My main expertise is 
Cognitive Aging

Projects

  • 2020 – 2027MOCIA: Due to the ageing population, the number of elderly people with cognitive deterioration is increasing. The MOCIA programme focuses on being able to signal an increased risk of cognitive decline and improving prevention by developing a personalised lifestyle intervention. [More information]
  • 2019 – 2022The Healthy Brain Project: Our brain allows us to have thoughts, languages, emotions, actions, to store and retrieve our memories, and to navigate our world each and every day. It enables us to be the conscious and social human beings that we are, both creating and interacting with our increasingly complex environments. To understand the workings of this central organ of human life in interaction with its environment is a daunting task. This challenge will only be met successfully if researchers from a wide array of disciplines join forces. Moreover, it can only be done at a place where excellence in the contributing research fields is available. The Radboud campus – with the Radboud University, the Radboud University Medical Center and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – is such a place. Moreover, its researchers have taken the initiative to cooperate to meet this major scientific challenge. This is their project site. [More information]
  • 2013 – 2017Memory strategy training in elderly with a disproportionate decline in memory functioning: an RCT (funded by Fonds NutsOhra). In this project, we compare strategy with restorative memory training in adults with subjective memory complaints. This project in conducted in collaboration with the Geriatrics Department of the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, and the memory clinical of Gelre Ziekenhuizen, Zutphen.
  • 2014 – 2019An inhibition approach to chronic pain (funded by the International Association for the Study on Pain). Here we examine to which extent inhibitory functions predict future postoperative pain. This project in conducted in collaboration with the Department of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen.