From measurement to knowledge: magnetic signals unravel disrupted brain networks
Can we see how brain networks function - and how they become disrupted in dementia, epilepsy, or brain tumors? Can we not only measure these changes, but also recognize them earlier and more reliably than is currently possible? Professor of magnetoencephalography Arjan Hillebrand will discuss this and more in his inaugural lecture.
Our brains communicate via small electrical currents that generate magnetic fields. Using sensitive sensors, we measure these signals outside the head and thus map how brain areas work together. But how do we translate such measurements into better diagnostics? Can we predict how a disease will develop, or which patient is at increased risk? And if networks become disrupted, can we also adjust them more effectively?
Hillebrand and his research group want to use magnetism to unravel disrupted brain networks - so that measurement truly leads to knowledge, and knowledge to action.