Lina van Drunen
PhD candidate
- Name
- L. van Drunen MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- l.van.drunen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-6462-8804
Lina van Drunen is a PhD candidate at the Developmental and Educational Psychology Unit of Leiden University’s Institute of Psychology.
Lina van Drunen is working as a PhD candidate on ‘Individual differences in environmental and genetic effects on structural brain development’ in the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit in Leiden. This project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone and Dr. Lara Wierenga and part of the Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID). Since there are changes in brain development around early puberty, she wants to find out how these variations are sensitive to puberty and sex. Furthermore, Lina aims to unravel individual differences in sensitive periods of brain development. Sensitive periods reflect ages in which the developing individual is more susceptible to environmental effects. To do so she will work on a large twin sample aged 7-13 years old, including three longitudinal measures.
During her bachelor Psychobiology, Lina developed an interest in research while contributing to an EEG project on social exclusion at la Sapienza University in Rome. For the first time she felt the rush of science and an urge to develop herself as a researcher. The research master Cognitive Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology in Amsterdam helped her gain confidence in finding solutions to complicated research problems. Lina’s final research master internship in the Brain and Development Research Center in Leiden was a good preparation for her PhD in which she examined self-concept in the fMRI scanner and how genetic and environmental factors influenced the behavior and brain areas involved in self-concept.
PhD candidate
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Ontwikkelings- & Onderwijspsychologie
- Wierenga Lara Marise Ruigrok Amber Aksnes Eira Ranheim Barth Claudia Beck Dani Burke Sarah Crestol Arielle van Drunen Lina Ferrara Maria Galea Liisa Ann Margaret Goddings Anne-Lise Hausmann Markus Homanen Inka Klinge Ineke de Lange Ann-Marie Ouwerkerk Lieke van der Miesen Anna Proppert Ricarda Rieble Carlotta Tamnes Christian Krog Bos Marieke Geerte Nynke (2024), Recommendations for a Better Understanding of Sex and Gender in the Neuroscience of Mental Health, Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 4(2): 100283 (100283).
- van Drunen L., Toenders Y.J., Wierenga L.M. & Crone E. A. (2023), Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on structural brain development in early adolescence, Scientific Reports 13: 5600.
- Meulen M. van der, Dobbelaar S., Drunen L. van, Heunis J.S.,IJzendoorn M.H. van, Blankenstein N.E. & Crone E.A.M. (2023), Transitioning from childhood into adolescence: a comprehensive longitudinal behavioral and neuroimaging study on prosocial behavior and social inclusion, NeuroImage 284: 120445.
- Dobbelaar S., Achterberg M., van Drunen L., van Duijvenvoorde A.C.K., van IJzendoorn M.H. & Crone E.A. (2022), Development of social feedback processing and responses in childhood: an fMRI test-replication design in two age cohorts, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience : 1-13.
- Drunen L. van, Dobbelaar S., Cruijsen L.W.P. van der, Meulen M. van der, Achterberg M., Wierenga L.M. & Crone E.A.M (2021), The nature of the self: neural analyses and heritability estimates of self-evaluations in middle childhood, Human Brain Mapping 42(17): 5609-5625.
- 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.