Action concepts in movement disorders (B03)

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology ; Clinical Neurology; Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2011 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192776181

This project aims to survey the findings about language and movement interactions investigated with healthy subjects in the first two phases - now with two clinical subject groups suffering from movement disorders: patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), a neurodegenerative movement disorder and patients diagnosed with Gilles de la Tourette’s Syndrome (TS), a neurodevelopmental movement disorder. Patients and matched control persons will be investigated with magnetoencephalography and behavioral experiments in order to find out how the language-movement interaction in these patients is possibly modulated due to motor system disease.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 991: The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition and Science
• Applicant Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Katja Biermann-Ruben; Professor Dr. Alfons Schnitzler