📺 💥 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. 👉 muzieum.nl

Answer by Ineke van Rossum of the Leiden University Medical Center; editing and translation by Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/wat... Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

🧠💤 #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: 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

2/2 and Prof. @martinavinck.bsky.social for the NONLIN project, which investigates the non-linear mechanisms that underpin human cognition: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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: www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🧠📚 #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. 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

👀 🖥️ #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: 👇 www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

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?👇 www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

🎓✨ 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. www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🎯🤝🧠 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? 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🥇 🎉 Yesterday, at the Computable Awards, an event with over 20,000 votes cast. Advanced Neural Control to Restore Brain Function was voted best healthcare project! Curious about the project? Read the article previously featured in ICT&health: www.icthealth.nl/nieuws/unive...

🎉 Bas Bloem has received the Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research from the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. 'We keep pushing the boundaries of science, care and creativity until Parkinson’s stops.' 👇 www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...

🌱 The Donders Research Stimulation Funds give early-career scientists the freedom to build something new from the bottom up like the #Neuro-#AI #Focus #Group. A new round of the Donders Research Stimulation Funds is open until December 1st. 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🧠 🎥 Elk brein uniek? In de nieuwste Radboud Reflects-lezing gaan onderzoeker Amy De Roubaix PhD en filosoof Leon de Bruin in gesprek over #neurodiversiteit — van #autisme en #ADHD tot #dyslexie: 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-uH...

💪🧠🥦 Can lifestyle slow Parkinson’s disease? Increasing physical activity, reducing stress, and improving nutrition can not only alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms, they may even slow the progression of the disease. Curious about the latest recommendations? 👇 www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...

This Sat: Meet Donders scientists at NEMO during Museum Night! 👊🏃🥶 Explore stress reactions with @epanlab.bsky.social & decision-making with Hanneke den Ouden: paa.ge/donders

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social - www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

🧠 Assistant professor Janita Bralten receives #Vidi grant to study the link between #psyche, #body, and #insulin. 🎯 She applies diabetes research methods to psychiatry to find biological groups that could receive to more personalised treatments. www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Shrinkage of a specific part of the brainstem can forecast decline in balance and coordination of people with the rare brain disorder spinocerebellar #ataxia #SCA1. These findings suggest that MRI measurements could become a valuable tool for future treatment. www.radboudumc.nl/en/research/...

Answer by Marina Boon of the @radboudumc.bsky.social ; editing and translation by Sjoerd Murris (PhD): brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/how... Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

👏 Peter Hagoort, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute and co-founder of Donders Institute, has been made a Fellow of the British Academy. “A great honour to be elected by colleagues from another country.” More information: www.mpi.nl/news/peter-h...

🎈 Ready for a (B)rainy weekend? 🧠☔ Vandaag nemen wetenschappers van het Donders Institute het Donders Brein Museum over tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap! Tussen 12:00 en 17:00 uur ga je op wetenschappelijke safari! www.ru.nl/donders-inst...

🎉 Veni Grant for Nicky Scheefhals to study “mix-and-match” synapses in the brain. Using stem cells and the microSCOOP 🔬, she can isolate and study these synapses in detail. This could open new paths for autism and developmental disorder research. Read more 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🌍 Today is the last day of Postdoc Appreciation Week #PAW_NL. Paula Fikkert, Dean of the Faculty of Arts reflects on her time as a postdoc and the role postdocs currently have: “Postdocs are indispensable." Read the full story: 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🎓 What does it mean to be a #postdoc? For Abdelrahman Rayan, it’s a journey of discovery, challenge & self-care. From medicine & physics to systems neuroscience, he now studies one of science’s biggest mysteries: sleep. Read his story for #PAW_NL 👇 🔗 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🎉 Next week: NL’s first Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW)! Workshops, talks & networking at Donders, Nijmegen. “Postdocs often fall between the cracks—let's recognise & support them.” —Lisa Groendendaal-van Weert, Postdoc coordinator. Read more about this week: www.ru.nl/en/donders-i... #PAW_NL

👨‍🍼 Early maternal sensitivity matters. Children whose mothers were more attuned to their signals had fewer respiratory & digestive problems up to age 14. 🏆 Findings from Nijmegen’s 19-year BIBO study, winner of the Radboud Team Science Award. 🔗 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🎉 Tomorrow the #Infinity #Festival kicks off in Nijmegen! 🧠 This includes a special exhibition Tracing Changes, showing artworks made by people living with #Parkinson’s where art and science meet such as the artwork shown here. 👉 Curious? www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🎉 The ADHD Escape Room gets €50,000 NWO funding + new timeslots this fall! Created by RU & HAN students/researchers, this escape room shows the world of #ADHD challenges and creativity. 👉 Book October slots now: www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

👀 👂 How does the brain merge what we hear & see? @lindadrijvers.bsky.social got an ERC Starting Grant (≈ €1.5M) for HANDWAVE, studying how we integrate audiovisual signals. Vital for understanding language disorders & improving diagnostics.👇 www.ru.nl/en/research/...

👏👏👏 Postdoc Appreciation Week (#PAW_NL): 15 - 19 September. From sessions on well-being and career paths, workshops on research impact and science communication, to networking drinks. We look forward to celebrating postdocs together! 📅 👉 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

👀 How do we stay curious – and how can curiosity improve learning? Congrats to Lieke van Lieshout on her prestigious #Veni grant from NWO! She’ll study how curiosity lasts, how it boosts memory, and whether freedom of choice plays a role. Curious to know more? 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

❓ Ever stopped presenting after one bad experience, or avoided dogs after one bite? Radboud Recharge spoke with Bob Bramson about how #anxiety shapes learning from rewards & punishments. 👉 www.radboudrecharge.nl/en/article/n...

Wat is ADHD precies? En hoe is het om ADHD te hebben? Radboud Recharge bezocht de #ADHD #escape #room die door studenten en onderzoekers werd gemaakt: 👇 www.radboudrecharge.nl/nl/artikel/e...

♾ Can solidarity ever run out? Can we live forever? Can psychopathy be cured? On 11 & 12 Sept, join scientists at the #Infinity #Science #Festival in #Nijmegen for talks, podcasts, sky-high walks and surprising experiments. 🌌⛪ 🎟 Programme & tickets: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🧠🔊💡 Brain-computer interfaces are evolving fast. In this Dutch article by @tweakers.net, Jordy Thielen explains what’s possible, what’s happening in Nijmegen, and where gains can still be made. tweakers.net/reviews/1359...

Answer by Ines Ben Haj Kacem en Francesca Siclari of the @nin-knaw.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/kan-ik... Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

Answer by Fleur Zeldenrust, editors: Sjoerd Murris and Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/waa... Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

Answer by Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes, editors: @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social and Sjoerd Murris: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/hoe... Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

🎉 Eric Ruhé appointed Professor of Difficult-to-Treat Depression 🧠 “It’s very discouraging for patients when treatment doesn’t work or depression returns,” says Ruhé. Using brain scans, AI and new medicines like esketamine, he aims to improve care. More: 👇 www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...

🧠✨ Beauty of the Brain This time in our Donders Beauty of the Brain series: a stunning image of a hippocampal brain slice, captured with a confocal microscope. Discover more at www.dondersdiscovers.nl/en/

Two Donders Institute projects just received €400K NWO grants. @stephforkel.bsky.social studies speech circuits in Parkinson’s for better treatments. Meyer & @robertoostenveld.bsky.social track 200 infants to see how early brain learning shapes language & social skills. www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🚀 That went fast! Our escape room is already fully booked for all Saturdays this summer. Missed out? No worries! A perfect chance to visit the Brain Museum is during the Infinity Science Festival in September. 👉 www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🚓🕶️⌚ VR vs stress & aggression Nearly €7M from the NWA for #CONTEXT: reducing stress and aggression in police & at-risk youth. Smartwatches + VR teach early stress detection & emotion control. 🔗 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

🎉✨ Janna Vrijsen appointed Professor of #Transdiagnostic #Psychopathology: ‘I look forward to teaching researchers and psychologists to look beyond mental disorders. It is also my goal to establish exercise as a treatment for depression and other mental disorders.’ www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...

🎥🌍 Over 1,000 neuroscience talks now free on YouTube and published at @apertureohbm.bsky.social. 🧠 “Now anyone, anywhere can binge-watch brain science like a box set,” says @stephforkel.bsky.social: www.ru.nl/en/donders-i... @alfiewearn.bsky.social @sitek.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social

👶🧠🔄 Flexible babies: eight-month-old babies can adapt their learning style to change Francesco Poli shows that infants already adjust their learning strategies to change. Trouble adapting may hint at future mental health risks, but more research is needed. Read more 👇 www.ru.nl/en/research/...

🧒🧠 If humans learned language like AI, it would take 92,000 years. Luckily, new research from Caroline Rowland (@mpi-nl.bsky.social) shows children learn through touch, movement & play as well. Brains over bots 👇 www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...