Responsibilities
Professor of Human Pain Research, Consultant Neurologist
Contact
der Technischen Universität München
Neurologische Klinik und Poliklinik
im Neuro-Kopf-Zentrum
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 4140-4608
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 4140-4867
Email:
markus.ploner@tum.de
Website:
http://www.painlabmunich.de
Website:
http://www.neurokopfzentrum.med.tum.de/neurologie/444.html
Further Information
Research focus: Brain mechanisms of pain perception in health and disease
Key words: Pain, brain, neuronal oscillations, cerebral connectivity, electroencephalography, functional magnetic resonance imaging
Current GSN Student: Cristina Gil Ávila
Selected publications:
Rauschecker JP, May ES, Maudoux A, Ploner M. (2015) Frontostriatal gating of tinnitus and chronic pain. Trends Cogn Sci 19: 567-78.
Schulz E, May ES, Postorino M, Tiemann L, Nickel MM, Witkovsky V, Schmidt P, Gross J, Ploner M. (2015) Prefrontal gamma oscillations encode tonic pain in humans. Cereb Cortex 25: 4407-4414.
Tiemann L, May ES, Postorino M, Schulz E, Nickel MM, Bingel U, Ploner M. (2015) Differential neurophysiological correlates of bottom-up and top-down modulations of pain. Pain 156: 289-296.
Schulz E, Zherdin A, Tiemann L, Plant C, Ploner M. (2012) Decoding an individual's sensitivity to pain from the multivariate analysis of EEG data. Cereb Cortex 22:1118-23.
Ploner M, Lee MC, Wiech K, Bingel U, Tracey I. (2010) Prestimulus functional connectivity determines pain perception in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:355-60.
Ploner M, Schoffelen JM, Schnitzler A and Gross J. (2009) Functional integration within the human pain system as revealed by Granger causality. Hum Brain Mapp 30: 4025-4032.
Gross J, Schnitzler A, Timmermann L and Ploner M. (2007) Gamma oscillations in human primary somatosensory cortex reflect pain perception. PloS Biol 5: e133.