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Keywords

Functional Neuroimaging; Intervention Studies; Neuroimaging; Psychology, Experimental; Research Design

Research group(s)

• Developmental and Interventional Neuroimaging Lab
  Research Area: The Developmental and Interventional Neuroimaging Lab (DINLAB) aims to provide a central point of contact unifying functional and structural neuroimaging studies at the Division of Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal Radiology. The DINLAB emerges from current and previous cooperations with various labs and groups within and outside of the Medical University of Vienna. The focus of the DINLAB centers on the investigation of the developing healthy, and diseased brain.
  Members:
  Florian Ph.S Fischmeister
  Kathrin Kollndorfer

Research interests

My research interests include neuroplasticity and treatment-related effects as well as social aspects of chemosensory perception and resting states in particular. Within this endeavor, I try to leverage chemosensory perception as the basis to understand social and cognitive processes associated with olfaction in particular. Throughout the last years, I focused next to basic science on the application of multimodal data registration and analysis methods to various scientific problems within the domain of clinical, social, and cognitive neuroscience. Recently, I got interested in the gut-brain axis and started to work on longitudinal behavioral, functional, and structural brain changes induced by probiotic and symbiotic intervention and their influence on sensory processes, human cognition, and the resting brain. I also try to link advanced functional and structural neuroimaging data with microbiome data obtained through gene sequence analyses and/or high-throughput sequencing to obtain further insight into the bidirectional communication between the gut and the brain.Additionally, I am actively advocating Open Science following Responsible Research & Innovation principles as well as the FAIR principle. As a direct consequence of this, I try to make all my analysis pipelines transparent and reproducible using only freely available open-source products. 

Grants

• Microbiome-gut-brain interaction in Anorexia Nervosa (MiGBAN) (2018)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), ERA; NEURON 2018 ; NEURON 2018
  Coordinator of the collaborative project
• The Nose-Brain Axis (2017)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Programm Klinische Forschung (KLIF)
  Principal Investigator

Selected publications

1. Kumpitsch, C. et al. (2021) ‘Reduced B12 uptake and increased gastrointestinal formate are associated with archaeome-mediated breath methane emission in humans’, Microbiome, 9(1). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01130-w.
2. Bagga, D. et al. (2021) ‘Metabolic Dynamics in the Prefrontal Cortex during a Working Memory Task in Young Adult Smokers’, European Addiction Research, 27(6), pp. 428–438. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000515004.
3. Gerkin, R.C. et al. (2020) ‘Recent Smell Loss Is the Best Predictor of COVID-19 Among Individuals With Recent Respiratory Symptoms’, Chemical Senses, 46. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa081.
4. Fischmeister, F.P. et al. (2017) ‘Self-similarity and recursion as default modes in human cognition’, Cortex, 97, pp. 183–201. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.08.016.
5. Fischmeister, F.Ph.S. et al. (2013) ‘The benefits of skull stripping in the normalization of clinical fMRI data’, NeuroImage: Clinical, 3, pp. 369–380. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2013.09.007.