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TiFN Symposium 29 November: Sensory and liking – Inspiration for application08 Nov. 2016On November 29 TiFN will organise a symposium in Groningen titled ‘Sensory and Liking – Inspiration for application’. The symposium speakers present and discuss the scientific highlights and industrial relevancy achieved in the TiFN ‘Sensory and Liking’ project. More infor
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All Souls'Day memorial Anatomy04 Nov. 2016A body that is donated to the section Anatomy for educational and scientific purposes does not return to the relatives. To give them a place to commemorate their loved ones the section Anatomy has placed a monument at the Yarden cemetery in Groningen. Every year on November 2 on All Souls’ Day
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Thesis defence Annerieke de Vos28 Oct. 2016On 21 September 2016 Annerieke de Vos defended her thesis Insight in psychosis: Metacognitive processes and treatment before a committee of established researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. Insight in psychosis Insight is impaired in 50- 80% of the patients with schizophrenia. Anne
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Thesis defence Liwen Zhang18 Oct. 2016On 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
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Retirement Peter Room10 Oct. 2016Due 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
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Newsarticle Het Parool Marie-Jose van Tol10 Oct. 2016Depression 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)
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Thesis defence Ilia Vaichtein19 Sep. 2016On 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
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Love and affection19 Sep. 2016Every 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
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Research grant for Dr. Esther Opmeer and Prof. Dr. Andre Aleman to get a better understanding in suicidal behavior.16 Sep. 2016Neural 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
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Thesis defense Inge Holtman and Duco Schriemer29 Jun. 2016On 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