Brain Awareness Week 2024: Welcome / Welkom

Brain Awareness Week 2024: Welcome / Welkom

  • On 11/03/2024
We start the #BrainAwarenessWeek with a warm welcome by Prof. Céline Gillebert! She will guide you through our upcoming social media campaign on the invisible consequences of brain damage. Stay tuned!  We beginnen #BrainAwarenessWeek met een warm welkom van prof. Céline Gillebert. Ze vertelt je over onze campagne op sociale media in de komende week, […]
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Brain Awareness Week 2024

  • On 09/03/2024
🧠 Next week is Brain Awareness Week! This means that every day we are placing a short video about our brain research in the spotlight, 🔦 both in English and in Dutch! We will end the week with a fun quiz on the wonders of the brain. 🤓 ✨ We are excited to share our […]
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Is the MoCA valid to use in a diverse geriatric population?

  • On 02/03/2024
❓ Is the MoCA valid to use in a diverse geriatric population? 💡 Shonimá Gangaram Panday and Céline Gillebert commented on the complexity of using cognitive screens in culturally diverse geriatric populations, in this case including Hispanic and African American participants residing in New York. “The results of the study underscore the need for validation […]
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Introducing the MESSY

  • On 09/02/2024
❓ How would you measure sensory sensitivity after acquired brain injury? 🌟 The Multi-Modal Evaluation of Sensory Sensitivity – the MESSY – is a validated questionnaire that maps sensitivity for sensory stimuli (visual, auditory, tactile, motion, chemosensory, and environmental temperature) after acquired brain injury. Two versions exist: one designed for adults staying in a hospital […]
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Sofie startte een postdoc op de Universiteit van Bern

  • On 15/01/2024
Op 1 november 2023 ben ik gestart als postdoctoraal onderzoeker op de Universiteit van Bern, Zwitserland, in de onderzoeksgroep Klinische Psychologie, kinderen en jongeren. Dit was een grote stap voor me nadat ik 13 jaar in het vertrouwde PSI, of Psychologisch Instituut, in Leuven vertoefde voor mijn bachelor, masters, doctoraat en één jaar postdoc. Deze […]
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Paper alert: Evidence for an age-related decline in feature-based attention

  • On 20/10/2023
Armien Lanssens, Kobe Desender, and Celine Gillebert Abstract Feature-based attention allows to efficiently guide attention to relevant information in the visual scene, but unambiguous empirical evidence on age-related effects is still limited. In this study, young and older participants performed a two-alternative forced choice task in which a response was selected based on a task-relevant […]
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Neuropsychology Lab @ FESN 2023

  • On 02/10/2023
At the 8th Scientific Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology in Thessaloniki, Greece, we delved into the latest findings in neuropsychology and had enriching discussions with peers. Our active involvement included organising a symposium and delivering two impactful posters and three engaging oral presentations.
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Paper alert: Screening for post-stroke neurocognitive disorders in diverse populations: a systematic review

  • On 24/07/2023
Shonimá Gangaram-Panday, Yanyao Zhou & Celine Gillebert Abstract Objective: Although neurocognitive disorders (NCD) are common post-stroke, many populations do not have adapted cognitive screens and cut-offs. We therefore reviewed the appropriateness of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) for diagnosing NCD in culturally diverse stroke populations. Method: Using an extensive […]
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Paper alert: The Multi-Modal Evaluation of Sensory Sensitivity (MESSY): assessing a commonly missed symptom of acquired brain injury

  • On 12/06/2023
Hella Thielen, Irene Huenges Wajer, Nora Tuts, Lies Welkenhuyzen, Cristophe Lafosse & Celine Gillebert Abstract Objective: Sensory hypersensitivity is common after acquired brain injury. Since appropriate diagnostic tools are lacking, these complaints are overlooked by clinicians and available literature is limited to light and noise hypersensitivity after concussion. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of […]
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