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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 ...
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Socially anxious people are interested in others 21 December 2015
The idea that socially anxious people avoid eye contact because they are not interested in other people needs to be changed. They take their informati...
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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, a Healthy Faculty 04 December 2015
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has become a lot healthier, thanks to the first Healthy Faculty event on 29 and 30 October, 2015. Healt...
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Interdisciplinary approach benefits brain research 30 September 2015
How do practice and theory reinforce one another in neuroscience? Professor Birte Forstmann’s inaugural lecture on 2 October will be about building in...
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Interdisciplinary approach benefits brain research 28 September 2015
How do practice and theory reinforce one another in neuroscience? Professor Birte Forstmann’s inaugural lecture on 2 October will be about building in...
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Two Veni grants awarded to Leiden Psychology researchers 10 September 2015
Two Leiden researchers of the Institute of Psychology have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming three years thank...
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The brain on alert 09 June 2015
When focussing attention, the neurotransmitters noradrenaline and acetylcholine play an important role. This new finding made by psychologist Stephen ...
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Do placebos help against itching? 22 April 2014
If a pill containing no active ingredients still helps, this positive expectation is called a placebo effect. A negative expectation is called a noceb...