speech motor control, Parkinson's disease, motor speech disorders, voice, speech acoustics, psychoacoustics

PhD candidate part of the EQIPD (European Quality in Preclinical Data) consortium, a combined effort of universities and pharmaceutical companies, with the purpose of increasing the quality of preclinical data. The objectives are speeding up the discovery of new medications, in particular for neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's and a safer transition from preclinical to clinical research.

Cognitive neuroscience

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neuropsychology, brain stimulation, hallucinations, emotion, brain, psychosis, depression, schizophrenia, cognitive aging

depression, e-health, experience sampling, metascience

first 1000 days
nutritional programming

Applied methods: Hidden semi-Markov Model multivariate pattern analysis (HsMM-MVPA), evidence accumulation modelling (EAM), event-related potentials (ERPs), time-frequency analysis, intertrial coherence, linear-mixed effect models (LMEs), generalised additive mixed models (GAMMs), qualitative analysis.

Used measurement techniques: electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), eye-tracking, behavioral measures (reaction times, accuracy), questionnaires.

Analysis tools: Matlab, R, Python.

Neuroimmunology and glia celbiology; Stemcell biology and epigenetics

Treatment of Parkinson's disease, particularly apomorphine

Clinical and Developmental Neuropsychology, Hemispheric specialization, child neuropsychology, neuropsychological assessment, and dementia.

Klinische Neuropsychologie. In het bijzonder:
- cognitieve, emotionele en gedragsmatige gevolgen van neurologische aandoeningen.
- sociale cognitie en de relatie met andere cognitieve functies & dagelijks functioneren.
- neuropsychologie binnen de neurochirurgie (gliomen, subarachnoïdale bloedingen).

Human movement sciences
Biomechanics
Neuromechanics
Motor control
Gait analysis
Gait adaptation
Dynamic balance control

Behavioral physiological, neurobiological and neuroendocrinological pre-clinical research into short- and long-term consequences of social conflicts.

My main research focus is on microchimerism. Microchimerism is a pregnancy phenomenon where fetal cells travel towards maternal tissues and vice versa. These microchimeric cells are able to colonize host tissues and can persist lifelong. I am especially interested in the distribution, frequency and function of fetal, maternal and sibling microchimeric cells, during and after prengancy.

Epilepsy, Epidemiology, Clinical trials, Genetics, Neurology

Neuromorphic engineering, learning in spiking CMOS neural networks and memristive systems, CMOS models of cortical circuits for brain-inspired computation, bio-inspired sensing (vision, olfaction, touch, active electrolocation, audition) and motor control.

The long-term aim of my group's research is to restore vision in visually impaired and blind people. We contribute to this goal through improving ophthalmic diagnosis, visual rehabilitation and better understand the origins of ophthalmic disease. In our research, we use eye movement recordings to improve diagnostics, or MRI to study the presence of anatomical and functional changes in the ophthalmic disease glaucoma. We expect this to shed led light on the origin of the disease, its relationships with other neurodegenerative diseases and to contribute to better diagnosis. In our research, we use eye tracking, behavioural and neuro-imaging methods to understand the workings of the visual system in both healthy and visually impaired participants. Our field of research we call visual neuroscience. 

- Clinical linguistics and neurolinguistics: developmental language disorders, aphasia, and dementia (characterizing impairments and predictors of response to treatment).
- Psycholinguistics: lexical-semantic and morphosyntactic processing.
- Neuroscientific methods: tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation), structural MRI, ERPs.

Brain Connectivity; Neuropsychiatry; Brain stimulation; Brain dynamics

neurology, ageing, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome, neurochemistry, neuroinflammation, biomarkers

Research in intellectual disability care, among others: caregiving, dysphagia, interventions, sleep apnea. Specialization: Dementia in people with intellectual disabilities, in particular Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrome

-Intergrative Neurobiology of Energy Balance (professoral chair)
-Behavioral energetics
-Obesity and co-morbidities
-Functional foods

Behavioral neurobiology 

Audiology, Tinnitus, Biophysics of Hearing

Neurodegeneration, Mitochondrial function, Inflammation, Potassium channels

- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring
- Brain Death

Neuroscience, molecular biology, neuroinflammation, gene expression, epigenetics, cellbiology, development, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease

movement disorders, deep brain stimulation, genetics

Professor in Molecular Neurobiology and Neuroimmunology

Background:
Our group is working at the cross roads of inflammation and neuronal function with molecular, cellular and behavioural approaches in various neuronal disease models. 

Molecular mechanisms involved in neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases are a result of evolutionary processes like all other biological phenomena. Therefore understanding how these mechanisms may have evolved will eventually lead to a deeper understanding of these processes. We investigate in depths the function of the cytokine Tumor Necrosis Factor in neurodegenerative diseases. This pleotropic master cytokine belongs to a large family of molecules, which are able to induce apoptotic cell death but also proliferation and other cellular responses like tissue remodeling. Apoptosis plays an important role in the elimination of infected or transformed cells but also during embryonic development. TNF was found to play a major role in many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson's disease, stroke or Multiple Sclerosis (MS) but also in Depression and many other brain diseases. In neurodegenerative diseases apoptosis seems to play a major role and therefore the pro-apoptotic function was for a long time at the center of interest to many researchers in this field. We and others have demonstrated that the TNF and TNF receptor system is mainly a protective and sensory system guiding the tissue response to various forms of cellular stress. Apoptosis is just one of the potential responses, which can be induced by TNF. We are following some of these molecular signaling mechanisms in the brain and specific brain cells in response to TNF and detected various signaling molecules downstream of either TNF receptor 1 or TNF receptor 2 and their neuromodulatory signaling e.g. glutamate receptor function, small conductance potassium channels, cAMP Epac-, PKB/Akt- signaling, Nuclear Factor kappa B or lipocalin-2 and iron metabolism.

Neural correlates of executive (dys)functions, brain-computer-interfaces (BCI), cognitive modulation & training & new interventions, clinical neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, EEG, MRI

Psychiatry, Psychotic disorders.

Psychosis

Pediatric Neurology, Movement Disorders (Ataxia and Dystonia), Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Developmental Coordination Disorder), Neurogenetics

Auditory research: Auditory Scene Analysis in Cochlear-Implant users

Chronobiology: the phyiology of time, societal aspects

The conection between science and business and policy related questions

Interactions between scientific and other knowledge systems

I am joining the neurobiology expertise groups at GELIFES in September 2023. My research will explore diversity in vulnerability to neuropsychiatric conditions and responses to therapeutics. Specifically, this research programme aims to identify how and why individual factors (particularly sex) and different environmental conditions (social interactions, access to shelter, food) contribute to neuropsychiatric disease and treatment effectiveness by focusing on specific phenotypes relating to sleep-wake patterns, social interactions, and cognition across species. I hold a PhD in Psychology/Behavioural Neuroscience from Concordia University (Montréal, Québec), postdoctoral training (Amherst Massachusetts, USA and Toronto, Canada), and most recently, a Research Associate position at the Rotman Research Institute (Toronto, Canada), and University of Western Ontario (London, Canada). I have studied the importance of female physiology in sleep and cognition in rats, mice, marmosets, and humans. I have experience in behavioural methods (including assessment of cognitive function), neuroimaging (MRI & microscopy), sleep physiology, surgical techniques, hormone quantification, and pharmacological manipulations.

Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, SLI, ADHD, Eye Tracking, EEG, fMRI, SPSS, E-Prime, Matlab, MLA, PCA, CFA, Borland Delphi, C++, VBA, MPlus

Schizophrenia, rodent models of schizophrenia, behaviour in rodents (affective, social, cognitive), positron emission tomography (PET), brain inflammation, synaptic density

Cognitive neuroscience
Ageing, retirement, and mobility

Mood and Anxiety disorders / Bipolar disorders / Neurobiologie / Neuroinflammation

Learning and Memory, Hippocampal function, Synaptic plasticity, Sleep deprivation, Chemogenetics, Optogenetics, Memory Engrams Transgenic mouse models, Viral approaches, Long-term potentiation.

Assessment and rehabilitation of visual disorders after acquired brain damage

Human Movement Science, specialization Biomechanics

Research support and strategy, grant writing support, liaison officer, ISO certification

Ageing, Exercise neuroscience, biomechanics, physiology

Chronobiology, Human Chronobiology, Biological rhythms, Photoperiodism, Annual rhythms, Zoology, Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, Microscopy, Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Metabolism.

Neurotraumatology, traumatic brain injury, acute neurology, general neurology, education

Stress studies in animals and humans

- Functional neuroimaging (PET, fMRI),
- Organization of the nervous system and manifestation of dysfunction in clinical neurology.
- Neurological intensive care consultation

Topics:
- Timing and Time Perception
- Working Memory 

Methods
- Statistical Modelling
- Psychophysics
- Computational Modelling of Neural Processes

Neurobiology of Behavior
Translational Neuroscience
Behavioral Genetics

Pupillometry, Emotion recognition, Hearing impairment, Signal processing

Neurologists Movement Disorders http://movementdisordersgroningen.com/en

Neurowetenschappen, moleculaire biologie, neuroinflammatie, gen expressie, epigenetica, histon (de)methylatie, celbiologie, ontwikkeling, multiple sclerose,

Functional movement disorders

Neurologische bewegingsstoornissen
Neurodegeneratieve aandoeningen
Ziekte van Huntington
Spinocerebellaire aandoeningen
Erfelijke Spastische Paraparese

Neurodegerative diseases, espcecially parkinsonism.NeuropharmacologyNeuromodulationOrganisation of complex treatments related to Parkinson's disease

Clinical neuropsychopharmacologist

Cognitive Neuroscience
Dynamics of the Healthy Brain

Dyslexia; Clinical Neuropsychology; Neuroscience; Speech-Language Patrhology

My educational background and interests form a conglomerate of Organisational Psychology and Neuroscience. My Bachelor's degree was heavily focused on business psychology and workplace dynamics, whereas my Master's revolved around the study of neuroscience - specifically, neuroanatomy and the neural binding problem.

Now venturing into my post-educational career, I am becoming increasingly more interested in group dynamics, as well as inter-personal communication and conflict - which is also reflected in my taught courses.

Advanced fMRI analysis, Combined Eye tracking and fMRI; Eye tracking; Data analysis; Statistics

Selective attention, cognition, emotion, individual differences, EEG, pupil dilation

Research: Clinical neuroengineering, particularly biomedical signal analysis, multimodal neuroimaging, high-density EEG recording, visualization of high-dimensional data and home-based diagnosis and monitoring.

As CSIO:  GO FAIR initiative, personal health environments, (research, medical and care) data coupling and sharing and its ethical and legal implications.

Molecular neurobiology. Microglia immune memory. Epigenetics, neuroinflammation, and demyelination in the context of multiple sclerosis.

Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, Stress, Brain Function

Biotechnical proceedings and moleculair/genetic biology, as well as field work assitance.

Time Perception
Pupillometry
Concealed Information Testing

Functional Neuroimaging, Dementia biomarkers, Anosognosia

Auditory-vocal learning and memory

traumatic brain injury - imaging (f)MRI - outcome prediction - behaviour and cognition

Neurolinguistics

Behavior (affective, social, cognitive), Pharmacology, Physiology, Gene expression, microbiome, rat models for depression, rat models for sexual behavior

I am the faculty funding officer for the faculty Behavioural and Social Sciences and have experience in applying for personal grants and consortium applications in several scientific fields and from various funding bodies (e.g., NWO, ZonMw grants, European applications). I have a research background in neurobiology and psychology, having done a PhD on the effects of stress on the brain at the UvA and postdoctoral research on the mechanisms of memory formation in Cambridge (UK) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, amongst others.

Action choices in gait (route selection); the role of retinal and extraretinal information in the control of (perturbed) balance; the contribution of gaze to spatial orientation in stepping and standing. 

Zebrafish genetics, mouse embryology, neurogenesis, neural stem cell, asymmetric cell division, organelle assembly, molecular biology, centrosome and cilium biology

Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience

My research focuses on the effects of hearing loss and aging on voice and speech perception. During my PhD at IRCAM and the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris, I investigated the role of speaker and language familiarity on emotional voice perception, using voice transformation software. I am interested in combining behavioral and electrophysiological (EEG) measures to study different processing stages involved speech perception, from low-level perception of voice cues to higher level speech understanding.

Electroencephalography, Neurological Diseases, eHealth

Asyncronus Circuit Design, Neuromporphic Chip Architectures, IC Design, Spiking Neuronal Networks, Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Science & Neuroscience

Interested in bringing "lab-science" to the real world. See http://www.temporalcognition.org for a more extensive overview.

Main Topics: Temporal Cognition & Adaptive Learning, Clinical Applications of Cognitive Measures

Field: Cognitive Science; Cognitive Neuroscience; Educational Sciences. 

Methods: comptuational modeling; mathematical modeling; experimentation; EEG; fMRI; MEG; eyetracking; pupil dilation

Clinical linguistics:  brain tumors, infections, dementia, stroke, assessment/outcomes, rehabilitation, test standardization
Brain mapping:  DES, MRI, TMS, tractography
Psycholinguistics:  lexico-semantics, morphosyntax, nouns/verbs, spontaneous speech, word properties

Behavioural Neuroscience

Bilingualism/bilingual experiences, cognitive aging, Alzheimer's Disease, (resting-state) EEG, functional brain activity

Interpersonal perspective on psychopathology; Social cognition; Experimental psychopharmacology; Intensive repeated measures in naturalistic settings

Medical Image Analysis

I have spent five years in the field of neuroscience following my research interest in seeking to understand neurodegeneration and maladaptations while studying the effect of social context in this process.  My current research focuses on unravelling the interplay between sociability and social exposure on sleep and its resultant effect on cognition.

Research fields: neural regulation of the energy balance, Type 2 Diabetes, obesity and Anorexia Nervosa

The translational research focuses on the molecular pharmacological aspects of the development and course of chronic inflammatory diseases. Our motivation for this research focus is very personal, we truly believe that research in the field of translational pharmacology is clustered around molecular partners in defined subcellular compartments (signalosomes) that enables cells to exert highly specialized tasks. Devastating diseases, e.g. cancer, type-II diabetes mellitus, Alzheimers’s dementia, heart failure, asthma, COPD, and infection diseases are associated with defective or derailed signaling processes, and research into the control of these processes clearly is of great public and social importance as well. Currently our research focus lies on chronic inflammatory disorders, and I focus nowadays on experimental models of COPD and related lung disorders, Alzheimer, Parkinson and microbial infections. We successfully undertaken the effort to link the themes to defined subcellular compartments (signalosomes). We linked  novel signaling pathways from membrane receptors towards the recently identified PLC-e isoform, the cAMP sensor Epac. I defined novel and exciting functions of the cytoskeleton driver cofilin, a signal node clearly linked to microbe invasion. I linked this novel clusters to inflammation, remodeling next to the repair of the epithelial barrier and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition as a mechanism driving fibrosis.

Animal models for cardiovascular disease
Animal models for body-brain interaction (depression after myocardial infarction; postoperative cognitive decline)
Neuroinflammation
Behavioral studies

Neuroimaging; (dynamic) functional connectivity; experience sampling method; actigraphy; mood disorders; neuroticism

Movement Disorders
Spina Bifida
Developmental Neurology

Stoornissen in ‘prefrontaal’ gereguleerde functies (aandacht, executieve functies en sociale cognitie) bij neurologische aandoeningen. Diagnostiek en neuropsychologische revalidatie bij patienten met neurologische  aandoeningen.

Physics of invertebrate vision and animal coloration.

pharmacokinetics and dynamics, optimisation of drug delivery

Functional and structural Neuroimaging, Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Psychosis, Suïcidal behavior, Longitudinal Imaging, Rumination, Apathy, cognitive control

Data Science, Epidemiology

Peripheral auditory system
Hearing loss and tinnitus
Neuroscience

Hyperkinetic movement disorders

Functional genetics of rare movement disorders: ataxia, dystonia & familial Parkinson's disease

Artificial Intelligence, memory, decision making, EEG, cognitive modeling; mindfulness, attention, social neuroscience, brain decoding

My research focusses on speech perception, in particular on the automatic and controlled processes that enable speech comprehension in optimal (e.g., native listening) and atypical conditions (e.g., hearing impairment, CI, non-native communications). I study the interrelation between sensory and cognitive processes and the role that language experience and perceptual plasticity play in shaping this relation.

Cognitive (neuro)science, Cognitive Psychology

Current research toptics: adaptive learning, speech, and cognitive modelling. For a more complete overview, see www.thomaswilschut.com.

fatigue, interhemisperic interactions, muscle stimulation