Research

Research in CTGlab explores the genetic and environmental causes of individual differences in brain-related health and disease. We integrate knowledge from different fields (genetics, neuroscience, bioinformatics, biology, machine learning), use and develop analytical tools to analyze and understand genomic data for complex traits, and connect to neuroscience to prove causation in wet-lab experiments.

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Research

Research in CTGlab explores the genetic and environmental causes of individual differences in brain-related health and disease. We integrate knowledge from different fields (genetics, neuroscience, bioinformatics, biology, machine learning), use and develop analytical tools to analyze and understand genomic data for complex traits, and connect to neuroscience to prove causation in wet-lab experiments.

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Videos

NWO Brain & Cognition has awarded CTGlab PhD students Anke Hammerschlag and Sabine Mous the first prize for best integrated project and the attractive joint presentation of their collaboration on “An Integrative Theory of the Genetically Mediated Neural Substrates of ADHD”.

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About Us

CTGlab was setup in 2008 by Danielle Posthuma as a small research group within the CNCR at the VU and the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. Since 2014 CTGlab is a sub-department of the CNCR and Amsterdam-UMC. We participate in Amsterdam Neuroscience.

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News

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PoC grant awarded to Karen Laupman and Nathaniel Bell

PhD candidates Karen Laupman and Nathaniel Bell, with supervisors Associate Professor Vivi Heine and Professor Danielle Posthuma, have been awarded a Proof of Concept (PoC) grant for €55.000 from Amsterdam Neuroscience for their innovative research on repurposing drugs specifically for schizophrenia (SCZ).
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Reward sensitivity plays a role in youth crime

Boys who associate with delinquent friends are more likely to display antisocial behavior. A new study by neuroscientists and behavior experts from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC, led by CNCR colleague Jorim Tielbeek (dept. of Complex Trait Genetics) shows that this association is stronger in boys with an increased sensitivity to reward.
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Best Student Paper Award awarded to Ilan Libedinsky

The paper of CNCR researcher Ilan Libedinsky “Genetic timeline of human brain and cognitive traits” has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 23rd annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), held in Berkeley, California, from July 27-29, 2023.

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