I have been announcing it for a while, and now my book ‘From Neurology to Methodology and back: an introduction to clinical neuroengineering’ can finally be ordered directly from the Springer website and from many online bookstores. I have ordered a few copies myself and the book has really turned out nice: it is bound […]
Author: Natasha Maurits
Book cover sneak peak
Today I received the cover of my book ‘From neurology to methodology and back: an introduction to clinical neuroengineering’. Early birds can already preorder from the Springer site or several other online bookstores. I expect the proofs early September and if everything goes well, the book will be available by the end of September or […]
Ultrafast fMRI: capturing the brain @work
I am a bit late to report it but here it is: researchers from Berkeley, Minnesota and Oxford have developed a new ultrafast EPI sequence for fMRI that brings down the repetition time (TR) to only 400 ms at 3T. Their finding was published in the 20 dec 2010 issue of PLoS one. This is […]
Research/PhD position in Clinical Neuroengineering
The Department of Neurology of the University Medical Center Groningen invites applicants at the MA level for a two-year research position in Clinical Neuroengineering with the possibility to extend the position to a four-year PhD project. The closing date for application is: December 15, 2010. The position will start as soon as possible.
MRI at the movies
I couldn’t agree more with Randi Silberman in his IEEE Spectrum Tech Talk blog, when he states his amazement at the way fMRI is used in the new Angelina Jolie movie Salt. In the movie it is suggested that fMRI is used as a lie detector without any of the current extended fMRI machinery visible […]
Dancing helps you think
Professionally I’m interested in why certain old people age with grace whereas others suffer from cognitive problems at a relatively young age. Not only do I use neuroimaging techniques to find out how certain elderly can compensate functionally for the degradation of grey matter and the loss of white matter connectivity, but I am also […]
Teaching the world through internet
This initiative is truly one very good example of how internet can be used to benefit other people: Salman Khan has set up the Khan Academy, a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. On his website www.khanacademy.org he provides over 1400 YouTube videos covering everything from basic […]
The spread of muscle fiber conduction velocity: increasing scope and usability
Researcher: Fiete Lange, MD, PhD Other supervisor: Han van der Hoeven, MD, PhD Thesis defense: 2009 The determination of muscle fiber conduction velocity (MFCV) is used in the evaluation of neuromuscular disorders. When MFCV is determined invasively (using direct fiber stimulation) the conduction velocity of muscle fibers can be measured while controlling the firing rate […]
60 years of clinical neurophysiology in Groningen
On june 18, 2009 we celebrated the 60 year anniversary of the department of Clinical Neurophysiology in Groningen with a scientific symposium that was attended by almost 200 people. The symposium was centered around the increasing role of clinical neurophysiology in the academic hospital of today and the near future, with talks by Mart van […]
Travelling wave NMR
In the February 19 2009 issue of Nature David Brunner and Klaas Pruessmann from ETH Zurich showed that by using travelling instead of standing radio-frequency waves to acquire MR images, it becomes possible to obtain high-quality images of larger parts of the body at once. More importantly from the perspective of a patient, even at 7T […]