News
-
A different take on differences between men’s and women’s brains 27 June 2017
There is greater variety in the size of men’s brains than of women’s. This could help explain why some psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and autism a...
-
Spinoza Prize for ‘puberty professor’ Eveline Crone 16 June 2017
Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology, has been awarded the NWO Spinoza Prize for her high-profile research on adolescen...
-
Responding to pupils with mild intellectual disability in education 15 May 2017
Mariëtte Huizinga, Dorien Graas and Anika Bexkens call attention to learning problems of children with mild intellectual disability in the classroom. ...
-
Pieter's Corner: Can diversity be engineered? 11 May 2017
In discussions about today’s society and multiculturalism the word is constantly bandied back and forth: diversity. At Leiden University we aspire to ...
-
How harmful is alcohol for the adolescent brain? 11 May 2017
Under 18, no alcohol. In spite of this slogan, adolescents still have access to alcohol. But how harmful is that one beer for the adolescent brain? R...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Attention for autism in girls 12 April 2017
Autism spectrum disorders are more often diagnosed in boys than in girls. For Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe this raises the quest...
-
Girls are better at masking autism than boys 01 April 2017
Girls with autism have relatively good social skills, which means that their autism is often not recognised. Autism manifests itself in girls differen...
-
The importance of relating to others: why we only learn to understand other people after the age of four 24 March 2017
When we are around four years old we suddenly start to understand that other people think and that their view of the world is often different from our...
-
‘Hiding sexual preference causes more stress at work' 20 March 2017
How tolerant is the Netherlands on the work floor? Jojanneke van der Toorn, Professor of the Workplace Pride Chair, the first in the world dealing exc...
-
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 ...
-
Lorenza Colzato Professor by Special Appointment in Germany 27 February 2017
On February 7th, Lorenza Colzato has become Professor by Special Appointment at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Psychologist Colzato: 'My ultimate ...
-
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).
-
Laura Steenbergen and Christian Eistrup win Leiden FameLab 15 February 2017
Which young scientists are best at explaining their research in three minutes and can take part in the national finals? These questions were answered ...