Recent news
January 2026Welcome to Delaney Alonso, who has joined our team as coop student from Northeastern University.!! Congrats to Heidi on publishing her review: "The monoaminergic systems as drivers of Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology and symptomatology" in Current Opinion in Neurology!!
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January 2026Happy New Year!! Joost, Nick and Heidi attended the Human Amyloid Imaging Conference in Puerto Rico, where Nick presented his work on the relationship between microstructure (NODDI) and tau in preclinical AD.
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October 2025Heidi received the 2025 Distinguished Investigator award and was inducted as a member of the council of distinguished investigators of The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research!
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October 2025Congratulations Yuliya on your first publication! Yuliya's work on locus coeruleus - entorhinal tract integrity, ptau and GFAP was accepted for publication in Alzheimer's & Dementia!
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September 2025CONGRATS to Jona!! Jona received the maximum score for his master thesis on mammillary bodies and cognition in AD. Very much deserved Jona!
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July 2025Summer activities in full swing: Maxime received the publication of the year award from the Sleep and Circadian Rhythms PIA of ISTAART!! CONGRATS Maxime!!
And our team attended the Alzheimer's Association International Conference with poster presentations by Gabriel (pupil dilation and tVNS), Tim (locus coeruleus functional connectivity and cognitive resilience) and Prokopis (phasic locus coeruleus activity and tau). Elouise was invited to present her work in the new development topics (locus coeruleus-entorhinal tract integrity in ADAD). Heidi presented work on locus coeruleus activity, GFAP and tau progression. |
July 2025With support from ISTAART, the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and the NSS/Sleep PIA, we successfully organized the first Integrative Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems meeting in Boston. Approximately 80 researchers attended. Thank you to all speakers, poster presenters and our keynote speakers: Dr. Maiken Nedergaard and Dr. Lea Grinberg!
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July 2025More congratulations: Jill Grube got accepted into Medical School at Temple University!! Go Jill!
And Chris' work on tVNS, locus coeruleus activity and salivary alpha-amylase responses was accepted for publication in Brain Stimulation!! CONGRATS! |
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March, 2025Heidi presented work from the lab at Ohio State University.
CONGRATULATIONS to Lindsay: her work on practice effects and locus coeruleus integrity was accepted for publication in Neurobiology of Aging (together with Marion and Chris). |
February, 2025Wohoo!!! Both Elise and Nina have succesfully defended their PhD in Maastricht (the Netherlands)!! Congrats to Dr. Beckers and Dr. Engels-Domînguez!!
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January, 2025Our work at HAI was featured on the AlzForum website.
Marion was invited to give the Year-in-Review keynote for the Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems PIA of ISTAART! Make sure to attend it on 1/24 at 11:00AM ET! Congrats Marion! All Blue Spotters celebrated the after-holidays with a game to see who has the most trivial knowledge about blue spotters! |
January, 2025Many Blue spotters attended the Human Amyloid Imaging Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico! : Elouise presented her work on locus coeruleus tractography in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease, Yuliya presented her work on locus coeruleus - entorhinal tractography in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Emma presented her work on cognition and locus coeruleus metabolism.. Maxime presented his work on hypothalamus - locus coeruleus interactions and AD-related cognitive decline. Jill presented her work on pupil dilation during the oddball task in individuals at risk for AD. Tim presented data on functional locus coeruleus clusters and plasma markers of AD. Marion presented her latest findings on tVNS and sleep changes in aging. Nina presented the design and goals of our tVNS clinical trial. And Lukas had a brief oral presentation during which he presented his work on locus coeruleus function and cognitive reserve. Lukas also received the Human Amyloid Imaging Travel fellowship, congrats Lukas!!
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January, 2025Happy New Year!! We are pleased to welcome new lab members: Kylie Considine starts as coop student from Northeastern University, Sydney Lovelace starts as new clinical research coordinator within the WALLe clinical trial and Gabriel Wainstein joins our group as postdoctoral researcher. till the summer
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