An international research team led by Professor Danielle Posthuma (VU / VUmc) has identified the genes, brain areas and cell types that are important in intelligence and neuroticism. Both studies were published June 25, 2018 in Nature Genetics.

At the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting (DNM), PhD student Kevin Batenburg won the poster prize for his poster on the development of a human three-dimensional screening platform of tau pathology.

Mariana Matos received the best poster prize at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting (DNM).

Causes and consequences of disturbed brain ion and water homeostasis in the white matter disease MLC

Caffeine, adenosine and acetylcholine and neuronal function in the cortex, June 26, 2018

Inhibition in executive function neurocircuits in an autism model, and human neocortex, June 14, 2018

At the 2nd EuroTau meeting in Lille, France, Kevin won the poster prize for his poster on the development of a human three-dimensional screening platform of tau pathology.

Collaboration between CNCR and VUmc published in Annals of Neurology

A joint effort between the groups of Gerome Breen of the Institute of Psychiatry, London and Danielle Posthuma of the CNCR-CTG, highlights functional consequences of genes associated with intelligence, published March 8, in Molecular Psychiatry.

As of March 1, 2018 Martijn van den Heuvel has started as a new PI at the Department of Complex Trait Genetics of the CNCR.