News of 2013
- December 19th, 2013: Heidi was featured in the Scannexus news letter: http://issuu.com/scannexus/docs/scannexus_newsletter_02-2013/1?e=7963592/6041184
- November 23rd, 2013: Heidi will give a talk at the 2. Kölner Demenz Symposium on “Memory problems: when are they a problem, when not?” at the University Hospital in Cologne, Germany.
- October 29th, 2013: Heidi’s work on the associations between white matter hyperintensities and cortical thickness in Alzheimer’s disease has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Alzheimer’s disease
- October 9th, 2013: Together with Stephanie Vos and Lies Clerx, Heidi will give a talk on new treatment developments for Alzheimer’s disease aimed at patients, caregivers and everyone who is interested. Location is in Dienstencentrum de Linde in Riemst (Belgium) at 7:30 pm.
- September 24th, 2013: the film about Heidi’s research activities, which premiered in Lumiere cinema (Maastricht) on September 16th, 2013, can now be seen on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGqKvGd9gdo) and on the website of ISAO (www.alzheimer.nl).
- September 19th, 2013: Heidi will be part of the defense committee of Ms. Maria Guerreiro (dissertation:The role of sensory modality in age-related distraction) at Maastricht University
- September 18th, 2013: Heidi will give a talk at the Erwin L Hahn fMRI Workshop in Essen (Germany) on the stability of resting state networks as a biomarker for cognitive decline.
- September 1-4th, 2013: Heidi will participate at the resting state course of ESMRMB in Vienna (Austria)
- July 10th, 2013: Heidi will be presenting her work at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Boston on July 13th, 2013 at the Imaging consortium between 12:30 and 2:30pm
- July 4th, 2013: together with the memory and dementia research group of the University Hospital Cologne, we will organize a seminar on “Memory problems and dementia” for patients, family of patients and everybody who is interested. Location: Lecture Hall of the Neurology clinic at the University Hospital in Cologne.
- June 11th, 2013: I have a position open for a postdoc researcher (2,5 years full time) on the DFG project on multimodal network mapping and network modulation in Alzheimer’s disease. See www.fz-juelich.de for more information!
- May 21st, 2013: Heidi worked together with MSc. Lies Clerx on a project comparing the sensitivity of various MRI techniques to measure gray matter atrophy for detecting Alzheimer’s disease. The results of this study are accepted for publication in Current Alzheimer Research
- April 16th, 2013: Heidi is awarded funding for her project: “Exciting networks: multi-modal mapping and modulating network breakdown in early Alzheimer’s disease by tDCS” through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- April 4th, 2013: Heidi was interviewed by the Internationale Stichting voor Alzheimer Onderzoek concerning her funding for the cerebellum project. The interview is published in their newsletter:
- March 21st, 2013: Heidi’s meta-analytic work on functional network changes in early Alzheimer’s disease (together with Prof. Alexander Sack) has been accepted for publication in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
- March 13th, 2013: Heidi is awarded funding via the Brains Unlimited Pioneer Fund of University Fund Limburg SWOL for her project: “Visualizing Alzheimer neuropathology with ultra-high field MRI”
- February 21st, 2013: A collaboration with Dr. Emiliano Bruner (Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana, Burgos, Spain) led to a novel Hypothesis on the role of the parietal lobe for the development of Alzheimer’s disease and was accepted for publication in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
- January 4th, 2013: A collaboration with Dr. Michael Janitz (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) on gene expression profiles in the parietal lobe of Alzheimer’s disease resulted in a paper accepted for publication in Neuroscience Letters