
Country
Switzerland
Professor Bogdan Draganski, native Bulgarian, is Professor for Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disorders at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. After qualifying in Clinical Neurology in Germany he spent time working on computational anatomy research in neurodegenerative disorders at the Institute of Neurology, UCL London, UK followed by research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig Germany.
He was trained in state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging techniques to investigate brain anatomy correlates of brain disorders. Using methods that he and colleagues developed, he enriched these models with features from non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensitive to brains’ myelin, iron, and tissue free water content, to then test for systematic differences across cortico-striatal circuits and along spatial gradients within a given node of the studied networks. He pioneered computational anatomy research in use- dependent brain plasticity, developed and established new methods to understand the underlying biological phenomenon. His current work is focused on understanding the principles of brain’s health span to develop preventive strategies and interventions in the pre-symptomatic phase of age-associated brain disorders.