Tonio Ball (MD)

Address: Epilepsy Center Department of Neurosurgery University Clinics of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Hugstetter Straße 49 D-79095 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0)761 270-9316 E-mail:

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• Ball T,Breckel T,Mutschler I, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Hennig J, Speck O (2011), Variability of fMRI-Response Patterns at Different Spatial Observation Scales, Human Brain Mapping (in press)
• Dümpelmann M, Ball T , Schulze-Bonhage A (2010),sLORETA allows reliable distributed source reconstruction based on subdural strip and grid recordings, Human Brain Mapping (accepted)
• Mutschler I, Wieckhorst B, Speck O, Schulze-Bonhage A, Hennig J, Seifritz E, Ball T (2010), Time Scales of Auditory Habituation in the Amygdala and Cerebral Cortex, Cerebral Cortex (in press)
• Waldert S and Pistohl T, Braun C, Ball T, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), A Review on Directional Information in Neural Signals for Brain-Machine Interfaces, Journal of Physiology Paris (accepted)
• Ball T, Derix J, Wentlandt J, Wieckhorst B, Speck O, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mutschler I (2009), Anatomical Specificity of Functional Amygdala Imaging of Responses to Stimuli with Positive and Negative Emotional Valence, Journal of Neuroscience Methods 180(1):57-70
• Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Differential representation of arm movement direction in relation to cortical anatomy and function, Journal of Neural Engineering 6(1):016006
• Mutschler I, Wieckhorst B, Kowalevski S, Derix J, Wentlandt J, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T (2009), Functional Organization of the Human Anterior Insular Cortex, Neuroscience Letters 457(2):66-70
• Ball T, Kern M, Mutschler I, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A (2009); Signal Quality of Simultaneously Recorded Invasive and Non-Invasive EEG, NeuroImage, 46(3):708-16
• Pistohl T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Prediction of Arm Movement Trajectories from ECoG-Recordings in Humans, J Neurosci Methods, 167/1 pp. 105-115
• Ball T, Demandt E, Mutschler I, Neitzel E, Mehring C, Vogt K, Ad Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A (2008), Movement Related Activity in the High Gamma Range of the Human EEG, NeuroImage 2008 Jun;41(2):302-10.
• Mutschler I, Schulze-Bonhage A, Glauche V, Demandt E, Speck O, Ball T (2007) A Rapid Sound-Action Association Effect in Human Insular Cortex. PLoS ONE 2(2): e259. (PDF)
• Ball T, Rahm B, Eickhoff SB, Schulze-Bonhage A, Speck O, Mutschler I (2007) Response Properties of Human Amygdala Subregions: Evidence Based on Functional MRI Combined with Probabilistic Anatomical Maps. PLoS ONE 2(3): e307. (PDF)
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T (2005) Comparing information about arm movement direction in single channels of local and epicortical field potentials from monkey and human motor cortex. J.Physiol. (Paris) 98:498-506 (PDF)
• Ceballos D, Valero-Cabre A, Valderama E, Schuettler M, Stieglitz T, Navarro X (2002), Morphologic and functional evaluation of peripheral nerve fibers regenerated through polyimide sieve electrodes over long-term implantation. Journal of Biomedical Material Research, vol. 60 (4), pp. 517-528
• Rodríguez F J, Ceballos D, Schuettler M, Valderrama E, Stieglitz T, Navarro X (2000), Polyimide Cuff Electrodes for Peripheral Nerve Stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Vo. 98, 2, pp. 105-118, ISSN: 0165-0270
• Müller T, Ball T, Kristeva-Feige R, Mergner T, Timmer J, Selecting relevant electrode positions for classification tasks based on the electro-encephalogram, Med Biol Eng Comput. 2000 Jan;38(1):62-7.
• Ball T, Schreiber A, Feige B, Wagner M, Lücking CH, Kristeva-Feige R (1999) The role of higher-order motor areas in voluntary movement as revealed by high-resolution EEG and fMRI, Neuroimage. 1999 Dec;10(6):682-94. (PDF)

• Ball T, Mutschler I, Jäger D, Otte M, Schulze-Bonhage A, Hennig J, Speck O, Schreiber A (2008), Elastic Registration of Functional MRI Data to Sensorimotor Cortex, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 22, 885-888.
• Rickert J, Ball T, Henle C, Huetz C, Fischer J, Liao X, Meier W, Schuettler M, Milekovic T, Pistohl T, Raab M, Vogt K, Schulze-Bonhage A, Stieglitz T, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008) Development of a neuronal motor prosthesis for the restoration of movement in paralyzed people. Biomed. Eng. (Berlin) 53 (Suppl.1), 191-193
• Huetz C, Milekovic T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008) Discriminating sounds from the human electrocorticogram for brain-computer interfaces. 13th Annual Conference of the International FES Society (Germany, Freiburg) (PDF)
• Milekovic T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008) Performance and control error related neuronal signals in human ECoG recordings.13th Annual Conference of the International FES Society (Germany, Freiburg)
• Mutschler I, Wieckhorst B, Schulze-Bonhage A, Seifritz E, Hennig J, Speck O, Ball T (2008), Probabilistic Assignment of Brain Responses to the Human Amygdala and its Subregions using High Resolution Functional MRI, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 22, 807-810
• Blumberg J, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mehring C, Aertsen A, Ball T (2006) Movement onset related changes in ECoG recordings. Proceedings of the 3rd International Brain-Computer Interface Workshop and Training Course 2006 (PDF)
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T Human brain-machine interfacing based on epicortical field potentials: Comparison of different decoding methods (2005) Biomed. Eng. (Berlin) Vol.50 ,Supp.Vol 1(1):536-537
• Ball T, Nawrot MP, Pistohl T, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mehring C (2004) Towards a brain-machine interface based on epicortical field potentials. Biomed. Eng. (Berlin), 49 (Suppl. 2), 756-759 (PDF)
• Müller T, Ball T, Kristeva-Feige R, Mergner Th, Timmer J, Classification of electro-encephalographic spatial patterns, in: Brause, R., Hanisch, E. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (No. 1933), 55-60 (PDF)

• Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T (2009), Entwicklung und Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Brain-Machine-Interfaces bei Epilepsiepatienten In: Müller/Clausen/Maio (Hrsg) - Das technisierte Gehirn (in press)
• Ball T, Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Weiskopf N (2003), Neuronale Kodierung von Bewegung bei Affe und Mensch: Von Einzelzellen und Zellenensembles zum Brain-Computer-Interface. In: Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften für 2002: 261-64

• Ball T (2004), Motorische Gehirnaktivität beim Menschen : eine Studie mittels Stromdichterekonstruktion und funktioneller MRT. Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Medicine, University Freiburg.

• Rickert J, Ball T, Stieglitz T, Henle C, Fischer J, Galan F, Hammer J, Liao X, Meier W, Milekovic T, Pistohl T, Raab M, Waldert S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Towards an electrocorticogram based brain-computer interface using the neural correlates of natural hand movements: research and development at the Bernstein center in Freiburg. BBCI Workshop 2009, Berlin
• Milekovic T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Control- and performance-error signals in the human electrocorticogram (ECoG). AREADNE 2008 Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles (Greece, Santorini)
• Ball T, Mutschler I, Jäger D, Otte M, Schulze-Bonhage A, Hennig J, Speck O, Schreiber A (2008), Elastic Registration of Functional MRI Data to Sensorimotor Cortex. IFMBE Proc., S.684-8
• Milekovic T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Performance- and control error-related neuronal signals in human ECoG recordings during a continuous task. 4th Bernstein Symposium for Computational Neuroscience (Germany, Munchen)
• Mutschler I, Wieckhorst B, Schulze-Bonhage A, Seifritz E, Hennig J, Speck O, Ball T (2008): Probabilistic Assignment of Brain Responses to the Human Amygdala and its Subregions using High Resolution Functional MRI. IFMBE Proc., S. 807-10
• Mehring C, Rickert J, Ball T, Pistohl T, Blumberg J, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Stieglitz T, Vogt, K (2007) Entwicklung eines Brain-Machine Interface zur Wiederherstellung der Bewegungsfähigkeit schwerstgelähmter Menschen. Biofuture Symposium 2007, pp.26; Berlin
• Pistohl T, Ball T, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mehring C (2007), Identification of Natural Grasps in Human ECoG Signals. Neuroscience 2007
• Pistohl T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007), Prediction of Movement Trajectories from Epicortical Field Potentials in Humans. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, pp. 58-59.
• Demandt E, Ball T, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Vogt K, Mehring C (2007), Representation of arm movement parameters in the EEG. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, pp. 78-80
• Blumberg J, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mehring C, Aertsen A, Ball T (2006) Arm Movement Direction Unspecific Epicortical Field Potentials in Human Frontal and Parietal Cortex. Human Brain Mapping 2006, Florenz.
• Blumberg J, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2006) Brain-Computer-Interface: Maschinen per Gedanken steuern. Deutsche Physikerinnentagung 2006, Berlin.
• Rickert J, Ball T, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2006), Correlations between motor cortical population signals (LFP, ECoG) improve the decoding of movement direction. Dynamic principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices, EPFL LATSIS Symposium 2006, page127-8.
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Rickert J, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T (2005) Epicortical field potentials as a basis for human brain-machine interfaces. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 707.2.
• Nawrot MP, Pistohl T, Aertsen A, Mehring C, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T (2005) Evidence for global brain-state dynamics in the human cortex. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 276.6.
• Mehring C, Ball T, Nawrot MP, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A (2005) Human brain-machine interfacing based on epicortical field potentials: I. Inference of arm movement direction. In: Proceedings of the 4th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference of the German Neuroscience Society (in press)
• Ball T, Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A (2005) Human brain-machine interfacing based on epicortical field potentials: II. Topography of directional information in frontal cortex. In: Proceedings of the 4th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference of the German Neuroscience Society (in press)
• Nawrot MP, Mehring C, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T (2005) Human brain-machine interfacing based on epicortical field potentials: III. Spatial resolution of directional information gain and implications for the design of intracranial electrode arrays. In: Proceedings of the 4th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference of the German Neuroscience Society (in press)
• Pistohl T, Ball T, Nawrot MP, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2005) Phase-synchrony of the cortical μ-rhythm and higher-frequency oscillations. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 274.16.
• Demandt E, Mehring C; Nawrot MP, Vogt K, Ball T (2005) Spatiotemporal mapping of information about arm movement direction using high-resolution EEG. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 520.3.
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T (2003) Decoding of movement from electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings in human sensorimotor cortex - a potential basis for a brain-machine interface. In: Decoding and interfacing the brain: From neuronal assemblies to cyborgs: P49, Abstr. Ladislav Tauc Conf. in Neurobiology, Gif sur Yvette (France)
• Ceballos D, Valero-Cabré A, Valderrama E, Schüttler M, Stieglitz T, Navarro X (2002), Morphological and Functional Evaluation of Peripheral Nerve Fibers Regenerated Through Polyimide Sieve Electrodes over Long Term Implantation, Abstract Book of the 3rd Forum of European Neuroscience, Paris, France, July 13-17, p. 348
• Navarro X, Rodríguez FJ, Ceballos D, Valderrama E, Schuettler M, Stieglitz T (2000), Assessment of Polyimide Cuff Electrodes for in vivo Peripheral Nerve Stimulation, Eighth International Symposium on Neural Regeneration, December 8-12, 1999, Pacific Grove, CA / USA, P 72 (1999). Abstracts in: Exp. Neurol., 163, pp. 279-309 (307-308)