Paper accepted in Cerebral Cortex
MR van Schouwenburg, HEM den Ouden, R Cools (in press). Selective attentional enhancement and inhibition of fronto-posterior connectivity by the basal ganglia during attention switching.
Paper accepted in Neuropsychologia
van Schouwenburg, MR, Onnink, AMH, ter Huurne, N, Kan, CC, Zwiers, MP, Hoogman, M, Franke, B, Buitelaar, JK, Cools, R (in press). Cognitive flexibility depends on white matter microstructure of the basal ganglia.
Paper accepted in Journal of Neuroscience
Dirk Geurts, Quentin Huys, Hanneke den Ouden, and Roshan Cools (in press). Serotonin and aversive Pavlovian control of instrumental behavior in humans.
Paper accepted in SCAN
Ly, V, Cools, R, Roelofs, K (2013). Aversive disinhibition of behavior and striatal signaling in social avoidance [link].
Paper accepted in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Marieke E. van der Schaaf, Marcel P. Zwiers, Martine R. van Schouwenburg, Dirk E.M. Geurts, Arnt F.A. Schellekens, Jan K. Buitelaar, Robbert Jan Verkes, Roshan Cools (2013). Dopaminergic drug effects during reversal learning depend on anatomical connections between the orbitofrontal cortex and the amygdala [pubmed].
TEDx talk by Roshan Cools
On May 23, 2013, Roshan Cools gave a TEDx talk on the importance of trusting science @TEDx RadboudU: Rebuilding Trust. Watch the video here.
Paper accepted in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
D.E.M. Geurts, Q.J.M. Huys, H.E.M. den Ouden, R. Cools (2013). Aversive Pavlovian control of instrumental behaviour in humans [link].
Paper accepted in Neuropsychopharmacology
van der Schaaf, ME, Fallon, SJ, ter Huurne, N, Buitelaar, J, Cools, R (2013). Working memory capacity predicts effects of methylphenidate on reversal learning [link].
Paper accepted in Psychopharmacology
van Schouwenburg, MR, Zwiers, MP, van der Schaaf, ME, Geurts, DEM, Schellekens, AFA, Buitelaar, JK, Verkes, RJ, Cools, R (2013). Anatomical connection strength predicts dopaminergic drug effects on fronto-striatal function [pubmed].
Paper accepted in Cerebral Cortex
van der Schaaf ME, van Schouwenburg MR, Geurts DE, Schellekens AF, Buitelaar JK, Verkes RJ, Cools R. (2012). Establishing the Dopamine Dependency of Human Striatal Signals During Reward and Punishment Reversal Learning [pubmed].
Veni NWO grant awarded to Esther Aarts
Esther Aarts was awarded a Veni NWO grant to study how we can break bad eating habits.
McDonnell Grant awarded to Roshan Cools
Roshan was awarded one of the 2012 James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar grants for studying the effect of motivation on cognition and the role of dopamine.
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Young Investigator Award received by Roshan Cools
Roshan Cools received the 2012 Cognitive Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, which is awarded every year by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society to "recognize the outstanding contributions by scientists early in their carreers."
Read more about the Cognitive Neuroscience Society here.
Inaugural lecture Roshan Cools
On January 27, 2012, Roshan Cools gave her inaugural lecture entitled Psychiatry and the Paradoxical Brain. With that lecture she closed off the symposium on cognitive psychiatry that was organised on the occasion of Roshan's inauguration. Other speakers included renowned experts in the field, e.g. Trevor Robbins. Here you can find the complete program.