The Donders Institute and Radboud University welcomed ERC President Maria Leptin for an inspiring afternoon dedicated to the role of frontier research in society. A recording of the second part of the...

Het Europese Horizon Europe–programma Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions heeft een Doctoral Network-beurs toegekend aan het project DESTINIES. Met deze beurs wordt onder leiding van Judith Homberg (Radbou...

Subtle patterns in children’s brain activity can predict individual differences in intelligence, a new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience shows.

Hoe creëert het brein betekenis uit de enorme hoeveelheid informatie die het voortdurend binnenkrijgt? Volgens neurowetenschapper Martin Vinck ligt het antwoord in large-scale integratie.

On 1 March, Roshan Cools was appointed scientific director of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN), one of the six partners of the Donders Institute. She succeeds Alan Sanfey, who has ...

Our gut sends signals to the brain about hunger and fullness, but we still do not understand well how the gut–brain connection affects eating when people eat without being hungry.

Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific brain areas using a new technique.

In a recent publication in Brain Structure and Function, The BrainHelpDesk is featured as an innovative way to engage with the public. This online platform enables anyone to ask questions about the br...

On Friday, 20 February, the Precognition team will present a documentary by Tim Wiesner and Dr. Charlotte Fraza, with Prof. Andre Marquand, exploring the tension between lived experience of psychosis ...

Ontdek hoe fascinerend jouw brein is tijdens De Brein Show! Een dag vol interactieve belevenissen van spannende escape rooms en illusies tot live demonstraties, lezingen en experimenten – er is voor i...

Het syndroom van Korsakov is een ernstige hersenaandoening die veel impact heeft op het leven van mensen die het krijgen. In Nederland gaat het naar schatting om 8.000 tot 10.000 mensen. Er worden sta...

This citizen science, lab-in-the-field study embedded a classic economic task, the Ultimatum Game, in a museum, capturing >18,672 decisions about fairness from volunteer members of the public, reve...

In everyday life, we often encounter objects that are partially hidden or only seen from the corner of our eye. Our brain is remarkably good at keeping track of objects, and new research reveals how t...

14 January 2026

While the institute was formally established on 18 May 2024, this agreement now formally underpins our collaboration across the network.

Vrouwen hebben een twee keer zo grote kans om PTSS te ontwikkelen, een posttraumatische stressstoornis. Dat terwijl het meeste onderzoek naar deze stoornis is gedaan bij mannen. Petra Grijzen volgt on...

In the sleep lab of Martin Dresler, scientists work every day to piece together the scientific puzzle of sleep. We spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, switching off for eight hours makes any or...

Five Radboud University researchers are set to receive a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their research covers topics such as methane-eating micro-organisms, air showers f...

Stephanie Forkel has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant worth €2 million to transform our understanding of how language arises from the complex interplay of neural systems in the human ...

In a recent publication in The Lancet Neurology, Bloem and a group of internationally recognised scientists place Parkinson's in historical perspective, beginning with James Parkinson, who first descr...

Je hebt het vast al eens een gezien: zo’n ‘badmuts’ met draadjes, op het hoofd van een proefpersoon of patiënt. We gingen langs bij twee labs, waar AI herseninfo van zo’n EEG-muts koppelt aan acties.

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The Donders Institute and the Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN) at Western University (Ontario, Canada) are delighted to continue their mobility collaboration.

17 November 2025

At the Donders Institute, new ideas often begin at the crossroads of disciplines. Through its Research Stimulation Funds, the institute encourages researchers to explore collaborations.

YouTube video by Radboud Reflects

Assistant professor Janita Bralten (Radboudumc, Donders Institute) has received a Vidi grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

21 October 2025

Supported by a Veni grant, Nicky Scheefhals aims to study a special type of synapse in which components of both excitatory and inhibitory synapses come together: mixed synapses.

During Postdoc Appreciation Week, we reflect on the value of postdocs. For Paula Fikkert, dean of the Faculty of Arts and researcher, it is a familiar theme: “I am an expert by experience, spending te...

As part of Postdoc Awareness Week, Abdelrahman Rayan, postdoctoral researcher at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience in Lisa Genzel’s group and a former member of the Postdoc Council, shares his exper...

The very first Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) in the Netherlands will take place next week. From 15 to 19 September, Donders Institute is also organising a packed programme in collaboration with part...