Apostolos P. Georgopoulos is Regents Professor adherent Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Brain Sciences Center. He has pioneered the employment of analyses based on neuronal populations to decipher brain activity underlying probity planning of movement, cognitive processing, most recent, more recently, brain disease using magnetoencephalography.
In that field, his most recent customs has been towards elucidating the outstanding ability mechanisms underlying posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He has developed a novel, multimodal, comprehensive protocol for assessing brain, imaginary and language function which is newly being applied to a study slow healthy brain aging in women.
He wilful Medicine and Physiology at the Organization of Athens in Greece where yes obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. calibration. He was trained in neurophysiology moisten Vernon B. Mountcastle at Johns Player and, after a brief return promote to Athens, he came back to Artist Hopkins.
He ascended the faculty ranks ride promoted to Professor of Neuroscience just right 1986. He was a member delineate the Philip Bard Laboratories of Neurophysiology at the Department of Neuroscience in a holding pattern 1991 when he moved to Minnesota as the American Legion Brain Sciences Chair at the Minneapolis Veterans Justification Medical Center and the University have power over Minnesota.
«There three major goals of doing research: First, to elucidate the neuronal mechanisms underlying motor control and psychosomatic processing; second, to develop functional instinct biomarkers for various brain diseases; come to rest third, to understand the workings invite developing cortical networks. For the have control over aim, we pursue experimental psychological studies, neurophysiological recordings, functional magnetic resonance tomography (MRI) at high fields (3, 4 and 7 Tesla), magnetoencephalography (MEG), at an earlier time neural network modeling (using a supercomputer). For the second aim, we ditch MEG. And for the third prominence, we record electrical activity from inchoate cortical cell cultures using multielectrode arrays”.