Agenda
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What is Trauma?
Programme in Dutch - What is trauma? Where is the line between something unpleasant and something traumatic, and has that line shifted over time? And what does trauma do to the way your brain works?
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Towards personalized cochlear implant care for adults: Outcome prediction, partner involvement and at-home training
This PhD examines hearing loss and shows that rpedicting CI (Cochlear implants) outcomes is challenging, impacting expectation management.
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DCCN Lecture by Rogier B. Mars
The advent of neuroimaging and other high-throughput methods has the potential to be a game changer. Now, we have an abundance of data on the organization of the brains of many species at various levels of investigation.
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The ontogeny of hippocampal memory: Bridging behavioural and neuronal development
This PhD thesis provides a comprehensive overview of memory development and establishes previously missing connections as well as overlooked caveats and knowledge gaps.
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Symposium 'Virtual Reality in Language Diagnostics and Therapy: The Future!?' (in Dutch)
The symposium of the DCOM-VR project group will take place on 9 May 2025, where the results of the project will be presented.
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The Course of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
This PhD thesis found two important things about how Small Vessel Disease (SVD) affects people: SVD progresses differently in each person, and the severity and worsening of SVD are linked to serious health problems.
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Donders Session - 15 May
During this Donders session, we challenge the audience to dive into these processes across several spatial and abstraction scales. In a final discussion, we aim to discuss overarching principles of model design...
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Theme meetings for Donderians
Theme meetings will be organized every third Thursday, every two months, such that all Donderians have the opportunity to join multiple Theme meetings.
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Obesity and Brain Health: Role of Liver and White Adipose Tissue Dysfunction
This thesis investigates whether dysfunction in liver and fat (known as white adipose tissue, WAT), plays a role in the effects of obesity on the brain.
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Observational assessment of behavioral regulation and anger modulation in children
This thesis contributes to the advancement of diagnostics and treatment practices for ADHD by highlighting the importance of disruptive behaviors and validating an age-adapted observational assessment instrument.
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Symposium Biomarkers and Wearables in Child Research
The symposium “Biomarkers and Wearables in Children: Ethical and Practical Challenges” brings together experts and practitioners to explore the latest insights on wearable technology and biomarkers for pediatric research.
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Big problems arising from the little brain: Novel insights on the Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome
This PhD thesis aimed to gain more insight into the cognitive and affective sequelae associated with cerebellar disorders.
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Leveraging big data to improve care for people with Parkinson’s disease
The overall aim of this thesis is to determine whether the care for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) can be improved by leveraging medical claims data.
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Understanding cognitive ageing: From unraveling inter-individual variability in cognitive functioning to advancing research
This PhD thesis aimed to better understand cognitive ageing and focussed on investigating why cognitive ageing occurs so differently and on improving existing research.
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NeurotechEU Internship Program
The Neurotech EU internship programme in Bonn is relaunching. Please apply before 26 January.
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Modeling Neurodevelopmental Disorder Pathogenesis Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: The Interplay Between Homeostatic Plasticity and Epigenetic Regulation
This thesis used a combination of hiPSC-derived neuronal networks and micro-electrode array (MEA) technology to study homeostatic plasticity in NDDs.
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From Genes to Hearing Outcomes: Cochlear Implantation in Hereditary Hearing Loss and the Search for Predictive Factors.
The PhD defence of M.L.A. Fehrmann is on 3 June 2025 at 10:30 am.
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Welcome Meeting for new Donderians
Welcome/Introduction meeting for all new employees at the Donders Institute
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Donders Day 2025
Each year, as part of the Donders Sessions, we host a poster session open to all members of the Donders community. A full day including theme meetings, talks and the annual Poster Session. Wrapping up with a plenary session and drinks.
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Explorations of the E/I imbalance framework of autism: Neural mechanisms and genetic factors
The PhD defence of J.M.V. Hollestein is on 11 June 2025 at 12:30 pm.