Lüder Deecke, o.Univ.Prof.em.Dr.med.Dr.h.c.

formerly Head, Department of Clinical Neurology
Medical University Vienna & Vienna General Hospital
Waehringer Guertel 18-20
A-1090 Wien
formerly Head, Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute
for functional brain topography
Phone: +43 1 320 5558
Fax: +43 1 320
555817
cellular phone +43 664 499 4023
Email:
lueder@deecke.com
1938
born on the shore of the North Sea (Lohe,
Dithmarschen, Holstein, Germany). High school years
at Celle near Hanover.
1958 Baccalaureat at ‘Humanistisches
Gymnasium-Ernestinum Celle.’ Study of Physics for 1
Semester, University of Hamburg.
1959-60 Military service (Lieutenant of the
Reserve).
1960-1966 Study of Medicine at the Universities of
Freiburg (Breisgau), Hamburg and Vienna. Stipend of
the ‘Studienstiftung.’
1965 Graduation in Medicine, University of Freiburg
1966 Promotion to M.D. (Doctoral thesis, discovery
of the readiness potential / Bereitschaftspotential
together with my mentor
H.H. Kornhuber (1928-2009))
1966 ECFMG-Examination of the US (Educational
Council for Foreign Medical Graduates) in Frankfurt.
1966-1968 Internship at the Neurological University
Hospital Freiburg (Prof. Richard Jung). 1968-1970
Resident,
Neurological University Hospital Ulm
(Prof. H.H. Kornhuber).
1970-71 Research Fellow, Oto-Neurophysiology
Laboratory, University of Toronto (Prof. J.M.
Fredrickson).
1972-74 Senior Resident Neurological University
Hospital Ulm.
1974 ’Habilitation’ (Thesis to become Professor) for
Neurology and Neurophysiology, University of Ulm
1978 Associate Professor of Neurology.
1982 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Brain
Behaviour Laboratory (Prof. H. Weinberg), Simon
Fraser University Vancouver.
1985 Full Professor (Professor ordinarius)
University of Vienna, Chair of Clinical Neurology
after Herbert Reisner.
1985 Head, Neurological University Hospital Vienna.
1991 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of
California, Irvine, Department of Neurology (Prof.
Arnold Starr).
1992 Founder & Head of the Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute for Functional Brain Topography and Head
of the Institute.
2000 Head, Department of Clinical Neurology
University of Vienna, 2006 Professor emeritus.
1971 Scientific Award of the City of Ulm
1982 Distinguished Visiting Professor Simon Fraser
Univ., Vancouver
1989 Dr. Herbert Reisner Award
1990 Citation Classic, Current Contents, Institute
for Scientific Information (Kornhuber & Deecke,
Pflügers Arch. 284: 1-17, 1965)
1991 Distinguished Visiting Professor Univ. of
California, Irvine
1997 Hoechst Award
2000 Hans Berger Award of the German Society for
Clinical Neurophysiology
2003 Dr. honoris causa Simon Fraser
University Burnaby, B.C., Greater Vancouver, Canada
2006 "Verdienstorden der Ehrwürdigen Bruderschaft
vom Heiligen Kreuz" (Medal of Merit from the
Honourable Fraternity
of the Holy Cross)
2009 Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Greater Vancouver, Canada
2009 Prix Théophile Gluge of the Royal Belgian
Academy of Sciences, Brussels
2015 Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology
FEAN
611 Scientific Publications.
Married to Dr. med.
Gertraud Deecke, née Flinspach, 3 sons: Ulf *1968,
Volker *1969, Arved *1970.
Links:
Research Gate
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüder_Deecke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüder_Deecke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereitschaftspotential
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut_für_Funktionelle_Hirntopographie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann_Institute_for_Functional_Brain_Topography
Spiegelgespräch 34/2016: Spiegel und Spiegel-Online
Bungee-Springen - "An der Kante zum Nichts": Spiegel 5/2018, Video1 und Video2
Downloads:
First Full Paper on the Bereitschaftspotential in German:
Kornhuber HH, Deecke L (1965) Hirnpotentialänderungen bei
Willkürbewegungen und passiven Bewegungen des Menschen:
Bereitschaftspotential und reafferente Potentiale. Pflügers
Arch 284: 1-17 "Citation Classic"
This publication is available in English Translation:
Kornhuber HH, Deecke L (2016) Brain potential changes in
voluntary and passive movements in humans: readiness
potential and reafferent potentials. Pflugers Arch – Eur J
Physiol 468(7):1115-1124 doi:10.1007/s00424-016-1852-3