Gitte Moos Knudsen

Gitte Mos Knudsen is Chief neurologist at Dept of Neurology and chairman at the Neurobiology Research Unit at Rigshospitalet. She is also professor in Clinical Neurobiology at the Univ. Copenhagen. She is a translational neurobiologist and clinical neurologist; her research aims to answer pertinent and basic questions regarding human brain disease mechanisms and predict brain responses to neuromodulatory interventions. For this purpose, they use PET brain scanning to image brain receptors and receptor occupancy, and fMRI to evaluate drug effects on the brain hemodynamic response as well as the brains regional interactions, i.e., functional connectivity. In their precision medicine alliance BrainDrugs they aim to identify which features can form a basis for decisions regarding the right treatment for the right patient with either major depressive disorder or epilepsy.