Balazs Gulyas
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Balázs Gulyás is a Hungarian neurobiologist.

Personalia

Gulyás is a Hungarian born neurobiologist now working and residing in Sweden. Since 1988, Gulyás has been living in Stockholm
Stockholm
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, working at the Karolinska Institute. Gulyás received his university degrees from Semmelweis University
Semmelweis University
Founded in 1769, Semmelweis University is the oldest medical school in Hungary. The faculty became an independent medical school after the Second World War and developed into a university teaching medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, health sciences, health management as well as physical education and...

 from which he graduated as Doctor of Medicine (MD) and from the Catholic University of Leuven where he obtained a BA and an MA in Philosophy and a PhD in neurobiology.

Work

Gulyás' main research interest is functional neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience. In recent years, he has also been involved in neuropharmacological drug and biomarker research and development.

Gulyás has published nine books, over 35 book-chapters and over 150 research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals.

A professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Gulyás was a guest professor, among others, of the Collège de France
Collège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...

, and is a faculty member of the Collegium Budapest - Institute of Advanced Study and the Parmenides Foundation http://www.parmenides-foundation.org/. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...

 (since 1995), the Academia Europaea
Academia Europaea
Academia Europæa is a European non-governmental scientific academy founded in 1988. Its members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research. It publishes European Review through Cambridge Journals....

 (where he is also a member of the Council) and the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicinehttp://www.armb.be. He is the founding director of the World Science Forum
World Science Forum
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 series.

Publications

His books include:

- Gulyás, B. (ed.) The Brain-Mind Problem. Philosophical and Neurophysiological Approaches. Leuven and Assen: Leuven University Press and Van Gorcum, 1987. p. XI+119. ISBN 90-6186-246-9 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Brain-Mind-Problem/Balazs-Gulyas/e/9789061862468

- Gulyás, B., Ottoson, D., and Roland, P. E. (eds.) Functional Organization of the Human Visual Cortex. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993. p. 391. ISBN 0-08-042004-4. http://www.amazon.com/Functional-Organisation-Human-Visual-Cortex/dp/0080420044

- Gulyás, B. and Müller-Gärtner, H. W. (eds.) Positron emission tomography: A critical assessment of recent trends. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1998. p. 482. ISBN 0-7923-5091-X http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7808675M/Positron_Emission_Tomography

- Pléh, C., Kovács, G. and Gulyás, B. (eds.) Cognitive Neuroscience. Budapest, Osiris Press, 2003. 832 p. ISBN 963-389-313-5. http://bookline.hu/product/home!execute.action?id=27077&trackingCode=50332752&type=22&_v=Pleh_Kovacs_Gulyas_Kognitiv_idegtudomany

- Kraft, E., Gulyás, B. and Pöppel, E. (eds.) Neural Correlates of Thinking. Springer Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-68042-0 http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/book/978-3-540-68042-0?detailsPage=otherBooks&CIPageCounter=CI_MORE_BOOKS_BY_AUTHOR2, http://www.springerlink.com/content/k13g05745w48g604/

External links

  • Balazs Gulyás's website
  • Balazs Gulyas on the website of HAS
    Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...

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