Niche Lab - Neuroimaging In Childhood

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NICHE is the neuroimaging lab of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands.

The Dutch part of this website is intended for the children and their parents who participate in our studies. The English part contains information on the NICHE members, our research interests and our publications.

Our research focuses on three developmental disorders: ADHD, autism and (risk for) psychosis. We examine morphological and functional brain changes and relate these to the symptoms that characterise these disorders. We use structural (sMRI, DTI, MTR) and functional (fMRI, resting state fMRI) neuroimaging techniques.

Our main focus across these disorders is how cognitive control and flexible behaviour develop in typically and a-typically developing children. Therefore, brain structures and networks known to be involved in these abilities (e.g. the corticostriatal circuit) have our particular interest.

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