Name S.F.W. Neggers
Department of Psychiatry
Section Brain changes in developmental disorders
Function Assistant Professor
E-mail:
b.neggers@umcutrecht.nl
Tel: +31 88 7559609
Research group
fMRI group
Title research line
Imaging visuomotor control
Summary research Neural mechanisms in visuo-motor integration
• Voluntary and reflexive eye movements: role of frontal-subcortical networks
• What you see is what you get: Brain mechanisms underlying motor related visual perception
functional MRI methods
• Optimimal use of readout time in parallel acquisition: echo-shifted 3DEPI (PRESTO) combined with 8-channel sensitivity encoding (SENSE) results in super-fast fMRI imaging
• 3DEPI-SENSE: fast 3DEPI with short TE decreases spatial distortion with intact contrast-to-noise for subcortical fMRI
TMS
• (f)MRI guided TMS of functional cortical representations: building a neural navigator (NeNa)
Publications S.F.W. Neggers, E.J. Hermans, N.F. Ramsey (2008). Enhanced sensitivity by fast 3D BOLD fMRI : comparison of SENSE-PRESTO and 2D EPI at 3T. NMR in Biomedicine DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1235.
J. Pratt, S.F.W. Neggers (2008). Inhibition of Return in Single and Dual Tasks: Examining Saccadic, Keypress, and Pointing Responses Perception & Psychophysics. 70(2):257-65.
S.F.W. Neggers, W. Huijbers, C.M. Vrijlandt, B.N.S. Vlaskamp, D.J.L.G. Schutter and J.L. Kenemans (2007). TMS pulses on the frontal eye fields break coupling between visuo-spatial attention and eye movements. Journal of Neurophysiology 98(5):2765-2778
S.F.W. Neggers, M.A.H. Raemaekers, E.E.L. Lampmann, A. Postma and N.F. Ramsey (2005). Cortical and subcortical contributions to saccade latency in the human brain Eur J Neurosci, 21(10), 2853-2863.
S.F.W. Neggers, R. Langerak, R. Mandl, D. Schutter, P.J.J. Lemmens, A. Postma & N.F. Ramsey(2004). A stereotactic method for image guided transcranial magnetic stimulation validated with fMRI and motor evoked potentials. NeuroImage 21 (4), 1805-1817