Congrats to Dr. Nadine Herzog on her Thesis Defence!

Our former colleague Nadine Herzog defended her doctoral thesis at the Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig: “Working Memory Gating in Obesity: Bridging fMRI, EEG, and Dopamine.” Nadine completed her dissertation under the guidance of Prof. Annette Horstmann. Her work contributed to multiple publications; here are a few:

• Herzog, N., Hartmann, H., Janssen, L. K., Kanyamibwa, A., Waltmann, M., Kovacs, P., … & Horstmann, A. (2024). Working memory gating in obesity is moderated by striatal dopaminergic gene variants. Elife, 13, RP93369.

• Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A. M., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2024). Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying differential reinforcement learning from wins and losses in obesity with and without binge eating. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 9(12), 1281-1290.

• Herzog, N., Cesnaite, E., Steinfath, P., Kapralov, N., Fallon, S. J., Nikulin, V., … & Horstmann, A. (2024). Balancing excitation and inhibition: The role of neural network dynamics in working memory gating. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, imag-2.

We’re proud of Nadine for finishing this journey so successfully and wish her all the best for what’s next!