Department of Neurosurgery & Division of Neuro-Oncology, University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, United States
Kirsti Brandes is a graduate student in Neural and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and affiliated to the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She spent the last six months in the Hervey-Jumper laboratory at UCSF to study the concept of cognitive reserve in glioma patients for her Master's thesis. She is especially interested in the electrophysiological correlates of cognitive dysfunctions related to neurological disorders, especially brain tumors.
Prior to her stay in the United States, she interned in the Helfrich Laboratory (Human Intracranial Cognitive Neurophysiology) and the Karnath Laboratory (Section for Neuropsychology), both Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Tübingen, Germany. She also worked as a research assitant in the Derntl Laboratory (Innovative Neuroimaging), General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Tübingen, Germany. Kirsti studied business psychology for her undergraduate degree at the FH Westküste University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and the University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway.
