Wolfgang Omlor, MD, PhD. Postdoc/Attending physician

Wolfgang studied medicine at the University of Tuebingen and as fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation at Harvard Medical School as well as the University of Oxford. Following his medical degree he studied natural sciences with focus on mathematics at the University of Zurich and completed his PhD in natural sciences with Prof. Helmchen. Clinically, he received two years of resident training in neurology at the University Hospital of Zurich (USZ) and he is currently resident at the Psychiatric University Clinic of Zurich (PUK). His previous research work was focused on neural circuit dynamics in the mammalian motor system and involved optogenetics, calcium imaging and electrophysiological approaches. He currently plans to explore the generation of motor symptoms in schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder by combining fMRI in humans with optogenetic and calcium imaging tools in mice.