Dr. med. Gunnar Waterstraat

Facharzt für Neurologie

Spezialausbildung in der Elektroenzephalographie (Zertifikat), Elektromyographie (Zertifikat) und Evozierte Potentiale (Zertifikat)

Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Klinische Neurophysiologie

Promotion 2016 an der Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin zum Thema „Nicht-invasive Einzelreizdetektion hochfrequenter evozierter Potentiale des Menschen“ mit der Note „summa cum laude“

2010–2019 Weiterbildung zum Facharzt für Neurologie an der Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin

2020-2023 Supervision im elektrophysiologischen Labor der Klinik für Neurologie mit Experimenteller Neurologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin

2022-2023 Oberarzt der Klinik für Neurologie mit Experimenteller Neurologie,
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Leitung der Epilepsiesprechstunde

Reviewer für internationale Fachzeitschriften (z.B. NeuroImage, Clinical Neurophysiology, International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering)

1. Fedele, T; Scheer, HJ; Waterstraat, G; Telenczuk, B; Burghoff, M; Curio, G. Towards non-invasive multi-unit spike recordings: Mapping 1 kHz EEG signals over human somatosensory cortex, Clinical Neurophysiology,123,12,2370-2376,2012.
2. Waterstraat, G; Telenczuk, B; Burghoff, M; Fedele, T; Scheer, HJ; Curio, G. Are high-frequency (600 Hz) oscillations in human somatosensory evoked potentials due to phase-resetting phenomena? Clinical neurophysiology,123,10,2064-2073,2012.
3. Waterstraat, G; Fedele, T; Burghoff, M; Scheer, HJ; Curio, G. Recording human cortical population spikes non-invasively–An EEG tutorial,Journal of neuroscience methods,250,74-84,2015.
4. Waterstraat, G; Burghoff, M; Fedele, T; Nikulin, V; Scheer, HJ; Curio, G. Non-invasive single-trial EEG detection of evoked human neocortical population spikes,NeuroImage,105,13-20,2015.
5. Waterstraat, G, Scheuermann, M, Curio, G. Non-invasive single-trial detection of variable population spike responses in human somatosensory evoked potentials, Clinical Neurophysiology,127,3,1872-1878,2016.
6. Waterstraat, G; Curio, G; Nikulin, V. On optimal spatial filtering for the detection of phase coupling in multivariate neural recordings,NeuroImage,157,,331-340,2017.
7. Stephani, T; Waterstraat, G; Haufe, S; Curio, G; Villringer, A; Nikulin, V. Temporal signatures of criticality in human cortical excitability as probed by early somatosensory responses,Journal of Neuroscience,40,34,6572-6583,2020.
8. Waterstraat, G; Körber, R; Storm, JH; Curio, G. Noninvasive neuromagnetic single-trial analysis of human neocortical population spikes,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,118,11,e2017401118,2021.
9. Gerster, M; Waterstraat, G; Litvak, V; Lehnertz, K; Schnitzler, A; Florin, E; Curio, G; Nikulin, V. Separating neural oscillations from aperiodic 1/f activity: challenges and recommendations,Neuroinformatics,1-22,2022.11.5
10. Bahners, BH; Waterstraat, G; Kannenberg, S; Curio, G; Schnitzler, A; Nikulin, V; Florin, E. Electrophysiological characterization of the hyperdirect pathway and its functional relevance for subthalamic deep brain stimulation,Experimental Neurology,352,,114031,2022.
11. Cantone, M., Lanza, G., Fisicaro, F., Bella, R., Ferri, R., Pennisi, G., Waterstraat G*, Pennisi, M*. Sex-specific reference values for total, central, and peripheral latency of motor evoked potentials from a large cohort. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 2023.

* shared authorship