Nick Ramsey

Nick Ramsey

Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University Medical Center ofUtrecht
Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neuroscience
Dept Neurology en Neurosurgery


Professor in Cognitive Neuroimaging at the University of Utrecht
Social Sciences
Experimental Psychology

 

After obtaining my masters degree in Psychology in Utrecht (1987) I started a PhD project in the Dept of Pharmacology of the Rudolf Magnus Institute. I completed my thesis on brain mechanisms involved in the rewarding effects of cocaine in rats in 1992 under Jan van Ree. With a Fogarty Fellowship I then moved to the United States to continue my addiction research in humans at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism with Marku Linnoila. Once there I become involved in the development of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging technology for non-invasive measurement of brain functions with Chrit Moonen. In 1993 I moved to the National Insitute on Mental Health to continue this work in the group of Daniel Weinberger, focussing on schizophrenia and cognition. In 1995 I returned to Utrecht to start an fMRI program in the Dept of Psychiatry, headed by Rene Kahn. I was awarded a personal grant (VIDI) for research on the neuronal mechanisms underlying working memory in 2002. After several years of also being closely involved in functional brain research in epilepsy patients with electrocorticography (with Cees van Veelen), I moved to the Dept of Neurosurgery. I became a full Professor in 2007,  and started a brain research program focussed on Brain-Computer Interfacing and new functional imaging methods including high-field MRI (human 7 Tesla), pharmacological imaging and clinical applications. In 2006 I was awarded another personal grant (VICI), as well as a grant in the Braingain consortium, for his BCI research.

















































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