Dr. Nathalie Stroobant

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Laboratory for Neuropsychology
Department of Internal Medicine
University Hospital Ghent
De Pintelaan 185 - 4K3
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
tel: ++32-(0)9-332 45 88
fax: ++32-(0)9-332 45 55
e-mail: Nathalie.Stroobant@UGent.be

Academic degree

Master degree (and aggregate) in PSychological and Pedagogical Sciences, option Clinical Psychology, 1995, Universitt Ghent
(title of thesis:” Follow-up research into the prognostic importance of psycho-social variables in patients with known coronary suffering”)

Doctor in Medicine and Health Sciences, 2004, University Ghent
(title of doctoral dissertation:” Neurocognitive dysfunction following on-pump versus off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery: Relation with intra-operative cerebral embolic load and cerebrovascular reactivity during cognitive activation”)

Academic function

Postdoctoral scientific researcher for the Laboratory for Neuropsychology, Centre for Cardiosurgery and Department of Cardiology

Teaching: assisting Prof. dr. Vingerhoets teaching Developmental Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, Cognitive rehabilitation and functional plasticity. Teaching 'Medical Neuropsychology, neuropsychological aspects of somatic diseases' for the Postacademix Clinical Neuropsychology course. Supervision of theses for the Faculty of Medicine.

Membership

Dutch Society for Neuropsychology (NVN)

-Cognitive disorders accompanying heart and vessel diseases and after cardiac surgery
-Quality of life in patients with heart and vessel diseases and after cardiac surgery
-Functional Transcranial Doppler research
-Methodological questions in functional Doppler research
-Measurement of embolics during cardiac surgery
-Longitudinal studies of neurocognitive status in CABG patients
-Language lateralization and fTCD
-Peripheral arterial disease and neuropsychological functioning
-Cardiac risk factors and neuropsychology
-Atherosclerosis and neuropsychology
-Determinants of successful cognitive aging

Publications

Stroobant, N., VanBoxstael, J., Vingerhoets, G. (2009) Determination of expressive and receptive language lateralization in children: A functional transcranial Doppler sonography reliability study. Manuscript under revision.

Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets, G. (2009) Pre-existing cognitive impairment in candidates for cardiac surgery: an overview. in press.

Stroobant, N., Van Nooten, G., Vingerhoets, G. (2009) Lange-termijn effecten van een cardiale bypassoperatie op het neurocognitief functioneren. Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychologie, 2, 23-33.

Vingerhoets, G., Stroobant, N. (2009) Functionele Transcraniële Doppler ultrasonografie. Neuropraxis, 12: 170-176.

Stroobant, N., Buijs, D., Vingerhoets, G. (2009) Variation in brain lateralization during various language tasks: A functional transcranial Doppler study. Behavioural Brain Research, 199:190–196.

Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets, G. (2008) Depression, anxiety and neuropsychological performance in CABG patients: a follow-up study. Psychosomatics, 49, 326-331.

Stroobant, N., Van Nooten, G., Van Belleghem, Y., Vingerhoets, G. (2005) Relation between neurocognitive impairment, embolic load and cerebrovascular reactivity following on- and off-pump CABG. Chest 127:1967-1976.

Stroobant, N., Van Nooten, G., Vingerhoets, G. (2004) Effect of cardiovascular disease on hemodynamic response to cognitive activation: a functional transcranial Doppler study. European Journal of Neurology, 11, 749-754.

Vingerhoets, G., Berckmoes, C., Stroobant, N. (2003) Cerebral hemodynamics during discrimination of prosodic and semantic emotion in speech Studied by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography. Neuropsychology,17, 93-99.

Stroobant, N, Van Nooten, G., Van Belleghem Y., Vingerhoets, G. (2002) Short-term and long-term neurocognitive outcome in on-pump versus off-pump CABG, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 22, 559-564.

Vingerhoets, G. & Stroobant, N. (2002) Reliability and validity of day-to-day blood flow velocity reactivity in a single subject: an fTCD study. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 28, 197-202

Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets, G. (2001). Test-retest reliability of functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 27, 509-514

Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets, G. (2000) Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography monitoring of cerebral hemodynamics during performance of cognitive tasks: A review. Neuropsychology Review, 10, 213-231.

Vingerhoets, G., Stroobant, N. (1999). Lateralization of cerebral blood flow velocity changes during cognitive tasks: A simultaneous bilateral transcranial Doppler study. Stroke, 30, 2152-2158.

Vingerhoets, G., Stroobant, N. (1999). Between-task habituation in functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography. NeuroReport, 10, 3185-3189.

Stroobant, N., Denollet, J., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Van Oost, P. (1998). Persoonlijkheid en mortaliteit bij coronair hartlijden. Personality and progression in coronary heart disease. Gedrag en Gezondheid, 26, 27-38.

Denollet, J., Sys, SU., Stroobant, N., Rombouts, H., Gillebert, TC., Brutsaert, DL. (1996). Personality as independent predictor of long-term mortality in patients with coronary heart disease. Lancet, 347, 417-421.

Stroobant, N., Van Nooten, G., Vingerhoets, G. Effect of cardiovascular disease on hemodynamic response to cognitive activation: a functional trancranial Doppler study. Submitted.

Posters & Abstracts

Stroobant, N., Buijs, D., Vingerhoets, G. (2008). Assessment of lateralization of various language tasks: a functional transcranial Doppler study. First Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology, 2-5 september, Edinburgh.

Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets, G. Neuropsychological functioning and its association with depression and anxiety in pre- and postoperative CABG patients. Second Congress of the European Neuropsychological Societies, 2006, Toulouse, France.

Stroobant, N., Van Nooten, G., Van Belleghem, Y., Caes, F., Vingerhoets, G. Cerebral embolic load in CABG with and without cardiopulmonary bypass, accepted for the Second Asia Pacific Scientific Forum, Honolulu; to be published May 18th, 2003, Circulation.

Stroobant, N; Vingerhoets, G., Van Nooten, G. Reduced cerebral blood flow velocity during cognitive activation in cardiac patients: a functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography study, accepted for the Second Asia Pacific Scientific Forum, Honolulu; to be published May 18th, 2003, Circulation.

Stroobant, N. & Vingerhoets, G. The definition of neuropsychological dysfunction after cardiac surgery. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 244.

Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets G., Van Nooten, G. Cerebrovascular reactivity in cardiac patients compared with healthy controls: a functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography study, International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 2-6, 2002, Sendai, Japan, NeuroImage,16, (2).

Vingerhoets G. & Stroobant, N. Day-to-day variation of cerebral hemodynamics during cognitive activation: an fTCD study, International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Sendai, Japan, NeuroImage, 16, (2).

Berckmoes C., Stroobant, N. Vingerhoets G. Lateralized cerebral hemodynamics durin discrimination of prosodic versus semantic emotion in speech: a functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography study, International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Sendai, Japan, NeuroImage, 16, (2).

Berckmoes, C., Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets, G. Functional Transcranial Doopler ultraonography reveals lateralized cerebral hemodynamics during discrimination of prosodic versus semantic emotion in speech, Research day Department Internal Medicine, University Hospital Ghent.

Vingerhoets, G., Hulshof, M., Lannoo, E., Wolters, M., Stroobant, N. Cognitive changes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a case study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 5, 272.

Stroobant N. (2008) Effecten van een cardiale bypassoperatie op het cognitief functioneren. 16 mei 2008, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Neuropsychologie, voorjaarsconferentie.

Stroobant, N., Buijs, D., Vingerhoets, G. (2008). Assessment of lateralization of various language tasks: a functional transcranial Doppler study. First Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology, 2-5 september, Edinburgh.

Stroobant, N. (2005) Neurocognitive (dys)functioning, cerebrovascular reactivity and embolidetection in pre- and post-CABG patients. Invited lecture, VUB, Multidisciplinar Heartrehabilitation.

Stroobant, N. (2005) Cognitive dysfunction after on- and off-pump CABG surgery. Invited lecture, OLV Hospital, Aalst, Workgroup Flemish Psychologists Heartrehabilitation.

First Congress of the European Neuropsychological Societies, Modena, Italy, April 2004.
Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets, G., Van Nooten, G. Defining neuropsychological dysfunction after coronary artery bypass (abstract book)

Stroobant, N., Van Nooten, G., Vingerhoets, G. Cardiovascular disease and cognitive activation: an fTCD study (abstract book)

Outcomes 2002, “The Key West Meeting”, May 22-26, 2002, Key West, Florida, USA. Posterdiscussion, May 24th , 2002
Stroobant, N., Vingerhoets, G., Van Nooten, G. The effect of cardiac disease on hemodynamic response to cognitive activation, Key West Meeting outcomes 2002, Key West, Heart Surgery Forum, 5 (3)

EACTS/ESTS joint meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, September 16-19, 2001. Posterdiscussion, September 18th, 2001.
Stroobant, N, Van Nooten, G., Van Belleghem Y., Vingerhoets, G. (2002) Short-term and long-term neurocognitive outcome in on-pump versus off-pump CABG, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 22, 559-564.

Twenty-Fourth Mid-year Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, July 4-7, 2001, Brasilia, Brazil. Posterpresentation.
Stroobant, N. & Vingerhoets, G. Reduced blood flow velocity before cardiac surgery: a functional TCD study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 404-405.

Outcomes 2000, “The Key West Meeting”, May 24-28, 2000, Key West, Florida, USA. Posterdiscussion, May 26th, 2000
Stroobant, N., Van Nooten, G., Deryck Y., De Somer, F., Vingerhoets, G. (2000). Cerebral blood flow velocity (BFV) in rest and during cognitive activation before and after coronary artery bypass grafting. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 69, 1794.

Twenty Third Mid-year Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, July 12-15, 2000, Brussels, Belgium.
Speaker in a symposium entitled: “Functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in neuropsychological research: Limits and possibilities”, with the following contributions:

-Vingerhoets, G. & Stroobant, N. (University of Ghent, Belgium). Reliability and methodological caveats of functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 404.

-Stroobant, N. & Vingerhoets, G. (University of Ghent, Belgium). Hemispheric asymmetry in transcranial Doppler measured velocity during cognitive tasks. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 404.

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