News of 2015

  • December 12th, 2015: Heidi will give a talk on the Human Amyloid Conference (13-15 January 2016) in Miami (USA) on the impact of amyloid and tau pathology on the association between  specific hippocampal subfield volumes and memory.
  • December 1st, 2015: Heidi was awarded a standard research grant by ISAO (Internationale Stichting voor Alzheimer Onderzoek) for her project: “ How noradrenalin modulates memory and the brain“
  • November 14th, 2015: Heidi was interviews by Sarah Schwartz on her work on transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation. The full article, highlighting her work (and many others related to the vagus nerve) has now appeared online: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/viva-vagus-wandering-nerve-could-lead-range-therapies
  • November 11th, 2015: Heidi and Joost Riphagen received computational time on Supercomputer SurfSara by NWO Exact Sciences for the pilot project “Multi-Modal MultiFactor Alzheimer’s Disease Etiology (M3FADE)”
  • October 17-21, 2015: Helen Lückmann will present our work on the neural correlates of attentional benefits and costs in the dorsal attention network at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago (USA)
  • October 17th, 2015: Whitney Freeze will present our work on detecting blood-brain barrier leakage in dementia using post-contrast FLAIR imaging at the Vascular Dementia conference in Lublijana (Slovenia)
  • October 6th, 2015: Whitney Freeze won the poster presentation prize at the annual research day of the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
  • October 6th, 2015: Whitney Freeze and Lisa Müller-Ehrenberg will present our work during the annual research day of the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
  • July 18th - 23rd, 2015: I will be attending the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Washington D.C.. Look forward to meet you there!
  • July 2nd, 2015: Stephanie Vos received a two-year fellowship from ZonMw (Memorabel program) on understanding the pathophysiology of SNAP, within which Heidi collaborates on the neuroimaging part
  • June 23rd, 2015: Heidi received a research grant from the University Fund Limburg SWOL to translate a project on stress and memory into a symposium
  • June 8th, 2015: Heidi received a stimulation fund from the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences for 7T MRI scanning of the hippocampal subfields
  • June 5th, 2015: the paper of Emiliano Bruner on shape analyses in the precuneus has received the award for the most outstanding paper published in 2014 by the Journal of Anatomy!!
  • May 27th, 2015: Heidi received a Brains Unlimited Pioneer Grant from he University Fund Limburg SWOL for a project on neuromelanin imaging at 7T MRI
  • April 13th, 2015: Heidi will give a talk at the Psychopharmacology group of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience of Maastricht University with the title: “From neuropathology to mapping brain connectivity and modulating networks in Alzheimer’s disease”
  • March 24th, 2015: Together with Dr. Lies Clerx, Heidi worked on comparing FreeSurfer grey matter measurements with manual volumetry in Alzheimer’s disease. This work is now accepted for publication in Current Alzheimer Research.
  • February 27th, 2015: Heidi’s pilot work on examining the impact of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on associative memory in older adults has been accepted for publication in Neurobiology of Aging.
  • January 1st, 2015: Happy New Year! From today Heidi is back full time at Maastricht University (School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Alzheimer Centre Limburg & Department of Cognitive Neuroscience)