Meike D. Hettwer
Doktorandin (MPSCog Doktorandenvertreterin)
Akademischer Werdegang
seit 2020 Doktorandin, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig
Promotionsarbeit an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf & dem Forschungszentrum Jülich
Betreuer: Simon B. Eickhoff und Sofie L. Valk
Lab-Rotationen in der Orientierungsphase: Peter Falkai, David Poeppel und Rosanne Rademaker
2018–2020 Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
2015–2018 Bachelor of Science in Human Movement Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Wissenschaftliche Preise und Stipendien
2019–2020 Deutschlandstipendium, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main & Merz Pharma
2019 Valedictorian/graduation award, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
2019 Valedictorian/graduation award, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
2018 DAAD Stipendium
2018 Jasso Stipendium
2017 DAAD Promo Stipendium
2014 & 2015 President's Honor Roll for outstanding students, Santa Barbara City College, USA
Publikationen
Bittner, R. A., Barnes-Scheufler, C. V., Hettwer, M., Qubad, M., & Reif, A. (preprint). Pathophysiology and treatment of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia.
Valk, S., & Hettwer, M. D. (in press). Commentary on ‘Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals‘. Apuerto Neuro.
Bayrak, Ş., de Wael, R. V., Schaare, H. L., Hettwer, M. D., Caldairou, B., Bernasconi, A., […], & Valk, S. L. (2022). Heritability of hippocampal functional and microstructural organisation. NeuroImage, 264, 119656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119656
Hettwer, M. D., Lancaster, T. M., Raspor, E., Hahn, P. K., Mota, N. R., Singer, W., […], & Bittner, R. A. (2022). Evidence from imaging resilience genetics for a protective mechanism against schizophrenia in the ventral visual pathway. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 48(3), 551–562. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbab151
Hettwer, M. D., Larivière, S., Park, B. Y., van den Heuvel, O. A., […], Eickhoff, S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across six neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. Nature Communications, 13, 6851. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34367-6
Hettwer, M. D., Larivi.re, S., […], Eickhoff, S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across psychiatric conditions: A transdiagnostic ENIGMA study. Preprint published on medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.03.22270326
Hettwer, M. D., Saberi, A., Fan, Y. S., & Valk, S. L. (2022). Schizophrenia and macroscale brain structure: Genes in context. Biological Psychiatry, 92(4), 258–260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.06.010
Park, B. Y., Kebets, V., Larivière, S., Hettwer, M. D., Paquola, C., van Rooij, D., […], & Bernhardt, B. C. (2022). Multiscale neural gradients reflect transdiagnostic effects of major psychiatric conditions on cortical morphology. Communications Biology, 5(1), 1024. https://doi. org/10.1038/s42003-022-03963-z
Richie-Halford, A., Cieslak, M., Ai, L., Caffarra, S., et al. (2022). An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data, 9, 616. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7 (Hettwer, M. D. is consortium bona fide author)
Sanfelici, R., Ruef, A., Antonucci, L. A., Penzel, N., Sotiras, A., Dong, M. S., Urquijo-Castro, M., Wenzel, J., Kambeitz-Ilankovic, L, Hettwer, M. D., […], & PRONIA Consortium. (2022). Novel gyrification networks reveal links with psychiatric risk factors in early illness. Cerebral Cortex, 32(8), 1625–1636. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab288
Krüger, B., Hettwer, M., Zabicki, A., de Haas, B., Munzert, J., Zentgraf, K. (2020). Practice modality of motor sequences impacts the neural signature of motor imagery. Scientific Reports, 10, 19176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76214-y
Posterpräsentationen und Vorträge
Hettwer, M. D. (2022, June). Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across mental disorders: A transdiagnostic ENIGMA study [Talk]. 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Glasgow, UK.
Hettwer, M. D. (2022, June). Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across mental disorders: A transdiagnostic ENIGMA study [Poster]. 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Glasgow, UK.
Hettwer, M. D. (2022, June). Transdiagnostic gradients capture coordinated cortical thickness alterations across mental disorders [Invited talk]. Pre-OHBM Workshop “Gradients of Brain Organization“, Cambridge, UK.
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