Projects
Wireless miniaturized microsystem for Brain STimulation And Recording in small animal models. KU Leuven
Deep Brain Stimulation in an Animal Model of Anxiety KU Leuven
In the past decades, considerable efforts have been devoted to documenting and understanding elementary features of fear learning and how they might be involved in the development of anxiety and anxiety disorders, through research in animals, healthy humans and patients. This work has revealed critical roles of extinction deficits, excessive generalization and persistent avoidance in anxious psychopathology. The larger, overarching research ...
Understanding brain circuit dysfunction in amblyopia using large-scale multimodal recordings in a new visuomotor task applied to animal models and patients KU Leuven
We aim to establish the role of predictive processing in neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically in one of the most studied contexts, amblyopia. We use a new visuomotor feedback task across high-visual-acuity preclinical species - cats -, rodents, and humans during large-scale activity readout via best-available methods (functional ultrasound imaging reaching 4 cm depth, mesoscale two-photon imaging, hdEEG) to 1) identify brain regions ...
Wireless miniaturized microsystem for Brain Stimulation And Recording in small animal models Ghent University
The Brain Star Project has to major objectives: The first objective is to develop a microsystem technologies and a platform for wireless miniaturized brain stimulation and recording Suitable for small animal research and treatment of human neurological and neurodegenerative diseases in a longer run. The second ovbjective is to validate the technologies developed in three different application contexts (basic neuroscience / neurobiology, ...