- Hans-Werner Bothe
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name = Hans-Werner Bothe
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birth_date = Birth date|1952|09|23
birth_place =Langelsheim ,Germany
residence =Germany
nationality = German
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field =Neurosurgery Philosophy
alma_mater =University of Tübingen University of Mainz
work_institutions =Max-Planck-Institute Cologne Medical School Hanover University of Münster
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known_for =Neurobionics Philosophy of Mind
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religion =Hans-Werner Bothe (born
September 23 ,1952 inLangelsheim , nearGoslar ) is a German philosopher and neurosurgeon. Bothe is founder of the recent field of research onNeurobionics .Life
Bothe studied
Philosophy andMedicine from 1973 until 1981 inTübingen undMainz , graduated 1978 inPhilosophy withMagister Artium , later working for three years at theMax-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research inCologne . He received his PhD in 1983 (thesis: "Artificial Brain Abscess in Cats and Therapy with Antibiotics and Steroids").He specialized in
Neurosurgery and completed his residency training atJohannes Gutenberg -University inMainz . After achievinghabilitation in 1991 he taught atHanover Medical School and worked together with Madjid Samii at Nordstadt Hospital inHanover . In 1993 he obtained a tenuredprofessor for Neurosurgery at Westfälische Wilhelms-University inMünster .Bothe initiated and organized the "1st International Workshop on Neurobionics" in 1992 and founded thereby the recent field of research on Neurobionics, which aims at substitution of impaired functions of brain and spinal cord by neurosurgical implantation of microelectronic systems. For that purpose he brought together an international consortium of scientists covering for mathematics, neuroinformatics, biological basic research, microsystems, and medicine. ["Neurobionics - an interdisciplinary approach to substitute impaired functions of the human nervous system, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993" ISBN 0-444-89958-8]
["Adaptive closed-loop implant for selective repair of bladder, sexual, and bowels function in paraplegic patients (1998)". In: Brunelli (eds), Proceedings of International symposium on experimental spinal cord repair and regeneration, Studio Progress, Brescia (with J. Holsheimer et al)] (with J. Holsheimer).
Alterations of personality traits (antisocial behaviour concomitant to impaired moral decision making ["Alterations of sociomoral judgement and glucose utilization in the frontomedial cortex induced by electrical stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in Parkinsonian patients (2004):" http://www.egms.de/de/meetings/dgnc2004/04dgnc0207.shtml] ) observable after deep brain stimulation of the
subthalamic nucleus (for therapy of Parkinsonian patients) brought him to be engaged in the problem ofdeterminism andfree will from both the perspective ofneuroscience , andphilosophy of mind : He accounts for the conviction that there is merely limitedcausality on the relationsship between activity of thebrain and phenomenological events of the 1st person perspective due to non-linearity of cerebral information processing and supported logically byGödel's incompleteness theorems .References
Publications
* "Neurobionik - Zukunftsmedizin mit mikroelektronischen Implantaten" (in German), Umschau, Frankfurt, 1998 (with M. Engel)
* "Visual field with a resolution of 64 points by selective stimulation of the optic nerve", Zentralbl Neurochir, Suppl 1, 2001 (with B. Fischer and A. Brentrup)
* "Transverse tripolar spinal cord stimulation", Neuromodulation 9, 2006 (with J.C. Oakley and F. Espinosa)External Links
* [http://www.ini-hannover.de/de/internationale-stiftung-neurobionik.html Internationale Stiftung Neurobionik] "(International Neurobionics Foundation)"
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