EWCN Prize
Winners for 2024
Pedro Alves
“Neurotransmitters’ circuit mapping unveils the neurochemical fingerprints of stroke cognition and behavior"
Pedro Alves is a postdoctoral researcher at Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, and a neurologist at the Department of Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal. He also works in close collaboration with the Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, in France. His main interests are the cognitive and behavioral changes after stroke, and neuroimaging. During the last year, he has been working on a method to map the neurotransmitter circuits that are disrupted by stroke lesions, aiming to understand how these neurochemical patterns relate to the behavioral and cognitive deficits of stroke patients.
2024-Abstract-Alves-Pedro.pdf
Doris Dijksterhuis
“Pronouns reactivate concept cells in the human hippocampus”
Doris Dijksterhuis is a post-doctoral researcher at the University Hospital of Bonn in the department of Cognitive and Clinical Neurophysiology. Doris got a bachelor’s degree on psychobiolgy and a master’s degree in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Amsterdam. She did her PhD on the role of human hippocampal neurons in memory during reading at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and continues on this topic during her post-doc in Bonn, Germany. By working with epileptic patients that are implanted with depth electrodes, she performs extracellular cell recordings in the human brain.
2024-Abstract-Dijksterhuis-Doris.pdf