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‘Sickness and health have become a continuum’13 May 2019Professor 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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Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW23 April 2019Five Leiden researchers have been nominated as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).They will be inaugurated on 16 Sep...
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Academy for Self-Management: from disabilities to abilities04 April 2019If 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 2019Together with patient representatives, clinician-researchers from Radboucumc (Internal Medicine) Amsterdam UMC and researchers from Leiden University ...
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On your way to your dream job as a psychologist22 February 2019On the Master’s Open Day on 15 February Liza Vromen from Harlem arrives in Leiden to investigate the pre-master’s programme Psychology. As a matter o...
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‘Music has so many positive effects’08 January 2019This 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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A look at music in the brain at the LIBC public symposium03 December 2018How 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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Men are not better than women at navigating, although they think they are07 September 2018Last year, more than 8,000 respondents in the Netherlands took part in a public survey on their navigation behaviour. Headed by neuroscientist Ineke...
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Winnie Gebhardt receives Honorary Fellowship04 September 2018Health psychologist Winnie Gebhardt has been appointed as Honorary Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) in recognition of her excep...
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First patients start earning discounts with healthy living03 July 2018Heart patients who maintain a healthy lifestyle can start earning discounts at shops or for trips out. The Tergooi Hospital is the first in the Nether...
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First guidelines for applying placebo effect in clinical practice27 June 2018It is becoming increasingly clear that the placebo effect has a great influence on medical treatment. An international, interdisciplinary team of rese...
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LUBEC treatment centre: bridge between support and research11 June 2018From anxiety disorders to an extremely unhealthy lifestyle. In the Leiden University Treatment and Expertise Centre (LUBEC) children and adults receiv...
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New website research programme Digital Society15 May 2018On 15 May the new website about the research programme Digital Society has been launched.
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Luana Colloca is coming to Leiden as a KNAW visiting professor in health psychology23 April 2018The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has granted health psychologist Andrea Evers a visiting professorship funding for Luana Coll...
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Conference award and poster presentation for health psychologists13 March 2018During the 76th American Psychosomatic Society conference in Louisville, Kentucky from 7-10 march 2018 Aleksandrina Skvortsova was awarded with one of...