Morfo-meetings will be organized every Friday of the month, 15.30u - 16.30u.

Room: Aula of the Psychiatry department (room A.01.107, UMCU). Please note the programme below for announcements of occasional room changes.

The meeting is chaired by Caroline van Baal (g.c.m.vanbaal@umcutrecht.nl).
 

Upcoming meetings:

February 2012:

10 Prof. Harry Uylings  (Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam) Neuronal development in human frontal cortex during lifespan 

To be scheduled:

Prof. Sarah Durston 

Lara Wierenga

(13 april 2012 geen zaal beschikbaar)

Past meetings:

January 2010: 

22 Sarai: meta analysis MRI and autism
29 Neeltje: STAR data (=> beamer fall out)

February 2010: 

5 Patrick: Cortical thickness problems
12 paper discussions on neurocircuitry
19 Neeltje: past projects
26  Tim: DUPS, high risk

March 2010: 

5  Inge: cortical thickness changes and heritabilities
12 Hilleke: plasticity
19  Florian: project Bipolair Disease
26 Monica: practice session Florence and Rachel: practice session Paris

April 2010: 

2 No morfo (goede vrijdag)
9 No morfo (SIRS, Florence)
16 evaluation Florence: what have we learned?
23 No morfo (neuroscience and cognition)
30 No morfo (Queen's day)

May 2010: 

September 2010:

24 Hans Jeuring Obstetrische complicaties als risicofactor voor het ontstaan van bipolaire stoornis 

Oktober 2010:

1 Caroline van Baal Forensic Bioinformatics
8 Richard Bartecek FSL as a tool for automated subcortical structure segmentation
15 Hugo Schnack Analysis: from Pipeline to Paper
29 Mitzy Kennis (Australia): resting state functional connectivity

November 2010:

12 Thalia van der Doef Temporal microglial activation in Schizophrenia 
19 Anouk Marsman Glutamate in young adulthood
26 Inge van Soelen Associations between IQ and different brain anatomy measures in early adolescence; what can genetic analyses tell us?

December 2010:

3 No morfo
10 Richard Bartecek
14 Heleen Boos Proefpromotie: Running in the family?

Januari  2011:

21 Ronald Vonk Dermatoglyfen bij tweelingen met een bipolaire stoornis: markers voor een "neurodevelopmental" stoornis?
28 Jiska Peper Acting on impulse: tracking sex hormones in the developing human brain

Februari 2011:

18 Hilleke Hulshoff Pol Can aberant plasticity predict schizophrenia?
4 Marinka Koenis Does sleep restore the functional networks of the brain? 

Maart 2011:

11 Rachel Brouwer Changes in white matter during adolescence
18 Thalia van der Doef Focal Microglial Activation in Schizophrenia (ICOSR) AND
Anna Hedman A longitudinal study in twins discordant for schizophrenia and meta-analysis for IQ-change in schizophrenia compared to healthy controls (Colorado) 
25 Neeltje van Haren Effect of their drugs and our drugs 5 years after onset of psychosis

April 2011:

1 Judy Luigjes Deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disorders 
8 Geartsje Boonstra proefpromotie
15 Anouk Marsman
29  Practice session: Anouk Marsman (ISMRM)

May 2011:

13  Mireille Nieuwenhuis Classification of schizophrenia from structural MRI: Support Vector Machine model evolution (practice for conference)
20 Lisanne Vermeulen Linking disrupted processes underlying self-agency to first rank symptoms in schizophrenia: an MRI study & Robert Renes The role of explicit and implicit processes in self-agency experiences: a study in patients with schizophrenia and healthy subjects 
27 Manon Benders

June 2011

10 Guusje Collin Cerebellar connectivity 
17 Hugo Schnack
24 Kim Cerrone Imaging Genetics: association between APOE and brain structure 

September 2011

23 Thomas Scheewe Effect of cardiovascular exercise on global brain volumes in patients with schizophrenia and matched healthy controls
30 Inge van Soelen Genetics of brain development and cognition in childhood and early adolescence: proefpromotie 

Oktober 2011

7 Afke Terwisscha van Scheltinga Common polygenic variation contributing to schizophrenia risk explains variation in total brain volume
14 Monica Rais proefpromotie: structural brain abnormalities in first episode schizophrenia. Is it just illness?
21 Sanne de Wit Dutch Prediction of Psychosis Study - a longitudinal exploration of the adolescent brain at risk for psychosis
WEDNESDAY 26 Paola Dazzan Can imaging really help mental health care? Using MRI to predict treatment response and outcome in psychosis 

november 2011
25 Anna Hedman A review and meta-analysis of IQ change in schizophrenia and healthy individuals 

december 2011

9 Neeltje van Haren 
16 Rene Mandl Altered white matter connectivity in never-medicated patients with schizophrenia

januari 2012

6  Rachel Brouwer Luteinizing hormone as precursor for estrogen-related gray matter changes in pubertal girls
20 Caroline van Baal molecular genetics