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György Benedek MD, PhD, D.Sc. |
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July 22, l944. Szeged, Hungary |
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| Family status: |
Married, two children: Krisztina, 1969, Péter, 1976 |
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Hungarian |
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| Languages: |
Hungarian, English, German, Russian |
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| Professional training: |
M.D. (Summa cum laudae)
Medical University Szeged, Hungary |
1968 |
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Specialist in Medical Laboratories
Medical University Szeged, Hungary |
1972 |
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Electroencephalographist
University for Continuing Education,
Budapest, Hungary |
1979 |
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Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest |
1982 |
| PhD Dissertation: "Basal Forebrain Hypnogenic Mechanisms"
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D.Sc. (Doctor of Medical Sciences)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest |
1992 |
| Thesis: "A tecto-thalamo-cortical visual pathway of the cat"
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| Post-Doctoral Training: |
Department of Physiology Pécs, Hungary (Supervisor: E. Grastyán) |
January 1972-
April 1972 |
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Department of Clinical Neurophysiology,
University of Turku, Turku, Finland
(Supervisor: H. Lange) |
July 1976-
August 1976 |
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Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
Göttingen, Germany
(Supervisor: O.D.Creutzfeldt) |
November 1980-
November 1981
June 1983-
September 1983 |
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Alberta Medical Research Foundation Fellowship
Department of Physiology, University of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada (Supervisor: T.P. Hicks) |
March 1985-
August 1986 |
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| Visiting Scholarship: |
Fujita-Gakuen Medical University Toyoake, Japan |
1988 August |
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Department of Neurobiology, MPI Göttingen, Germany |
1989 July-August |
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Department of Anatomy, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany |
1990 July-August |
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Department of Neurobiology, MPI Göttingen, Germany |
1991 July-August |
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Department of Anatomy, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany |
1992 July-August |
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Department of Anatomy, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany |
1993 July-August |
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Department of Physiology MCV Richmond/VA USA |
1993 October-
1994 August |
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Department of Physiology, University of Sydney |
1999 Jan-April |
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| Academic Appointments: |
Assistant Professor |
1972 |
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Associate Professor |
1983 |
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Professor and Head of Department of Physiology |
1986 |
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| International and National Service |
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| Journal referee for |
Experimental Brain Research |
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Acta Physiologica Hungarica |
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| Member of the Organizing Committee: |
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IUPS conference
(secretary of section Enviromental physiology") |
1980 |
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ISCEV Conference Budapest |
1982 |
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| Organizer: |
Satellite Symposium to 1987 IBRO Congress
"Extrageniculo-striate Visual Mechanisms"
Hungarian EEG Society 1991 Annual Conferenc
(Országos Diákköri Konferencia
Orvostudományi Szekciója, Szeged, 1990)
Magyar Látás Konferencia (1995 Szeged)
Magyar-Román Élettani Kongresszus (1996 Szeged-Temesvár)
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| Vice-Chairman: |
Hungarian Medical Chamber (Csongrád county) |
1990-1994 |
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| University Services: |
Member of the University Council |
1990-1994 |
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Vice-Dean of Medical Faculty |
1991-1993 |
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Vice-Rector of Szeged University |
2000-2003 |
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Dean of Medical Faculty |
2003- |
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| Editorship: |
Environmental Physiology. Advances of Physiological Sciences Vol 27.
Co-edited with F. Obál. Akadémiai Kiadó, 1981. Budapest.
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Vision within Extrageniculo-striate systems. Elsevier Ltd. Amsterdam, l988. Co-edited with T.P. Hicks. Progress in Brain Research Series Vol. 75.
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| Member of the Editorial Board |
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Neurobiology |
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Acta Physiologica Hungarica |
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Fiziologia (Timisoara) |
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| Invited Speaker: |
The role of preoptic zone in sleep regulation
IUPS Budapest (1980)
Physiological properties of AEV
Satellite Symposium to IBRO Szeged, l987
Basal forebrain synchronizing mechanisms in cat
International Sleep Research Conference 1988 Copenhagen
Multisensory tecto-suprageniculate-insular pathway in the cat
Sensory Stratagems in Vision and Hearing
A Festschrift to Adrian Horridge
Canberra, Australia, 1993
Extrageniculostriate mechanisms underlying visually guided orientation behavior. Satellite Symposium for the
Fourth IBRO Congress of Neuroscience, Niigata/Japan 1995
Magyar Gyermekszemész Kongresszus Szeged, 1995
Magyar Neuroophthalmologus Kongresszus 1996
Non-visual components of visual perception
Societas Ophthalmologica Europea, 1997 Budapest
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| Invited seminars |
Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland |
1980 |
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University of Zürich, Switzerland |
1981 |
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University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
1981 |
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NIDA, Baltimore, USA |
1985 |
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Max-PIanck-Institute, Göttingen, Germany |
1987 |
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Niigata University, Niigata, Japan |
1988 |
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Fujita-Gakuen University, Toyoake, Japan |
1988 |
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University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany |
1989 |
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Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary |
1989 |
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University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany |
1990 |
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University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain |
1991 |
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University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany |
1991 |
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University of Leuwen, Leuwen, Belgium |
1991 |
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University of Illinois, Champaign, USA |
1991 |
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University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA |
1991 |
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University of Delaware, Delaware, USA |
1994 |
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Wake-Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA |
1994 |
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi, USA |
1994 |
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University of Sidney Australia |
1997 |
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University of Granada Spain |
1997 |
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Georg-August Universitat Goettingen, Germany |
2002 |
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| Awards: |
III. prize of the MOTESZ 1991 awards for
"Theoretical or Clinical Results in Brain Research"
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| Grants awarded to G.B. as a principal investigator |
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The parallel thalamocortical organization of sensory modalities in the visual association cortex"
OTKA 1991-1995 2.8 mill Ft. |
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Functional and morphological investigation of peptiderg modulation in the neural regulatory processes
ETT 1991-1993 400.000 Ft/year |
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Modulation of opiate-sensitivity by the help of stress or chemical substance
MTA-Interkozmos 1989-1992 211.000 Ft/year |
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Multisensory integration in the thalamic suprageniculate nucleus
US-Hungarian Joint Fund 1993-1996 1 MFt. 26.666 US $ |
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Thalamocortical organization in the parallel processing of sensory modalitiies
OTKA 1995-1998 3.8 MFt
OTKA 2003-2006 12 MFt |
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| Publications |
160 full-paper publications,
720 citations in the Citation Index
Cummulative Impact Factor: 200.0
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