May 2019  Anna's paper on early-life stress and neural maturation (Tyborowska (2018) was at place 14 of the top 100 read papers of scientific reports. Congrats Anna :) January 2019  I am excited to have started on the Ideas 2 Impact initiative at Said Business school. Time to learn more about innovation from Prof Ventresca and Dr Helanummi-Cole. December 2018 Another paper accepted with the fantastic Heidelberg team. Especially thanks to Katja for pulling this amazing project. Title: Out of control? Acting out anger is associated with deficient prefrontal emotional action control in male patients with borderline personality disorder And the link to the paper: Bertsch (2018) November 2018 Time for the first weekend of the RisingWISE programme. A five day programme for enterprising early-career researchers bridging research and industry across Oxford, Cambridge and the rest of the UK. June 2018 Anna's paper on early life stress and pubertal stress effects on grey matter development is out. Title: Early-life and pubertal stress differentially modulate grey matter development in human adolescents Tyborowska A, Volman I, Niermann HCM, Pouwels JL, Smeekens S, Cillessen AHN, Toni I, Roelofs K (2018) Scientific Reports  March 2018 I started as a mentor for the 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures programme. This is a unique programme designed to support young women interested in STEM from the New York Academy of Sciences December 2017 My eNeuro paper on psychopathy and prefrontal-amygdala connectivity was the most popular research summary on Neuronline - the Society for Neurosciences - see here. September 2017 Katja's beautiful paper on borderline personality disorder was just accepted in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience! Thanks so much to this great collaboration with Katja Bertsch and Sabine Herpertz from Heidelberg University. Title: Neural Correlates of Emotional Action Control in Anger-Prone Women with Borderline Personality Disorder Katja Bertsch, Karin Roelofs, Paul Jonathan Roch, Bo Ma, Saskia Hensel, Sabine C. Herpertz, Inge Volman --------------------- And it is almost time for ISSPD in Heidelberg. I am looking forward to it!  Laura Elise Muller and I will be chairing a session on the role of emotional action tendencies for interpersonal dysfunctions featuring Jill Lobbestael and Birgit Derntl. Check out our session at the 27th on 17.00. March 2017 Our eNeuro paper on offenders with psychopathy has been featured at Neuronline. Check it out here  February 2017 Sina's paper has been accepted in PNEC! Title: Oxytocin reduces amygdala response during threat approach Radke S, Volman I, Kokal I, Roelofs K, de Bruijn ERA, Toni I. (2017) Psychoneuroendocrinology You can find the paper here January 2017 Back from maternity leave! Ready for some cool science again. June 2016
Anna's work has been cited in public media
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Congratulations to Reinoud, who's book chapter has been accepted
Title: On the control of social approach-avoidance behavior: neural and endocrine mechanisms
Authors: Reinoud Kaldewaij, Saskia B.J. Koch, Inge Volman, Ivan Toni, Karin Roelofs
April 2016
Anna's paper has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience!!!
Using an fMRI-adapted social Approach-Avoidance (AA) task, this study identifies how the neural regulation of emotional action-control changes as a function of human pubertal development, indexed by testosterone levels, in 14-year-old adolescents. Adolescents with more advanced pubertal maturation showed greater aPFC
activity when controlling their emotional action tendencies, reproducing the same pattern consistently observed in adults. In contrast, adolescents of the same age but with less
advanced pubertal maturation showed greater pulvinar and amygdala activity when exerting similarly effective emotional control. The pulvinar and the amygdala are therefore suggested as the ontogenetic precursors of the mature control system centered on the anterior prefrontal cortex.
Tyborowska et al. (2016) JNeuro
Title: "Testosterone during puberty shifts emotional control from pulvinar to anterior prefrontal cortex".
Authors: Anna Tyborowska, Inge Volman, Sanny Smeekens, Ivan Toni & Karin Roelofs.
Full article: link
March 2016
Dirk Geurts published in SCAN on the neural correlates underlying psychopathy, criminality and reward expectancy!
Title: Neural connectivity during reward expectation dissociates psychopathic criminals from noncriminal individuals with high impulsive/antisocial psychopathic traits
Dirk Geurts, Katinka von Borries,
Inge Volman, Berend Bulten, Roshan Cools & Robbert-Jan Verkes
You can find the full article here: researchgate
February 2016
This was an exciting month. Two new publications and a grant awarded!
 in Anxiety and Aggression".
 Check our two new publications!
On psychopathic offenders in eNeuro:
Title: Testosterone modulates altered prefrontal control of emotional actions in psychopathic offenders
Inge Volman, Katinka von Borries, Erik Bulten, Robbert Jan Verkes, Ivan Toni, Karin Roelofs
Press releases: Medical News Today, Radboud News
Prefrontal-amygdala connectivity is reduced in
psychopathic offenders during control of emotional actions
On tDCS of emotional behaviour in Brain Stimulation [link]
Title: Reduced affective biasing of instrumental action with tDCS over the prefrontal cortex
Verena Ly, Til Ole Bergman, Thomas Gladwin, Inge Volman, Niccolo Usberti, Roshan Cools and Karin Roelofs
January 2016
Sven and I had a lovely meeting between NTT and UCL in Tokyo, Japan. I gave a talk featuring my new work.
December 2015
My work has been featured in the Horizon magazine, the European Union's Research and Innovation Magazine
September 2015
'Science of the mind' event at Canford School (link)
May 2015
6 May: I presented at the Marie Curie Action Information event organised by UKRO.
9-10 May: Magstim Neuroscience Conference 2015 in Oxford. I will be presenting here.
  Paper by Dr. Sina Radke accepted in Science Advances!
Sina Radke, Inge Volman, Pranjal Mehta, Veerle van Son, Dorien Enter, Alan Sanfey, Ivan Toni, Ellen R. A. de Bruijn, Karin Roelofs Title: "Testosterone biases the amygdala towards social threat approach"  March 2015
6 March: I gave a talk at the Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods of
the University of Vienna.
13 March: I will talk at the Social Brain seminar, King's College London. They created this beautiful poster.
February 2015
I got a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship from the European Commission!
 This enables me to perform research in the group of Sven Bestmann for the coming 2 years.
January 2015
I started working as an Honorary Research Associated in Dr. Bestmann's group again after my maternity leave.
Luke Verhagen was born on 22 august 2014!
December 2014
Stolk A, Noordzij ML, Verhagen L, Volman I, Schoffelen JM, Oostenveld R, Hagoort P, and Toni I.
On "How minds meet. Cerebral coherence between communicators marks the emergence of meaning".
July 2014
Inauguration of Prof. Ivan Toni. This special event took place at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
 April 2014
Poster presentation at the annual conference of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society
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Talk at the lab of Dr. Tor Wager
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