Category: people
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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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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!
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Lucas and Maxine are at the BeNe Brain Stim Congres!
They are both presenting a poster on their running TMS studies (T-mult and TRUE-GRIT) at this second edition of the Netherlands-Belgium brain stimulation congres in Nijmegen. More info here!
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Mona speaks at DGN conference
Exciting, Mona is one of the invited speakers at the DGN conference in Berlin, Germany. This is the German Neurological Society, and she will be talking about how brain and tumor activity and connectivity are interconnected. More info (in German) here!
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Brigit Thomassen
Hello everyone! I’m Brigit Thomassen and I have a background in Biology (bachelor at Leiden university) and Neurobiology (master at the University of Amsterdam). I’m really into neuroscience—especially cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, and neuropathology and I love taking an interdisciplinary approach to better understand both the fundamental and applied sides of neuroscience. What drives me…
Multiscale Network Neuroscience 