Prof. Dr. Richard van Wezel
Richard van Wezel is the Director of Health OnePlanet Research Center - Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Professor at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience – Neurobiology, Director of Health OnePlanet Research Center at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, and also Professor at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. He obtained his Master in Medical Biology as well as his PhD in Neurophysiology at the University of Utrecht. At the Research Group of Visual Neuroscience, his research topics are perception, action, and decision making. His goal is to study these processes from the level of single neurons to large scale brain networks by use of neurophysiological methods like neural recordings, imaging, and behavioural measurements. Findings are translated into clinical applications with a focus on new technologies for visually impaired persons and Parkinson patients.
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Selected Publications
Arani, E., Garobbio, S., Roinishvili, M., Chkonia,E., Herzog, M. H., & van Wezel, R. J. A. (2024). Bistable Perception Discriminates Between Depressive Patients, Controls, Schizophrenia Patients, and Their Siblings. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 51(6), 1545-1554. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbae178
Cockx, H. M., Oostenveld, R., A Flórez R, Y., Bloem, B. R., Cameron, I. G. M., & van Wezel, R. J. A. (2024). Freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease is related to imbalanced stopping-related cortical activity. Brain Communications, 6(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcae259
Cockx, H. M., Oostenveld, R., Flórez R, Y. A., Bloem, B. R., Cameron, I. G. M., & van Wezel, R. J. A. (2023). Freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease is related to imbalanced stopping-related cortical activity. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/uvazs
De Ruyter van Steveninck, J., Nipshagen, M., van Gerven, M. van, Güçlü, U., Güçlüturk, Y., & van Wezel, R. J. A.(2023). Gaze-contingent processing improves mobility performance and visual orientation in simulated head-steered prosthetic vision. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.18.558225
Cockx, H. M., Lemmen, E. M., van Wezel, R. J. A., & Cameron, I. G. M. (2023). The effect of doorway characteristics on freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in Neurology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1265409