
The Neurosciences Cluster Editorial Team at MDPI is pleased to welcome you to the Highlighted Paper Authors Webinar of 2025.
For this webinar, we have invited two authors of highlighted publications of the journal Brain Sciences in 2025. During the event, they will present the research highlighted in their publications and share related work as well as recent findings from their research groups.
This webinar aims to promote academic exchange, showcase impactful research in neuroscience, and encourage discussion within the research community.
We look forward to your participation in the Neurosciences Cluster Highlighted Paper Authors Webinar of 2025 very much.
Date: 19 November 2026
Time: 09:00 CET
Webinar ID: 818 2370 4371
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
University of New South Wales, Australia;Dr Donel Martin is a Clinical Academic Researcher based at the Black Dog Institute and University of New South Wales and practicing Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist. He has a Ph.D in psychology and a Master’s in clinical neuropsychology. He is the Head of the Neurocognition team at the Black Dog Institute, which investigates the cognitive and emotional effects of interventional treatments for psychiatric disorders, including ketamine, psilocybin, non-invasive brain stimulation and ECT. He has been a researcher for over 18 years and published >150 peer-review papers and 14 book chapters and has been cited over 5000 times. In the field of psychiatry/psychology he is in the top 1% of highly cited authors.
University of Zurich, Switzerland;Alexander Tarnutzer graduated from medical school in 2003. In 2004 he took a position as a Research Fellow in the Vestibulo-ocular Motor Laboratory of Prof. D. Straumann (Zurich, Switzerland) and started neurology residency (University Hospital Zurich). In 2009 he joined the Vestibular/Eye Movement Testing Laboratory (Prof. D.S. Zee) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, USA) for one year. He became a board-certified Neurologist in 2012 and continued to work clinically and as a Research Fellow in Prof. Straumann’s laboratory. He received his habilitation in 2014. In 2018 he was appointed Head of Neurology/Stroke Unit at the Cantonal Hospital of Baden, Switzerland. In 2021 he became a titular Professor in neurology. His main research interests include bedside diagnostic accuracy in acutely dizzy patients, pattern recognition in vestibular disorders, the management of vestibular deficits after traumatic brain injury and harmonizing ocular motor/vestibular testing in hereditary ataxia.
An Investigation of the Modulating Effects of Sensory Stimulation and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Memory-Related Brain Activity
by Stevan Nikolin, Matthew Wang, Adriano Moffa, Haijing Huang, Mei Xu, Siddhartha Raj Pande, and Donel Martin
Published: 31 October 2025
Diagnostic Errors in the Acutely Dizzy Patient—Lessons Learned
by Alexander A. Tarnutzer, Nehzat Koohi, Sun-Uk Lee, and Diego Kaski
Published: 9 January 2025