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Overview

Maarten A. Frens is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's main research topics include Motor Control and Adaptation, Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology, Muscle Activation and Electromyography Studies, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies.

Maarten A. Frens has a number of recent publications, with notable papers covering a range of topics in neuroscience and clinical neurology:

  • Predicting Upper Limb Motor Impairment Recovery after Stroke: A Mixture Model, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • No effect of anodal tDCS on motor cortical excitability and no evidence for responders in a large double-blind placebo-controlled trial, 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • Theta but not beta power is positively associated with better explicit motor task learning, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Population-wide cerebellar growth models of children and adolescents, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Addressing the inconsistent electric fields of tDCS by using patient-tailored configurations in chronic stroke: Implications for treatment, 2022, NeuroImage Clinical

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ruud W. Selles
  • Gerard M. Ribbers
  • Joris van der Cruijsen
  • Opher Donchin
  • Rick van der Vliet

Publications by Maarten A. Frens have appeared regularly in certain venues, reflecting recurring contributions in specific academic journals. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Annals of Neurology

Best Publications

  • Spatial and temporal factors determine auditory-visual interactions in human saccadic eye movements

    M. A. Frens;A. J. Van Opstal;R. F. Van Der Willigen

  • Recording eye movements with video-oculography and scleral search coils: a direct comparison of two methods.

    J.N. van der Geest;M.A. Frens

  • Joint position sense error in people with neck pain: a systematic review

    J. de Vries;J. de Vries;B.K. Ischebeck;L.P. Voogt;J.N. van der Geest

  • Transfer of short-term adaptation in human saccadic eye movements.

    M. A. Frens;A. J. van Opstal

  • Mechanisms underlying cerebellar motor deficits due to mGluR1‐autoantibodies

    Michiel Coesmans;Peter A. Sillevis Smitt;David J. Linden;Ryuichi Shigemoto

  • Visual-auditory interactions modulate saccade-related activity in monkey superior colliculus

    Maarten A Frens;Maarten A Frens;A.John Van Opstal

  • Increased Noise Level of Purkinje Cell Activities Minimizes Impact of Their Modulation during Sensorimotor Control

    F.E. Hoebeek;J.S. Stahl;A.M. van Alphen;M. Schonewille

  • Purkinje cells in awake behaving animals operate at the upstate membrane potential.

    Martijn Schonewille;Sara Khosrovani;Beerend H J Winkelman;Freek E Hoebeek

  • Inhibition of return is not a foraging facilitator in saccadic search and free viewing.

    Ignace Th.C. Hooge;Eelco A.B. Over;Richard J.A. van Wezel;Maarten A. Frens

  • Monkey Superior Colliculus Activity During Short-Term Saccadic Adaptation

    M.A. Frens;A.J. Van Opstal

  • Impact of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on neuronal functions

    Suman Das;Suman Das;Suman Das;Peter Holland;Peter Holland;Maarten A. Frens;Opher Donchin;Opher Donchin

  • A quantitative study of auditory-evoked saccadic eye movements in two dimensions

    M. A. Frens;A. J. Van Opstal

  • Throwing darts: Timing is not the limiting factor

    Jeroen B. J. Smeets;Maarten A. Frens;Eli Brenner

  • Awareness of sensorimotor adaptation to visual rotations of different size.

    Susen Werner;Bernice C. van Aken;Thomas Hulst;Maarten A. Frens

  • Expression of Protein Kinase C Inhibitor Blocks Cerebellar Long-Term Depression without Affecting Purkinje Cell Excitability in Alert Mice

    Jeroen Goossens;Jeroen Goossens;Hervé Daniel;Armelle Rancillac;Johannes van der Steen

  • Contribution of CYLN2 and GTF2IRD1 to neurological and cognitive symptoms in Williams Syndrome

    J.M. van Hagen;J.N. van der Geest;R.S. van der Giessen;G.C. Lagers-van Haselen

  • Inhibition of saccade return (ISR): spatio-temporal properties of saccade programming.

    Ignace Th.C Hooge;Maarten A Frens

  • Compensatory Increase of the Cervico-Ocular Reflex with Age in Healthy Humans

    W P A Kelders;G J Kleinrensink;J N van der Geest;L Feenstra

  • Scleral search coils influence saccade dynamics.

    M. A. Frens;J. N. Van der Geest

  • Age- and sex-related differences in contrast sensitivity in C57BL/6 mice.

    Bart van Alphen;Beerend H. J. Winkelman;Maarten A. Frens

  • Coordination of hand movements and saccades: evidence for a common and a separate pathway

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Frequent Co-Authors

Opher Donchin
Opher Donchin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Chris I. De Zeeuw
Chris I. De Zeeuw Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ignace T. C. Hooge
Ignace T. C. Hooge Utrecht University
Freek E. Hoebeek
Freek E. Hoebeek Utrecht University
Pieter R. Roelfsema
Pieter R. Roelfsema Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Dagmar Timmann
Dagmar Timmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Jeroen B. J. Smeets
Jeroen B. J. Smeets Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dominik Straumann
Dominik Straumann University of Zurich
Eli Brenner
Eli Brenner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Egidio D'Angelo
Egidio D'Angelo University of Pavia

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