Lüder Deecke

Dr. Lüder Deecke is a neurologist, neuro scientist, teacher and physician whose scientific discoveries have impacted brain research and the treatment of neurological disorders.

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Retired from the department of neurology at the Unviersity of Vienna in 2006, Deecke is head of the Ludwig Boltzmann institute of functional brain topography and is the author of many books and more than 500 publications in the field.

His early research with Hans Helmut Kornhuber in the mid sixties led to the discovery Bereitschaftspotential or readiness potential, which is a measure of neural activity in the brain that precedes voluntary movements - set an important standard in research and rehablitation of motor control systems.

Awards and Recognitions

1982 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Brain Behaviour Laboratory (Hall Weinberg, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.\

1991 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of California, Irvine, Department of Neurology (Arnold Starr).

1971 Scientific Award of the City of Ulm

1989 Dr. Herbert Reisner Award

1990 Citation Classic, Current Contents, Institute for Scientific Information (Kornhuber & Deecke, Pflügers Arch. 284: 1-17, 1965)

1997 Hoechst Award

2000 Hans Berger Award of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology

2003 Dr. honoris causa Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C., Greater Vancouver