Profile
Prof Balazs Zoltan GULYAS
Collaborator
Since 2012 Prof Balázs Gulyás has been a Professor and President's Chair of Translational Neuroscience at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and the Director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre (CoNiC) of NTU. Prior to this appointment as one of the founding professors of LKCMedicine and the inaugural chair of the School’s neuroscience and mental health programme, he spent most of his scientific career at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, where he is still a Professor in the Section for Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Neuroscience.
He studied medicine at Semmelweis Medical University (MD: 1981), and parallel with it followed courses in physics at Eötvös Loránd University in his native Budapest. He studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium (BA and MA, 1982 and 1984) and obtained his PhD in Neurobiology at the same university in 1988. He pursued his postdoctoral studies at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology of the Karolinska Institute and at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.
During his career he participated in executive and leadership trainings at the universities of London, Oxford and the Harvard Business School. He also has a BD (divinity) from Heythrop College, University of London (2020), a CHEMS (mathematics) from The Open University, Milton Keynes (2022), and habilitations in medicine from KU Leuven (1988), the Karolinska Institute (1997) and the University of Debrecen (1999).
Earlier in his career he made some pioneering contributions to the fields of visual neuroscience and the functional mapping of the human brain with positron emission tomography (PET). Later on, his interest turned to molecular neuroimaging with PET, with special regard to neurological and psychiatric diseases and their “humanised” animal disease models. These activities also involved biomarker target identifications as well as drug and diagnostic imaging probe development studies. His recent interest covers, among others, the fields of neurology, psychiatry, basic and cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, in general, and more recently the neurobiological foundations of the human brain's extraordinary capacities, in particular.
Balázs Gulyás has published – as author or editor – fourteen books, authored some forty book chapters and 290+ research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals (source: Scopus and ORCID) and contributed to 7 patents. He is a member of, among others, Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe – where he is the Chair of the Section of Physiology and Neuroscience), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Belgian Academy of Medical Sciences and until his appointment as the President of HUN-REN effective 1 May 2023 he was a member of the Advanced Grants Panel of the European Research Council. Concurrent with his appointments at LKCMedicine in Singapore and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, he is an Honorary Professor at the Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London.
Singapore
Researchers
CLIC
Research Interest
Prof Gulyás has made some pioneering contributions to the field of functional brain mapping with positron emission tomography (PET), in particular to the localisation of cortical areas in the human brain related to visual perceptual functions, visual memory and imagery, olfactory and pheromone-sense functions. Later on his research focused on molecular neuroimaging with PET, with special regard to neurological and psychiatric diseases and their “humanised” murine and primate animal disease models. These activities also involved neuropsychopharmacological drug development and diagnostic imaging probe development as well as contribution to designing, validation and testing of multimodal imaging scanners. His interest covers, among others, the fields of neurology, psychiatry, basic and cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, in general, and more recently the neurobiological foundations of the human brain's extraordinary performances, in particular.
-Neurology
-Psychiatry
-Basic and cognitive neuroscience
-Neuroimaging
Key Publications
ResearchGate Profile
Gulyás, B., Ottoson, D., and Roland, P. E. (eds.) Functional Organization of the Human Visual Cortex. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993. 391 pages. ISBN 0 08 042004 4.
Pléh, C., Kovács, G. and Gulyás, B. (eds.) Cognitive Neuroscience. Budapest, Osiris Press, 2003. 832 pages. ISBN 963 389 313 5.
Kraft, E., Gulyás, B. and Pöppel, E. (eds.) Neural Correlates of Thinking. Springer Verlag, 2008. xv + 285 pages. ISBN 978 3 540 68042 0
Vasbinder, J.W. and Gulyás, B. Cultural Patterns and Neurocognitive Circuits. I. (Series title: Exploring Complexity: Volume 2. East–West Connections) World Scientific Publishinh Company, 2016. 212 pages. ISBN: 978-981-3147-48-5
Gulyás, B. and Vasbinder, J.W. Cultural Patterns and Neurocognitive Circuits. II. (Series title: Exploring Complexity: Volume 2. East–West Connections) World Scientific Publishing Company, 2017. 250 pages. ISBN-13: 978-9813230477
Vasbinder, J.W., Gulyás, B. and Sim, J. Y. H. (eds). Grand Challenges for Science in the 21st Century. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2018. 144 pages. ISBN: 978-981-3276-43-7.
Gulyás, B. Functional organization of human visual cortical areas. In: Peters, A. and Jones, E. G. (eds.) Cerebral Cortex. Vol. 12. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1997. pp. 743-775.
Gulyás, B., Halldin, C. and Mazière, B. In vivo imaging of neurotransmitter systems. In: Handbook of Neurochemistry. (Eds.: E. Sylvester Vizi and Michel Hamon). Springer Verlag, 2008. pp. 75-100.
Gulyás, B. and Sjöholm, N. Principles of Positron Emission Tomography. In: Functional Neuroimaging in Clinical Populations. (Eds.: Frank G. Hillary and John DeLuca). Guilford Press, 2007. pp. 3-30.
Gulyás, B. Functional Neuroimaging and the Logic of Conscious and Unconscious Mental processes. In: Kraft, E., Gulyás, B. and Pöppel, E. (eds.) Neural Correlates of Thinking. Springer Verlag, 2008. pp. 139-171.
Gulyás, B. and Roland, P. E., Processing and analysis of form, colour and binocular disparity in the human brain: functional anatomy by positron emission tomography. Eur. J. Neurosci., 6(1994):1811-1827.
Gulyás, B., Heywood, C. A., Popplewell, D. B., Cowey, A., and Roland, P. E., Visual form discrimination from colour or motion cues: Functional anatomy by positron emission tomography. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. US, 91(1994):9965-9969
Roland, P. E. and Gulyás, B. Visual imagery and visual representation. Trends Neurosci. 17(1994):281-287.
Kinomura, S., Larsson, J., Gulyás, B., and Roland, P. E. Attention activates the midbrain reticular formation and thalamic interlaminar nuclei in man. Science, 271(1996):512-515.
Savic, I. Berglund, H., Gulyás, B., Roland, P. E. Smelling of odorous sex hormone-like compounds causes sex-differentiated hypothalamic activations in humans. Neuron 31(2001):661-668.
Kéri, S. and Gulyás, B. Four facets of a single brain: relationship among behavior, cerebral blood flow/metabolism, neuronal activity and neurotransmitter dynamics. Neuroreport 14(2003):1-11
Gulyás B. The receptor fingerprint of the human brain and its changes during life. Bull Mem Acad R Med Belg. 162(2007):225-237
Gulyás B, Vas A, Tóth M, Takano A, Varrone A, Cselényi Z, Schain M, Mattsson P, Halldin C. Age and disease related changes in the translocator protein (TSPO) system in the human brain: Positron emission tomography measurements with [(11)C]vinpocetine. Neuroimage 256(2011):1111-1121.
Padmanabhan P, Kumar A, Kumar S, Chaudhary RK, Gulyás B. Nanoparticles in practice for molecular-imaging applications: An overview. Acta Biomater. pii: S1742-7061(2016)30271-30279.
Gulyás, B., Mitra, R., Vyas, A., Amin, S. M., Gulyás, V., Padmanabhan, P. Aging, Brain Aging and Cognitive Resilience. Innovation 16(2018):33-38.
Padmanabhan P, Palanivel M, Kumar A, Máthé D, Radda GK, Lim KL, Gulyás B. Nanotheranostic agents for neurodegenerative diseases. Emerg Top Life Sci. 4(2020):645-675
Mishra S, Kumar A, Padmanabhan P, Gulyás B. Neurophysiological Correlates of Cognition as Revealed by Virtual Reality: Delving the Brain with a Synergistic Approach. Brain Sci. 11(2021):51.
Achievements
Prof Gulyás has published - as author or editor - 14 books, authored over 40 book chapters and 250+ research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. He is a member of, among others, Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe where he is the Chair of the Section of Physiology and Neuroscience), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Belgian Academy of Medical Sciences and two panels of the European Research Council.
Concurrent with his appointments at LKCMedicine in Singapore and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, he is an Honorary Professor at the Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Radiology of the Medical University of Vienna and an Adjunct Professor of James Cook University, Australia. He is the Past Deputy Chair of the Senate of NTU and the former (inaugural) head of the medical school's neuroscience and mental health theme.