Agnes Flöel - NeuroCure

Agnes Flöel
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Department of Neurology
Charitéplatz 1 | D-10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 450-660284
E-mail: agnes.floeel@charite.de
Curriculum vitae
2011 Principal investigator, Berlin satellite of the German Center for Neurodegenerative
Diseases (DZNE)
since 2009 Principal investigator, Center for Stroke Research Berlin
since 2009 Professor (W2), Neurology, senior attending, Department of Neurology,
Charité
2008 Visiting scientist, Oxford Center for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford
2008 Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) in Clinical Neurology, and Senior group leader,
University of Münster
2007 Specialist exam (“Facharztprüfung”) in Neurology, and junior attending
2005 – 2007 Training in Neurology, University of Münster
2005 Junior group leader, University of Münster
2002 – 2004 Postdoctoral fellowship (Supervisor: Dr. L. G. Cohen), National Institutes of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, US
1999 – 2002 Training in Neurology, University of Münster
1999 Dissertation, MD, University of Hannover
1992 – 1999 Studies in Medicine, University of Hannover
Research fields
n Variability of localization of language and memory functions
n Interaction of performance in cognitive tasks with age, genetic factors, and brain morphology
n Modulation of learning by interventional strategies (pharmacology, non-invasive electrical brain
stimulation, exercise, dietary) in elderly individuals and in patients after brain damage
Clinical fields
n Cognitive neurology and dementia (vascular and neurodegenerative type)
n Stroke and stroke sequelae: rehabilitation of cognitive and motor deficits after stroke
Activities in the scientific community, honors, awards
2010 Damp Prize for Prevention and Rehabilitation, Damp Rehabilitation Group
2009 Coordinator, “Anatomy, Cognition and Plasticity” for Master of Cerebrovascular
Diseases, Charité
2009 (DGF) grant Fl 379-8; BMBF grant FKZ 0315673A
2008 IZKF grant FLO_3_004_008
2007 Young Academy, Academy of Sciences, North-Rhine Westfalia
2006 Lise Meitner Habilitation Stipend
2005 DFG Fl 379-4; BMBF grant 01GW0520
2002/03 Fellowship grant, German Research Foundation (DFG)

Selected publications
Floel, A, Meinzer, M, Kirstein, R, Nijhof, S, Deppe, M, Knecht, S and Breitenstein, C. Short-term anomia
training and electrical brain stimulation. Stroke. 2011; 42, 2065-7.
List, J, Duning, T, Meinzer, M, Kürten, J, Schirmacher, A, Deppe, M, Evers, S, Young P, and Floel A.
Enhanced rapid-onset cortical plasticity in CADASIL as a possible mechanism of preserved cognition
Cerebral Cortex. 2011; (in press).
Wersching, H, Guske, K, Hasenkamp, S, Hagedorn, C, Schiwek, S, Jansen, S, Witte, V, Wellmann, J,
Lohmann, H, Duning, K, Kremerskothen, J, Knecht, S, Brand, E and Floel, A. Impact of Common KIBRA
Allele on Human Cognitive Functions. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011.
Floel, A, Ruscheweyh, R, Kruger, K, Willemer, C, Winter, B, Volker, K, Lohmann, H, Zitzmann, M,
Mooren, F, Breitenstein, C and Knecht, S. Physical activity and memory functions: are neurotrophins
and cerebral gray matter volume the missing link? Neuroimage. 2010; 49, 2756-63.
de Vries, MH, Barth, AC, Maiworm, S, Knecht, S, Zwitserlood, P and Floel, A. Electrical stimulation of
Broca’s area enhances implicit learning of an artificial grammar. J Cogn Neurosci. 2010; 22, 2427-36.
Witte, AV, Fobker, M, Gellner, R, Knecht, S and Floel, A. Caloric restriction improves memory in elderly
humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009; 106, 1255-60.
Ruscheweyh, R, Willemer, C, Kruger, K, Duning, T, Warnecke, T, Sommer, J, Volker, K, Ho, HV, Mooren,
F, Knecht, S and Floel, A. Physical activity and memory functions: An interventional study. Neurobiol
Aging. 2009.
Floel, A, de Vries, MH, Scholz, J, Breitenstein, C and Johansen-Berg, H. White matter integrity in the
vicinity of Broca’s area predicts grammar learning success. Neuroimage. 2009; 47, 1974-81.
Floel, A, Rosser, N, Michka, O, Knecht, S and Breitenstein, C. Noninvasive brain stimulation improves
language learning. J Cogn Neurosci. 2008; 20, 1415-22.
Floel, A, Garraux, G, Xu, B, Breitenstein, C, Knecht, S, Herscovitch, P and Cohen, LG. Levodopa
increases memory encoding and dopamine release in the striatum in the elderly. Neurobiol Aging. 2008;
29, 267-79.
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