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NRU annual report 2017

Details: Published: Friday, 27 July 2018 12:11; Hits: 1853

The 2017 NRU annual report has been published and is available for download here.

Three travel stipends from the Lundbeck Foundation

Details: Published: Monday, 02 July 2018 15:30; Hits: 1771

The Lundbeck Foundation has granted three travel stipends to NRU: Martin Korsbak Madsen received 25.410 DKK for the course 'Learning the Conn Toolbox' which he attended in Boston in April, Martin Nørgaard 8.003 DKK for the PRNI 2018 that took place in Singapore in June and finally, Hanne D Hansen 9.695 DKK for the NRM2018 taking place in London this July.

Two scholarships from DPS to Vibe Frøkjær

Details: Published: Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:56; Hits: 1758

Congratulations to Vibe Frøkjær for receiving not only one but two Lundbeck Foundation scholarships from the Danish Society of Psychiatry, one for Asbjørn Poulsen for the project 'Depression and the brain's reward system: Does serotonin play a role?' and the other for Maja Marstrand-Jørgensen for 'Neural correlates of the personality dimension Openness to experience: a resting state fMRI study'.

NRU Summer Interns

Details: Published: Friday, 01 June 2018 11:22; Hits: 1412

We are very glad to welcome our summer interns:

Niki Stypidou, bachelor student in Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. She will join NRU in June and July, primarily assisting the Sleep project.

Sara Bakalchuk, a rising senior and neuroscience major from Wesleyan University in USA where she has shadowed in a research lab studying obesity and addiction in rats. Her main scientific interests include neuroanatomy, neuroimaging and clinical neuroscience. Sara will be at NRU until mid August.

Grant from DFF to Gitte Moos Knudsen

Details: Published: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:34; Hits: 1497

Congratulations to Gitte Moos for receiving 1.855.308 kr for the project 'Neuroimaging of synaptic density' from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Project summary:
Synapses are the points of communication between brain cells and they are subject to adaptations, known as synaptic plasticity. Recently, it has become possible to assess presynaptic density in the living human brain with the synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A (SV2A) radioligand, 11C-UCB-J and positron emission tomography (PET). We here propose a project with three aims:
1) to determine if cerebral SV2A density is preserved in healthy ageing across.
2) to investigate if short-term sensory deprivation is associated with a compensatory increase in cerebral SV2A density, and if the ability to induce synaptic plasticity is related to APOE/BDNF genotypes.
3) to uncover if cerebral SV2A density is decreased in hippocampus/entorhinal cortex in elderly people at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease.
Knowledge about development of synaptic plasticity in human brain will critically inform us about not only about neurorehabilitation potential, but also about how and when neurodegeneration emerges.

Olaf Paulson becomes honorary member of The Danish Neurological Society

Details: Published: Monday, 23 April 2018 11:31; Hits: 1489

Olaf Paulson has recently been elected as honorary member of The Danish Neurological Society (DNS). Congratulations!
Olaf got his honorary diploma handed over by Jesper Erdal, who is the president of the DNS.

Large grant to Melanie Ganz from the Elsass Foundation

Details: Published: Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:44; Hits: 1742

Congratulations to NRU postdoc Melanie Ganz for receiving nearly 3.9 mio DKK from Elsass Foundation for her new 3-year project "How can you avoid to put children with cerebral palsy in general anesthesia while they are in a brain scanner?" which will be hosted at NRU starting in April 2019.

Two grants to support joint research with Profs Robbins and Sahakian

Details: Published: Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:35; Hits: 1625

We are very delighted that the Lundbeck Foundation has decided to support both professor Trevor Robbins and professor Barbara Sahakian from University of Cambridge, UK, with a substantial international neuroscience programme grant that each will cover a joint research project with NRU. Professors Robbins and Sahakian will during a planned research sabbatical in Copenhagen be visiting NRU for an extended period from May to September 2018, and the two grants, that total more than 5.3 mio DKK, enable an optimal initiation and implementation of both projects. We look very much forward to welcoming both of them at NRU and are thrilled to be able to host the joint cutting edge research projects. More information about the two projects below.

Funding from RH

Details: Published: Friday, 23 March 2018 08:56; Hits: 1536

Congratulations to Vibe Frøkjær for receiving 879.700 DKK from the Research Council of Rigshospitalet for the 3-year project "Brain architecture of risk and resilience in the context of steroid hormone dynamics and inflammation; window of opportunity for protecting mental health".

Funding from Augustinus Fonden

Details: Published: Monday, 12 March 2018 14:33; Hits: 2028

Congratulations to Gitte Moos and Martin K. Madsen for having received 500.000 DKK from Augustinus Fonden to perform the project 'Effects of psilocybin on chronic cluster headache: an open-label clinical trial and neuroimaging study targeting a burdensome disease'.

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