Neeltje Blankenstein
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. N.E. Blankenstein
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- n.e.blankenstein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3263-9514
Neeltje Blankenstein is a post-doctoral researcher in the unit of Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. Neeltje seeks to understand how (neuro)biological, psychological, and social factors give rise to positive and negative risk behaviors across development.
Neeltje Blankenstein is a post-doctoral researcher in the unit of Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. Neeltje seeks to understand how (neuro)biological, psychological, and social factors give rise to positive and negative risk behaviors across development.
Short CV
Neeltje obtained her research master’s degree in Psychology - Cognitive Neuroscience from Leiden University in 2014 (cum laude).
In September 2014 Neeltje started her PhD project supervised by Dr. Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone (Brain & Development Research Center). This project focused on decision-making under different types of risk across adolescence, using behavioral modelling, functional neuroimaging, and longitudinal structural neuroimaging. Neeltje defended her PhD thesis on February 14, 2019 (title: Risky business? Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying risky decision-making in adolescents).
Since June 2018 Neeltje works as a post-doctoral researcher as part of the NeurolabNL consortium (Dutch Research Agenda) where she studies how neurobiological, psychological, and social factors give rise to antisocial behavior across adolescence. She works at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Amsterdam Medical Center (with Dr. Lucres Nauta-Jansen) and collaborates with the unit of Clinical and Neurodevelopmental Sciences at Leiden University (with Prof. Dr. Hanna Swaab).
Since August 2020 Neeltje also works at the unit of Developmental and Educational Psychology where she examines the development of risk taking across several domains in typically-developing adolescents and adolescents with ADHD.
Teaching
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Ontwikkelings- & Onderwijspsychologie
- 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.
- Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van, Hoorn J. van & Blankenstein N.E. (2022), Risks and rewards in adolescent decision-making, Current Opinion in Psychology 48: 101457.
- Blankenstein N.E., Peper J.S. & Crone E.A.M. (2022), Behavioral and neural development of cognitive control and riskydecision-making across adolescence . In: Houdé O. & Borst G. (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of cognitive development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 500-515.
- Westhoff B., Blankenstein N.E., Schreuders E., Crone E.A.M. & Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van (2021), Increased ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity in adolescence benefits prosocial reinforcement learning, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 52: 101018.
- Blankenstein N.E., Huettel S.A. & Li R. (2021), Resolving ambiguity: broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development, Developmental Review 62: 100987.
- Blankenstein N.E., Vandenbroucke A.R.E., Vries R. de, Swaab H., Popma A. & Jansen L.M.C. (2022), Understanding aggression in adolescence by studying the neurobiological stress system: a systematic review, Motivation Science 8(2): 133-149.
- Blankenstein N.E., Rooij M.J. de, Ginkel J.R. van, Wilderjans T.F., Ruigh E.L. de, Oldenhof H.C., Zijlmans J., Jambroes T., Platje E., Vries-Bouw M. de, Branje S., Meeus W.H.J., Vermeiren R.R.J.M., Popma A. & Jansen L.M.C. (2021), Neurobiological correlates of antisociality across adolescence and young adulthood: a multi-sample, multi-method study, Psychological Medicine : 1-16.
- Blankenstein N.E., Schreuders E., Peper J.S., Crone E.A. & Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van (2020), Not all teens take risks: individual differences in the neural mechanisms of risky decision-making. .
- Blankenstein N.E. & Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van (2019), Neural tracking of subjective value under risk and ambiguity in adolescence, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 19(6): 1364-1378.
- Blankenstein N.E., Do K.T., Telzer E.H., Van Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. & Crone E.A. (2020), Behavioral and neural pathways supporting the development of prosocial and risk-taking behavior across adolescence, Child Development 91(3): e665-e681.
- Zadelaar J.N., Weeda W.D., Waldorp L.J., Van Duijvenvoorde A.C.K., Blankenstein N.E. & Huizenga H.M. (2019), Are individual differences quantitative or qualitative? An integrated behavioral and fMRI MIMIC approach, NeuroImage 202: e116058.
- Blankenstein N.E. (14 February 2019), Risky business? Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying risky decision-making in adolescents (Dissertatie. Institute of psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Crone E.A., Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van.
- 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.
- Peper J.S., Braams B.R., Blankenstein N.E., Bos M.G.N. & Crone E.A.M. (2018), Development of Multifaceted Risk Taking and the Relations to Sex Steroid Hormones: A Longitudinal Study, Child Development 89(5): 1887-1907.
- Schreuders E., Braams B.R., Blankenstein N.E., Peper J.S., Güroğlu B. & Crone E.A. (2018), Contributions of Reward Sensitivity to Ventral Striatum Activity Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood, Child Development 89(3): 797-810.
- Blankenstein N.E., Schreuders E., Peper J.S., Crone E.A.M. & Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van (2018), Individual differences in risk-taking tendencies modulate the neural processing of risky and ambiguous decision-making in adolescence, NeuroImage 172: 663-673.
- Blankenstein N.E., Peper J.S., Crone E.A. & Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van (2017), Neural Mechanisms Underlying Risk and Ambiguity Attitudes, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 29(11): 1845-1859.
- Blankenstein N.E., Crone E.A., Bos W. van den & Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van (2016), Dealing with uncertainty: Testing risk-and ambiguity-attitude across adolescence, Developmental Neuropsychology 41(1-2): 77-92.
- Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van, Blankenstein N.E., Crone E.A. & Figner B. (2017), Towards a better understanding of adolescent risk taking: Contextual moderators and model-based analysis. In: Toplak M.E. & Weller J. (Eds.), Individual differences in judgment and decision making: A developmental perspective. New York: Psychology Press. 8-27.
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