Congratulations to Louise Møller Jørgensen for receiving 140.000 DKK as a scholarstipend grant from Danish Society for Neuroscience for stud.med. Emilie Mauritzon and the project "Cognitive flexibility in responders and non-responders from lumbar fusion surgery to treat chronic low back pain" and to Patrick Fisher for receiving 70.000 DKK as a scholarstipend grant also from Danish Society for Neuroscience for stud.med. Victor Neufeld and the project "Establishing the dose-occupancy relation of LSD at the serotonin 2A receptor in the living human brain".
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Congratulations to Gerda Thomsen, Silvia Bruzzone and Søren V Larsen for receiving travel support from Rigshospitalet's Jubilæumsfond, Gerda for her participation at EANM in Barcelona and Søren and Silvia for ECNP in Vienna.
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Many NRU researchers participated in the 35th annual ECNP Congress which was recently held in Vinnna, Austria.
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Congratulations to Clara Madsen who has been granted a 4 year PhD fellowship from Neuroscience Academy Denmark: First year as Research Assistant with 10-weeks lab rotation in Denmark (three labs) followed by 3 years as PhD student. Information about the NAD PhD fellowships can be found here.
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Congratulations to former NRU PhD-student Nakul Raval who's review paper from 2021, entitled "A Single Dose of Psilocybin Increases Synaptic Density and Decreases 5-HT2A Receptor Density in the Pig Brain", has already been cited 30 times and consequently, been selected as one of the Highly Cited Papers of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) in 2021.
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Nature Outlook has published Psychedelic Medicine, a collection of popular science articles about the advances and challenges of psychedelic research and clinical applications. One article, Your brain on psychedelics, includes NRU Senior Researcher Patrick Fisher's perspective on what we know and do not know about psychedelic effects on the brain.
The article collection can be found here: https://www.nature.com/collections/edcbibiadj
The article including Patrick Fisher can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02874-7
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Welcome to our new staff members:
Student assistant, EEG: Arthur Diness (Medicine & Technology).
Master's students Ahmad Al-Baka and Sandra N. Madsen (both Pharmaceutical Sciences); Joanna Wilkosz (Neuroscience) and Emilie Mauritzon (Medicine).
Arthur Emilie Joanna
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Congratulations to Vibeke Dam and Kristian Larsen for each being awarded with the ECNP Excellence Award.
Vibeke's award is based on her abstract "Predicting antidepressant treatment outcome in major depressive disorder using multi-domain data: A NeuroPharm study", while Kristian's award is based on his abstract 'Acute psilocybin and ketanserin effects on cerebral blood flow: 5-HT2AR neuromodulatory effects in healthy humans'.
Each award consists of a 100 EUR grant and a certificate as well as a 400 EUR travel grant for the ECNP 2022 Congress in Vienna, Austria, which will take place Oct 15-18.
Vibeke's award is based on her abstract "Predicting antidepressant treatment outcome in major depressive disorder using multi-domain data: A NeuroPharm study", while Kristian's award is based on his abstract 'Acute psilocybin and ketanserin effects on cerebral blood flow: 5-HT2AR neuromodulatory effects in healthy humans'.
Each award consists of a 100 EUR grant and a certificate as well as a 400 EUR travel grant for the ECNP 2022 Congress in Vienna, Austria, which will take place Oct 15-18.
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Congratulations to MD Camilla Borgsted Larsen for a successful PhD thesis defense on June 16th. Camilla's thesis is entitled "Structural and functional brain signatures of sexhormone transitions and implications for perinatal mental health".
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Congratulations to Professor Gitte Moos Knudsen for receiving a scholarstipend grant (103.100 DKK) from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for stud.med. Kristoffer Brendstrup-Brix and the project 'Neuroimaging of brain pulsations and their impact on brain disease'.
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The scholarstipend project is an integral part of the ongoing project 'Non-invasive Magnetic Resonance diagnostics of hydrocephalus or increased intracranial pressure (UFMR-project)'.
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The scholarstipend project is an integral part of the ongoing project 'Non-invasive Magnetic Resonance diagnostics of hydrocephalus or increased intracranial pressure (UFMR-project)'.
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- Friederike Holze received mobility postdoc grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation
- Scholarstipend grant from DPS-Lundbeckfonden for the BrainDrugs-D project
- PhD defence by Camilla B. Larsen, MD, June 16
- Louise Møller Jørgensen receives BETA.HEALTH grant
- NRU Spring Symposium
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- Drummond McCulloch awarded 1st place in the FYF Annual Poster and Presentation competition
- Scholarstipend grant from DPS-Lundbeckfonden for the BDD project
- Martin Korsbak Madsen in article in Danish Medical Journal
- Scholarstipend grant from DPS-Lundbeckfonden for the Pill project