Meike D. Hettwer

Meike D. Hettwer

Doctoral Candidate (MPSCog's doctoral candidates representative)
Research interests: • imaging genetics • neural correlates of risk and resilience to psychiatric disorders • functional networks and inter-hemispheric interactions • adaptation and plasticity

 

Academic education

since 2020    Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
                        Doctoral research performed at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf & Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
                        Supervisor: Simon B. Eickhoff and Sofie L. Valk
                        Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Peter FalkaiDavid Poeppel, and Rosanne Rademaker

2018–2020   Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2015–2018   Bachelor of Science in Human Movement Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

 

Scientific awards and scholarships

2019–2020    Deutschlandstipendium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany & Merz Pharma
2019                Valedictorian/graduation award, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
2019                Valedictorian/graduation award, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2018                DAAD Scholarship
2018                Jasso Scholarship
2017                DAAD Promo scholarship
2014 & 2015  President's Honor Roll for outstanding students, Santa Barbara City College, USA

 

Publications

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), 258260. 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), 16251636. 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

 

Poster presentations and talks

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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