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Professor Sven Vanneste

Professor Of (Psychology)
Head of School (Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN))
Head of School (School Office - Psychology)
      
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Professor Sven Vanneste

Professor Of (Psychology)

 SVEN.VANNESTE@tcd.ie

 3531896

Head of School (Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN))

Head of School (School Office - Psychology)


Sven Vanneste is Chair of Clinical Neuroscience and Head of the School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. He is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and leads the Lab for Clinical & Integrative Neuroscience within the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is internationally recognised for research spanning systems neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, and neuromodulation. His work examines how large-scale brain networks generate perception, cognition, and persistent neurological and psychiatric symptoms, and how these networks can be modified to restore healthy functioning. Using electroencephalography, functional neuroimaging, computational modelling, behavioural methods, and invasive and non-invasive brain stimulation, his research focuses on tinnitus, chronic pain, memory, cognitive ageing, stress, fatigue, and predictive processing. A central goal is to advance precision neuroscience through objective biomarkers, clinically meaningful patient subtypes, and personalised neuromodulation treatments. Professor Vanneste has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Nature Reviews Disease Primers, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Science Translational Medicine, The Lancet, eLife, Brain Stimulation, and NeuroImage. His research has contributed to international clinical and policy discussions and to innovative approaches for diagnosing and treating complex brain disorders. He has led or contributed to major programmes funded by the European Union, Health Research Board, Rainwater Charitable Foundation, US Department of Defense, DARPA, Alzheimer"s Association, RNID, Dutch Research Council, and Enterprise Ireland. He holds several international leadership roles. He chairs the multinational Tinnitus Detection consortium, serves on the Executive Board of the Tinnitus Research Initiative, represents Ireland within the European Society for Brain Stimulation, and is a Senior Collaborator with the Global Burden of Disease programme at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington. He also serves on the Steering Committee of Dementia Trials Ireland and regularly delivers invited and keynote lectures at international scientific and clinical meetings. Before joining Trinity, Professor Vanneste was a Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he directed the Lab for Clinical & Integrative Neuroscience and served as Director of Neuromodulation. He also held appointments at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and remains an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He completed Master"s degrees in Psychology and Criminology at Ghent University and a PhD in Medical Sciences at the University of Antwerp. Professor Vanneste is strongly committed to translating neuroscience into clinical and societal benefit. He is a co-founder of BRAI3N, a neuroscience spin-off integrating clinical care, research, education, and technological innovation to develop personalised approaches to brain health and neuromodulation. Through BRAI3N Clinic, BRAI3N Research, and BRAI3N Academy, he helps bridge fundamental neuroscience, clinical validation, professional education, and real-world patient care. He is also a co-founder of Tinnitus Éire, a patient and public involvement community bringing together people affected by tinnitus, clinicians, and researchers. He teaches neuroscience and research methodology and supervises undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral researchers in clinical, cognitive, and translational neuroscience.
Elva Arulchelvan, Sven Vanneste, Accelerated long-term forgetting across neuropsychiatric disorders: A review of mechanisms and a neurobiological perspective of forgetting, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 180, 2026, p106461 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sven Vanneste, Jan Ost, Dirk De Ridder, The brain signs of wear and tear: Chronic stress associated alpha oscillations in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex lead to fatigue, Neuroscience, 594, 2026, p134-141 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Katherine Adcock, Elva Arulchelvan, Nathan Shields, Sven Vanneste, Towards precision medicine for otology and neurotology: Machine learning applications and challenges, Hearing Research, 469, 2026, p109473 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
GBD 2023 Mental Disorder Collaborators, Updated trends in the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023., Lancet (London, England), 407, (10543), 2026, p2040-2064 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sven Vanneste, Anusha Yasoda-Mohan, Feifan Chen, Elva Arulchelvan, Nathan Shields, Christoph Braun, Julia Campbell, Dirk De Ridder, Milena Engelke, Stefan Fink, Fatima T Husain, Namitha Jain, Tobias Kleinjung, Gibbeum Kim, Marlies Knipper, Berthold Langguth, Hongyu Lu, Patrick Neff, Lauren Ralston, Elinor Riegger, Lukas Rüttiger, Winfried Schlee, Beat Tödtli, Payam S Shabestari, Shagun Ajmera, Susanne Staudinger, Stephan Wolpert, Christopher R Cederoth, Objective data-driven personalised approach to diagnosis of chronic tinnitus: the Tinnitus Detection (TIDE) project " protocol for the identification and validation of a biomarker for tinnitus, BMJ Open, 16, (5), 2026, pe112788 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Dirk De Ridder, Sven Vanneste, Burst Stimulation of the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Addiction: Sustained Benefit Without Continued Stimulation, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, 29, (3), 2026, p504-506 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Elva Arulchelvan, Caledonia Steltzner, Sven Vanneste, Peripheral nerve stimulation using tDCS can enhance reconsolidation but cannot mitigate retrieval-induced forgetting, Biological Psychology, 205, 2026, p109229 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sven Vanneste, Jan Ost, Dirk De Ridder, Sequential multimodal neuromodulation for treatment-resistant PTSD: A case report of lasting remission, Psychiatry Research Case Reports, 5, (2), 2026, p100344 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Dirk De Ridder, Michael P. Kilgard, Sven Vanneste, Vagus nerve stimulation for the management of tinnitus, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, 2025, p165-177 , Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Linlin Fan, Emily Bass, Hans Klein, Cassi Springfield, Sven Vanneste, Amy E Pinkham, Potential Delayed Positive Effects of tDCS on Improving Introspective Accuracy in Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 51, (5), 2025, p1443-1453 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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How do individuals perceive the world around them? And how we are sometimes misled by our brain in perceiving information that is not around us, such as an illusion or phantom percept? The focus of my work is to better understand the similarities and differences in perception in clinical populations including, but not limited to chronic tinnitus (i.e., ringing in ear) and chronic pain and comorbidities such as depression, anxiety, memory loss to: (1) advance fundamental knowledge of human brain function (2) to use this knowledge to develop new clinical application and treatment approaches We study these concepts at both the behavioural and neural level. To do this, we approach the topic from multiple perspectives, using behavioural psychophysical tasks, advanced neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, EEG, and invasive and non-invasive brain stimulation), and qualitative measures, including neuropsychological testing and questionnaires.