This Thursday March 9, 2017, I have the honor and great pleasure of chairing the jury of the Famelab Groningen heat for the third time. Famelab, organized by the British Council as a worldwide competition, tries to encourage more people who work in science and engineering to engage with the public, and to help them develop the skills […]
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Upcoming PhD defense Octavio Martinez Manzanera
I’m proud to announce the upcoming PhD defense of Octavio Martinez Manzanera on February 8 at 16:15 in the Aula of the Academiegebouw in Groningen. The defense is open to the public, so please feel free to attend. The title of his thesis is ‘Quantification of symptoms of movement disorders employing motion sensors’. In five chapters, […]
Brain networks involved in essential tremor (ET): elucidating tremor pathophysiology using EMG-fMRI
Researcher: Marja Broersma (PhD student) Thesis defense: 1 november 2017 Second promotor: Prof. Marina de Koning-Tijssen, MD, PhD Collaborators: Fleur van Rootselaar, MD, PhD (AMC, Amsterdam), Arthur Buijink, MD, PhD, Madelein van der Stouwe, MD, PhD Funding: Prinses Beatrix Fonds EMG-fMRI was employed to identify the brain network involved in tremor generation in a homogeneous group of […]
Patients in numbers TedX-like talk now online!
After presenting it in September for my fellow BCN-PIs in Groningen, I’m happy to now present my TEDx-like talk about ‘Patients in numbers’ online. This is your chance to get an 18-minute introduction to my research! Hope you enjoy it. This movie was produced by Scripta Communicatie.
Neurophysiological studies of reading fluency
Researcher: Rui Qin, PhD Thesis defense: 2016 First promotor: Prof. Ben Maassen, PhD (Linguistics, RuG) Collaborators: Martijn Wieling, PhD Funding: CSC Developmental dyslexia is a neurobiologically based learning disorder that impairs a child’s ability to read and write. To minimize the detrimental effects of dyslexia, it is important to provide optimal intervention at the youngest possible […]
DiPAR: Diagnosing Parkinson’s Disease by neuromuscular function evaluation
Researcher: Esther Smits, PhD Thesis defense: 2016 Second promotor: Prof. Marina de Koning-Tijssen, MD, PhD Collaborators: Prof. Nico Leenders, MD, PhD, Rutger Zietsma, PhD (Manus Neurodynamica LtD, Newcastle, UK), Mark van Gils (VTT, Tampere, Finland), John Watt (University of Glasgow, UK), Olaf Schroeder (Pattern Expert, Borsdorf, Germany), Heinrich Grüger (Fraunhofer Institute, Dresden, Germany), Harald von […]
First Annual Charlotte Scott lecture in Mathematics
I am honored to be invited to give the first Annual Charlotte Scott lecture in Mathematics on January 30, 2017, at Lincoln University (UK). This public lecture will be entitled ‘Patients in numbers’ and this is the summary: No-one likes to be considered by their doctor as a number. However, in this lecture I will […]
Joint study on visualization for cerebral optimization in TBI appraised in editorial CCM
Our paper ‘Enhanced Visualization of Optimal Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Over Time to Support Clinical Decision Making’ with contributions from University Medical Center Groningen (Marcel Aries, Jan Willem Elting, Robin Wesselink (technical medicine student) and myself) and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge (Joseph Donnelly, Marek Czosnyka, Ari Ercole and Peter Smielewski) that was just published in the October issue of […]
Apply for EIT-Health Ageing Brain summerschool in Groningen now
Education and training of future healthcare professionals, scientists, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the EIT-Health Ageing Brain Summer School is focused on the early hallmarks and diagnosis of normal and abnormal brain ageing, the development of novel effective treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, novel strategies for clinical treatment, the management of elderly care and the development […]
First Junior MOOC about to launch!
I can hardly believe that after more than a year of preparations, the junior MOOC (online academic course for children in the last grades of primary school) is about to launch. This intensive collaboration between seven academics (one of them: me) and the Scholierenacademie of the University of Groningen has resulted in an awesome product! In April, […]