Brain development in children with an extra X chromosome as compared to children with autism: evidence from MRI

How do humans control their thoughts and actions, and what can high-field brain scanning reveal about the underlying processes?

A neurobiological perspective on individual differences in social competence

Investigating neurobiological endophenotypes of Social Anxiety Disorder

Lecture, Masterclass

Lecture

PhD Defence

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PhD Defence

PhD Defence

Memory loss and confusion are signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Physicists Serge Rombouts and Martina Huber have developed new methods to help medical science get to the bottom of this insidious disease.

A neuro-ecological perspective on adolescent prosocial development

PhD Defence

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What is the role of the noradrenergic system in human cognition?

How do different emotional expressions influence the behavior of other people in negotiations?

PhD Defence

PhD Defence

It was already known that social anxiety disorder often affects more than one person in the same family. But research by PhD student Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam has now shown that there are genetic brain characteristics that are associated with social anxiety. The PhD ceremony will take place on 14 Ja…

Analysis of neuroimaging data requires multiple steps where statistics play a crucial role. The MRI methods research group develops new statistical methods that are accurate, transparent and easy to use.

The two main goals of the research that is conducted in the Brain and Education Lab are to understand the cognitive and neural systems that support the development of reading comprehension and other scholarly tasks in children, adolescents and adults, and to draw implications for intervention and other…

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Psychology

... which conceptualizes and investigates cognitive and affective processes with respect to their ultimate function: the control of voluntary action and self-regulation.

The research master’s specialisation Clinical and Health Psychology prepares you for a PhD trajectory.

Lecture

Electronic versions of our publications can be obtained by sending an e-mail to Esther van den Bos: bosejvanden@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

How do dissociative states affect the ability to suppress emotional distraction (in the context of a working memory task) in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Psychology

These are CCLS events that have already taken place. PDFs of the presentations will be added once they have been received.

Exclusion elicits the same response in children as in adolescents and adults. That is what psychologist Mara van der Meulen found when she studied brain activity in primary schoolchildren. ‘What is new for us is that it is the same in childhood as later in life.’ Doctoral defence on 10 December.

Lecture

In a recent mega-analysis, researchers from Leiden University aimed to clarify the contradictory findings of research into social anxiety disorder. They found that to obtain reliable research results having the largest possible sample size is important. Publication in NeuroImage:Clinical.

The master’s specialisation in Clinical Neuropsychology focuses on fostering clinical and scientific skills based on a solid theoretical background as well as practical training in neuropsychology and (clinical) neuropsychological research.

Neuroscientist Elseline Hoekzema receives a large European grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC starting grant for promising young researchers allows her to investigate the effects of pregnancy on the brain in detail.

This project on the role of FoxPs in vocal perception and production learning is part of nine PhD-positions funded by the NWO Gravitation Programme which was granted to the Dutch Research Consortium 'Language in Interaction'

LUCL is pleased to announce that Bobby Ruijgrok has been awarded a PhD-position within the NWO PhDs in the Humanities Programme. His project is entitled 'Tapping into semantic recovery: an event-related potential study on the processing of gapping'. LUCL congratulates Bobby on this beautiful result.

As part of a planned newsfeed up and until the conference, we will be publishing interviews with each of the conference keynote speakers. Kicking off these news bulletins is conference host and LUCL Academic Director Professor Niels Schiller. We would like to also take this opportunity to announce…