The project
'The social brain in very young children' is embedded in the unique and excellent infrastructure of the
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. The Donders Institute offers a fully equipped baby lab with EEG/ERP, eye-tracking and NIRS facilities. For this project, there is a close collaboration with
Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that offers clinical services for children with developmental disorders and is involved in the community screening.
The further infrastructure of the Donders Institute includes three 3 Tesla MRI systems, MR-compatible systems for recording EEG and peripheral psychophysiological measures, access to a 7 T MRI system in Germany, a 275-channel MEG system, an EEG-TMS laboratory, and state-of-the-art computational facilities.
The Donders Institute furthermore provides a unique and stimulating learning environment for young researchers, including a high-profile graduate school and in-house methodological expert courses. Research into memory, emotions, and stress-related disorders are an important focus area at Radboud university medical center. Researchers working on this theme jointly organize regular discussion meetings and lectures to promote integration of research conducted within molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral, and clinical neurosciences across campus.
The project will be supervised by Professor Jan Buitelaar, Dr. Iris Servatius and Professor Sabine Hunnius.