EU training program EGRET-AAA awarded
The European Union has awarded our EU training program EGRET-AAA. The latter stands for European Glaucoma REsearch Training program for Accelerating the Approach to Advanced Glaucoma. EGRET-AAA will produce innovative treatments to protect and restore vision in patients with progressive eye disease glaucoma. By using revolutionary … Continued
Congratulations, dr. Shereif!
On November 30th, Shereif Haykal defended his PhD Thesis “Visual Pathway White Matter Alterations in Glaucoma”, in which he used fixel-based analysis and other structural imaging techniques to study how glaucoma affects not only the eye, but also the visual … Continued
Congratulations, dr. Azzurra!
On November 1st, Azzurra Invernizzi defended her thesis “A computational view of the brain plasticity at rest”. In her studies, she describes a number of studies on the use of resting-state fMRI to better understand the human brain in health … Continued
Congratulations, dr. Minke!
On October 13th, Minke de Boer defended her PhD thesis “Keeping track of emotions; Audiovisual integration for emotion recognition and compensation for sensory degradations captured by perceptual strategies”. In her thesis, she describes a number of studies on human visual … Continued
Keeping an eye out on the visual field
Perimetry, – the measurement of retinal sensitivity at different visual field locations–is an essential and often used procedure in ophthalmology. The most common technique for this is Standard Automated Perimetry. For various reasons, this technique is less suitable for use … Continued
As time goes by …..
How does the brain of patients with the ophthalmic disease glaucoma change over time? In a paper published in “Frontiers in Human Neuroscience”, Shereif Haykal and co-authors show that over a period of several years, the visual pathways of glaucoma … Continued
Promise project nominated
The Promise project, a collaboration of UMCG’s LEO, Royal Dutch Visio, the RUG, and Reperio has been nominated for the Health Valley Bridge price. The price highlights projects that use technology to ensure longer independent living. The SONDA technology for … Continued
OptiVisT: final chance to apply for one of the 15 PhDs in our new EU training program
Are you, like us, fascinated by vision, the brain and technology and consider it important to help visually impaired people? Do you have an inquisitive mind, and are you looking for a PhD position embedded in an international innovative training … Continued
Joana Carvalho named “Portuguese woman scientist of the year”
Joana Carvalho, former PhD student of the lab, was awarded the UNESCO-L’Oreal price for “Portuguese woman scientist of the year”. The good news does not stop there for Joana. She also got a personal EU Marie Curie Fellowship for her … Continued
Joana Carvalho wins BCN thesis award
During the on-line Wintermeeting of the Research School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences on Feb. 4th 2021, “our” Joana Carvalho has won the “best thesis of the year award” for her PhD thesis “Plasticity of Cortical Visual Field Representations” which … Continued
A I or A eye, that’s no longer the question
Eye movements are an integral and critical part of our normal visual behavior, and evaluating these may offer valuable insights for clinical interventions, diagnostics, and understanding visual perception. With raising interest in studying... READ MORE
Grant awarded for the “Virtual Reality for enhanced Visual Rehabilitation” (VR4eVR) project
Visual rehabilitation for hemianopia, which may be necessary after a stroke, can take a long time. Wouldn’t it be very useful if one could do this in the comfort of one’s own home?... READ MORE
Visual Hallucinations and the Curious Absence of Activity in the Primary Visual Cortex
Visual hallucinations are perceptions without a physical stimulus to relate this percept too. It affects millions of people, yet surprisingly little is known about what’s happening in the brain during visual hallucinations. Marouska... READ MORE
The details are in the contrast
There is a need for simpler methods of perimetry – the measurement of retinal sensitivity at different visual field locations. In a recent paper in the journal Vision Research, Anne Vrijling, Minke de... READ MORE