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On 26 September 2016 Liwen Zhang defended her thesis Emotion, self and psychopathology: Neural correlates of emotion regulation and self-reflection in mood disorders and schizophrenia before a committee of established researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. Emotion regulation is the

Due to his upcoming retirement, dr. Peter Room will leave our department. Peter has been with the Section Anatomy for many years, and has been a wonderful colleague who will be dearly missed. Most of you may not know that around the time the movie “Back to the future” played in the cinemas, and

Depression and the research into depression attracts a lot of attention in the press lately. A short interview with Marie-Jose van Tol was published in the newspaper Het Parool on 09 October 2016. The interview can be read here(dutch)

On 6 September 2016 Ilia Vaichtein defended his thesis Raiders of the CNS, New Insights on microglia and myeloid infiltrates in EAE for a committee of national and international researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex disorder of the central n

Every human needs love and affection, insights in bonding behavior. Prof. Dr. Gert ter Horst knows this already for years as he published several papers about love and affection. One of his papers about this topic from 2012 is still one of the most downloaded papers from the journal Neuroscience pub

Neural predictors of suicide attempts and effects of treatment: towards clinically relevant brain data. Researchers Dr. Esther Opmeer and Prof. Dr. Andre Aleman were awarded with a grant(365.000 euro) from ZonMw to get a better understanding in suicidal behavior. Summary: In order to understand su

On the 6th of June 2016 Inge Holtman succesfully defended her thesis Exploring microglial functions under physiological and pathological conditions by genome-wide expression profiling before an committee of established researchers and was awarded with cum laude honors. Microglia cells are essential

Last week three members of the Department of Neuroscience were rewarded with prizes. The Dutch Society for Neuropsychology (NVN) presents every two years the NVN Early Career Award to a scientist who has made a significant contribution to neuropsychology and has received his/her PhD more than six ye

“Waiting for death” that is what Sjef Copray laughing loudly says when asked what he will do after retirement. For those who do not know Sjef: he loves sarcastic and provocative comments (for example, he likes to use them in the laudation for his PhD’s) and sees it as his calling to wr

On February 24, 2016 Charlotte Willems successfully defended her thesis Individual differences in temporal selective attention for a commission of established researchers. Individual differences in attention in time Every moment of the day our visual system is plagued with large amounts of informa