Jorryt Tichelaar

I received my master degree in molecular life science at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. In my masters, I worked with Bernhard Englitz and applied electrophysiology and optogenetics to investigate neural activity during auditory sensory substitution. I thoroughly enjoyed the computational analysis and performed a second internship in the group of Tobias Elze at Harvard Medical School. Here I applied machine learning to model the temporal evolution of functional vision loss in glaucoma patients.

In my PhD, I investigate impulse control disorders (ICD) in Parkinson’s disease. For example, I assess how the reward circuitry is different in patients with ICD and whether we can contribute these differences to inflammation. Eventually, I hope to predict which patients are susceptible to develop ICD.