Address
NeuroImaging Center (NIC)
Johannes-Gutenberg University Medical Center
Langenbeckstr. 1, Bldg. 308c, 55131 Mainz, Germany
Contact
Email: fbreuer@uni-mainz.de
Friederike Breuer
I am a PhD student interested in combining non-invasive brain stimulation with electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques in a brain-state dependent manner, as well as in memory consolidation and synpatic plasticity during sleep.
I obtained my BSc (Hons) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and my MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
During my PhD in Prof. Dr. Til Ole Bergmann’s Neurostimulation Group I am using real-time EEG-triggered TMS during NREM-sleep to target (specific phases of) sleep spindles in real-time. My goal is to investigate the neuronal mechanisms underlying sleep-dependent memory consolidation and synaptic plasticity, and characterise the hypothesised key role that spindles play in these processes.