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Sven Bestmann

s.bestmann{at}ucl.ac.uk

Contact details

Sven Bestmann

Reader in Motor Neuroscience

BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow

Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders
UCL Institute of Neurology, Box 146
33 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom

Phone (direct): +44 (0) 203 108 0069
Phone (Switchboard): +44 (0) 845 155 5000, Extension: 18769
Fax: +44 (0) 207 278 9836

Feel free to email me with any questions.

PhD

PhD (Neurological studies), University College London, UK

Title: “Physiological characterisation of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)”

Funded by the European Graduate School “Neuroplasticity: From Molecules to Systems”

Funding

BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship (2008-2013). Principal Investigator. “Biasing influence on the motor system during action preparation: a multimodal neuroimaging-computationally informed approach

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2011-2016). Principal Investigator. “Action Selection under Contextual Uncertainty: the Role of Learning and Effective Connectivity in the Human Brain.”

BBSRC international partnering award (2011-2015). Principal Investigator. “Establishing a trans-atlantic partnership for studying the neural networks for motor skill learning in the human brain”

Special Issues

Currently editing a Special Issue for Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, entitled “Cognitive control, uncertainty, and the brain”, together with Francisco Barcelo, University of Mallorca, and Angela Yu, University of San Diego “

The Contribution of TMS to Structure-Function Mapping in the Human Brain. Action, Perception and Higher Functions” Special Issue for Cortex, October 2009. Editors: Elena Rusconi & Sven Bestmann (see here)

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