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The healing power of light 15 October 2019
Light makes us flourish – in this respect we humans are just like a rose or an azalea. Light can also be used to treat people who are ill. In Leiden, ...
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Alfons Chorus, founder of the Institute of Psychology: who was he really? 14 October 2019
Alfons Chorus was the ‘founding father’ of Psychology in Leiden. His son Rogier Chorus recently obtained his PhD at Leiden University based on his bio...
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3 October University: big science for small people 07 October 2019
‘I already gave a talk about planets when I was five.’ With the theme of the 3 October celebrations being ‘Jong geleerd is oud gedaan’ (meaning someth...
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Rianne de Kleine using Veni grant to study post-traumatic stress 01 October 2019
Can we improve the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Our young and promising psychologist Rianne de Kleine receives a Veni grant to ...
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Psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds takes over the Twitter account @NL_Wetenschap 27 September 2019
Zsuzsika Sjoerds seems to be busy with her research, her teaching, and open science advocacy. She will also take over the Twitter account for Dutch sc...
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‘Too many or too few memories can be problematic’ 26 September 2019
The Public Day of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC) has grown in recent years into one of the most popular popular-science events in ...
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Four perspectives on smoking and the tobacco lobby 23 September 2019
Doctors are entering the fray, court cases are being filed and smokers are becoming more of a pariah. From lobby expert to medical biologist: four Lei...
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Andrea Evers wins Stevin Prize for knowledge exchange and impact 21 June 2019
Andrea Evers, Professor of Health Psychology at Leiden University, has won the Stevin Prize – alongside the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific awar...
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Magic moments at Museum Night 20 May 2019
Leiden University opened its doors on Leiden Museum Night, with a whole host of things to see and do at the Academy Building, Hortus botanicus and Old...
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‘Sickness and health have become a continuum’ 13 May 2019
Professor of Health Psychology Andrea Evers is one of the coordinators of the national Health and Wellbeing programme and of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus ...
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Residents and researchers explore plastic and psychology in the city 16 April 2019
This year will see the start of not one but two citizen science projects in Leiden and The Hague. This is the outcome of a large survey among residen...
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Academy for Self-Management: from disabilities to abilities 04 April 2019
If people with intellectual disabilities are given tailored training, this promotes self-management in their daily lives. They also need less support....
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ZonMw Medical Inspirator Prize for research ‘Lyme paralyses lives’ 18 March 2019
Together with patient representatives, clinician-researchers from Radboucumc (Internal Medicine) Amsterdam UMC and researchers from Leiden University ...
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Optimum amount of dopamine improves cognitive ability 18 February 2019
The ‘right’ amount of dopamine in the brain makes study participants better at solving certain cognitive tasks. This is the conclusion of Bryant Jongk...
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Zsuzsika Sjoerds nominated for the Woman in the Media Award - You Go Girl 31 January 2019
Vote now for our psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds to win the Woman in the Media Award 2018 - You Go Girl for her important work standing up for science ...