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Keywords

Computational Biology; Electroencephalography; Functional Neuroimaging; Intervention Studies; Neuroimaging; Psychology, Experimental; Research Design

Research group(s)

• Developmental and Interventional Neuroimaging Lab (DINLAB)
  Head: Florian Ph.S Fischmeister
  Research Area: The DINLAB is an international and interdisciplinary research group of scientists interested in the process of development (changes of the human brain in space and time) of the healthy and diseased brain throughout life - from prenatal life to senescence. The DINLAB aims to provide a central point of contact as well as a communication platform unifying researchers interested in clinical functional and structural neuroimaging studies in collaboration with the Division of Neuroradiology and Muscul
  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.