private practice

• specialized training in EMG (DGKN certificate, DGKN trainer), evoked potentials (DGKN certificate) and EEG (DGKN certificate).
• member of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology
• doctorate in 2016 at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin on the subject of (title translated) “Non-invasive single stimulus detection of high-frequency evoked potentials in humans” with the grade “summa cum laude”

Languages

german, english

Career

• born 1984
• medical state examination: 2010
• 2010-2019 training in neurology at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin
• 2020-2023 supervision of the electrophysiology laboratory of the Department of Neurology with Experimental Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin
• 2022-2023 senior physician at the Department of Neurology with Experimental Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Head of the epilepsy outpatient clinic

Areas of specialization

• lesions of peripheral nerves
• radicular syndromes
• pelvic floor diagnostics
• polyneuropathies
• vertigo
• myopathies
• neuromuscular disorders
• vascular diagnostics of the neck vessels and intracranial vessels
• multiple sclerosis and other chronic inflammatory diseases of the CNS
• headaches
• dementia assessment

Further activities

• research and teaching at the Department of Neurology, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• co-principal investigator of the DFG-funded project SPIKE-MEG
• reviewer for international scientific journals (e.g., NeuroImage, Clinical Neurophysiology, International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering)

Publications (selected):

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Anders C, Curio G, Arnrich B, Waterstraat G. Optimization of data pre-processing methods for time-series classification of electroencephalography data. Network 2023:1–18.
• Meißner-Bendzko N, Waterstraat G, Curio G, Rocco A, Hofmann-Shen C. Intensity-dependence of auditory-evoked potentials might present an early surrogate marker for post-stroke depression. Clin Neurophysiol 2024;167:254–61.

* shared authorship