The Fall of Niels Birbaumer

A highly acclaimed neuroscientist whose work offered hope for many patients with brain injury has fallen from grace.Niels Birbaumer. From https://www.wysscenter.ch/person/niels-birbaumer-phd/Prof. Niels Birbaumer, of the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen in Germany, came under investigation earlier this year. The probe began after researcher Martin Spüler raised serious concerns over a 2017 paper in PLoS Biology by Ujwal Chaudhary et al. Birbaumer was the senior author.Now,