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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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You make your best friends in your late adolescence 04 March 2019
What happens in young people's brains when they win money for someone else? Psychologist Elisabeth Schreuders has shown that the brain responds differ...
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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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It is a myth that boys lag behind in brain development 12 February 2019
It is true that girls perform better at school than boys, but this is not due to differences in brain development. This is the conclusion psychobiolog...
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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 ...
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Leiden starts exchange with Poland 17 January 2019
Leiden University has started a collaboration with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. The project includes the exchange of students and sta...
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Psychology awards 2018 14 January 2019
Standing on the shoulders of giants, that's what the students and staff of the of the Institute of Psychology do. Congratulations.
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‘Music has so many positive effects’ 08 January 2019
This year, Leiden University celebrates its 444th birthday – and when you’re giving a party, you need great music! Neuropsychologist Rebecca Schaefer ...
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National Think Tank: a think tank and a do tank 08 January 2019
From learning modules for primary schools to a ‘Fixer-Upper Day’ and from a platform for returning broken electronic devices to a call to government: ...
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People and organisations flourish with good employment practices 03 December 2018
Cleaners who have just ninety seconds to clean each toilet. Bus drivers who have too few comfort breaks. Food deliverers who are apped by an algorithm...
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A look at music in the brain at the LIBC public symposium 03 December 2018
How does music affect a test subject’s brain? That was just one of the questions on the minds of the people who came to the LIBC public day to hear Re...
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Young thinkers pit their brains on the circular economy 05 November 2018
How can we speed up the transition from large cities to a circular metropolis? This is the question that Leiden students and former students Elsemieke...
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Lotte van Dillen starts the European collaborative project Work Hard, Play Hard 30 October 2018
Lotte van Dillen has been awarded a NWO funding for a research project in collaboration with Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of Cologne and Henk v...
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Social Science Matters: Housing 22 October 2018
Students, first-time buyers, parents with stay-at-home children, migrants in need of a house; the problems in the housing market affect many layers wi...
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How can we make Leiden a really 'healthy university'? 18 October 2018
At the initiative of several of its professors, Leiden University has joined the international Healthy Universities network. Surrounded by space hoppe...