Dr. rer. nat. Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 UKE Hamburg 🗯️ Neuroimaging | Neuroscience | Locus Coeruleus | tVNS | pupillometry | HRVhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3mgwhvnmuzs25#VAGUSNERVE - I finally saw it with my own eyes during an iVNS implantation. Seeing it directly provided a much finer sense of its anatomy and the challenges we face (& we have to face) with #taVNS 🧠⚡13 Mar 2026 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwhvnmuzs25https://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3mftyqofpyc2uHeated debate about lesion network mapping - you should check out @petersenm.bsky.social work! 🧠 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Feb 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftyqofpyc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3m4zjpt7x4c25Our paper and research on a #taVNS #MRI setup has now been published: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jon.70098 @nbkroemer.bsky.social @glassybrain.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Nov 2025 07:13 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4zjpt7x4c25https://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3lprgob2brc2mI am currently at #ESOC2025 with the @csi-lab.bsky.social to present latest findings on #sleep and cerebral small vessel disease ( #CSVD ) ❤️ Big thanks to the whole team for this wonderful dataset including excellent #neuroimaging 🧠 [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 May 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprgob2brc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3llvjaxbtis26#TaVNS inside the MR scanner IS POSSIBLE! ⚡🧠 I hope that this paper and its guidance on the taVNS MRI set-up will help those planning concurrent #fMRI and #vagusnervstimulation Checkout our new preprint https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w6htx_v1 Endless gratitude to @nbkroemer.bsky.social & @glassybrain.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2025 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3llvjaxbtis26https://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3lkllgc2v5k2xAcross institutes. One contributing factor is the filling of leadership positions with individuals who lack both leadership knowledge and a genuine interest in this responsible task, focusing instead on their own self-interest and personal ego. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Mar 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkllgc2v5k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3lg5vsr62vk2mI am very much looking forward to this week with 2 meetings of the Neuromodulatory Subcortical System PIA: 📌 Tiny dots 21.01.25 12.30am CT (USA) - Noradrenergic Axon Loss Drives Hyposmia in AD https://alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gv2Inpz2QISy4ycPT3uS_Q#/registration 📌 Year in Review 24.01.25 10am CT (USA) https://alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xM2XFb9lQlKqn_RDNobhvw?t=1736966232742#/registration20 Jan 2025 08:21 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg5vsr62vk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3lftyhljmh22j🚨 STIMULATE TO REMEMBER ? ⚡ Link to publication: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/psyp.14753 ⚡ 3 sec of taVNS (5 mA, 25 Hz, 250 μs) during an emotional memory task ⚡ real (cymba conchae) vs. sham (earlobe) vs. no stimulation trials16 Jan 2025 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lftyhljmh22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3lfhayuqbyc2b🚨Short bursts of taVNS ⚡ & 👁️ pupil dilation - as an indirect measure of #LocusCoeruleus (?!) #vagusnerv #taVNS Link to publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-72179-4 I systematically tested different frequencies (10 & 25 Hz) and intensities (3 & 5 mA) during 3 sec of short bursts of taVNS11 Jan 2025 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfhayuqbyc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3lchotblsdc2jFunctional #locuscoeruleus imaging, #fmri, to investigate an #ageing noradrenergic system 📑 link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06446-5 🧵 see thread below04 Dec 2024 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lchotblsdc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cogneuroludwig.bsky.social/post/3kb5ktmv5t22nGermany's best show with great scientists and topics - that was a great evening with @evaschulz.bsky.social and @fmriguy.bsky.social 🧠 and the whole maithinkx team - thank you! Sundays on ZDFneo or ZDF Mediathek07 Oct 2023 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:d7ppr2rrd5nuuiu5ryfbzhlp/app.bsky.feed.post/3kb5ktmv5t22n