Head of Division "Metabolic Neuroimaging"
Prof. Hubert Preissl
Fields of Work and Expertise
fMRI Imaging Artificial Intelligence Fetal programming Development functional Imaging
- Investigation of the structural and functional changes of the brain in prediabetics
- Insulin action in the brain
- Investigation of functional brain development and the autonomic nervous system in human foetuses using a non-invasive method (fetal magnetoencephalography and cardiography)
Professional Background
Professor, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of the Helmholtz Munich at the University of Tübingen
Research group leader "Metabolic Neuroimaging" at the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Munich at the University of Tübingen.
Project Director for fetal Magnetoencephalography at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA.
Researcher at the MEG Center, University of Tübingen.
Postdoctoral research at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, under the supervision of Professor Niels Birbaumer.
Doctoral thesis (Physics) at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics under the guidance of Professor Valentin Braitenberg.
Diploma in Physics, University of Regensburg and Tübingen
Hubert Preissl as a guest at Scobel, 3sat "Overweight: flaw or disease?"
What can successful prevention look like? Is the body mass index really the measure of all things, or are there other, more accurate methods to measure overweight?
Publications
Wang, Y. ; Sandforth, A. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R. ; Ganslmeier, M. ; Cheng, Y. ; Sandforth, L. ; Katzenstein, S. ; Machann, J. ; Schick, F. ; Kantartzis, K. ; Preissl, H. ; Fritsche, A. ; Stefan, N. ; Bergman, M. ; Birkenfeld, A.L.
Lifestyle intervention is more effective in high 1-hour post-load glucose than in prediabetes for restoring β-cell function, reducing ectopic fat, and preventing type 2 diabetes.Zhao, S. ; Semeia, L. ; Veit, R. ; Moser, J. ; Preissl, H. ; Kullmann, S.
Structural and functional brain changes in children and adolescents with obesity.Kullmann, S. ; Singh, A. ; Sehgal, R. ; Eichelmann, F. ; Sandforth, L. ; Wilms, B. ; Jähnert, M. ; Peter, A. ; Meyhöfer, S. ; Walther, D. ; Preissl, H. ; Häring, H.-U. ; Schulze, M.B. ; Heni, M. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Schürmann, A. ; Ouni, M.
Circulating epigenetic signatures classifying brain insulin resistance in humans.Gehmeyr, M. ; Rojas López, M.B. ; Nitkunanantharajah, S. ; Preissl, H. ; Vosseler, A. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Katsouli, N. ; Fasoula, N. ; Karlas, A. ; Kallmayer, M. ; Ziegler, A.-G. ; Jüstel, D. ; Ntziachristos, V.
Enhanced maximum intensity projection (eMIP) for improving the fidelity of optoacoustic images.Sandforth, A. ; Arreola, E.V. ; Hanson, R.L. ; Wewer Albrechtsen, N.J. ; Holst, J.J. ; Ahrends, R. ; Coman, C. ; Gerst, F. ; Lorza-Gil, E. ; Cheng, Y. ; Sandforth, L. ; Katzenstein, S. ; Ganslmeier, M. ; Seissler, J. ; Hauner, H. ; Perakakis, N. ; Wagner, R. ; Machann, J. ; Schick, F. ; Peter, A. ; Lehmann, R. ; Weigert, C. ; Maurer, J. ; Preissl, H. ; Heni, M. ; Szendrödi, J. ; Kopf, S. ; Solimena, M. ; Schwarz, P. ; Blüher, M. ; Häring, H.-U. ; Hrabě de Angelis, M. ; Schürmann, A. ; Kabisch, S. ; Mai, K. ; Pfeiffer, A.F.H. ; Bornstein, S. ; Stumvoll, M. ; Roden, M. ; Stefan, N. ; Fritsche, A. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R.
Prevention of type 2 diabetes through prediabetes remission without weight loss.Gallard, A. ; Brebion, B. ; Sippel, K. ; Zaylaa, A. ; Preissl, H. ; Moghimi, S. ; Fregier, Y. ; Wallois, F.
Transforming spontaneous premature neonatal EEG to spontaneous fetal MEG using a novel machine learning approach.Goll, N. ; Wiechers, C. ; Zinke, K. ; Preissl, H. ; Fritsche, A. ; Hallschmid, M.
Influence of maternal metabolism on neonate eating behaviour.Auchynnikava, V. ; Semeia, L. ; Sippel, K. ; Sbierski-Kind, J. ; Fritsche, A. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Paluscke-Fröhlich, J. ; Wikström, A.K. ; Preissl, H.
Fetal heart rate variability in relation to maternal physical activity and metabolic health.Sandforth, L. ; Raverdy, V. ; Sandforth, A. ; Bauvin, P. ; Chatelain, E. ; Verkindt, H. ; Mingrone, G. ; Guidone, C. ; Verrastro, O. ; Zhou, K. ; Archid, R. ; Mihaljevic, A.L. ; Caiazzo, R. ; Baud, G. ; Marciniak, C. ; Chetboun, M. ; Ganslmeier, M. ; Minelli Faiao, V. ; Heni, M. ; Fritsche, L. ; Moller, A. ; Kantartzis, K. ; Peter, A. ; Lehmann, R. ; Wagner, R. ; Prystupa, K. ; Fritsche, A. ; Stefan, N. ; Preissl, H. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R. ; Pattou, F.
Subphenotype-dependent benefits of bariatric surgery for individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes.Ester-Nacke, T. ; Veit, R. ; Thomanek, J. ; Book, M. ; Tamble, L. ; Beermann, M. ; Löffler, D. ; Salvador, R. ; Ruffini, G. ; Heni, M. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Plewnia, C. ; Preissl, H. ; Kullmann, S.
Repeated net-tDCS of the hypothalamus appetite-control network enhances inhibitory control and decreases sweet food intake in persons with overweight or obesity.
