Category: news
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“Invisible Loss” @ Beautiful distress
“The Beautiful Distress Foundation uses art to increase understanding and compassion for people dealing with mental vulnerabilities. Art appeals to our senses and reason, can make us look at things in a different way and can make us aware of our own prejudices.” We went to their current exposition on “Onzichtbaar Verlies”, which is about…
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The Human Neuron and Circuit Meeting 2024
Lucas (Baudouin), Dorien and Linda were at the exciting Human Neuron and Circuit Meeting at the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam!
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First patients included in TRUE-GRIT and FeelFit!
After preparing for a long time, Maxine and Marieke have included their first patients for their respective studies on improving cognitive complaints and physical fitness! Maxine will use repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with a strategy training to improve the cognitive complaints that many patients with a glioma experience. We hope that by tailoring…
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Freek Linders
My name is Freek, and in April 2024, I started as a PhD candidate. I have a background in psychobiology (bachelor’s, UvA), but driven by my clinical interests, I decided to pursue a combined clinical and research master’s in neuropsychology (VU). The overall aim of my PhD project is to characterize cognitive and daily life…
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Maxine presents at LWNO
At the annual meeting of the Landelijke Werkgroep Neuro-Oncologie, Maxine presented her work on four reproducible cognitive domains!
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Vera is back from Copenhagen!
She spent 3.5 months with the research group of Karin Piil, Senior Researcher at Copenhagen University Hospital Associate Professor at Aarhus University, where she investigated symptom science among brain tumor patients. Read all about it here!
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Dorien receives Young Investigator Grant from KWF!
Cognitive disorders are a side effect of chemotherapy that can persist long after the treatment is completed and include problems with working memory and concentration. There is no successful treatment strategy for chemotherapy-related cognitive disorders (CRCI) because clinical and preclinical studies are far apart, creating translational problems in the development of treatments. In the brains…
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Amsterdam Neuroscience annual meeting
Many of us attended the Amsterdam Neuroscience annual meeting! Moreover, Lucas (Baudouin) presented a poster on his exciting new results on culturing oligodendrocytes from resected peritumoral tissue in order to better understand cognitive deficits in patients with glioma. Stay tuned for more!
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Eduarda is a runner-up for trainee OS prize
At the 2023 Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes organized by The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), Eduarda was recognized “for her constant commitment to open science and the development of tools and tutorials for network neuroscience analysis”! She won a runner-up prize of 1000 CAD in addition to being lauded for her work…
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Linda at NVN symposium
November 24th marked the 60th birthday of the Dutch Society for Neuropsychology (NVN), which was celebrated with a winter symposium themed ‘Back to the future’. Linda presented on technological innovation through multiscale network neuroscience!
Multiscale Network Neuroscience 