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🧠 Brain signals linked to intelligence in developing children
New research led by Gianina Cristian (Radboudumc) shows that subtle patterns in children’s brain activity are linked to intelligence. These findings were strongest during adolescence:
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🧠 🎉 How does the brain create meaning? @martinavinck.bsky.social received an ERC Consolidator to study how brain areas collaborate for thought, attention, and consciousness.
📍 Nijmegen is ideal, combining computational and experimental neuroscience with top PhDs: 👇
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Registrations for the escape rooms at the Brein Show (21st March) are now open!
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🧠 Roshan Cools appointed Director of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging.
Cools knows the institute inside out. After 9 years in Cambridge and Berkeley, she returned to Nijmegen in 2007 because she believed it was the best place to do cognitive neuroscience: 👇
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🎉 🧠 Professor Esther Aarts has been awarded a NWO (Dutch Research Council) #Vici #grant to study how the #gut talks to the #brain in people with #obesity and #ADHD. 👇
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🧠 A nudge in the right direction
A recent study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates that focused transcranial ultrasound (#FUS) can stimulate the brain ánd influence human behaviour — all without surgery or implants. 🎯 Read more: 👇
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🧠 The BrainHelpDesk was featured in Brain Structure and Function as an example of how science communication can move beyond traditional academic settings. #science #communication as #dialogue rather than a monologue. 🗣️💬
The BrainHelpDesk welcomes your questions. 👇
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🧠🎬 The Missing Piece — Understanding Psychosis through Lived Experience
This new documentary (screening on 20 February), the team follows David — a father, caregiver and lived-experience expert. After the screening, join a discussion with the researchers and filmmakers. 👇
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🧠 Donders Institute Open Dag: De Brein Show 🧠
Op zaterdag 21 maart organiseert het Donders Institute een bijzondere open dag: De Brein Show. Een middag vol verwondering, illusies, experimenten en ontdekkingen voor jong én oud. 👉
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🧠 #Korsakoff’s is a serious brain disorder that has a major impact on the lives of those who suffer from it. In the #Netherlands, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people are affected. Only 20% of suspected cases actually receive the diagnosis. Getting it right is crucial. 👇
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This lab-in-the-field study embedded a classic economic task, the Ultimatum Game, in a museum, capturing <18,672 decisions about fairness from volunteer members of the public, revealing that information sampling shapes responses to unfairness.
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Answer: Ségolène Bompierre and Kristin Lemhöfer of the @dondersinst.bsky.social; editing/translation: Marina Boon:
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New research from @peelen.bsky.social, shows our brain actively predicts how they should look based on the 3D structure of the environment. Even when objects are temporarily hidden from view, their expected orientation can be decoded from activity in the visual cortex. 👇
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🗺️ 🧠 #Parkinson’s disease is not evenly distributed across #NL. Parkinson’s is more common in the #northern #provinces, occurs more often in men than women, and is linked to higher socioeconomic status. The risk increases with age, peaking between 75 and 85 years. 👇
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🧠 Each year, 2k–3k people aged 18 to 50 experience a #stroke. Many develop long-term cognitive problems, such as slower information processing, language difficulties and memory impairments. Recognising and acknowledging these problems is the first step.
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🎥 Wat gebeurt er in je hersenen als je bang bent – en kun je angst uitzetten?
😱 Angsthaas Jurre Geluk en 💪 durfal Sahil Amar Aissa doken het lab van @epanlab.bsky.social in en testten met VR of het beroemde ‘angstknopje’ aan- en uit te zetten is:
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✨ 2026 Executive Board update: Donders Institute continues to support collaboration 🤝🧠
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📺 💥 Gisteren bij NPO Focus: Sabrina van Heukelum onderzoekt welke sporen #PTSS achterlaat en of die anders zijn bij vrouwtjes dan bij mannetjes?
@epanlab.bsky.social Roelofs onderzocht hoe agenten in opleiding reageren onder druk als ze moeten kiezen om te schieten of niet: 👇
🎉 muZIEum reopens its doors this weekend! 👀
After a major renovation, muZIEum will open again — just in time for the Christmas holidays!
In the fully redesigned spaces, new routes and sensory encounters await: a place where you don’t need to see anything to experience everything. 👉
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Answer by Ineke van Rossum of the Leiden University Medical Center; editing and translation by Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/wat...
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🧠💤 #Sleep is crucial for the production of #antibodies, the #clearing of harmful substances from the brain, and the release of #growthhormone. 👶🧒 Some recent examples of sleep benefits according to @dresler.bsky.social. Read the full article here: 👇
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2/2 and Prof. @martinavinck.bsky.social for the NONLIN project, which investigates the non-linear mechanisms that underpin human cognition:
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1/2 ERC Consolidator Grants for @stephforkel.bsky.social Forkel, for the project EMERGENCE, which aims to transform our understanding of how language arises from the complex interactions within the connected brain:
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🧠📚 #Longread: Parkinson’s is the canary in the coal mine
In The Lancet Neurology, experts map out the historical development of #Parkinson’s and have a #call #to #politicians: If we act now, we can reverse this pandemic. 👇
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👀 🖥️ #NEMO Met behulp van AI schreef journalist Niels Olfert #NEMO door alleen naar de letters te kijken. Lees en zie hoe dat werkt en hoe je in de toekomst er deuren mee kan openen of zelfs koffie zetten: 👇
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Donders Institute seeks to appoint a new Scientific Director to lead our internationally oriented and interdisciplinary organisation 🌍🧠
Are you ready to help shape the future of brain, cognition, and behaviour research?👇
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🎓✨ A milestone worth celebrating and framing! 🖼️
Today, the Donders Institute celebrates its #750th #PhD #thesis. The full mosaic of all those thesis covers looks so good, we believe it deserves a spot in a museum.
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🎯🤝🧠 We were happy to welcome an international press delegation to the Donders Brain Museum last week to share the story of how our 1,400+ researchers advance understanding of the human brain, cognition, and behaviour. Thanks for coming, Tack för ditt besök, Vielen Dank für Ihren Besuch!
🎓🌍🤝 “I had a fantastic time at Western Institute for Neuroscience. I expanded my professional network and learned a lot about their scientific culture. ” — Lucas Billen
Lucas shows exactly why international exchange matters. Curious about the exchange possibilities? 👇
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