THE SPINOZA CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING IS THE AMSTERDAM IMAGING CORE FOR 3T AND 7T MRI

PhD defense Sumiya Abdirashid

Sumiya Abdirashid defended her thesis "A Light of Our Own: Illuminating Interactions Between Attention and Visual Input" on April 13th
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NWO Vici grant for Wietske van der Zwaag

Dr. Wietske van der Zwaag has been awarded a prestigious NWO Vici grant of €1.5 million for an innovative research project on the functional organization of the human cerebellum, also known as the “little brain.” Using advanced imaging techniques, she aims to map this finely structured brain region in unprecedented detail.
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PhD defense Emma Brouwer

On a particularly festive February 4th, Emma Brouwer successfully defended her PhD thesis: “The Big Little Brain: Exploring cerebellar function and structure using 7T MRI”.
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Ultra-high resolution MRI reveals cerebellar architecture in unprecedented detail

Researchers at the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging and Amsterdam UMC have become the first to visualize the anatomy of the cerebellum in far greater detail than was previously possible.
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Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain.

Tomas Knapen and team published a paper in Nature. This study reveals that the human visual cortex is organized in a far more multisensory way than previously recognized.
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Case Guido van Wingen

BOOST: Finding biomarkers for personalized treatment in depression
The BOOST Depression project will develop biomarkers to enable the selection of the best treatment for each patient, such that they get better faster.
Research Methods

Methods
MRI experiments provide the researcher with an impossible amount of data. In order to distill meaningful information a progressive series of reduction methods are applied to filter out the desired parameters (and ignore others).
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We investigate the ways in which we reach decisions, what happens when we are sleeping, or how the brain changes with aging. We are looking for people who are willing to undergo MRI sessions to help us in our research.
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