Anders Rosendal Korshøj researches in the treatment of various brain diseases using electrical and magnetic brain stimulation. Together with his research team he is testing a new and promising technology called focused magnetic brain stimulation, which has been developed by researchers from the prestigious Stanford University in California, USA.

Thanks to a travel grant from Reinholdt W. Jorck and Hustrus Foundation, Anders Rosendal Korshøj can travel to California and develop the method further, together with the inventors of focused magnetic brain stimulation.

“We want to develop a type of treatment that uses advanced brain scans, which allow us to apply treatment deep in the brain with great precision. The scans identify physiological processes in the patient’s brain and help us to select the area in the brain, which is the most suitable for the treatment, so that we can tailor the stimulation individually. It will be very important for the effect of treatment and safety of the stimulation,” explains Anders Rosendal Korshøj.

A broad treatment perspective

Focused magnetic brain stimulation works by precisely stimulating brain structures without surgical intervention, and it is therefore an important tool for chronic pain patients who experience the greatest suffering, but do not benefit from the available treatment. This means that the method has a broad and significant perspective for treatment.

Magnetic brain stimulation is already used for planning brain operations, rehabilitation after strokes and the treatment of depression. Long-term expectations are that the new technology, through greater precision and scope, can be made more individual, safe and effective.

”It will be possible to use the principles that we are trying to demonstrate, in the treatment of other diseases, in addition to the treatment of chronic pain patients. We are also planning an experiment with focused magnetic brain stimulation as a method to treat the most serious forms of brain cancer,” explains Anders Rosendal Korshøj.

Great personal and strategic significance

The travel grant from Reinholdt W. Jorck and Hustrus Foundation has both research-related and personal significance for Anders Rosendal Korshøj.

“On behalf of the research group, I am proud and grateful for the recognition. First and foremost, the money means that the project can be realised, which is an inspirational support for the project. Personally, the grant gives me the opportunity for supplementing my medical training by completing an exciting innovation programme called Stanford Biodesign, as well as completing my MSc in Engineering at one of the best universities in the world,” says the grant recipient.

The travel grant helps strengthen the close collaboration between Stanford University and INNO-X Healthcare at Aarhus University, which is a collaboration between Aarhus University, the Central Denmark Region, Aarhus University Hospital, Medtech Innovation Centre and private companies and other players.

The prize was presented on Wednesday 11 December 2013, at the Supreme Court in Copenhagen.

Anders Rosendal Korshøj qualified as a medical doctor from Aarhus University in 2010. In addition to studying medicine, he has taken a taken a subsidiary subject in mathematics, signal processing and engineering at Aarhus University. He was born on 5 November 1981 in Aarhus, Denmark.

Further information

Registrar, PhD student Anders Rosendal Korshøj
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery NK
akorshoej@gmail.com