July 2021 - Lieneke K. Janssen

How dopamine became a rock star: a true story

Dopamine is a neutrotransmitter with rock star status. A status that comes with rumors masking the facts. This is a true story of dopamine and how it came to be a rock star.

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Cognitive neuroscientist mom interested in habits @OVGUpresse. Co-founded @CBSOpenScience @DondersWonders. Advocate of healthy habits in science & #scicomm.

Lieneke Janssen @lkjanssen·

14 May

When your husband reminds you to print the #Eurovision #bingo 😍😍
https://www.missioneurovision.co.uk/games/eurovision-bingo/

12 POINTS to @Ginkgo_NaN!

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Douglas Garrett @Garrett_Neuro·

9 May

The ability to *regulate* temporal neural variability may permit effective responses to changing cognitive demands. But how do adults pull this off? A mega🧵about our ~1000-year-long, dopamine PET/fMRI/modelling effort to understand "meta-variability" 1/n https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.05.490687v1

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Lieneke Janssen @lkjanssen·

8 Apr

Last year I dived into the world of #dopamine PET & SPECT to try to make sense of all (!) studies that investigated the link between BMI or weight status and any available radiotracer in humans. On top of a not accepted grant proposal, here is the result:
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/4/486

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Tobias Kalenscher @kalenscher·

5 Apr

Check out the flyer of our Düsseldorf Symposium on Decision Neuroscience on June 10 this year. Or visit our website: https://www.psychologie.hhu.de/en/research-teams/comparative-psychology/dsdn-2022 You can still register, participation is free! Just send an email to dsdn@hhu.de @HHU_de @EPAN_lab #neuroeconomics

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Michael Gaebler @michagaebler·

5 Apr

Come work with us!
We are looking for

📣two doctoral candidates

at the MPI f. Human #Cognitive & #Brain Sciences @MPI_CBS
in a wonderful collaboration w/ computer graphics @FraunhoferHHI on #virtual humans, using #EEG & #VR

Deadline: May 1

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