Lieneke Janssen

Janssen-Lieneke

Post­doc­tor­al researcher

Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive & Brain Sciences
Stephanstraße 1A
04103 Leipzig
Germany

        

Profile

Lieneke com­plet­ed an under­grad­u­ate Bachelor’s degree in psy­chobi­ol­o­gy and a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science research mas­ter in the Nether­lands. As a research assis­tant, she stud­ied the links between brain dopamine and gam­bling behav­ior. Lieneke com­plet­ed her PhD at the Don­ders Insti­tute, which focused on ‘Break­ing bad habits’, by inves­ti­gat­ing the effects of phar­ma­co­log­i­cal and behav­ioral inter­ven­tions on fron­tos­tri­atal pro­cess­ing. Since April 2017, Lieneke is work­ing as a post­doc­tor­al researcher in the O’Brain Project, where she stud­ies the role of dopamine and hemi­spher­ic asym­me­try in obesity.

Curriculum Vitae

2017— Post­doc­tor­al Researcher, IFB Adi­pos­i­ty­Dis­eases, Leipzig Uni­ver­si­ty – Med­ical Cen­ter, and guest researcher at the Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive and Brain Sci­ences, Junior Research Group “Deci­sion-mak­ing in Obe­si­ty” (Dr. Annette Horstmann).
2012–2016 PhD can­di­date, Don­ders Insti­tute, Rad­boud Uni­ver­si­ty, Nijmegen, the Nether­lands (Prof. Dr. Roshan Cools & Dr. Esther Aarts). The­sis: Break­ing Bad Habits — A med­i­ta­tion on the neu­rocog­ni­tive mech­a­nisms of com­pul­sive behavior.
2011–2012 Research Assis­tant, Don­ders Insti­tute, Rad­boud Uni­ver­si­ty, Nijmegen, the Nether­lands (Prof. Dr. Roshan Cools & Dr. Guil­laume Sescousse). Top­ic: Gam­bling and dopamine – A phar­ma­co­log­i­cal fMRI study.
2009–2011 Mas­ter degree in Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science (cum laude), Rad­boud Uni­ver­si­ty, Nijmegen, the Nether­lands. The­sis: State-depen­dent pro­cess­ing of tac­tile stim­uli in rat bar­rel cortex. 
2006–2009 Bach­e­lor degree in Psy­chobi­ol­o­gy (cum laude), Uni­ver­si­ty of Ams­ter­dam, Ams­ter­dam, the Nether­lands. The­sis: On motor imagery. 

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