The Lundbeck Foundation has generously granted 109.604 DKK to Gitte Moos Knudsen in support for our Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) derivative workshop which is being held June 21-23 at Radisson Blue Hotel. The workshop organizers are Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen and Cyril Pernet.

The workshop physically brings together the international working group for derivatives of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS, www.bids-standard.org). BIDS is a community-led standard for organizing, describing and sharing neuroimaging data. In addition to a specification, it includes applications and tools that make it easy for researchers to incorporate BIDS into their current workflows, maximizing reproducibility, data sharing opportunities and supporting good scientific practices.

The workshop will consist of 2½ days (Wednesday afternoon - Friday) of collaborative working on aligning the different BIDS extension proposals for derivatives across all neuroimaging modalities (most prominently MRI, MEG, EEG and PET). Participants will be members of the BIDS steering group (https://bids.neuroimaging.io/2022/11/07/BIDS-Steering-Group-Election-2022.html), BIDS maintainers, the lead of the BIDS extension proposals that concern derivatives (https://bids.neuroimaging.io/get_involved.html#extending-the-bids-specification) as well as members of the international OpenNeuroPET project (https://openneuropet.github.io/).

By harnessing modern brain imaging digital technologies through enhanced data sharing and aggregation, new applications and discoveries in neurological and psychiatric disorders can be made benefiting society in a broad sense.

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Published: 02 May 2023

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NRU was represented at the annual meeting of the Danish Society of Psychiatry (DSP) by professor Martin B. Jørgensen, assoc. professor Vibe G. Frøkjær, post doc Martin Korsbak Madsen, and PhD-student Kristian R. Jensen, together with Master's students Malene Sørensen, Andrea Juvik and Malthe Andersen.

Martin Korsbak Madsen was awarded 1st Prize at the Pontoppidan Lecture Competition for young researchers for the presentation "Effects of psychedelic and non-psychedelic serotonin 2A receptors modulation on functional brain networks". Also, Malthe Andersen presented his work on “The role of brain wakefulness-regulation, arousal-related symptoms, and SSRI side-effects in patients with MDD“ as a poster and won a prize and praise for enthusiastically and clearly communicating the complex subject.

We congratulate both Martin and Malthe!

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Published: 20 March 2023

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Congratulations to Annika Læbo Rasmussen for having her abstract entitled 'Sexual anhedonia and serotonin 4 receptor brain binding in depressed patients - a NeuroPharm Positron Emission Tomography study' being awarded as the best abstract at the annual European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM) conference.

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Published: 20 February 2023

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Congratulations to Gitte Moos Knudsen who together with Prof. Anders A. Jensen (PI of the grant) from University of Copenhagen has received a large Lundbeck Foundation Collaborative Project grant for the project "Exploring the potential of a newly discovered activity component in psychedelics".

The total project grant is worth 39 mio DKK, and NRU will get funding for 5 years of post doc salary and running costs for pig PET studies and other project-related costs, totalling ~6 mio DKK.

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Published: 16 January 2023

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Congratulations to Kristoffer Brendstrup-Brix for being awarded a first place (and 1000 DKK) in Danish Sleep Research Cup for his presentation and abstract entitled "Diffusion along the perivascular space and brain microstructural measures are associated with circadian time and sleep quality". Danish Sleep Research Cup was hosted by the Danish Society for Sleep Medicine and it took place on Jan 9, 2023 at Panum Institute.

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Published: 12 January 2023

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Welcome to the many new NRUs:

Student assistants: Helga Appel (Medicine), Stine Olsen (Psychology)
Student assistants, EEG: Holger Lyng and Julius Søgaard (both Medicine & Technology)

New scholarstipend students are: Kirstine Andersen (Medicine), Paw Randrup (Psychology), Victor Neufeld (Medicine)

Volunteer Peter Skov-Andersen (Pharmaceutical Sciences)

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Published: 06 January 2023

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On Friday, January 20th 2023, at 2 pm, cand.psych. Sophia Armand will defend her PhD thesis entitled Affective cognition and brain serotonin in healthy individuals.

Venue: The Faculty of Social Sciences (CSS), Gammeltoftsgade 15, 1353 Copenhagen, in auditorium 35.01.06. 

Zoom link:  https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/68897325335?pwd=OWNlUEwzNXNkSTQzaFdDT2FOTnFvdz09 
Passcode: 542169

After the defence there will be a reception in the foyer by the auditorium.

For details and summary, click here.

See also: https://psychology.ku.dk/events/sophia-armand-defends-her-phd-thesis/

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Published: 02 January 2023

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Congratulations to Gitte Moos Knudsen for receiving a scholarstipend grant (60.000 DKK) from RH for stud.med. Kristoffer Brendstrup-Brix and the project 'Neuroimaging of brain pulsations and their impact on brain disease'.

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Published: 21 December 2022

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Congratulations to Professor Martin Balslev Jørgensen and Kristian Reveles Jensen for receiving a scholarstipend grant (164.000 DKK) from DPS-Lundbeckfonden for stud.med. Kirstine Howe Andersen working on the project 'Excitation-Inhibition Balance measured by Aperiodic EEG Activity and stressors, symptoms, and SSRI side-effects in MDD' as part of the BrainDrugs-Depression project starting February 2023.

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Published: 19 December 2022

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Congratulations to Vibe G. Frøkjær for receiving 300.000 DKK from the Læge Sofus Carl Emil Friis og Hustru Olga Doris Friis' Legat for the project 'Characterizing the serotonergic architecture to predict antidepressant treatment outcome and vulnerability to depression' which is part of the PhD project by Silvia Elisabetta Portis Bruzzone.

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Published: 15 December 2022

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