Patty Huijgens
Researcher
Virgečilgehus
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
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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
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Sexual Incentive Motivation
Patty Huijgens,
Fay Guarraci,
Jocelien Olivier,
Eelke Snoeren
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Male rat sexual behavior: Insights from inter-copulatory intervals
Patty Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Snoeren
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Silencing and stimulating the medial amygdala impairs ejaculation but not sexual incentive motivation in male rats
Jan Hegstad,
Patty Huijgens,
Danielle Houwing,
Jocelien Olivier,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Snoeren
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Female rat sexual behavior is unaffected by perinatal fluoxetine exposure
Patty Huijgens,
Eelke Snoeren,
Robert Meisel,
Paul Mermelstein
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Effects of gonadectomy and dihydrotestosterone on neuronal plasticity in motivation and reward related brain regions in the male rat
Roy Heijkoop,
Patty Thalia Huijgens,
Eelke Snoeren
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Assessment of sexual behavior in rats: the potentials and pitfalls.
Patty Thalia Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Mirthe Simone Snoeren
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Neuronal activity in the medial amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis during male rat sexual behavior
2023
Patty Huijgens
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Sex and the brain: from hormones to behavior
2022
Patty Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
LJMJ Vanderschuren,
Heidi Lesscher,
Eelke Snoeren
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The role of the BNST and surrounding areas in the regulation of natural reward consummation
2022
Patty Huijgens,
Eelke Snoeren,
Robert Meisel,
Paul Mermelstein
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Effects of androgen on spine plasticity in several motivation-related brain regions in the male rat
2020
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 Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
LJMJ Vanderschuren,
Heidi Lesscher,
Eelke Snoeren
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Involvement of the BNST and its projection to the VTA in motivation for a natural food reward
2019
Patty Thalia Huijgens,
Roy Heijkoop,
Eelke Snoeren
:
Involvement of glutamatergic medial amygdala neurons in ejaculation in male rats
2017
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Undervisning
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