Wolfgang Grodd

Wolfgang Grodd (born 25 July 1942 in Detmold) is a German radiologist and professor emeritus of the University of Tübingen. He is known for his scientific works on the development and application of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in metabolic diseases, sensorimotor representation, language production and cognitive processing. Currently, Grodd is research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

After serving his required military duty (Air Force) from 1960 to 1964, Grodd completed his training to become an electronic technician. In 1968 he completed his high-school education at the Westfalen Kolleg in Bielefeld and started his university studies in biology (1968–1977) and medicine (1974–1981), both at the University of Tübingen. From 1972 until 1975 he was rewarded a scholarship of the Evangelisches Studentenwerk Villigst. In 1977 he received his degree in biology and in 1981 his MD – along with his license to practice medicine. From 1981 until 1986 Grodd was a resident physician in the Department of Medical Radiology at the University of Tübingen augmented in 1984–85 by a research fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to work with the Department of Radiology at the University of San Francisco. In 1987, Grodd shifted to the Department of Neuroradiology at the University of Tübingen, where he worked as a senior physician from 1991 until 1995. In 1991 he qualified himself as a German professor ("habilitation") in the discipline of radiology/neuroradiology by presenting his research findings on the topic of "Experimental and clinical investigations on selective proton spectroscopy of the human brain". In the same year he attained lectureship status for the subject of neuroradiology. From 1995 until his retirement in 2010, he was professor and head of the section of Experimental Magnetic Resonance of the Central Nervous System of the University Hospital of Tübingen. Currently, Grodd is an independent researcher at the department High-field Magnetic Resonance of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

• Clinical use of proton spectroscopy
• Maturation, abnormalities and metabolic diseases of children's brains
• Functional imaging of fear, sociopathy, humour and laughing
• Memory performance in Alzheimer's disease and dementia
• Language processing and speech production
• Functional anatomy of cerebellum and thalamus Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Grodd was able to demonstrate somatotopic activation areas for the motor activities of lips, tongue, hands and feet in the cortex of the cerebellum.
• Cognitive processing of visual processes

For his scientific research activity, Grodd was awarded the "Kurt-Decker Award" of the German Society for Neuroradiology in 1988, 1989, 1992 and in 1998. In 1989 the German Society for Neurotraumatology honored him for his outstanding scientific work.

Grodd is member in various national and international scientific organizations:

• since 1985 German Roentgen-Ray Society (DRG)
• since 1985 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
• since 1988 German Society for Neuroradiology (DGNR)
• since 1988 International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
• since 1988 European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB)
• since 1990 European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR)
• since 1992 Professional Association German Neuroradiologists
• since 1996 Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
• since 1998 American Society of Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• since 2000 German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (DGKN)
• since 2001 Society for Neuroscience (SNS)

Grodd ist author and co-author of more than 250 publications in neuroscientific journals and 26 chapters in monographs and books.

• list of publications Wolfgang Grodd, ResearchGate
• list of publications Wolfgang Grodd, PubMed