Diederik van de Beek & Arjen Brussaard
Yolande Pijnenburg & Annemiek Dols
As co-directors of Amsterdam Neuroscience they open up the doors for unique research collaborations by bringing together many talented neuroscientists from different research angles.
By combining their strengths and expertise, and holding consultations with patients together as one, neurologist Pijnenburg and psychiatrist Dols are able to provide a more efficient level of help.
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Frank Jacobs
Meike Bartels
Huibert Mansvelder
He identified a new gene expressed in the human brain which was absent in monkeys. “When we introduced this new gene in mice embryos and looked at slices of their brains, I felt a rush of excitement.”
“Imagine that someone with a favourable genetic make-up for happiness or well-being reports symptoms of depression – we could think about interventions from the field of positive psychology as an addition to the commonly used interventions.”
“Obtaining human brain tissue was a big step. A huge step, in fact, because my group was one of only a handful of labs worldwide that had access to living human brain tissue.”
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Rob de Bie “To be able to provide answers to questions that are important to my and other patients, to offer them guidance in their difficult situation, is what I aspire to do as a scientist.”
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