Staff members with discipline Neurosciences
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.






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nutritional programming


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


















- 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).


Biomechanics
Neuromechanics
Motor control
Gait analysis
Gait adaptation
Dynamic balance control
















- Psycholinguistics: lexical-semantic and morphosyntactic processing.
- Neuroscientific methods: tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation), structural MRI, ERPs.








-Behavioral energetics
-Obesity and co-morbidities
-Functional foods














- Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring
- Brain Death








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.














The conection between science and business and policy related questions
Interactions between scientific and other knowledge systems














Ageing, retirement, and mobility




































- Organization of the nervous system and manifestation of dysfunction in clinical neurology.
- Neurological intensive care consultation


- Timing and Time Perception
- Working Memory
Methods
- Statistical Modelling
- Psychophysics
- Computational Modelling of Neural Processes




Translational Neuroscience
Behavioral Genetics
















Neurodegeneratieve aandoeningen
Ziekte van Huntington
Spinocerebellaire aandoeningen
Erfelijke Spastische Paraparese
















Dynamics of the Healthy Brain




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.










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








Pupillometry
Concealed Information Testing














































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


Brain mapping: DES, MRI, TMS, tractography
Psycholinguistics: lexico-semantics, morphosyntax, nouns/verbs, spontaneous speech, word properties


















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












Spina Bifida
Developmental Neurology
















Hearing loss and tinnitus
Neuroscience














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









