Prof. dr. Roy Kessels
Professor of neuropsychology & clinical neuropsychologist
Radboud Expert Centre for Psychology & Medicine
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour of Radboud University Nijmegen
Expertise
I am Principal Investigator at the Centre for Neuroscience and the Centre for Cognition. My research focuses on cognitive dysfunction in brain-diseased patients, notably memory function and memory impairments. My research examine both the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms of cognition and their application in clinical practice.
Many of my studies are related to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (both Mild Cognitive Impairment and dementia), other organic amnesias (e.g., Korsakoff’s syndrome) as well as cerebrovascular disease.
Projects
• Spectrum: A multidisciplinary training for coping with psoriasis in children and adolescents
• Long term effective combination antiretroviral therapy and its effect on neurocognition (ART-NECO study)
• Cognitive and psychological dysfunction in young stroke patients
• A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
• Working-memory binding and episodic memory formation in MCI and dementia
• Functional and structural brain network parameters as prognostic factors in Traumatic Brain Injury
• Comorbidity in relation to disease progression in patients with AD
In the media
Here you can find the ten latest/most important news items about Prof. dr. Roy Kessels.
All items are in Dutch.
In the media 2012
On Thursday March 29 at 21:00 Nederland 3, the episode of the NTR-program ‘Pavlov’ was aired in which three researchers from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour of Radboud University Nijmegen focused on the reading and visuospatial (dis)abilities of actor Egbert Jan Weeber (Van God Los, Verborgen Gebreken, De Oesters van Nam Kee) who received a diagnosis of dyslexia during his childhood. Prof. Dr. Barbara Franke, Dr. Roel Willems and Prof. Dr. Roy Kessels examined Egbert Jan from a genetic, neuroimaging and behavioral perspective. More info: http://www.wetenschap24.nl/programmas/pavlov.html
Selection of Key Publications
Van Norden, A.G.W., De Laat, K.F., Fick, W.F., Van Uden, I.W.M., Van Oudheusen, L.J.B., Norris, D.G., Zwiers, M.P., Kessels, R.P.C., & De Leeuw, F.E. (in press). Diffusion tensor imaging of the hippocampus and verbal memory performance: The RUN DMC Study. Human Brain Mapping.
Dechamps, A., Fasotti, L., Jungheim, J., Leone, E., Dood, E., Allioux, A., Robert, P.H., Gervais, X., Maubouguet, N., Olde Rikkert, M.G.M., & Kessels, R.P.C. (2011). Effects of different learning methods for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in patients with Alzheimer’s dementia: A pilot study. American Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Other Dementias, 26, 273-281.
Kessels, R.P.C., Meulenbroek, O., Fernández, G., & Olde Rikkert, M.G.M. (2010). Spatial working memory in aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Effects of task load and contextual cueing. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 17, 556-574.
Joosten-Weyn Banningh, L.W.A., Prins, J.B., Vernooij-Dassen, M.J.F.J., Wijnen, H., Olde Rikkert, M.G.M., & Kessels, R.P.C. (2010). A group therapy for patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and their significant others: Results of a waiting-list controlled trial. Gerontology, 22, 731-740.
Kessels, R.P.C., Rijken, S., Joosten-Weyn Banningh, L.W.A., Van Schuylenborg-Van Es, N. & Olde Rikkert, & M.G.M. (2010). Categorical spatial memory in patients
with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer dementia: Positional versus object-location recall. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16, 200-2004.
Kessels, R.P.C., Mimpen, G., Melis, R., & Olde Rikkert, M.G.M. (2009). Measuring impairments in memory and executive function in older people using the Revised Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG-R). American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17, 793-801.
Inaugural Lecture (2009)
“Pars pro toto: Over de (on)deelbaarheid van het geheugen“
(PDF-file, 1 MB, written in Dutch)