Arjan Blokland
Maastricht University, Netherlands
Biography
Arjan Blokland studied Psychology in Nijmegen (NL) and graduated in 1987. After receiving his PhD in Maastricht in 1992, he did a post doc at the University of Cambridge in 1992. In 1993 he took a position as laboratory head at Tropon (CNS research Bayer). He was responsible for testing novel compounds in animal models of aging and dementia. In 1996 he retrurned to Maastricht University with a main focus on psychopharmacology of learning and memory. Since many years he has been involved in the evaluation of drugs on memory performance in animals and humans. The aim of these studies was also finding translational tools in examining the predictability of treatments in animals to humans. He has been working with various drug companies in characterizing newly developed drugs in animal models of learning and memory.
Abstract
Abstract : Translational issues with cognition-enhancing drugs