Training in Reproducibility
Several lab members are attending the Berlin | Oxford and the Berlin | Harvard summer school on reproducibility these weeks to learn more about transparent, open workflows for more robust, replicable and reproducible science. These summer schools are g...
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Call for submissions for "Digital Medicine in Psychiatry and Neurology"
Together with Dr. Simon Kohl (Forschungszentrum Jülich & Charité Berlin) and Dr. Lars Masanneck (Uniklinik Düsseldorf) we have launched a special issue on Digital Medicine in Neurology and Psychiatry - Chances and Challenges for Mobile Scalable Monito... (Link)
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Submissions open for: Translational applications of neuroimaging, volume II
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Successful special topic in Frontiers
Our special topic with Dr. Amelie Haugg /(Zurich) and Dr. Stavros Skouras (Geneva) has attracted 12 articles with 80 authors and already received over 20,000 views and downloads. We are pleased about the invitation to launch a second edition in the com... (Link)
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Jack Zhang receives AROP fellowship to visit ACN
Prof. Jack Zhang is vising us from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University to start a collaboration on fNIRS neurofeedback for motor rehabilitation. Jack's visit is supported by the Advanced Research Opportunities Program (AROP) from RWTH Aachen Universit...
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RWTH-NIRx state-of-the-art fNIRS workshop
We are thrilled to host a 3-day workshop (February 28 until March 1) on best practices and advanced fNIRS applications such as hyperscanning and fMRI-fNIRS. We have a line up of great key notes, including our very own Franziska Klein, Michael Lührs, Da... (Link)
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DGPPN conference in Berlin
Our lab joined for the DGPPN 2023 in Berlin, the largest congress for Psychiatry in the German speaking communities. It was great meeting colleagues and friends from Germany, Switzerland and Austria, three countries with a long-standing tradition in Ps... (Link)
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RWTH science night: NIRS-riders, go!
Together with colleagues from the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, our lab jammed at the at the RWTH science night. We gave live demonstrations of highly innovative use-cases for fNIRS: neurofeedback training and hyperscanning. The audie... (Link)
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World Congress of Psychiatry in Vienna
Greetings from the WPC in beautiful Vienna! Together with colleagues from the US and Canada we were fortunate to hold a symposium on the advances of clinical use for neurofeedback training, a brain-computer interface intervention that we currently inv... (Link)
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fNIRS UK 2023
fNIRS UK 2023 in Colchester (Essex) was a fantastic opportunty to re-connect with friends and colleagues from the Europea community. We contributed a workshop on best research practices based on our recently published guide for transparent fNIRS stud... (Link)
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Yong-an Gong secures CSC scholarship
Mr. Yong-an Gong has secured a 4-year scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to pursue his doctoral studies at ACN. The funding will allow him to conduct research on fNIRS based neurofeedback training for Parkinson's disease patients. Con...
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Umbrella Syposium at Technion, Haifa
We were delighted to visit the Technion in Haifa with a delegation of scientists on the 40th anniversary of the strategic Umbrella cooperation between RWTH Aaachen, Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Technion. The highly interdisciplinary symposium was a... (Link)
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NIRS workshop in Heidelberg
Part of our lab visited the fNIRS workshop organised by NIRx and MES in beautiful Heidelberg. Lots of helpful tips and new insights that we could take home - and we were delighted to contribute with talks on study preregistration for fnirs and decoding...
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Lucas Trambaiolli receives Karman fellowship to visit ACN
Lucas received the RTWH Aachen Teodore von Karman fellowship and will visit us in April/May to extend our collaboration and visit groups in the area. Lucas is a post-doctoral researcher and instructur at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is...
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Call for abtract submissions for Special Issue "Translational Applications in Neuroimaging"
We have launched a special issue in Frontiers in Neuroscience about Translational Applications in Neuroimaging. Abstract submissions are welcome (deadline will be extended). (Link)
Franziska Klein secures RWTH Aachen Start-up grant
Dr. Klein won the RWTH Aachen start-up grant for an fNIRS research project with our group. Congratulations! The project is planned to start this spring, we will share more details later.
ENIGMA Neurofeedback launch
ENIGMA (Enhanging Neuro Imaging Geneticsy Through Meta Analysis) is a leading global consortium dedicated to investigating brain disorders in large, pooled data sets. We have recently formed an ENIGMA Neurofeedback working group to facilitate meta- and... (Link)
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ACN goes to Yale!
For the first time after almost three years real-time neuroimagers around the globe gathered together again to discuss the current state of our field. The scientific program was stimulating and it was great to see many friends and colleagues again. We ... (Link)
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Study preregistration for fNIRS research presented in Boston
The need for open science methods for neuroimaging has been highlighted many times. Study preregistration is a key tool to allow transparent planning and evaluation of research designs, analyses and outcomes. The "open science fnirs interest group" has... (Link)
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David receives the 2022 Umbrella Award
Founded in 1983, The Umbrella Cooperation between RWTH Aachen University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – has been established to foster cooperation between institutions. David received the 2022 Umbrella... (Link)
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Blogging activities
I am an avid science communicator. As a an independent blogger and contributor to the Organization for Human Brain Mapping blog, I enjoy writing about recent developments in clinical neuroimaging, neurotechnology, open science research practices and st...
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