Brain Center nieuws
Brain Center nieuws
Veni-beurs voor onderzoeker UMC Utrecht
Mariana Pedroso Branco gaat werken aan hersentechnologie voor kinderen met communicatieproblemen.
Lees meerMRI-scanner meet kloppen van het brein
Onderzoekers van het UMC Utrecht hebben de MRI-scanner een nieuwe truc geleerd. Het apparaat kan daarmee in kaart brengen hoe de hersenen onder invloed van de hartslag licht pulseren.
Lees meerBiological discovery heralds new medication
2 signaling proteins appear to be able to bind to 1 nerve cell at the same time, causing the cell to "switch off" temporarily
Lees meerA power solution for animal experiments
Publication Valeria Bonapersona et al - Nature neuroscience How can you use statistics to increase the power of animal experiments? Low statistical power reduces the reliability of animal research; yet, increasing sample sizes to increase statistical power is problematic for both ethical and practical reasons. Valeria Bonapersona and her colleagues present an alternative solution using Bayesian priors based on historical control data, which capitalizes on the observation that control groups in general are expected to be similar to each other. Their article is published in Nature Neuroscience.
Lees meerWomen and girls in science
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It is still not always easy for women to get into the same positions, to be treated equally and seriously as men. Elly Hol is professor of gliabiology of brain diseases. In her career she has noticed that there are all kinds of obstacles and prejudices and sees this also happen among younger research colleagues.
Lees meerClinical Established Investigator grant for Mervyn Vergouwen
Stroke neurologist Mervyn Vergouwen received the Clinical Established Investigator grant of the Dutch Heart Foundation (Hartstichting). This personal grant allows him to expand his research group in the field of unruptured intracranial aneurysms over the next 5 years.
Lees meerGenes discovered that play a role in aneurysm
Researchers find 17 areas on the DNA that contribute to an aneurysm in the head.
Lees meerEarlier recognition of children with sleep epilepsy
Some children have continuous epileptic activity in their brains at night, while they seldom if ever have epileptic seizures during the day. This relatively invisible form of epilepsy is called ESES syndrome. As a result, children often develop learning and behavioral problems. Not much is yet known about this syndrome. Medical researcher Bart van den Munckhof obtained his PhD in mid-October for research into causes, early recognition and better treatment.
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