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Spinoza Centre featured in ‘Erik Scherder en het nut van optimisme’

The Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging was featured in a recent episode of the Dutch educational TV programme 'Erik Scherder en het nut van optimisme'.

Published: July 09, 2024 Continue reading
Decade of Discovery: Celebrating 10 Years of 7-Tesla MRI at Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging

Decade of discovery: Celebrating 10 years of 7-Tesla MRI at Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Spinoza Centre, world-leading experts will discuss innovations in 7 Tesla MRI technology, cognitive neuroscience and clinical sciences.

Published: June 17, 2024 Continue reading
High field poster awards

High field poster awards

Thijs de Buck and Mitra Tavakkoli won 1st and 2nd prizes in the High Field Study Group poster competition at ISMRM in the 'applications' category. Congratulations to both!!

Published: May 13, 2024 Continue reading
Luisa Raimondo PhD defense

Luisa Raimondo PhD defense

Dr Raimondo succesfully defended her PhD thesis "Neuroimaging at ultra-high spatiotemporal resolutions: line-scanning imaging" on January 9th.

Published: February 02, 2024 Continue reading
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grant for MR-compatible wheelchair

Wietske van der Zwaag, Myrte Strik and Emma Brouwer received a grant from the Friends Foundation of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (Stichting Vrienden van het Herseninstituut), made possible by Stichting Auxilium Mar Mar.

Published: February 02, 2024 Continue reading
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Nationale Wetenschaps Agenda beurs voor onderzoek naar sekseverschillen bij autisme

Komt autisme vaker voor bij mannen dan bij vrouwen, en waarom? Een consortium onder leiding van dr. Aleksandra Badura van het Erasmus MC gaat onderzoek doen naar sekseverschillen bij autisme. Ze krijgen 5 miljoen euro subsidie uit de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda.

Published: July 11, 2023 Continue reading
ISMRM awards

ISMRM awards

At the ISMRM Annual Meeting in Toronto, Mitra Tavakkoli, Emma Brouwer and Nikos Priovoulos received awards for their plans and presented work. Congratulations to all!

Published: June 09, 2023 Continue reading
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Tomas Knapen interviewed in the Volkskrant

Tomas Knapen was interviewed for the Volkskrant series 'unexpected discoveries' about his work on connective field mapping using naturalistic stimuli. The interview (in dutch) was published on March 3rd.

Published: March 14, 2023 Continue reading
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Researchers at the Spinoza Center have developed a method to look at the cerebellum in detail

Researchers at the Spinoza Center have developed a method to look at the cerebellum using a powerful 7-Tesla MRI scanner. By correcting for movements during, for example, the subjects’ breathing, the team succeeded in achieving a resolution of 1/5th of a millimetre. In addition, the researchers can use this data to reconstruct and digitally inflate the cerebellum, making the patterns and layers clearly visible. The cerebellum can also be viewed ‘live’ while performing various tasks.

Published: January 17, 2023 Continue reading
ISMRM poster prizes

ISMRM poster prizes

The Ultra-High Field study group at ISMRM selected 10 poster presentations to pitch for a poster prize. Nikos Priovoulos won second prize in the category 'Methods and Development' for his poster on 'Combining Arterial Blood Contrast with BOLD improves fMRI laminar specificity.' Wietske Zuiderbaan won the third prize in the category: 'Clinical and Neuroscience applications' for her poster on 'Retinotopic connectivity in the cerebellum for different cognitive states'. Congratulations to both!

Published: May 16, 2022 Continue reading
NVP poster prize for Sumiya

NVP poster prize for Sumiya

Congratulations to Sumiya Abdirashid for being awarded an NVP poster prize! Her poster 'Precision of visual spatial attention alters population receptive field properties in human cortex' was awarded one of three poster awards at NVP 2022.

Published: May 03, 2022 Continue reading
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Veni grant for Maartje de Jong

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to Maartje de Jong for her research studying how the brain generates visual experiences.

Published: April 21, 2022 Continue reading
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Presenter awards at the ISMRM workshop on Ultra-High Field MRI

Congratulations to Nikos Priovoulos and Emma Brouwer for their 'best oral presentation' and 'best poster presentation' awards! They received these at the Ultra-high Field workshop of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. The workshop was held in Lisbon, Portugal, and attracted >250 attendees, all working on MRI at 7T or higher fields.

Published: March 31, 2022 Continue reading
A line through the brain

A line through the brain

Luisa Raimondo and colleagues show in a new publication that with ‘linescanning’ functional data can be acquired extremely fast and with sufficient detail to distinguish between signals from different cortical depths.

Published: September 16, 2021 Continue reading
Spinoza featured in 'Het Klokhuis'

Spinoza featured in ‘Het Klokhuis’

Spinoza is featured in 'Het Klokhuis', an educational TV programme for children! The theme of the episode is being in love.

Published: May 12, 2021 Continue reading
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Topographic maps representing haptic numerosity in the human brain

In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, Shir Hofstetter and colleagues ask the question whether topographic maps representing cognitive dimensions exist irrespective of the stimulated sensory modality.

Published: April 01, 2021 Continue reading
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Topographic connectivity reveals task-dependent retinotopic processing throughout the human brain

In a recent paper in PNAS, Tomas Knapen demonstrates widespread stable visual organization beyond the traditional visual system, in the default-mode network and hippocampus.

Published: March 23, 2021 Continue reading
A man with a mouth mask is sitting behind a computer watching at MRI scanning images. Behind the computer is a window and there after a MRI scanner.

We are scanning again!

With the easing of restrictions for contact-based professions, the Spinoza Centre was also able to reopen on March 1st and restart studies that involve scanning of people.

Published: March 15, 2021 Continue reading
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Anouk Schrantee appointed as Junior Fellow of the ISMRM

Anouk Schrantee became an Junior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).

Published: August 21, 2020 Continue reading
ISMRM Gold Medal for Robert Turner

ISMRM Gold Medal for Robert Turner

Professor Robert Turner, from the Max-Planck Institute, has received the ISMRM Gold Medal.

Published: August 21, 2020 Continue reading
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Grant from KNAW for starting new collaboration

The collaboration will focus on two research projects which  extend the Netherlands-wide knowledge hub on ultra-high field MRI scanning that can preserve the front-runner role of Dutch neuroscience in the study of the structure and function of the human brain in health and disease.

Published: May 26, 2020 Continue reading
Symposium on the clinical applications of UHF MRI

Symposium on the clinical applications of UHF MRI

On February 6th, the Spinoza Centre for neuroimaging organizes a symposium dedicated to the clinical applications of ultra-high field MRI, with a focus on neuroimaging.

Published: January 17, 2020 Continue reading
Weekend van de Wetenschap

Weekend van de Wetenschap

In het kader van het Weekend van de Wetenschap opent het Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging haar deuren op 6 oktober 2019. Volg een rondleiding, doe mee aan experimenten en leer over hersenonderzoek op de open dag!

Published: September 12, 2019 Continue reading
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Vidi Grant for Wietske van der Zwaag

Wietske van der Zwaag has been awarded a Vidi Grant of € 800,000 by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Published: May 24, 2019 Continue reading
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Cerebellum involved in visual perception

Research from the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging shows that the cerebellum responds strongly and specifically to visual perception

Published: May 09, 2019 Continue reading
Public and private organizations invest heavily in innovative metabolism MRI scanner of UMC

Public and private organizations invest heavily in innovative metabolism MRI scanner of UMC

Top Sector Life Sciences & Health and industry partners together invest 49 million euros in the installation and implementation of clinical MRI scanners that not only visualize anatomy and physiology but metabolism as well.

Published: December 10, 2018 Continue reading
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KNAW grant for research into blood vessels

Researchers from the Spinoza Centre, NIN and AUMC are collaborating on research into the smallest blood vessels in human brain.

Published: November 16, 2018 Continue reading
Anouk Schrantee

Veni grant for Anouk Schrantee

Anouk Schrantee has been awarded a Veni Grant of €250,000 by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The Veni-grant will be used to develop a new method to zoom in on the activation of brain cells during psychotropic drug administration.

Published: July 17, 2018 Continue reading
Spinoza scientists receive Philips Brain Connectivity Award

Spinoza scientists receive Philips Brain Connectivity Award

Matthan Caan and Wietske van der Zwaag have won the Philips Brain Connectivity Award at the ISMRM 2018 in Paris.

Published: June 22, 2018 Continue reading
Vici-grant for research into dynamics in the human brain

VICI grant for research into dynamics in the human brain

Professor Serge Dumoulin has been awarded a Vici-grant of €1,500,000 by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). This 5-year grant is intended for him to do research into population receptive field dynamics in the human brain. The vici-grants are one of the largest individual scientific grants in the Netherlands.

Published: February 23, 2018 Continue reading
Neuroscientists call for use of Ultra-High Field MRI in deep brain stimulation

Neuroscientists call for use of Ultra-High Field MRI in deep brain stimulation

The efficacy of deep brain stimulation as a treatment for neurological disorders can be considerably improved by using Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (UHF-MRI) instead of traditional 3T and 1.5T MRI. This experimental technique, which is yet to be approved by health authorities, should therefore be further investigated and refined. This is the view of a new paper co-authored by Spinoza Centre researcher Birte Forstmann and published in the latest edition of Trends in Biotechnology.

Published: January 09, 2018 Continue reading
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Spinoza supports March for Science

The Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging has joined with other scientific societies in partnering with the global March for Science on April 22, to promote science and evidence-based research.. Scientists and science lovers will make their voice heard and call for the support and protection of the scientific community.

Published: April 06, 2017 Continue reading
Brainhack Global

Brainhack Global

Brainhack is a unique conference that convenes researchers from myriad disciplines to work together on innovative projects related to neuroscience. Brainhack Global will host several simultaneous events to build a critical mass for the regional Brainhack movement and provide opportunities for inter-Brainhack collaboration.

Published: February 17, 2017 Continue reading
Recognizing numerosity is too important to leave it to one single brain area

Recognizing numerosity is too important to leave it to one single brain area

Together with researchers from the Utrecht University, Serge Dumoulin published a paper in Nature Human Behaviour.

Published: January 31, 2017 Continue reading