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Positive feedback activates adolescent brain 20 January 2016
Children and adolescents really do use their ‘smart’ brain areas. This has been confirmed by an extensive and long-running study of the brain carried ...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Eveline Crone 19 January 2016
Eveline Crone surmises that adolescence also has a positive effect on social development. She believes, for example, that it is in adolescence that yo...
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Using sensors to measure playground dynamics 18 January 2016
Free playtime and physical play are of great importance to children's social development. That is the main conclusion of innovative research by develo...
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The restorative power of nature 18 January 2016
Have you had a busy week at work? If so, it’s better to take a walk in a natural environment than to go shopping in the city.
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Looking back at the Lorentz Workshop 13 January 2016
“Endophenotypes of Social Anxiety Disorder: Can we detect them and are they useful in clinical practice”
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Is lack of sleep bad for study performance? 07 January 2016
The Netherlands Association for Sleep-Wake Research is studying this issue. Lead researcher Kristiaan van der Heijden, Leiden psychologist and sleep ...
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ERC Grants for five Leiden researchers 06 January 2016
The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros w...
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Reconciling conflicting interests 24 December 2015
A far-reaching understanding of human behaviour is necessary to get to grips with conflicts in society and to encourage parties to meet each other hal...
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Socially anxious people are interested in others 21 December 2015
The idea that socially anxious people avoid eye contact because they are not interested in other people needs to be changed. They take their informati...
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New impulse for autism research in collaboration with China 17 December 2015
Psychologists of Leiden University and Peking University will collaborate to investigate the deficiencies in emotion recognition in children with Auti...
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Measuring, knowing, and then what? 24 November 2015
There is a lot of measuring going on in mental healthcare, but not enough use is being made of the information from these measurements. This is what E...
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Daredevil behaviour of young people due to active reward centre in the brain 09 November 2015
Young people tend to take more risks than children or adults. This trend is related to the reward centre in the brain, which is much more active when ...
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Interdisciplinary approach benefits brain research 30 September 2015
How do practice and theory reinforce one another in neuroscience? Professor Birte Forstmann’s inaugural lecture on 2 October will be about building in...
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Two Veni grants awarded to Leiden Psychology researchers 10 September 2015
Two Leiden researchers of the Institute of Psychology have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming three years thank...
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Gratama Science Award for Jojanneke van der Toorn 09 September 2015
Jojanneke van der Toorn has been proclaimed the young and promising researcher of 2015. At the official opening of the academic year on 31 August she...