Dr Karen Caeyenberghs - Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research (Faculty of Health Sciences)
Fully accredited supervisor - Can supervise as principal supervisor
K. Caeyenberghs received her Master degree in Experimental Psychology in 2005 at the KULeuven, Belgium. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences in 2010 under supervision of Prof. S.P. Swinnen at the same university. She has revealed critical insights at the interface between brain structure, and function in relation to motor behaviour in children with traumatic brain injury. K. Caeyenberghs is now senior research fellow at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences. She is a broadly experienced scientist who has become acquainted with a variety of medical imaging techniques, including functional MRI and diffusion MRI, to address prominent problems of motor and cognitive control in the daily life of patients. With this overarching interdisciplinary expertise K. Caeyenberghs has been able to perform innovative research, which resulted in a numerous articles. Her ultimate drive is to reveal which specific aspects of white matter change in response to pathology and training, and to determine to what extent structural networks are subject to neuroplastic changes.
Contact
 : | 8067 (Melbourne) |
 : | karen.caeyenberghs@acu.edu.au |
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Research Interests
brain injury ; Neuropsychology ; (Virtual) Rehabilitation ; neuroplasticity ; training ;
Methods Expertise
diffusion MRI ; graph theoretical analyses ; functional MRI ; longitudinal analyses ; Freesurfer ; EEG ;
Research Projects
Current Projects
- Towards biomarkers of cognitive training in traumatic brain injury: a translational approach (PhD) (Co-Supervisor)
- Virtual-reality (VR) based rehabilitation of movement in adult ABI and developmental motor disorders (PhD) (Associate Supervisor)
- The obese brain: the relationship between brain structure, neurocognitive functioning and motor coordination in obese children (PhD) (Co-Supervisor)
- The potential of structural and functional connectome analysis as clinical and cognitive markers in patients with brain tumors. (PhD) (Co-Supervisor)
- Training-related changes in cognitive abilities and neural plasticity in children with traumatic brain injury (PhD) (Principal Supervisor)
Selected Publications
2015
Training-induced improvements in postural control are accompanied by alterations in cerebellar white matter in brain injured patients, in NeuroImage Clinical
2014
Hemispheric lateralization of topological organization in structural brain networks., in Human Brain Mapping
2013
Topological correlations of structural and functional networks in patients with traumatic brain injury. , in Frontiers in human neuroscience.
2012
Altered structural networks and executive deficits in traumatic brain injury patients. , in Brain Structure and Function
Motor learning-induced changes in functional brain connectivity as revealed by means of graph-theoretical network analysis., in NeuroImage
2010
Brain-behavior relationships in young traumatic brain injury patients: DTI metrics are highly correlated with postural control. , in Human Brain Mapping
Brain-behavior relationships in young traumatic brain injury patients: fractional anisotropy measures are highly correlated with dynamic visuomotor tracking performance., in Neuropsychologia
2009
Increasing convergence between imagined and executed movement across development: evidence for the emergence of movement representations. , in Developmental Science