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Sanne Boesveldt postdoctoral fellow Phone: (267) 519-4688

Personal:

Hello, my name is Sanne Boesveldt. I have a background in medical biology, with an interest in neurobiology; so I decided to do my PhD at the department of Neurology of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The topic of my thesis was olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease (entitled “Sniffing out Parkinson’s disease: Psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of impaired olfactory information processing in Parkinson’s disease”). During my thesis, I became more and more interested in the neurophysiological basis of olfaction.
Currently, I am working as a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Johan Lundstrom’s lab at the Monell Chemical Senses Center.  My research is focused on how the brain perceives and processes odorous stimuli, and utilizes neurophysiological techniques, including EEG, fMRI, and psychophysical testing. More specifically, I am exploring sex differences in chemosensory processing, and the differential responses to food versus non-food odors. Additionally, I am interested in the influence of olfactory stimuli on behavior, especially in eating disorders.

Publications:

Boesveldt S, de Muinck Keizer RJO, Wolters ECh, Berendse HW. Odor recognition memory is not independently impaired in Parkinson's disease. Submitted.

Boesveldt S, Stam CJ, Knol DL, Verbunt JPA, Berendse HW. Advanced time-series analysis of MEG data as a method to explore olfactory function in healthy controls and Parkinson's disease patients. Human Brain Mapping. (in press)

Boesveldt, S., Frasnelli, J., Gordon, A. R., and Lundström, J. N. (In press). The fish is bad: Negative food odors elicit faster and more accurate reactions than other odors. Biological Psychology.

Haehner A, Boesveldt S, Berendse HW, MacKay-Sim A, Fleischmann J, Silburn PA, Johnston AN, Mellick GD, Reichmann H, Hummel T. Prevalence of smell loss in Parkinson’s disease – A multicenter study. Parkinsonism Relat Disord2009. [Epub ahead of print]

Verbaan D, Boesveldt S, van Rooden SM, Visser M, Marinus J, Macedo MG, Fang Y, Heutink P, Berendse HW, van Hilten JJ. Is olfactory impairment in Parkinson’s disease related to phenotypic or genotypic characteristics? Neurology 2008;71:1877-82.

Boesveldt S, de Muinck Keizer RJO, Wolters ECh, Berendse HW. Extended testing across, not within, modalities raises diagnostic accuracy of smell testing in Parkinson’s disease. Mov Disord 2008. [Epub ahead of print]

Boesveldt S, Verbaan D, Knol DL, Visser M, van Rooden SM, van Hilten JJ, Berendse HW. A comparative study of odor identification and odor discrimination deficits in Parkinson’s disease. Mov Disord 2008;23:1984-90

Boesveldt S, Verbaan D, Knol DL, van Hilten JJ, Berendse HW. Odour identification and discrimination in Dutch adults over 45 years. Rhinology 2008;46:131-136.

Meijer JH, Boesveldt S, Elbertse E, Berendse HW. Method to measure autonomic control of cardiac function using time interval parameters from impedance cardiography. Physiol Meas 2008;29:S383-391.

Boesveldt S, Haehner A, Berendse HW, Hummel T. Signal-to-noise ratio of chemosensory event-related potentials. Clin Neurophysiol 2007;118:690-695.