Elena Bonke, MSc
Research Trainee; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory; Department of Psychiatry; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Medical PhD Student; cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Research
Elena is a PhD student at the Child Brain Research and Imaging in Neuroscience (cBRAIN) laboratory at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich where she investigates the effects of repetitive head impacts on brain structure and function in adolescent soccer players using advanced neuroimaging methods (supervised by Prof. Inga Koerte, Prof. Tim Meyer, Dr. Igor Yakushev and Dr. Michaela Bonfert). She has a background in Sports Science, Psychology and Neuroscience and is enrolled as a PhD student in the Graduate School of Systemic Neuroscience in Munich since October 2019. She has joined the PNL as a summer intern in 2018 in-person and re-joined the PNL in 2020 remotely as a research trainee. Her main interests are the effects of sports on brain health including both alterations after sports-related brain injury as well as the positive effects of sports as prevention and therapy.
Research Interest
- Diffusion MRI
- Structural MRI
- Sport-related brain injury
- Repetitive head impacts
- Brain development
- Motor development