Roshan Cools was born on 10 June 1975 and is a Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at Radboud University Nijmegen.
18 Facts About Roshan Cools
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Roshan Cools is interested in the motivational and cognitive control of human behaviour and how it is impacted by neuromodulation.
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Roshan Cools was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.
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Roshan Cools's father was a brain scientist and she recalls conversations about the brain and dopamine at the dinner table.
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Roshan Cools moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with Mark D'Esposito.
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Roshan Cools won a Royal Society University Research Fellowship which was based at the University of Cambridge.
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In 2007 Roshan Cools moved back to the Netherlands, where she worked in the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in the Donders Institute for Brain.
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At the Radboud University Nijmegen Roshan Cools leads the Motivational and Cognitive Control Lab.
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Roshan Cools showed that the genes associated with dopamine impact how we learn from the long-term consequences of decisions, whilst serotonin is more strongly associated with short-term choices.
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Roshan Cools has shown that people who gamble have increased levels of dopamine in their brains, whilst people who are addicted to drugs have average or lower than normal levels of dopamine.
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Roshan Cools used her expertise in decision making to show that dominant individuals are avid social learners; whilst they value their independence, they rely on social learning in complex decision making tasks.
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Roshan Cools is interested in advancing understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders, including impulse control disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Parkinson's disease.
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Roshan Cools demonstrated that people suffering from schizophrenia have motivation deficits from very early stages of their diagnoses, which are unrelated to their treatments.
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Roshan Cools is interested in the mechanisms by which we exert willpower and what happens to willpower in people with ADHD.
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Roshan Cools's research considers the interactions between motivational and cognitive control.
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Roshan Cools demonstrated that the neural networks of psychopathic criminals are different to that or normal people, with a strong focus on reward and a lack of self-control.
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Roshan Cools was appointed to the Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy to the Dutch government in 2014.
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Roshan Cools delivered a TED Talk at Radboud University Nijmegen in 2013.