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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…
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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!
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Connected World is out

This book is a collection of essays written by 100 academics about our Connected World, spanning from fictional stories to science-inspired essays. Linda was one of them! Find the free e-book here.
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We’re at EANO 2023 in Rotterdam!

An exciting few days, with the European Association for Neuro-Oncology annual meeting taking place in nearby Rotterdam this year. Here’s an overview of what we’re sharing this year. OS08.5A Understanding the association between fatigue and cognition in glioma patients: an observational multinational study | by Jantine (talk on Saturday at 12.15pm in the Willem Burger…
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Maxine and Jantine present at a patient-organized event
An important part of doing clinical studies in our view is communicating the research goals and results to the people we’re doing it for: the people with brain tumors. So Maxine and Jantine were very happy to present their GRIP study arms (on improving cognitive deficits and ameliorating fatigue, resp.) at an event organized by…
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Lucas Baudouin joins the team!
The brain represents a formidable hub of interaction between multiple cells types, working in concert to lead to a wide spectrum of cognitive phenotypes. A better understanding of this vast and complex network remains one of the keys to identifying how cognitive disorders are a hallmark of many neurological diseases. My previous research work enabled…
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Eduarda receives Best Paper Award at OHBM2023

The gift that keeps on giving: Eduarda received Brain Structure and Function’s best paper award for her “Hands-on tutorial on network and topological neuroscience” at this year’s OHBM meeting in Montreal, Canada. Congrats, Eduarda!
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The Heidelberg Cancer Neuroscience Conference

Dorien, Marike, Mona and Linda are excited to be at this inaugural conference in Heidelberg! Mona will present fresh results, come see her poster on Wednesday!
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We’re at the CCA annual retreat!

The Cancer Center Amsterdam (Amsterdam UMC) has a 2-day retreat every year, where oncological researchers and clinicians meet up to share their work. Jantine had a presentation on her work on symptom networks in glioma, and Marieke had a poster on her FeelFit protocol: The neuro-oncology patient research group (PRG) also presented itself, with presentations…