BMBF Secretary Brown: "Interdisciplinary Cooperation of physicians provides comprehensive diagnosis and therapy "
The Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Dr. Helge Braun, on Thursday the Dizziness Unit of the Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) for dizziness, balance -. and eye movement disorders at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich opened "The interdisciplinary dizziness clinic starts today at the heart of this center, which was only founded in November 2009. This speed is impressive and shows the great commitment with which the team advancing to Prof. Thomas Brandt this task, " said Brown.
vertigo after back pain and headache, the third most common symptom that is called by patients, the medical examination. About one in five adults complains of dizziness and balance disorders.
Women are about twice as often affected as men and older people more often than young people. may cause dizziness is a symptom suffered by those affected and reduce the striking quality of life considerably. Nevertheless, there is inadequate medical and misuse. This is due to the many potential causes of a balance disorder. They range from cardiovascular disease than migraine and disruption of information processing in the brain to somatic forms without organic cause. "Because work permits in the new Munich clinic physicians of different disciplines, many dizzy patients is a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of their complaints. This can be a lifeline in an often years-long odyssey from specialist to specialist," said Braun.
The Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in 2009 was the BMBF competition for Integrated Research and Treatment Centers (IFB) with its concept as one of now eight IFBs successful and by 2014 the BMBF supports up to 25 million €.
The Integrated Research and treatment centers, the BMBF creates new structures: an IFB in important disease areas, the sustainable development of the research and the comprehensive care center to a common focus strengthened. By traditional disciplinary boundaries are overcome, you can work at a high level in an interdisciplinary IFB. Target the improvement of young talent to train highly qualified experts in Germany is to retain and strengthen the research in Germany.
In Germany, the BMBF has eight built-established research and treatment centers, which mainly focused on: Center for Stroke Research at the Charité Berlin, the IFB transplantation at Hannover Medical School, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, University of Freiburg, the IFB obesity diseases at the University of Leipzig, the IFB sepsis and sepsis episodes at the University of Jena and the Thrombosis Centre at the University of Mainz and the IFB Prevention of heart failure and its complications at the University of Würzburg.
Today was also the brochure "The dizziness Research -. Diagnosis - Therapy". It was created in close cooperation with experts from the IFB Munich and is available for download at:
