Projects
Contribution of physical activity and physical fitness to the interrelated hippocampal structure-function abnormalities in early schizophrenia patients: a two year follow-up study. KU Leuven
Natural speech assessment in aphasia: a combined approach via automatic speech recognition and neural tracking KU Leuven
Around 52 people per day suffer a stroke in Belgium, of whom one third is affected by aphasia, an acquired and impactful language disorder. In the acute phase, formal language testing is often difficult and biased due to comorbid cognitive problems, leading to inaccurate diagnoses and predictions. Natural speech assessment is more representative for daily communication and is less depended on active cooperation, but analyses are very ...
A multi-modal and longitudinal approach to study the neurobiological underpinnings of disease onset and progression in genetic ALS variants: from presymptomatic to symptomatic disease stages. KU Leuven
The main goal of this project is to better understand how neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation fit in a sequential model of disease progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ALS is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with a myriad of disease presentations at the clinical, genetic and pathogenic level. Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration play a key role in ALS pathophysiology, but there is no consensus on the regional and ...