How does our brain work? Is our knowledge sufficient to predict individual human behavior? Dr. Tamás Spisák, new Professor of Predictive Neuroscience at the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen, is developing biomarkers at Essen University Hospital.
In medicine, biomarkers are biological properties that can be measured on the human body. They detect diseases such as infarcts or tumors and their severity. Examples of markers are certain genetic or other biochemical characteristics.
Professor Spisák is developing brain-based biomarkers (neuromarkers) at the Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS) at Essen University Hospital (UK Essen) using computer-assisted neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI). "We want to use these markers to determine clinically useful parameters from complex neuronal measurements," explains the 37-year-old. This can be compared with polygenic risk scores, which provide information about the risk of disease based on the combined effect of several genes. In contrast, neuromarkers focus on the structure and function of the brain and not on genetic data.
Read the full article in German on the website of the University of Duisburg Essen!