May, 27th, 2023
BRAINS-lab @ Nerdland
Melina and Koen were happy to explain 2500 young future scientists and their parents how transcranial magnetic stimulation can be used to investigate how our brain controls our muscles!

Brain, Rehabilitation And Integrative NeuroScience
May, 27th, 2023
BRAINS-lab @ Nerdland
Melina and Koen were happy to explain 2500 young future scientists and their parents how transcranial magnetic stimulation can be used to investigate how our brain controls our muscles!

March, 1st, 2023
New Lab Member!
Excited to announce that Maud Beeckmans will start a joint PhD at our lab and the translational MRI unit of Prof. Stefan Sunaert. Prof. Raf Meesen and Dr. Louise Emsell will support her as co-promotors.


February, 22nd, 2023
New editorial published!
In this editorial we summarise how lateralisation changes in the aging brain can be studied. You can read the full paper here.
December, 27th, 2022
New paper!
We investigated the organisation of neurochemical interactions via MR Spectroscopy in young and older brains using a network approach. You can find the full article here.

December, 7th, 2022

Hussein Youssef – Bilateral scientific collaboration awarded!
We are happy to announce that Hussein Youssef was awarded a grant for a bilateral scientific cooperation between Koç University and Hasselt University under the promotorship of Prof. Atay Vural and Prof. Koen Cuypers. In this project, that will be carried-out at the REVAL research center (UHasselt), Hussein will use an innovative non-invasive brain stimulation approach with the goal to improve brain function and motor control in persons with multiple sclerosis.
November, 9th, 2022
BeNe Brain Stimulation Symposium
We organised the BeNe Brain Stimulation Symposium at UHasselt. Many thanks to all presenters, sponsors, supporting organisations and participants!
October, 11th, 2022
New paper!
We used TMS mapping to investigate differences in lateralization and distinctiveness of cortical motor representations over the adult lifespan. This work is published open-access. The full pdf version of the paper can be downloaded here.
September, 6th, 2022
New paper!
Our group published an extensive review covering inter- and intrahemispheric interactions within regions of the motor network. This work is published open-access. The full pdf version of the paper can be downloaded here.