1081 search results for “adolescent development” in the Public website
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Media use and brain development during adolescence
Nowadays children grow up with social media. This may influence the development of brain regions involved in social interaction. In their review article in Nature Communications, Crone and Konijn illustrate how neuroscience can contribute to a better understanding of how media and peers influence adolescents'…
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Increased striatal activity in adolescence benefits learning
Heightened activation of the striatum that adolescents show in response to reward is often associated with risk-taking and negative health consequences. This article in Nature Communications investigates a potential positive side of this heightened activation. It shows that the activity peak in late…
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Pathways through adolescence
... studies the developmental course and dynamics of cognition, self-regulation, and emotional competence, and the implications for educational and clinical practice.
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Social Anxiety and Normal Development
Why does social anxiety increase in adolescence and how does it grow out of control in some adolescents?
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Giving to friends, classmates, and strangers in adolescence
A study on the development of prosocial behaviour.
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The adolescent brain
Fundamental insights into the working of the adolescent brain help lecturers and parents to teach adolescents to function better. Professor Eveline Crone studies executive functions – such as planning and behaviour – in the adolescent brain.
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Developmental changes and individual differences in trust and reciprocity in adolescence
Trust and reciprocity are two important social behaviors that help adolescents to navigate their social world successfully. In their empirical article in Journal of Research on Adolescence, van de Groep, Meuwese, Zanolie, Güroğlu, and Crone describe the development of trust and reciprocity in adolescents…
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Child and Adolescent Psychology (MSc)
The master's specialisation Child and Adolescent Psychology offers intensive studies in developmental psychopathology.
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The social brain in adolescence
What is the neural basis of social decision-making across childhood, adolescence and adulthood and what are the developmental patterns in terms of behavior and brain activation?
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Social anxiety in adolescents
Serious forms of anxiety concerning other people’s opinions can hinder teenagers at school in social interactions or carrying out tasks. Psychologist Anne Miers is looking for ways to reduce this so-called ‘social anxiety’.
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Andrik Becht
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Het puberende brein
Eveline Crone wrote a new edition of "Het puberende brein", including the latest insights from neuroscience.
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Marieke Bos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Adolescents' responses to online peer conflict: How self‐evaluation and ethnicity matter
In online games conflicts between players may arise. Novin, Bos, Stevenson and Rieffe investigated factors that may explain why some adolescents react more angrily than others in this type of situation. In their realistically designed gaming environment, the (pre-programmed) fellow player suddenly started…
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Blended Care for Adolescents with Social Anxiety
Is blended care a feasible and effective treatment method for social anxiety in adolescence?
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Ethnic disadvantage and adolescents’ emotional- and behavioural problems
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Positive feedback activates adolescent brain
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 out by developmental psychologist Sabine Peters . Her findings can have important consequences for education. PhD defence 27 January.
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The impact of obesity on the pharmacokinetics of drugs in adolescents and adults
Promotores: C.A.J. Knibbe; J.N. van den Anker, Co-promotores: H.P.A. van Dongen; B. van Ramshorst
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Pharmacokinetic studies in obese adolescents and obese adults
Pharmacokinetic studies in obese adolescents and obese adults
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Eveline Crone
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Renske van der Cruijsen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Eva Schmidt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Unraveling the Neural Basis of Self-Esteem in Adolescent Depression
What are the social and neural mechanisms that contribute to fluctuations in self-esteem in healthy adolescents and adolescents with depression?
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Me, My Fiends, and I
A neuro-ecological perspective on adolescent prosocial development
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Social and emotional competence in children and adolescents who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH)
How does having limited access to the social world affect Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) children’s emotional development? And in turn, how do impairments in emotional functioning affect social development and the development of psychopathology?
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Eduard Klapwijk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sabine Peters
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jochem Spaans
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Stephanie Rap
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Simone Dobbelaar
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vocational identity among at-risk adolescents. Effectiveness of programs at lower VET aiming at continuing education or work
The overall aim of the project is to investigate effective ways to strengthen vocational identity of at-risk adolescents in order to contribute to a successful transition from late secondary to post secondary lower vocational education or to work.
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Measuring emotional competence across cultures in children and adolescents from 1 to 15 years old
Development and validation of instruments that can measure different aspects of emotional competence in children with normal and atypical development, and in different cultures
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Brain and Development
What is the relation between brain development and social and cognitive development across childhood, adolescence and adulthood?
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The developing brain and behaviour
The more opportunities a child has to learn and develop, the stronger his or her future position in society. Leiden University investigates how the brain picks up information, and how learning processes can be influenced positively.
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Emotion regulation in children and adolescents with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Why do children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have difficulties with acquiring emotion regulation skills; and how is this related to their social impairments and comorbid psychopathology?
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Kiki Zanolie
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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The empathic mind in children and adolescents with Specific Language Impairments (SLI)
The ‘empathic mind’ in children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI); what can children with SLI understand of other people’s minds and emotions?
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The development and prevention of social anxiety in youth
What are the developmental pathways to social anxiety (disorder), the causal processes and maintaining factors? How do these factors interact in the development of social anxiety disorder? How can this knowledge be used to design and implement effective preventive intervention programs for youth?
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Efficacy of Self-management training in adolescents and adults with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY)
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Adolescents don't just think of themselves
Parents often see that when their sweet, socially-minded children become adolescents they change into selfish 'hotel guests' who think only of themselves. But adolescents become increasingly better at weighing up one another's interests. This discovery has been made by development psychologist Rosa…
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Philip Brandner
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Brain activity of popular adolescents measured
Adolescents who were more popular among their classmates in junior school are often the ones who are more inclined to share things fairly with others. During this sharing process, 'social' areas of the brain are more strongly activated than in adolescents who are less popular. This is the finding of…
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Growing up to be fearful?
Social evaluative fears during adolescence
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Berna Güroglu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Brain connections predict adolescent impulsiveness
There is a link in adolescents between brain connections and impulsiveness. Leiden researchers have discovered that these connections also predict which adolescents will make more impulsive choices two years further on.
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Lab facilities Brain and Development
What is the relation between brain development and social and cognitive development across childhood, adolescence and adulthood?
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Reflect react and interact
The roles of shame, guilt and social access in adolescent aggression
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RE-PAIR: Unravelling the Impact of Emotional Maltreatment on the Developing Brain
What role do parent-child interactions play in the development, maintenance and treatment of depression in young people?
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How harmful is alcohol for the adolescent brain?
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? Research, including in Leiden, may provide the answer.
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Emotions and the psychosocial development of children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
Dissertation