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Donders Institute
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www.dondersinstitute.nl | Explores the human brain, cognition, and behaviour across various disciplines, including medicine, physics, biology, psychology, AI, and language studies.
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💪🧠🥦 Can lifestyle slow Parkinson’s disease?

Increasing physical activity, reducing stress, and improving nutrition can not only alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms, they may even slow the progression of the disease. Curious about the latest recommendations? 👇

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November 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This Sat: Meet Donders scientists at NEMO during Museum Night! 👊🏃🥶 Explore stress reactions with @epanlab.bsky.social & decision-making with Hanneke den Ouden:

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October 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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👏 Peter Hagoort, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute and co-founder of Donders Institute, has been made a Fellow of the British Academy. “A great honour to be elected by colleagues from another country.” More information:

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October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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🎈 Ready for a (B)rainy weekend? 🧠☔

Vandaag nemen wetenschappers van het Donders Institute het Donders Brein Museum over tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap! Tussen 12:00 en 17:00 uur ga je op wetenschappelijke safari!

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October 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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🎉 Tomorrow the #Infinity #Festival kicks off in Nijmegen!

🧠 This includes a special exhibition Tracing Changes, showing artworks made by people living with #Parkinson’s where art and science meet such as the artwork shown here.

👉 Curious?

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September 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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🎉 The ADHD Escape Room gets €50,000 NWO funding + new timeslots this fall!

Created by RU & HAN students/researchers, this escape room shows the world of #ADHD challenges and creativity.
👉 Book October slots now: www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
September 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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👏👏👏 Postdoc Appreciation Week (#PAW_NL): 15 - 19 September.

From sessions on well-being and career paths, workshops on research impact and science communication, to networking drinks. We look forward to celebrating postdocs together!

📅 👉 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
September 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🧠✨ Beauty of the Brain

This time in our Donders Beauty of the Brain series: a stunning image of a hippocampal brain slice, captured with a confocal microscope.

Discover more at www.dondersdiscovers.nl/en/
July 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🧒🧠 If humans learned language like AI, it would take 92,000 years. Luckily, new research from Caroline Rowland (@mpi-nl.bsky.social) shows children learn through touch, movement & play as well.

Brains over bots 👇
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June 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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🧠 Ever wondered what it's like to live with ADHD?
From 12 June, the Brain Museum in Nijmegen offers an #ADHD #Escape #Room to experience it yourself. 🎟️ Discover more & book your spot:

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June 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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🧠 Zijn je hersengolven nog van jou?

@fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social, Pim Haselager & Roel Heremans over neurotechnologie en mentale privacy bij Radboud Reflects.

🎥 Kijk terug of luister de podcast:

www.ru.nl/services/spo...

#neurotechnologie #privacy
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3
May 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Not in Nijmegen for #BrainAwarenessWeek? Explore online instead! 💻 This week on our blog, Charlotte Sachs unpacks a timeless question: what is love? ❤️ Dive into the science behind our deepest emotion 👉 blog.donders.ru.nl?p=17278&lang...
March 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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🔬🧠 Join us at the Brain Museum for Brain Awareness Week! 🍽️👾🧠 Register for one of our exciting workshops about: 🍕Comfort food, 👽Inner aliens, and🧠 Memory. Reserve your seat: ww.ru.nl/baw2025

#BrainAwarenessWeek #BAW25 #BrainMuseum #Neuroscience #brain
March 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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❓ 🧠 Brein Pubquiz: hoe goed ken jij je eigen brein?

Test je kennis met verrassende vragen over de invloed van muziek tot bizarre breinfeiten en herkenbare situaties uit het dagelijks leven. Iedereen is welkom!

Meld je team online aan: 👉

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March 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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🧠 📆 Join us for #Brain #Awareness #Week from 10 to 16 March!

A week-long celebration of science, right in the city centre of #Nijmegen! Check out the programme, featuring workshops, films, labtours and even a Brain Pub Quiz!

Reserve your seat! 👉

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February 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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#Artificial #intelligence (#AI) has transformed many aspects of our lives, but how can we ensure that AI is used responsibly and sustainably? Watch @JohanKwisthout's #inaugural #lecture to learn more: 👉

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February 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Are you at RadboudAI today? Make sure to check out the presentations of the many Donderians at this packed event!
February 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🚗❓ Waarom lijkt het of een draaiend wiel de andere kant op draait?

Maarten Reumers van NPO Radio 1 Spraakmakers kwam naar het #Brein #Museum in #Nijmegen waar Rob van Lier antwoord gaf: 👉

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February 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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✒️ 🔝 In 2024, the #Donders #Wonders #blog received 94k visits! Every week, our researchers dive into the brain, cognition, and behaviour. Our latest blogs:

🔹 Why do we #dream?
🔹 Does your #zodiac #sign influence your #happiness?

Discover more on www.donderswonders.nl!
January 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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🗣️ Andrea E. Martin has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant worth €2 million. Read how this funding will enable her team to explore how our brain combines #structure and #statistics to process language: 👉

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January 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Today is packed with science and linking opportunities: Barbara Franke just kicked of the Donders Session 'Showcasing opportunities for linking research to #societal (clinical) #impact' and this afternoon the theme meetings take place:

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January 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🧠 🤝 @predictivebrain.bsky.social Floris de Lange is the new Theme Leader of the research theme #Perception, #Action, and #Decision #Making. The first theme meeting led by Floris is scheduled for 16 January:👉

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January 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM