Gulyas, Balazs

Physician, neurobiologist

Balázs Gulyás was born in 1956. He attended the Benedictine Secondary Boarding School at Pannonhalma, and went on to study Medicine at Semmelweis University in Budapest, where the neuroanatomist János Szentágothai exercised a decisive influence on his further development. He graduated with a degree in Medicine in 1981, by which time he had already been invited to continue his studies at Cambridge University. After that, he studied at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he also began his career as a researcher in the field of neuroscience. After defending his PhD thesis on the primate visual system, he received an invitation from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where he has been working ever since. Today, Dr Gulyás continues to explore and understand the conundrum of the human brain, now with the help of advanced imaging techniques like positron emission tomography (PET scanning).

Dissection of Consciousness with PET