33 search results for “fatigue” in the Public website
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Determinants of and Interventions in Chronic Fatigue.
What are the most important perpetuating factors of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome and which interventions are effective in influencing these factors?
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Fabian Wolters
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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newspaper 'de Gelderlander' on the threat of unwarranted jihadism fatigue
On 27 September 2019, Bart Schuurman, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs spoke to Dutch regional newspaper 'de Gelderlander' about the decline in attention for jihadism.
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Kaya Peerdeman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Veronique de Gucht
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sensory Processing Sensitivity, development of a new measurement scale
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Fatigue, physical activity and participation in adolescents and young adults with acquired brain injury
PhD Defence
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e-Coach: Tailored cognitive-behavioral e-Health care for patients with chronic somatic conditions
The major aim is to develop, evaluate, and implement disease-generic cognitive-behavioral interventions through the internet in order to optimize tailored health care for patients with chronic somatic conditions.
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Placebo research: Pain and itch
The major aim is to determine the role of expectancy mechanisms (e.g., verbal suggestion, classical conditioning, and imagery) in placebo and nocebo effects on different psychical sensations (e.g., pain, itch, and fatigue) and how these expectancy mechanisms can be used to optimize health.
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Screening and self-management interventions for chronic conditions
The major aim is to develop, evaluate, and implement screening instruments and self-management interventions for patients with chronic conditions in order to optimize health care by tailoring interventions to those patients at risk for adjustment problems.
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Disseminating the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples
Together with members of indigenous communities Leiden researchers preserve and disseminate philosophical, historical and medical knowledge.
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Stress and stress management in chronic inflammatory conditions
The major aim is to determine the role of stress and stress-related psychophysiological mechanisms (e.g., cognitions, behaviors, and physiological stress responses) of patients with chronic inflammatory conditions and to develop and evaluate stress management interventions to alter the psychophysiological…
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CIMPLO – Maintenance prediction for industries
Researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) have started a 4 year project on developing a system that sends out automatic alerts when components from engines are showing first signs of fatigue.
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Anticipated format of the online ICEHL
The ICEHL committee is currently exploring the options for online formats of ICEHL.
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Jeanine De Roy van Zuijdewijn Discusses the Beheading of Samuel Paty in Dutch Newspaper NRC
De Roy van Zuijdewijn, researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing threat still being posed by Jihadism in Dutch newspaper NRC.
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MS@Work study
Predictors of work functioning in persons with multiple sclerosis
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Resetting the immune system to cure diabetes and rheumatism
In autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism and diabetes the immune system attacks autologous proteins. Leiden researchers are trying to discover how this comes about.
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Epilepsy and anxiety: targeting a vicious cycle
How effective is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy in targeting epilepsy-related anxiety?
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Influencing your health with your behaviour and thoughts
Psychological processes have a major effect on the course of a disease and the effects of medical treatment. Researchers in the field of Psychoneurobiology examine the interactions between body and mind. They investigate the effects of stress as well as the effect of placebos and nocebos, which can…
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Psychoneurobiology in itch and pain
The major aim is to unravel the psychoneurobiological factors, such as expectations, sensitization and attentional processes, that affect the experience of itch and pain in acute and chronic state.
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Self-regulation models
... which build on self-regulation and stress-regulation theories and considers the modification of cognitions as a mediator of therapeutic change.
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Student teams present their start-ups at final summit Innovation, Co-Creation and Global Impact
From a service stimulating intercultural contacts at work, to pet therapy against stress. An energizing table lamp reducing winter fatigue, and a website informing internet users on their rights. Thursday 24th of January, the student teams of FGGA minor Innovation, Co-Creation and Global Impact presented…
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The healing power of light
Light makes us flourish – in this respect we humans are just like a rose or an azalea. Light can also be used to treat people who are ill. In Leiden, Sylvestre Bonnet and Esther Habers are working – each in their own discipline – on new applications of light in a clinical context.
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The Presidential elections in Brazil and Mexico 2018: What have we learned
Lecture
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Changing enzymes for clean energy and disease prevention
They can play a role in metabolic disorders and can break down tough plant fibers: β-glycosidases are enzymes that play many roles in nature. Fredj Ben Bdira changed these enzymes in order to enhance the production of clean energy and to improve the treatment of patients with metabolic diseases.
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Working together only way to create equal opportunities
‘Systematic, coherent, comprehensive policy for the long-term,’ is key to initiatives by different groups within the University to collectively reinforce their quality, says Diversity Officer Isabel Hoving. On Thursday 15 June 2017 the Minister of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) visited Leiden…
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Faculty of Science takes action against high work stress
The Faculty of Science has presented an infographic with tips and tricks for work stress. The reason for this was the Personnel Monitor 2018, which showed that work pressure is a problem for many employees at the Faculty. ‘It is important to start the discussion about work pressure, and to break the…
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Gravitation grant for teams of Bernet Elzinga and Andrea Evers
Gravitation programme grant Co-applicants Bernet Elzinga en Andrea Evers are two of the captains of the six teams, all led by main applicant Anita Jansen, Maastricht University.
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Diessymposium Leidse Biologen Club
Conference
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LCN2 Seminar: Network psychometrics: using network models to understand psychological constructs like personality, cognition, and mental illness
Lecture
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‘It will be much easier without the British’
The year 2020 should finally be Brexit year. The United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union on 31 January, at midnight Dutch time. Legal scholar Joris Larik from Leiden University College The Hague explains why he is not advocating remain.
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CA-OS Research Seminar | Decolonising Time: Cultural Heritage in Senegal
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Utrecht: Unexpected allies and food activism in quarantine
It is February 2021 and Europe is still tormented by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the continent and beyond, strict restrictive measures are put in place to halt the spread of the virus. The intensity of the measures reaches but doesn’t exceed those of March 2020 when Europe…