News

4 July 2011
Helmut Kessels received a grant in the NWO Open program:

Synaptic AMPA-receptor replacement for the maintenance of memories.

June 2011:
Christian Keysers publishes a book, The Empathic Brain, that explains for a large public how our brain makes sense of the mind of other people. The book is available as an ebook from amazon.

Further details can be found on the book's webpage

31 May 2011

Dr. Chun-Xia Yi receives 1^st Dutch Neurofederation PhD thesis prize.
[text] and [photo]

16 May 2011:
Eus van Someren, Dries Kalsbeek and Susanne La Fleur received a 1.2 million euro grant from STW

1 April 2011
Dick Swaab was appointed Professor to the Chao Kuang Piu Chair of Zhejiang University Medical School in Hangzhou, China, in recognition of his scholarship and outstanding achievements. (photo)

Events

Neuroscience & Vision Symposia 2012

18 May 2012, 16:00 h

no lecture

8 May 2012, 15:45 h, aula Vrije Universiteit.

Jasper Poort will defend his thesis entitled: Attentional modulation of neural populations distributed across the visual cortical hierarchy.

Supervisor: Pieter Roelfsema

29 June 2010 - 2 July 2010, Amsterdam

26th Summer School of Brain Research, official pre-FENS satellite:

Slow Brain Oscillations of Sleep, Resting State and Vigilance

Organized by the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), the VU University (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Organizers: Eus Van Someren, Ysbrand van der Werf, Pieter Roelfsema, Huibert Mansvelder, Fernando Lopes da Silva

Venue: Trippenhuis, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

28 June 2011: website Uitburgeren, klik hier

17 June 2010, 10:00 - 15:30 hr Uitburgeringscursus: “Doodgewoon”

AMC, collegezaal 1, Programme

16:00 - 16:45 hr Afscheidscollege: Dick Swaab (AMC/NIN): “ Het doode lijf schenkt leering…": Wat we over het leven leerden van dode hersenen.

Afscheid van Dick Swaab als hoogleraar Neurobiologie, Universiteit van Amsterdam

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