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Psychology Science Day 2022 20 June 2022
‘Very interesting’ is what two bachelor students have to say about the stories by Liesbeth van Vliet and Niki Antypa during the Psychology Science Day...
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Stimulating the gut–brain nerve can influence emotion 10 May 2022
Stimulating the vagus nerve, which provides a direct link between the gut and brain, makes people pay less attention to sad facial expressions. This r...
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Knowledge to the neighbourhood on Day of Empathy 04 May 2022
The tuktuk of the European City Of Science Leiden 2022 sent science on its way to the neighbourhood. In the town center of Oegstgeest, the Empathy Tea...
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Huge advances could be made in the treatment of patients with childhood trauma 21 April 2022
There’s a lot that goes wrong in the treatment of patients with PTSD caused by childhood trauma. Endowed professor Maartje Schoorl wants to resolve th...
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Parental criticism hurts: a glimpse inside the adolescent brain 19 April 2022
It may seem as though adolescents do as they please, but they are more sensitive to their parents’ opinions than they would appear. The adolescent bra...
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Researchers recreate 17th-century perfume by Constantijn Huygens 07 April 2022
A team of researchers from Young Academy and the Huygens ING/NL Lab has brought a three-century-old fragrance to life based on a recipe by Constantijn...
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Knowledge to the neighbourhood about the placebo effect 05 April 2022
The tuk-tuk of the European City Of Science Leiden 2022 sent science on its way to the neighbourhood. On the Vijf Meiplein in Leiden, Andrea Evers' pl...
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Psychologists participate in high-tech biomarker research in health care 24 March 2022
Next generation immunodermatology (NGID) is a nationwide, large-scale project, funded by a large grant of the Dutch NWO to unravel novel biomarkers fo...
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What drives Lotte van Dillen, the new Psychology Director of Research? 08 March 2022
Lotte van Dillen has every confidence in the new-style Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology. ‘If we work on the basis of everyone’s good int...
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Psychology Awards 2021 12 January 2022
Psychology teacher of the year is Anouk van der Weiden. The master thesis awards are for Irina Verhülsdonk and Christel Klootwijk. Eliška Procházková ...
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PTSD treatment can help patients with childhood trauma 10 January 2022
Adults who were abused or mistreated as a child and consequently suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can benefit greatly from cognitive ...
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Why we always choose the same songs for the Top 2000 20 December 2021
As the year draws to a close, many music lovers are looking forward to the Top 2000. How high is their favourite song and who is number one? But the l...
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New Professor Hanneke Hulst is a team player 07 December 2021
Hanneke Hulst has held the new Leiden chair in Neuropsychology in Health and Disease since 1 September. From 1 January she will also be chair of the H...
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Perspective for people with borderline personality disorder 05 November 2021
‘Raising awareness of the disorder is crucial since borderline personality disorder (BPD) still faces considerable stigma ’, says Anne Krause-Utz (Cli...
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Five Leiden professors installed as Medical Delta professors 03 November 2021
On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology...