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Publications of the Brain Stimulation and Cognition group

  • Trajkovic, J., & Sack, A. T. (2025). Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 175, Article 106232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106232
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  • De Smet, S. N. L. (2025). Brain state dependence of prefrontal non-invasive brain stimulation: Insights and clinical implications. [Doctoral Thesis, Maastricht University, Ghent University]. Maastricht University. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20250704ss
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  • Salden, S., Xu, Y., De Smet, S., Peremans, K., Dobbeleir, A., De Witte, S., Van Eeckhaut, A., Saunders, J. H., Haverbeke, A., & Baeken, C. (2025). Investigating cerebral blood flow in anxious dogs: a 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT imaging study. Research in Veterinary Science, 190, Article 105648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2025.105648
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  • Prentice, A. H. J. (2025). Novel interventions and treatment selection predictors for treatment-resistant depression. [Doctoral Thesis, Maastricht University]. Maastricht University. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20250630ap
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  • Woolgar, A., Feredoes, E., Assem, M., Bassil, Y., Bergmann, T. O., Beynel, L., Burke, M., Cash, R. F. H., Comeau, R. M., Correia, M. M., Genc, E., Hartwigsen, G., Jackson, J. B., Kienle, M., Kunz, P., Leticevscaia, O., Luber, B., Lueckel, M., Mathiesen, C., ... Sack, A. T. (2025). Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Nature Protocols. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-025-01182-4
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  • Int-Veen, I., De Smet, S., Pulopulos, M. M., Vanhollebeke, G., Barth, B., Pasche, S., Albasini, F., Baeken, C., Nuerk, H.-C., Plewnia, C., Nieratschker, V., Fallgatter, A. J., Ehlis, A.-C., Rosenbaum, D., & Vanderhasselt, M.-A. (2025). Cognitive appraisal modulates Theta Burst Stimulation effects on stress-reactive rumination and affect. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01314-z
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  • Int-Veen, I., Esser, U., Ladegast, S., Liermann, L., Taeglich, R., Schopp, B., Nuerk, H.-C., Plewnia, C., Kroczek, A., De Smet, S., Vanderhasselt, M.-A., Fallgatter, A. J., Ehlis, A.-C., Barth, B., & Rosenbaum, D. (2025). Investigating the neural and behavioral correlates of the stress-rumination link in healthy humans by modulating the left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex using Theta Burst Stimulation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01305-0
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  • Dijkstra, E. S. A. (2025). The heart-brain connection: a pathway to personalized TMS treatment. [Doctoral Thesis, Maastricht University]. Maastricht University. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20250604ed
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  • Middag - van Spanje, W. B. M. (2025). Bringing neglected space to light: understanding and treating visuospatial attention deficits with non-invasive brain stimulation. [Doctoral Thesis, Maastricht University]. Maastricht University. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20250603wm
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  • Meijs, H., Luykx, J. J., van der Vinne, N., Breteler, R., Gordon, E., Sack, A. T., van Dijk, H., & Arns, M. (2025). A Deep Learning-Derived Transdiagnostic Signature Indexing Hypoarousal and Impulse Control: Implications for Treatment Prediction in Psychiatric Disorders. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 10(6), 587-596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.07.027
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  • Nezir, G., Uzunlar, H., Aktürk, T., Güntekin, B., & Özkara, Ç. (2025). Demonstration of impaired facial emotion perception in temporal lobe epilepsy by theta responses in EEG. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 212, Article 112578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112578
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  • Zhu, T., Chen, J., Du, Y., Li, T., Jia, X., & Lv, Y. (2025). Disruptions of resting-state functional connectivity in post-stroke motor dysfunctions: a meta-analysis. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 19(3), 771-784. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-025-00977-z
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  • Sakreida, K., Trapp, N. T., Kreuzer, S., Rubin, U., Schnabel, D., Hovancakova, J., Sack, A. T., Neuner, I., Frodl, T., & Poeppl, T. B. (2025). Comparison of effectiveness of common targeting heuristics in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment of depression. BMJ Mental Health, 28(1), Article e301598. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-301598
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  • Pettemeridou, E., Loizidou, M., Trajkovic, J., Constantinou, M., De Smet, S., Baeken, C., Sack, A. T., Williams, S. C. R., & Constantinidou, F. (2025). Cognitive and Psychological Symptoms in Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Systematic Review of Structural and Functional Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology, and Intervention Studies. Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation, Article 100461. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arrct.2025.100461
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  • van Dijk, H., Sack, A., & van der Vinne, N. (2025). 153. Treatment Selection for Antidepressants or rTMS Using Raw EEG and CNN Transfer Learning. Biological Psychiatry, 97(9).
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  • Prentice, A., Arns, M., Middleton, V., Bowman, J., Donachie, N., Kriske, J., Kriske, J., Sack, A. T., Downar, J., & van der Vinne, N. (2025). 195. Evaluating Right Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex (R-LOFC)-TMS: A Rescue Option for DLPFC-TMS Non-Responders and Insights Into Its Role in Initial Combination Protocols. Biological Psychiatry, 97(9), S175-S176.
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  • Zwienenberg, L., Geijselaars, M., Dijkstra, E., Rouwhorst, R., van Dijk, H., van Oostrom, I., van der Vinne, N., Sack, A. T., & Arns, M. (2025). 197. Individual Alpha Frequency and Heart-Brain Coupling as Prospective Stratification Biomarkers for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Major Depressive Disorder: A Feasibility Study. Biological Psychiatry, 97(9).
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  • Jodies, M., van der Vinne, N., Schuhmann, T., & van Dijk, H. (2025). 230. Less is More: Comparing Reduced and Full EEG Channel Sets in Brain Marker-Based Treatment Prediction. Biological Psychiatry, 97(9).
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  • Berlow, Y., Prentice, A., Mansouri, F., Middleton, V., Bowman, J., Kriske, J., Donachie, N., Philip, N. S., & Downar, J. (2025). 298. Predicting TMS Response Using an Exponential Decay Model. Biological Psychiatry, 97(9), S219.
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  • Paneva, J., Schuhmann, T., De Smet, S., De Meza, T., Duecker, F., & Sack, A. T. (2025). Affective state-dependent effects of prefrontal rTMS on the cognitive control of negative stimuli in healthy and depressed individuals. Brain stimulation, 18(3), 745-752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2025.04.002
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Research Funding and Grants

Grants awarded to Prof. Dr. Alexander T. Sack

  • ZonMW (2021-2028) Promising Care: Co applicant of promising care grant “Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for exposure treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - TETRO, a multi-center randomized clinical trial (Budget: 2,8 Million Euro)

  • H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 (2019-2021): Principal Investigator of research grant “Fine-tuning the brain’s brakes – modulating inhibitory control with transcranial alternating current stimulation” granted by the European Union; financing a two-year PostDoc position (Budget: 165,598.80 Euro).  

  • NWO Research Talent (2018-2022): Applicant of research grant “Can our brain undergo a sex-change? Studying brain changes and sexual wellbeing in transgenders” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a three-year PhD position (Budget: 200.000 Euro).

  • NWO Research Talent (2017-2021): Applicant of research grant “In control of attention: teasing apart the brain’s top-down mechanisms of attention allocation” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a three-year PhD position (Budget: 200.000 Euro).

  • NWO VICI (2016-2021): Principal Investigator of research grant “The rhythms of Cognition: Using simultaneous TMS-fMRI-EEG to integrate brain-wide network and oscillatory communication mechanisms for enhancing human cognition”, granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a research group of several PostDocs and PhD students, and the equipment required for simultaneous fMRI & TMS & EEG measurements  (Budget: 1.500.000 Euro; Grant number # 453-15-008).
  • KNAW Project Grant (2015): Applicant of an initiative to establish the Dutch-Flemish Society for Brain Stimulation; granted by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW (Budget: 16.000 Euro)
  • NWO Research Talent (2013-2016): Applicant of research grant “’Modulating anti-correlated networks in early Alzheimer’s disease ‘a simultaneous TMS-fMRI approach” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a three-year PhD position (Budget: 171.363 Euro).
  • NWO Research Talent (2014-2017): Applicant of research grant “Modulating anticorrelated networks in early alzheimer’s disease ‘a simultaneous TMS –FMRI approache” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a three-year PhD position (Budget: 171.363 Euro; Grant number # 406-13-018).
  • KNAW Project Grant (2012): Co-applicant of an initiative to stimulate scientific integration and communication, entitled “Wie Goed ontmoet – Wetenschappers, leken en pubers in gesprek over de moraal’; granted by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW (Budget: 15.852 Euro)
  • NWO Research Talent (2012-2015): Applicant of research grant “Brain rhythms and multisensory perception: Unraveling the basis of fundamental brain oscillations” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a three-year PhD position (Budget: 168.576 Euro).
  • NWO Brain and Cognition 2011 (2011-2016): Co-applicant of research grant “Will he aggress again and if so, can we change his mind? A new cognitive experimental and brain-system-based approach of reliably predicting future violent behaviour of antisocial offenders” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing two four-year PhD positions (Budget: 500.000 Euro).
  • ERC-2010-StG Consolidator (2011-2016): Principal Investigator of research grant “Rebalancing the brain: Guiding brain recovery after stroke” granted by the European Research Council (ERC); financing a research group of several PostDocs and the equipment required for simultaneous fMRI & TMS & EEG measurements (Budget: 1.344.853 Euro; Grant number # 263472).
  • NWO Free Competition 2008 (2010-2013): Principal Investigator of research grant “The functional role of the brain’s default mode network: a simultaneous TMS-fMRI study” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a three year PostDoc position (Budget: 206.135 Euro; Grant number # 400-09-195).
  • NWO Free Competition 2008 (2009-2013): Principal Investigator of research grant “The neurocomputational basis of forming visual mental images from auditory descriptions: Investigations with simultaneous TMS and fMRI” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a four year Ph.D position (Budget: 186.995 Euro; Grant number # 400-07-230).
  • NWO Open Competition 2007 (2008-2012): Principal Investigator of research grant “The neurobiology of visual awareness and behavioral priming: Simultaneously measuring and manipulating the neural correlates underlying conscious visual perception and behavioral priming” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a four year Ph.D position (Budget: 186.995 Euro; Grant number # 400-07-048).
  • NWO VIDI 2006 (2007-2012): Principal Investigator of research grant “Visualizing virtual lesions and plasticity in the working human brain: simultaneously combining fMRI and TMS“, granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a three year PostDoc position, a four year Ph.D position and the equipment required for simultaneous fMRI & TMS measurements (Budget: 600.000 Euro; Grant number #452-06-003).
  • NWO Open Competition 2005 (2006-2009): Co-investigator of research grant “Verifying the time course of cerebral activations during speaking” granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a four year Ph.D position (Budget: 170.000 Euro; Grant number # 400-04-215).
  • NWO VENI 2003 (2004-2007): Principal Investigator of research grant “Top-down feedback signals in visuospatial attention and visuospatial imagery: combining studies with fMRI and TMS”, granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); financing a three year PostDoc position and the establishment of a TMS research laboratory (Budget: 200.000 Euro; Grant number #451–03–038).

Grant awarded to Dr. Nina Bien

  • AFR Postdoc grant (2011-2014): Applicant of research grant “Space oddities: Exploring the impact of number-space associations using TMS and EEG” granted by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR); funding a two-year PostDoc position (Budget: 115.000 Euro).