Patty Huijgens
Job description
Neuroscientist with a main research interest in neuroendocrinology, focused on how sex hormones affect the brain and behavior.
Patty Thalia Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Louk Vanderschuren,
Heidi Lesscher,
Eelke Mirthe Simone Snoeren
:
CaMKIIa+ neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis modulate pace of natural reward seeking depending on internal state
Patty Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Sexual Incentive Motivation
Patty Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Silencing and stimulating the medial amygdala impairs ejaculation but not sexual incentive motivation in male rats
Patty Huijgens,
Fay Guarraci,
Jocelien Olivier,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Male rat sexual behavior: Insights from inter-copulatory intervals
Patty Huijgens,
Eelke Snoeren,
Robert Meisel,
Paul Mermelstein
:
Effects of gonadectomy and dihydrotestosterone on neuronal plasticity in motivation and reward related brain regions in the male rat
Jan Hegstad,
Patty Huijgens,
Danielle Houwing,
Jocelien Olivier,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Female rat sexual behavior is unaffected by perinatal fluoxetine exposure
Roy Heijkoop,
Patty Thalia Huijgens,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Assessment of sexual behavior in rats: the potentials and pitfalls.
Roy Heijkoop,
Kasper Kjelsberg,
John Olav Braathen Folstad,
P Andersen,
T Bendiksen,
Patty Thalia Huijgens
et al.:
Male rat sexual behavior and the role of the ventral pallidum
2024
Patty Thalia Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Mirthe Simone Snoeren
:
Neuronal activity in the medial amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis during male rat sexual behavior
2023
Patty Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
LJMJ Vanderschuren,
Heidi Lesscher,
Eelke Snoeren
:
The role of the BNST and surrounding areas in the regulation of natural reward consummation
2022
Patty Huijgens
:
Sex and the brain: from hormones to behavior
2022
Patty Huijgens,
Eelke Snoeren,
Robert Meisel,
Paul Mermelstein
:
Effects of androgen on spine plasticity in several motivation-related brain regions in the male rat
2020
Patty Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
LJMJ Vanderschuren,
Heidi Lesscher,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Involvement of the BNST and its projection to the VTA in motivation for a natural food reward
2019
Patty Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Louk Vanderschuren,
Heidi Lesscher,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Effect of stimulating and silencing the BNST and BNST-VTA projection on sucrose self-administration in rats
2019
Patty Huijgens,
Eelke Snoeren,
Robert Meisel,
Paul Mermelstein
:
Effects of androgen on spine plasticity in several brain regions in the male rat
2019
Patty Thalia Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Involvement of glutamatergic medial amygdala neurons in ejaculation in male rats
2017
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Teaching
PSY-1004: psychopharmacology and pathophysiology
Member of research group
Member of project
CV
Previous positions
- 2021-2023: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Snoeren-Heijkoop Lab, Department of Psychology, UiT, Tromsø, Norway
- 2017-2018: Visiting PhD Student, Department of Animals in Science and Society, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands (6 months)
- 2018-2019: Visiting PhD Student, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Mineapolis, USA (6 months)
- 2016-2021: PhD Student, Snoeren-Heijkoop Lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT, Tromsø, Norway
- 2015-2016: Lecturer, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- 2014: Research assistant, Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, USA (6 months)
Education
- 2016: MSc Pharmacy, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- 2011: BSc Health and Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands