Lara Wierenga
Assistant professor
- Name
- L.M. Wierenga Ph.D.
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3787
- l.m.wierenga@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9362-563x
Lara Wierenga is a postdoctoral researcher in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.
More information about Lara Wierenga
Leiden Psychology Blog
Short CV
Lara Wierenga is a post doctoral researcher in the Brain and Development Research Center, which is part of the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. She is is a principal investigator on the Leiden Consortium on Individual Development.
Lara received her PhD in 2016 at Brain Center Rudolph Magnus in Utrecht, where she focused on structural brain changes in typically and atypically developing children and adolescents. She continued this research at the University of California in San Diego, where she worked as a post-doc researcher to address developmental changes in brain connectivity. Her current research focuses on modeling brain development with longitudinal study designs in order to get a better understanding of genetic and environmental effects on brain development.
Grants
- 2018: Samenwerking Hendrik Mullerprijs prof. E.A. Crone, ter beschikking voor boek: Een visuele ontdekkingstocht door het ontwikkelende brein. €5000,-
- 2016: KNAW ter Meulen Beurs for postdoctoral fellow at UCSD, San Diego €23.200,-
- 2014: Funding for strategic network development, Internationalization committee UMC Utrecht for visiting scholar at UCSD, San Diego €1.500,-
Awards
- 2017: Travel grant, Flux society conference meeting, Portland €826,-
- 2012: Rudolf Magnus poster award €100,-
Supervised PhD candidates
- MSc Lina van Drunen
- Dr. Mara van der Meulen
Relevant links
Leiden Psychology Blog
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Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Ontwikkelings- & Onderwijspsychologie
- Becht A.I., Klapwijk E.T., Wierenga L.M., Cruijsen R. van der, Spaans J., Aar L. van der, Peters S., Branje S., Meeus W. & Crone E.A. (2020), Longitudinal associations between structural prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens development and daily identity formation processes across adolescence, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 46: 100880.
- Meulen M. van der, Wierenga L.M., Achterberg M., Drenth N, IJzendoorn M.H. van & Crone E.A.M. (2020), Genetic and environmental influences on structure of the social brain in childhood, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 44: 100782.
- Crone E.A.,M. Achterberg M., Dobbelaar S., Euser S., Bulk B.G. van den, Meulen M. van der, Drunen L. van, Wierenga L.M., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. & IJzendoorn M.H. van (2020), Neural and behavioral signatures of social evaluation and adaptation in childhood and adolescence: the Leiden consortium on individual development (L-CID), Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 45: 100805.
- Huijser D.C., Achterberg M., Wierenga L.M., Van 't Veer A.E., Klapwijk E.T., Van Erkel R. & Hettne K. (2020), MRI data sharing guide Zenodo: Zenodo. [manual].
- Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van, Westhoff B., Vos F. de, Wierenga L.M. & Crone E.A. (2019), A three-wave longitudinal study of subcortical-cortical resting-state connectivity in adolescence: Testing age- and puberty-related changes, Human Brain Mapping 40(13): 3769-3783.
- Wierenga L.M., Bos M.G.N., Rossenberg F. van & Crone E.A. (2019), Sex effects on development of brain structure and executive functions: Greater variance than mean effects, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 31(5): 730-753.
- Klapwijk E.T., Van de Kamp F., Van der Meulen M., Peters S. & Wierenga L.M. (2019), Qoala-T: A supervised-learning tool for quality control of FreeSurfer segmented MRI data, NeuroImage 189: 116-129.
- Carmona S., Martinez-Garcia M., Paternina-Die M., Barba-Muller E., Wierenga L.M., Aleman-Gomez Y., Pretus C., Marcos-Vidal L., Beumala L., Cortizo R., Pozzobon C., Picado M., Lucco F., Garcia-Garcia D., Soliva J.C., Tobena A., Peper J.S., Crone E.A., Ballesteros A., Vilarroya O., Desco M. & Hoekzema E. (2019), Pregnancy and adolescence entail similar neuroanatomical adaptations: A comparative analysis of cerebral morphometric changes, Human Brain Mapping 40(7): 2143-2152.
- Bos M.G.N., Wierenga L.M., Blankenstein N.E., Schreuders E., Tamnes C.K. & Crone E.A. (2018), Longitudinal structural brain development and externalizing behavior in adolescence, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 59(10): 1061-1072.
- Wierenga L.M., Sexton J.A., Laake P., Giedd J.N. & Tamnes C.K. (2018), A key characteristic of sex differences in the developing brain: Greater variability in brain structure of boys than girls, Cerebral Cortex 28(8): 2741-2751.
- Wierenga L.M., Bos M.G.N., Schreuders E., Kamp F. van der, Peper J.S., Tamnes C.K. & Crone E.A. (2018), Unraveling age, puberty and testosterone effects on subcortical brain development across adolescence, Psychoneuroendocrinology 91: 105-114.
- Wierenga L.M., Van den Heuvel M.P., Oranje B., Giedd J.N., Durston S., Peper J.S., Brown T.T. & Crone E.A. (2018), A multisample study of longitudinal changes in brain network architecture in 4-13-year-old children, Human Brain Mapping 39(1): 157-170.
- Mensen V.T., Wierenga L.M., Dijk S. van, Rijks Y., Oranje B., Mandl R.C.W. & Durston S. (2017), Development of cortical thickness and surface area in autism spectrum disorder, NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 13: 215-222.
- Ambrosino S., Zeeuw P. de, Wierenga L.M., Dijk S. van & Durston S. (2017), What can cortical development in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder teach us about the early developmental mechanisms involved?, Cerebral Cortex 27(9): 4624-4634.
- Wierenga L.M., Van den Heuvel M.P., Van Dijk S., Rijks Y., De Reus M.A. & Durston S. (2016), The development of brain network architecture, Human Brain Mapping 37(2): 717-729.
- De Wit S., Wierenga L.M., Oranje B., Ziermans T.B., Schothorst P.F., Van Engeland H., Kahn R.S. & Durston S. (2016), Brain development in adolescents at ultra-high risk for psychosis: Longitudinal changes related to resilience, NeuroImage: Clinical 12: 542-549.
- Wierenga L., Langen M., Ambrosino S., Van Dijk S., Oranje B. & Durston S. (2014), Typical development of basal ganglia, hippocampus, amygdala and cerebellum from age 7 to 24, NEUROIMAGE 96: 67-72.
- Wierenga L.M., Langen M., Oranje B. & Durston S. (2014), Unique developmental trajectories of cortical thickness and surface area, NEUROIMAGE 87: 120-126.
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