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🧠 📱 What happens in our brain when we briefly remember a phone number? According @EelkeSpaak, the answer may lie in rapid changes in the connections between brain cells. With a new NWO ENW-M #grant, he will investigate that hypothesis: 👇 ru.nl/en/donders-ins…

💬🧠💪 Moving your arms can change how you sound! Arm muscles affect lung volume, boosting loudness and intensity. Body and voice are deeply linked—with potential impact on speech therapy and robotics. 👉 ru.nl/en/donders-ins…

❓⚖️ Should we use AI to support cancer patients and their doctors? Surgery or no surgery? Chemo or not? AI expert @JohanKwisthout believes humans should make these decisions. His PersOn project aims to make AI a helpful partner to assist. 👇 radboudrecharge.nl/en/article/sho…

🧠🐭 In light of #BOARD25, we highlight #Transcend project: @L_Genzel and team will develop and test more naturalistic and enriched housing environments for rodents, aiming to improve both animal welfare and the reliability of experimental results:👉 ru.nl/en/donders-ins…

🧠 📰 Heb jij de nieuwe Quest al gelezen? Judith Zijp kwam langs in het #Focused #Ultrasound lab van @LennartVerhagen om te leren hoe we zonder scalpel maar met onhoorbare tonen Parkinson en andere hersenziekten te lijf kunnen gaan! quest.nl/mens/gezondhei…

🤣 Why can’t you tickle yourself? And why do some laugh, while others scream? Neuroscientist Konstantina Kilteni thinks it’s time we took tickling seriously—and she’s got a lab to prove it. 👉 ru.nl/en/research/re…

🔬 From basic research to therapy: DARE2APPROACH led by Karin Roelofs developed brain stimulation now tested in anxiety treatment. 🧠 “This is one of those projects that you can only do with a network like the DI” 🔗: ru.nl/en/donders-ins… #ERC #MentalHealth #Neuroscience

🧠🦠 Mindfulness supports COVID-19 recovery in healthcare workers Research by Anne Speckens, Erik Ruhe & team shows that guided and self-guided mindfulness reduce anxiety, depression & physical symptoms — even 6 months later: 👉 radboudumc.nl/en/news-items/…

👵🧠 How does ageing affect our thinking? On Tue 27 May, Michelle Jansen defends her PhD on #cognitive #ageing. She found that education, ‘cognitive reserve’ & even midlife blood pressure play a role in later brain health. 📅 27 May 2025, 14:30 🔗 ru.nl/en/donders-ins…

🧠 Zijn je hersengolven nog van jou? Fleur Zeldenrust, Pim Haselager & Roel Heremans over neurotechnologie en mentale privacy bij Radboud Reflects. 🎥 Kijk terug of luister de podcast: ru.nl/services/sport… #neurotechnologie #privacy

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Open to students from physics or related backgrounds (CS, math, engineering, science). The Donders hosts more than 100 prominent neuroscience labs, offering many internship choices, and leads major neurotechnology initiatives (NeurotechEU, Dutch Brain Interface Initiative). 2/3

Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3

Job Alert! Two PhD positions in the Probabilistic Graphical Models group of the @DondersInst at @Radboud_Uni . Both PhDs are part of the ELSA lab on Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Aspects of Clinical Decision Support Systems. 1/8

👁️💡 How much do we really see? Marco Gandolfo reveals how our brains process the unexpected, with differences across age and gender. With over 14,000 participants at muZIEum, it’s the largest public #inattentional #blindness experiment to date. 🔗 ru.nl/en/donders-ins…

🧠 Language differences shape how your brain predicts sentences: Andrea E. Martin and her team reveal that the brain adapts to grammatical variations across languages when processing sentences. Read more in Scientific American: 👉 scientificamerican.com/article/does-y… #linguistics

🌌 Hoe groot is jouw wereld? Ontdek het tijdens de Nacht van de Ruimte op 19 juni in Openluchttheater De Goffert! @basbloem, Milo Grootjen, Kim Meijer & anderen nemen je mee langs wetenschap, kunst & technologie. 🎭🪐 👉 Info & tickets: ru.nl/donders-instit…

🧠 What is trauma—and where do we draw the line? Has that line shifted? And how does trauma affect the brain? 📅 Tonight 20:00: join neuroscientist Sabrina van Heukelum & psychiatrist Derek Strijbos at Radboud Reflects for a deep dive into trauma: 👉 ru.nl/en/services/sp…

🧠 What is consciousness? A study published in Nature tested two leading theories — #GNWT and #IIT — and found both partly wrong. Instead of a setback, it's a new beginning. Full dataset now public. #OpenScience 👇 🔗 ru.nl/en/research/re…