she was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Clinical Research Center and at the Central European Institute of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic, where she participated in clinical and preclinical studies on neurodegenerative disorders. She has experience working with small animal MRI. At the moment she is working as a registrar and postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of neurology. Her main interest is neuroimaging, molecular and neurophysiological investigation in primary headache disorders and in neurodegenerative disorders.

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András Király

Dr. Király graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged in 2013. He
has been a member of the Neuroimaging Research Group since 2009. In the Doctoral
Programme of Clinical and Experimental Neurosciences at University of Szeged he is
involved in research projects investigating different neurological diseases with MRI
and neurophysiological approaches. Since the middle of 2015, as a part time researcher, he is also working with the international team of the Multimodal and
Neuroimaging Laboratory at CEITEC, Brno. Since the end of 2015 he is a resident at the Department of Neurology in Szeged. His research interest is the neuroimaging investigation of the macroand microstructure of the brain, mainly the subcortical gray matter structures in healthy subjects and in various neurological diseases. He is urrently preparing his PhD thesis.

Dániel Veréb

Dr. Dániel Veréb graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged in 2016. He joined the Neuroimaging Research Group in 2013 and became involved in
several research projects, including the establishment of imaging biomarkers for neuropsychiatric diseases like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, migraine and searching for novel rehabilitation methods for stroke patients. He wrote his hesis on the effect of external brain stimulation on spatial attention. He currently works to elucidate the role of certain neuropeptides in migraine using imaging techniques.

His research interests are neuroimaging and neurorehabilitation.