Bas Neggers

Bas Neggers was trained as a biophysicist at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and received his MSc degree in experimental physics in 1996. He obtained his PhD degree at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich, Germany. He is actively pursuing valorization of techniques developed at the UMC Utrecht in order to help others benefit from our innovative approaches (see www.neuralnavigator.com). He founded his own company Brain Science Tools (www.brainsciencetools.com) to achieve these goals. Currently he is associate professor at the neuroimaging research group at the UMC Utrecht. He head the fMRI guided TMS workgroup within the department, and he focusses on functional neuroimaging and neurostimulation methods development, neurocomputational modeling and the control of action preparation in healthy subjects and patients with several disorders.

Most recent key publications

1: T.P. Gutteling, S.Y. Park, J.L. Kenemans, S.F.W. Neggers. TMS of the anterior intraparietal area selectively modulates orientation change detection during action preparation. J Neurophysiol. 2013 [Epub ahead of print]
2: K.M. Sharika, S.F.W. Neggers. T.P. Gutteling, S. van der Stigchel, C.H. Dijkerman, A. Murthy (in press). Proactive control of sequential saccades in the human supplementary eye field. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
3: S.E. Bosch, S.F.W. Neggers, S. van der Stigchel (in press). The role of the frontal eye fields in oculomotor competition: image-guided TMS enhances contralateral target selection. Cerebral Cortex
4: S.F.W. Neggers, R.M. van Diepen, B.B. Zandbelt, M. Vink, R.C.W. Mandl, T. P. Gutteling (2012). A functional and structural investigation of the human fronto-basal volitional saccade network. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29517
5: A.D. de Weijer, S.F. Neggers, K.M. Diederen, R.C. Mandl, R.S. Kahn, H.E. Hulshoff Pol, I.E. Sommer (in press). Aberrations in the arcuate fasciculus are associated with auditory verbal hallucinations in psychotic and in non-psychotic individuals. Human Brain Mapping, doi: 10.1002/hbm.21463