frasch
personal
- Title / Titre
- Dr.
- First Name / Prénom
- Martin
- Last Name / Nom
- Frasch
- University / Université
- University of Western Ontario
- Bio
I am postdoctoral fellow in Perinatal Research Lab (PI: Dr. Bryan Richardson) at Lawson Health Research Institute, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Schulich School of Medicine.
I am interested scientifically in fetal/neonatal brain development with regard to autonomic nervous system, inflammation and sleep.
I also look into how these physiological processes are altered during fetal stress such as malnutrition or asphyxia, what consequences it might have on postnatal development of diseases (so-called fetal programming), and how we can detect such conditions in utero to hopefully prevent or at least minimize their long-term health impact. In doing this, I apply methodical approaches from the theory of nonlinear dynamics to analyze physiological data such as heart rate variability (HRV) which is derived from ECG (electrical heart activity) or electrocortical activity (ECoG, more known as EEG).I graduated from Friedrich-Schiller-University Medical School in Jena/Germany & Cape Town/South Africa in September 2001 & obtained the doctoral degree in the area of systems neurosciences at Dept. of Pathophysiology, also in Jena, in October 2004. In my thesis I studied complex coordinations of neurovegetative and brain electrical activities in sleep and anaesthesia using nonlinear signal analysis under mentorship of Dr. Ulrich Zwiener. Thereafter I did my residency and research in Dept. of Neurology spending most of my time in the team of Dr. Matthias Schwab dealing with fetal brain development and programming of diseases in later life.
Apart of this I like Kung-Fu/TaiChi, biking, (bio)physics, philosophy, esp. hashkofa, fiction and non-fiction books, good movies and traveling once in a while.
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