The department of Experimental anatomy is a basis for fundamental research of topographical, functional and clinical anatomy, polarised around the human body and its body composition. Both dissections (a detailed study of the interior human body) and plastine studies (made of prepared parts of the human body) are elements of every students' contact with anatomy. The research findings (Anatomical variations and detailed mapping experiments) ...
EXTO conducts research in four focused research groups 1) BIPS: Physiology & neuropsychology of sleep, sleeplessness and cognitive performance 2) SOSP: Social cognitive neuroscience The way our brain builds up impressions about other people is a major topic of research at the V.U.B. We make use of the most modern techniques using brain imaging to study this, including ERP and fMRI. 3) COPS: Attention and implicit learning, including: * ...
In the research group Experimental Pharmacology the vast majority of scientists are trained in pharmacology and psychopharmacology. Our team has however a nice complementarity between a number of neuroscientists-pharmacologists engaged in preclinical research, a number of analytical experts looking for new sensitive methods for monitoring numerous neuromediators, brain biomarkers and pharmacological read-outs, and a number of colleagues who ...
The research of the Laboratory for Experimental Mouse Genetics is focused upon the study of the function of the multifunctional cell surface receptor, lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1). Via a novel application of recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE) multiple knock-in mutation were generated in this receptor, especially in the intracellular domain of this receptor, effecting the interaction of the receptor with ...
The Laboratory of Experimental Hematology conducts research into the following topics:
The Laboratory of Experimental Radiotherapy conducts studies on a wide aray of subjects such as:
The Research Group Experimental Neurology consists of 7 laboratories: Laboratory for Neurobiology (Vesalius Research Center); Laboratory for Cognitive Neurology; Laboratory for Parkinson Research; Laboratory for Neuroimmunology; Laboratory for Epilepsy Research; Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiomarker Research; Laboratory for Neuropathology; Laboratory for myopathies and neuropathies.
The Research Group Experimental Oto-rhino-laryngology conducts research into two major topics: 1. Speech, language and swallowing disorders. 2. Human auditory processing and prostheses.
- Production & regulation of mucins by respiratory cells cultured in vitro. - Adaptation to the Reynell Developmental Language Scales to a Dutch speaking population. - Early bilingualism: research conducted in Dutch speaking nursery schools in ...