February 10th, 2024
First Belgian MR Research Community (BMRC) Meeting in Hasselt! Next year MaRBEL!
Our BRAINS-lab team attended the Belgian MR Research Community (BMRC) kick-off event hosted at Oude Gevangenis UHasselt. Besides tons of networking, there was a great 7T keynote by Gilbert Hangel and workshops by researchers from VUB, UGent, University of Liège, KU Leuven and UHasselt (MRS talk given by Melina and Koen). Jitske, Maud and Koen did an amazing job in organising this event together with colleagues from UGent, UAntwerp and KU Leuven. Melina won the ‘Future name contest’: We are already looking forward to MaRBEL 2025!

January 25th, 2024
Snowy Escapade: BRAINS-lab Bonding
Last weekend, the seven members of BRAINS-lab took a break for a team-building getaway in the snowy Ardennes. It was a cozy retreat filled with good food, fun, and games, set against the backdrop of a beautiful winter wonderland.

January, 16th, 2024
New Research Paper Alert!
Our latest paper has been published in Clinical Neurophysiology. This publication introduces a pioneering dual-site TMS setup designed to stimulate two adjacent brain regions. Unlike previous attempts, this setup is subject to fewer technical and spatial limitations, allowing for more precise and reliable targeting of brain regions.
Interested in delving into the details? Access the article through this link. For open access until March 6th, 2024, click here.

November 10-15, 2023
Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC (USA)
About 25600 neuroscience enthousiasts recently made a pilgrimage to Washington DC. Off course, BRAINSlab was also represented. Besides presenting our lab’s latest MRS work and attending several lectures, we also joined the SfN ‘Yes and…’ neuroscience improv social. We are thankful to FWO (Koen) and to the SfN Trainee Professional Development Award program (Melina) for making this journey possible.

October 8, 2023
BRAINS-lab @ Dwars Door Hasselt
In the spirit of “a healthy mind in a healthy body”, the BRAINS-lab colleagues Koen, Shanti, and Melina participated in the “Dwars door Hasselt” (Straight through Hasselt) run this Sunday. They were not only hitting the track for their (brain-)health but also to support a good cause, the “Universitair MS Centrum (UMSC)”.

September 13-15, 2023
7th International Symposium on GABA and Advanced MRS @ Bergen (Norway)
Kia participated in this interesting symposium learning about the latest ongoing research and methods. She also presented her own work on: “Neurometabolic Changes in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.“

September 11-14, 2023
MRtrix3 Workshop @ KU Leuven
If you want to know the latest state-of- the-art of how to analyse diffusion weighted data the MRtrix3 course in Leuven is the place to be! With this technique we are able to visualise and measure different properties of white matter tracts in the brain.

September 8-10, 2023
fMRS Symposium 2023 @ Bangor (Wales)
Koen attended the functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy conference in Bangor. “It is impressive how the field is moving forward and what the possibilities are for researching neurometabolic dynamics at the level of the brain. For me personally, these techniques will offer new opportunities to investigate the effects of neurorehabilitation and motor control.”

July 22-26, 2023
OHBM Conference 2023
Melina and Shanti represented BRAINS-lab at the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping in Montreal. Not only did they showcase their latest TMS research on brain connectivity and motor control/learning, they also had time to network with international experts from other top-level institutions.

July 3rd, 2023
Research stay of Melina Hehl at Yale University
We are proud to announce that our colleague Melina has started a 3-month research stay at the research group of Richard Carson at the prestigious Yale PET Center, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, New Haven (CT, USA). During this stay, she will expand her knowledge on PET data processing and analysis.