Christoph Michel

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I studied biology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and received the PhD in Behavioral Biology in 1988 with a thesis on the EEG correlates of human information processing and psychopharmacological influences.

I then moved to the neurology clinic of the University Hospital in Zurich where I was research assistant in the lab of Prof. Dietrich Lehmann, developing and applying methods of spatio-temporal EEG and ERP analysis. I interrupted this work for a fellowship at the Neuromagnetism Laboratory of the Department of Physics and Psychology at the New York University with Prof. Sam J. Williamson, where I combined EEG with MEG, a tool that at that time just started to be useful for brain research.

In 1994 I was appointed at the Medical Faculty of the University of Geneva to build up a functional brain mapping laboratory at the neurology clinic, directed by Prof. T. Landis. I habilitated at this faculty in 1998 and became associate professor in clinical neuroscience in 2003. In 2005 I was appointed director of the EEG Core of the Lemanic Biomedical Imaging Center (CIBM).

My work has always been devoted to the methodological advancement of the EEG, moving it from the analysis of waveforms to a neuroimaging tool. The application of this imaging method in cognitive as well as in clinical neuroscience is the main purpose.

Publication List

Peer reviewed research articles, reviews, letters and book chapters.

Contents

1 Publication List
1. 1.1 1995 - now see Publications
2. 1.2 before 1995

1995 - now see Publications

before 1995

Lehmann D, Michel CM, Pal I, Pasqual-Marqui RD. Event-related potential maps depend on pre-stimulus brain electric microstate map. International Journal of Neuroscience, 1994, 74: 239-248.

Michel CM, Kaufman L, Williamson SJ. Duration of EEG and MEG alpha suppression increases with angle in a mental rotation task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1994, 6: 139-150.

Kinoshita T, Michel CM, Yagyu T, Lehmann D, Saito M. Diazepam and Sulpiride effects on frequency domain EEG source locations. Neuropsychobiology, 1994, 30: 126-131.

Pascual-Marqui RD, Michel CM, Lehmann D. Low resolution electromagnetic tomography: a new method to localize electrical activity in the brain. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 1994: 18: 49-65.

Wackermann J, Lehmann D, Michel CM. Global dimensional complexity of multichannel EEG indicates change of human brain functional state after single dose of a nootropic drug. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1993, 86: 193-198.

Wackermann J, Lehmann D, Michel CM, Strik W K. Adaptive segmentation of spontaneous EEG map series into spatially defined microstates. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 1993,14:269-284.

Michel CM, Koukkou M, Lehmann D. EEG reactivity in high and low symptomatic schizophrenics, using source modelling in the frequency domain. Brain Topography, 1993, 5: 389-394.

Michel CM, Lehmann D. Single doses of Piracetam affect 42-channel event-related potential microstate maps in a cognitive paradigm. Neuropsychobiology, 1993, 28: 212-221.

Lehmann D, Wackermann J, Michel CM., König T. Space-oriented EEG segmentation reveals changes in field topography under the influence of a nootropic drug. Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging, 1993, 50: 275-282.

Michel CM, Henggeler B, Brandeis D, Lehmann, D. Localization of sources of brain Alpha/Theta/Delta activity, and influence of mode of spontaneous mentation. Physiological Measurement, 1993, 14: 21-26.

Lehmann D, Henggeler B, Koukkou M., Michel CM. Source localization of brain electric field frequency bands during conscious, spontaneous visual imagery and abstract thoughts. Cognitive Brain Research, 1993,1: 203-210.

Michel, CM, Henggeler B, Lehmann D. 42-channel potential map series to visual contrast and stereo stimuli: perceptual and cognitive event-related segments. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 1992, 12:133-145.

Michel CM, Lehmann D, Henggeler B, Brandeis D. Localization of the sources of the EEG Delta, Theta, Alpha, and Beta bands using the FFT Dipole Approximation. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1992, 82:38-44.

Lehmann D, Michel CM. Intracerebral dipole sources of EEG FFT power maps. Brain Topography, 1989, 2:155-164. (Erratum: 1990, 2:311).

Lehmann D, Michel, CM. Intracerebral Source Localization for FFT Power Maps. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1990, 76:271-276.

Michel C.M., Henggeler, B. and Lehmann, D. Correlation between original and single-dipole approximated power maps. Brain Topography, 1990, 3:255-256.

Michel C, Bättig K. Separate and combined psychophysiological effects of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Psychopharmacology, 1989, 97:65-73.

Hasenfratz M, Michel C, Nil R, Bättig, K. Can smoking increase attention in rapid information processing during noise? Electrocortical, physiological and behavioral effects. Psychopharmacology 1989, 89:75-80.

Michel C, Bättig, K. Separate and joint effects of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumtion on mental performance and physiological functions. Activitas Nervosa Superior 1988, 30:107-109.

Michel C, Hasenfratz M, Nil R, Bättig K. Cardiovascular, electrocortical, and behavioral effects of nicotine chewing gum. Klinische Wochenschrift, 1988, 66:72-79.

Nil R, Woodson PP, Michel C., Bättig, K. Effects of smoking on mental performance and vegetative functions in high and low CO absorbing functions. Klinische Wochenschrift, 1988, 66:66-71.

Michel C, Nil R, Buzzi R, Woodson PP, Bättig K. Rapid information processing and concomitant event-related brain potentials in smokers differing in CO absorption. Neuropsychobiology, 1987, 17:161-168.

Wegmann HM, Hasenclever S, Michel C, Trumbach S. Models to predict operational loads of flight schedules. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine, 1985, 56:27-32.