Nelleke C. van Wouwe, Ph.D., M.Sc.

Dr. Nelleke C. van Wouwe, Ph.D., M.Sc., joined the research faculty at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in June 2018. From 2012 to 2018, van Wouwe researched cognition and movement disorders at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Her research uses cognitive behavioral tasks, neurophysiological measurements, neuropsychological instruments and interventions such as medication withdrawal and deep brain stimulation to identify changes in action control and action-outcome learning resulting from neurodegenerative diseases. She investigates the role of the subthalamic nucleus in action control and action-valence learning by means of cognitive testing, deep brain stimulation, and intraoperative recording studies.

She has collaborated with Dr. Classen since 2012 on studies investigating how impulse control disorders affect cognitive functions like inhibitory action control, risky decision making and reward based learning.