News
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Updated MRI scanner ready for use 26 September 2017
The updated MRI scanner at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) will become operational on 29 September. The new version is faster and ...
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What does a pilot know about fear of flying? 04 September 2017
As a psychologist and pilot, Bert Busscher is interested in the phenomenon often termed as fear of flying. Busscher discovered that the heart rate of ...
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Live supervision of training in clinical psychology therapeutic skills 15 August 2017
Anne Krause and Niki Antypa received a facultairy 'Grassroots' subsidy of 1.000 euros for education innovation. They're going to implement live super...
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They're going on a parabolic flight - and you can go too! 10 August 2017
Always wanted to find out what zero gravity is like? Now's your chance! In December 2017 a Dutch student team will be conducting experiments during a ...
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Rebecca Schaefer on 'Learning with music can change brain structure' 10 July 2017
Using musical cues to learn a physical task significantly develops an important part of the brain, according to a new study co-authored by Leiden psyc...
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Kaya Peerdeman wins award for article on analgesia 19 April 2017
Health psychologist Kaya Peerdeman has won the article award of the Postgraduate School For Research and Education in Experimental Psychopathology (EP...
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Rubicon grant for Evin Aktar 13 April 2017
The NWO has awarded Evin Aktar a Rubicon grant. From September, she will start a 12-month period of research at the Cognitive Affect and Temperament L...
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The placebo effect: first world congress in Leiden 07 March 2017
Medicines can work even if they have no active ingredient. The first international scientific conference on placebos will take place in Leiden from 2 ...
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Vici grants for four Leiden researchers 17 February 2017
Four Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO).
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Saving for discounts by living healthily 26 January 2017
A new health programme will reward patients with - or at risk of developing - cardio-vascular diseases for keeping to a healthy lifestyle. A research ...
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Even unconscious stress can cause stress symptoms 30 November 2016
Our vision of stress is starting to change fundamentally. We can suffer stress without even being aware of it, while sleeping as wall as during the da...
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'Personalized medicine' as ideal in treatment of psychiatric disorders 09 November 2016
An ever widening gap is appearing between clinical practice and the treatment prescribed in DSM-5, the standard work on schizophrenia, psychiatrist Ja...
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Social Science Matters: Clinton vs. Trump - race over? 28 September 2016
Monday 26 September, 2016 saw the first confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Expectations were high – not only about the content o...
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Social support and quitter-identity may help smokers quit 05 July 2016
Receiving positive support and seeing yourself as being a quitter may help smokers quit, say Eline Meijer and colleagues. The health psychologists pub...
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NWO grant for Pavlov’s conditioning during sleep 27 June 2016
Andrea Evers has received an NWO research talent grant with Jelle van Leusden as the PhD candidate. This grant enables them to start a research projec...