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Tilman Schulte, PhD

Tilman Schulte, PhD

PhD

Professor

Psychology Department Chair

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Biography

Dr. Schulte joined SRI International as a Research Scientist in 2004 and became a Program Director in the Center of Health Sciences in 2013 (Biosciences Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA).

His research interests are to advance a mechanistic understanding of the effects of normal aging, chronic alcoholism, HIV-infection, and Parkinson’s disease on the brain using a variety of in vivo neuroimaging such as MRI, DTI, fMRI,  and rs-fcMRI.  He has extensive knowledge in Cognitive Psychology and its translation into functional MRI paradigms to test the neural correlates of cognition and behavior in the MRI scanner environment in healthy and pathological aging.  He has investigated several component brain functions such as automatic and selective aspects of attention, working memory, executive control, conflict resolution, and their interaction with emotion and reward, as well visuomotor coordination, interhemispheric communication and transfer of information, and laterality of brain functions.  In his experimental work and clinical neuroscience approach he has used different kinds of brain-imaging modalities and analysis techniques to quantify group differences and age-related brain trajectories in structure such as regional tissue volumes, microstructural white matter fiber integrity, and functional brain network connectivity. 

Areas of Expertise

Cognition and Behavior, Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology

Publications

  • Müller-Oehring EM, Jung Y-C, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV, Schulte T (2014). The resting brain of alcoholics. Cerebral Cortex. Jun 16. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Jung Y-C, Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Namkoong K, Pfefferbaum A, Edith V. Sullivan EV (2014). Compromised frontocerebellar circuitry contributes to 
    nonplanning impulsivity in recovering alcoholics. Psychopharmacology. May 1. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Jung Y-C, Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Hawkes W, Namkoong K, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2014). Synchrony of anterior cingulate cortex and 
    insular-striatal circuitry activation predicts use of a risk-aversion strategy in decision-making. Cerebral Cortex. 24: 1397-1408.
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Jung Y-C, Sullivan EV, Hawkes WC, Pfefferbaum A, Schulte T (2013). Midbrain-driven Emotion and Reward Processing in Alcoholism. 
    Neuropsychopharmacology. 38: 1844-1853.
  • Schulte T, Maddah M, Müller-Oehring EM, Rohlfing T, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2013). Fiber Tract-driven Topographical Mapping Reveals Microstructural 
    Relevance for Interhemispheric Visuomotor Function in the Aging Brain. NeuroImage. 77: 195-206.
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Schulte T, Rohlfing T, Sullivan EV, Pfefferbaum A (2013). Visual Search and the Aging Brain: Discerning the Effects of Age-related Brain Volume Shrinkage on Alertness, Feature Binding, and Attentional Control. Neuropsychology, 27: 48-59.
  • Schulte T, Oberlin B, Kareken DA, Marinkovic K, Müller-Oehring EM, Meyerhoff D, Tapert S. (2012). How Acute and Chronic Alcohol Consumption affects Brain Networks: Insights from Multimodal Neuroimaging. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 36: 2017-2027.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Sullivan EV, Pfefferbaum A (2012). White matter fiber compromise contributes differentially to attention and emotion processing impairment in alcoholism, HIV-infection, and their comorbidity. Neuropsychologia, 50: 2812–2822.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Sullivan EV, Pfefferbaum A (2012). Synchrony of corticostriatal-midbrain activation enables normal inhibitory control and conflict processing in recovering alcoholic men. Biological Psychiatry, 71: 269-278.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Sullivan EV, Pfefferbaum A (2011). Disruption of Emotion and Conflict Processing in HIV Infection with and without Alcoholism Comorbidity. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 22: 1-14.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Chanraud S, Rosenbloom MJ, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2011). Age-related reorganization of functional networks for successful conflict resolution: A combined functional and structural MRI study. Neurobiology of Aging, 32: 2075-2090.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2010). Neurocircuitry of Emotion and Cognition in Alcoholism: Contributions from White Matter Fiber Tractography. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2: 554-60.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Rohlfing T, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2010). White Matter Fiber Degradation Attenuates Hemispheric Asymmetry When Integrating Visuomotor Information. Journal of Neuroscience, 30: 12168 –12178.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM (2010). Contribution of callosal connections to the integration of visuomotor and cognitive processes. Neuropsychology Review, 20: 174-90.
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Schulte T, Rosenbloom MJ, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2010). Callosal Degradation in HIV-1 Infection Predicts Hierarchical Perception: A DTI study. Neuropsychologia, 48: 1133-1143.
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Schulte T, Kasten E, Poggel DA, Müller I, Wüstenberg T, Sabel BA (2009). Parallel Interhemispheric Processing in Hemineglect: Relation to Visual Field Defects. Neuropsychologia, 47: 2397-2408.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Vinco S, Hoeft, F, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2009). Double dissociation between action-driven and perception-driven conflict resolution invoking anterior versus posterior brain systems. Neuroimage, 48: 381-390.
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Schulte T, Fama R, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2009). Global-Local Interference is Related to Callosal Compromise in Alcoholism: 
    A Behavior-DTI Association Study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 33: 477-489.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2008). Callosal Compromise Differentially Affects Conflict Processing and Attentional Allocation in Alcoholism, HIV-Infection, and Their Comorbidity. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2: 27–38.
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Schulte T, Raassi C, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2007). Local-global interference is modulated by age, sex and anterior corpus callosum size. Brain Research, 1142: 189-205.
  • Wurst FM, Rasmussen DD, Hillemacher T, Kraus T, Ramskogler K, Lesch O, Bayerlein K, Schanze A, Wilhelm J, Junghanns K, Schulte T, Dammann G, Pridzun L, Wiesbeck G, Kornhuber J, Bleich S (2007). Alcoholism, craving, and hormones: the role of leptin, ghrelin, prolactin, and the pro-opiomelanocortin system in modulating ethanol intake. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 31: 1963-1967.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2006). Callosal Involvement in a Lateralized Stroop Task in Alcoholic and Healthy Subjects. Neuropsychology, 20: 727-736.
  • Schulte T, Chen SHA, Müller-Oehring EM, Adalsteinsson E, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2006). fMRI Evidence for Frontal Modulation of the Extrastriate – dependent Redundant Targets Effect. Neuroimage, 30: 973 - 982.
  • Dammann G, Dierkes J, Graf M, Wiesbeck GA, Pridzun L, Schulte T, Westphal S, Luley C, Allen JP, Wurst FM (2005). No significant effect of acute moderate alcohol intake on leptin levels in healthy male volunteers. Addiction Biology, 10: 357-364.
  • Schulte T, Sullivan EV, Müller-Oehring EM, Adalsteinsson E, Pfefferbaum A (2005). Corpus callosal microstructural integrity influences interhemispheric processing: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Cerebral Cortex, 15: 1384 -1392.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Rosenbloom MJ, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2005). Differential Effect of HIV Infection and Alcoholism on Conflict Processing, Attentional Allocation, and Perceptual Load: Evidence from a STROOP Match-to-Sample Task. Biological Psychiatry, 57: 67-75.
  • Schulte T, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV (2004). Parallel interhemispheric processing in aging and alcoholism: Relation to corpus callosum size. Neuropsychologia, 42: 257-271.
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Kasten E, Poggel DA, Schulte T, Strasburger H, Sabel BA (2003). Neglect and hemianopia superimposed. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 25: 1154-1168.
  • Schulte T, Warzel H, Westphal S, Müller-Oehring EM, Strasburger H, Dierkes J, Sabel BA (2002). The acute effect of moderate alcohol consumption on cardiovascular responses in healthy males with different tolerance-levels. Neuropsychobiology, 45: 191-198.
  • Schulte T, Warzel H, Strasburger H, Sabel BA (2001). Deficits of Respiratory-Cardiac Coupling in Heavy Drinkers. Prog Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biol Psychiatry, 25: 1241-1256.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Strasburger H, Warzel H, Sabel BA (2001). Acute effects of alcohol on divided and covert attention in men. Psychopharmacology, 154: 61-69.
  • Schulte T, Müller-Oehring EM, Kasten E, Sabel BA (2001). Verfahren zur selbsteingeschätzten Alkoholtoleranz. (Assessing pre-clinical alcohol tolerance by a short questionnaire): Der Magdeburger-Alkoholtoleranz-Test (MATT). Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie, 2: 69-78.
  • Kasten E, Poggel D, Müller-Oehring EM, Gothe J, Schulte T, Sabel BA (1999). Restoration of vision II: Residual functions and training-induced visual field enlargement in brain-damaged patients. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 15: 273-287.
  • Schulte T, Strasburger H, Müller-Oehring EM, Sabel BA (1999). Automobile Driving Performance of Brain-Injured Patients with Visual Field Defects. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 78: 136-142.
  • Kasten E, Schulte T, Sabel BA (1997). Fahrtauglichkeit und Fahrpraxis bei Personen mit erworbenen Gesichtsfeldeinschränkungen [Driving Performance and Practice by Persons with Cerebral Visual Field Loss - A Descriptive Questionnaire Assessment]. Zeitschrift für Verkehrssicherheit, 43: 116-122.
  • *Chapters and Editorials*
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Schulte T (2013). Cognition, Emotion, and Attention: Alcohol and the nervous system (Handbook of Clinical Neurology). Pfefferbaum A and Sullivan EV (Eds.): Elsevier (in press).
  • Schulte T, Kasten E. (2002). Burtscheidt, W. (Verf.): Integrative Verhaltenstherapie bei Alkoholabhängigkeit: ein Therapiemanual. [Integrative Cognitive-behavioral Psychotherapy in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Manual]. Berlin: Springer, 2001 Z. Med. Psychol. 11, No.1, p. 22 (Book review).
  • Schulte T (2001). Subjective and Objective Measurement of Alcohol Tolerance. Shaker Verlag: Aachen.
  • Kasten E, Wüst S, Poggel D, Gothe J, Müller-Oehring EM, Schulte T, Sabel BA (2000). Plastizität des visuellen Systems bei hirngeschädigten Patienten – Stand der Forschung [Neuroplasticity of the visual system after cerebral brain damage]. In: Neue Wege der Neurorehabilitation. Hrsg. Daum I, Widdig W, Pabst: Berlin.
  • Poggel D.A, Schulte T, Kasten E, Sabel BA (2001). Aging, vision, and brain plasticity: Restoring lost visual functions by computer-based training. In Charness, N, Parks, DC and Sabel, BA (Eds.): Communication, Technology, and Aging: Opportunities and challenges for the future. New York: Springer, 209-225.
  • Schulte T, Kasten E, Sabel BA (1997). Beurteilung der Fahrleistung bei Personen mit cerebralen Sehstörungen: Eine Fahrsimulatorstudie [Evaluation of Driving Performance in Anopic Patients after Cerebral Brain Damage: A Driving Simulator Study]. In: Fortschritte der Verkehrspsychologie 1996. Deutscher Psychologen Verlag, 89-98.
  • Müller-Oehring EM, Schulte T (1998). Die Behandlung von Neglect [Treatment of Neglect Disorder]. In: Effektive neuropsychologische Behandlungsmethoden. Deutscher Psychologen Verlag, 166-85.
Conference Symposia:
  • Organizer and Chair of the Symposium: International studies on brain structure and function from uncomplicated alcoholism to Korsakoff’s syndrome.’ 37th Annual RSA Scientific Meeting, JUNE 21-25, 2014, Bellevue, WASHINGTON: Organizers/Chairs: Tilman Schulte, Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 9402.
  • Organizer and Chair of the Symposium: How brain networks are affected by acute and chronic alcohol consumption: Insights from multimodal neuroimaging. 34th Annual RSA Scientific Meeting, JUNE 25-29, 2011, ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Organizers/Chairs: Tilman Schulte, Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 9402 and Susan Tapert, Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA 92161
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