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Even unconscious stress can cause stress symptoms 30 November 2016
Our vision of stress is starting to change fundamentally. We can suffer stress without even being aware of it, while sleeping as wall as during the da...
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'Personalized medicine' as ideal in treatment of psychiatric disorders 09 November 2016
An ever widening gap is appearing between clinical practice and the treatment prescribed in DSM-5, the standard work on schizophrenia, psychiatrist Ja...
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Social Science Matters: Clinton vs. Trump - race over? 28 September 2016
Monday 26 September, 2016 saw the first confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Expectations were high – not only about the content o...
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Social support and quitter-identity may help smokers quit 05 July 2016
Receiving positive support and seeing yourself as being a quitter may help smokers quit, say Eline Meijer and colleagues. The health psychologists pub...
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NWO grant for Pavlov’s conditioning during sleep 27 June 2016
Andrea Evers has received an NWO research talent grant with Jelle van Leusden as the PhD candidate. This grant enables them to start a research projec...
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Expectations can relieve pain 07 June 2016
To relieve a patient's pain, it can be effective to induce expectations. This finding is promising for optimising the effectiveness of treatments, con...
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Sylvia van Beugen wins award for publication on psychodermatology 24 May 2016
Sylvia van Beugen has won the Herman Musaph Literature award 2016 for the best publication about psychodermatology. Her publication describes the impo...
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5 questions about bullying 19 April 2016
From sleep problems to suicide attempts: the consequences of bullying can be very serious. The National Day against Bullying (in the Netherlands 19 Ap...
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Impact of triggers on bipolar disorder less than expected 04 April 2016
Stressful events and a lack of support from the environment are both consequences and causes of mood swings in people with a bipolar disorder. This is...
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Inge Schilperoord nominated for the Dutch Libris Prize 2016 15 March 2016
Psychology alumna Inge Schilperoord works as a forensic psychologist in the Pieter Baan Centre, a psychiatric observation clinic. Her debut novel 'Mui...
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Health psychologist Jos Brosschot professor by special appointment 25 February 2016
Jos F. Brosschot has been appointed as a professor by special appointment on the chair ‘psychophysiological mechanisms of stress in daily life’. This ...
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Vici grant for Bernet Elzinga 15 February 2016
Bernet Elzinga (Clinical Psychology) is one of the seven scientists from the Leiden University who has received a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros from...
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Vici grants for 7 Leiden researchers 12 February 2016
Seven Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Brain connections predict adolescent impulsiveness 29 January 2016
There is a link in adolescents between brain connections and impulsiveness. Leiden researchers have discovered that these connections also predict whi...
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Is lack of sleep bad for study performance? 07 January 2016
The Netherlands Association for Sleep-Wake Research is studying this issue. Lead researcher Kristiaan van der Heijden, Leiden psychologist and sleep ...