Today our site essentieletremor.nl was launched. The site is intended to draw attention to our study of essential tremor, employing EMG-fMRI, together with the AMC in Amsterdam and financed by the Prinses Beatrix Fonds. We have already included the first patients with essential tremor, but we still need more participants. In addition our site provides […]
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Book can be ordered
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Portable MRI
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have succeeded in making a small portable nuclear magnetic resonance probe, which is made and marketed by the New-Zealand based company Magritek (Technisch Weekblad, 19-07-08). The diameter of the probe is 17 cm and the earth’s magnetic field is used to generate a polarising field of 18.8 mT, allowing for […]