• Hanarth foundation funds new project

    Many patients with glioma undergo surgical resection of their tumor. However, this surgery may lead to functional and cognitive decline that hampers quality of life. Predictors of such decline are currently unknown, making it difficult for patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals to manage and prognosticate functional decline. In this new, collaborative project, titled “Predicting functional…

  • Linda becomes chair of the VU Amsterdam UTC

    The University Monitoring Committee (UTC) of VU Amsterdam monitors research quality of all departments and institutes within the university, and advises the executive board on research reviews and developments in research. Excitingly, Linda became the chairperson of this committee as of January 1st!

  • Dorien receives Young Investigator Grant from KWF!

    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…

  • Amsterdam Neuroscience annual meeting

    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!

  • Eduarda is a runner-up for trainee OS prize

    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…

  • Linda at NVN symposium

    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!

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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…

  • Lab retreat 2023

    Lab retreat 2023

    We had a great time learning about interdisciplinarity, revising our vision, and coming up with new ideas during this year’s lab retreat!