Lüder Deecke
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Dr. Lüder Deecke is a neurologist, neuroscientist, teacher and physician whose scientific discoveries have impacted brain research and the treatment of neurological disorders.
Retired from the department of neurology at the University of Vienna in 2006, Deecke is head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Functional Brain Topography[citation needed] and is the author of many books and more than 500 publications in the field[citation needed].
His early research with Hans Helmut Kornhuber in the mid sixties led to the discovery of the Bereitschaftspotential (or readiness potential), which is a measure of neural activity in the brain that precedes voluntary movements. This discovery set an important standard in research and rehabilitation of motor control systems.[clarify][citation needed]
[edit] Awards and Recognitions
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- 2000 Hans Berger Award of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology
- 1997 Hoechst Award
- 1990 Citation Classic, Current Contents, Institute for Scientific Information (Kornhuber & Deecke, Pflügers Arch. 284: 1-17, 1965)
- 1991 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Neurology (Arnold Starr) at the University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
- 1989 Dr. Herbert Reisner Award
- 1982 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Brain Behaviour Laboratory (Hall Weinberg), Simon Fraser University.
