Meike D. Hettwer

Meike D. Hettwer

Doktorandin (MPSCog Doktorandenvertreterin)
Forschungsinteressen: • imaging genetics • neural correlates of risk and resilience to psychiatric disorders • functional networks and inter-hemispheric interactions • adaptation and plasticity

 

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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