General Information

Here you can find general information on fMRI related topics.

fMRI & SPM

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows visualizing the brain at work.

Journals

Scientific journals, dedicated to neuro-imaging

(links to external sites)

MRI

Functional MRI

Brain atlases

Books

(links to Amazon.com)

Pictures

A collection of our fMRI pictures

The 1.5 GE Signa Scanner

Past Events

This is the list of our past fMRI Research meetings. Future meetings are listed here.

2010 Event
may 20 Janne Papma (Neurology) - n-back task in Mild Cognitive Impairment, the effects of cerebrovascular damage on fMRI
april 22 Nathan van der Stoep & Jan van Strien (Psychology) - Simultaneous EEG-fMRI recording during an extended continuous recognition task
march 25 Margriet Veldhorst (Neonatology) - A fMRI paradigm to assess satiety in children
feb 25 Esmee Liem & Jos van der Geest (Neuroscience) - Saccadic eye movements
jan 28 Janne Papma (Neurology) - The FIND study on patients with mild cognitive impairment - preliminary results
2009 Event
dec 17 Rebecca Steketee (Radiology) - Memory and Emotion tasks in presenile dementia
sep 10 Hugo Aben (Psychiatry) - Conflict monitoring in synesthetic observation
june 11 Alexander Leemans (Image Sciences Institute, UMC Utrecht) - Introduction to diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
may 14 René Scheeringa (Donders Institute Nijmegen) - Simultaneously Recorded EEG and fMRI in Neuroscience
april 18 Maartje Luijten (Pscyhology) - SPM in Rotterdam - part 2: statistical analysis?
march 26 Freddy van der Veen (Psychiatry) - SPM in Rotterdam - part 1: pre-processing options?
feb 19 Evy Visch-Brink (Neurology) - Language recovery after stroke: proposed and ongoing projects
jan 22 Karen Schuil (EUR) - proposed and ongoing fMRI projects on language
2008 Event
nov 13 Dept. of Psychiatry - Working memory for emotional faces
oct 16 Dr. M. van de Sandt-Koenderman (Rijndam Rehabilitation Center) - Listening to singing, speaking and humming: An fMRI study of language processing in normal controls as a first step to understanding the positive effect of Melodic Intonation Therapy in aphasia.
sep 11 Michelle Welman - Cerebellar somatopy in pain
Albertine Smit - Sensory and motor cortex plasticity in RSI patients
june 12 Maartje Luijten (Psychology, EUR) - Neuroanatomical correlates of attentional bias in smokers
may 8 Guest Lecture by Prof Cynthia Thompson (Northwestern University, Evanstone, Ill.) - Neural mechanisms of action word processing: fMRI studies with healthy and brain damaged volunteers
april 24 Freddy van der Veen (Psychiatry) - Feedback processing in schizophrenic patients: conceptual and methodological issues
march 13 Larry Taylor (Dept. of Psychology, EUR) - Language Comprehension and Action Understanding
jan 31 Albertine Smit - Bell's palsy
Jos van der Geest - Longitudinal analysis of fMRI data
2007 Event
nov 22 Ruud Selles & Marian Michielsen (Rehabilitation Medicine) - Mirror therapy for improving hand functioning in chronic stroke: an fMRI study of underlying cortical mechanisms.
oct 18 Flip van Broekhoven - Cerebral and cerebellar contributions to the processing of saccadic errors
sep 6 Roeland Dietvorst & Willem Verbeke (EUR) - The mirror neuron system and its contribution to social intelligence
june 28 dr B. Blok (Urology) - The effects of androgen deprivation on the brain: an fMRI study
march 1 Freddy van der Veen (Psychiatry) - Feedback processing in depressed patients
feb 8 Ale Smidts and Vasily Klucharev (EUR) - Brain mechanisms of persuasive communication, attitude change and elementary decision making
dec 12 (2006) Niels Prins (Neurologie) - fMRI in mild cognitive impairment