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Out-of-control behaviour: why do youngsters sometimes go so far? View the vodcast by NeurolabNL 11 April 2023Earning some quick money by drug trafficking, committing an act of violence or almost collapsing under performance pressure. In the four-part Neurolab...
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Leiden University and Unicef extend cooperation on children’s rights 19 December 2022Leiden University and Unicef have already been working together for ten years to increase and share information on children’s rights. They are extendi...
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Gravitation grant for research into growing up successfully 02 May 2022How can young people grow up successfully and contribute to the present and future society? The consortium that is researching this will receive 22 mi...
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New interactive book helps motivate young people and tackle bullying 01 February 2022How do you deal with bullying? How can you motivate young people? At the NeurolabNL symposium a multidisciplinary research team launched an interactiv...
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Judi Mesman awarded Stevin Prize for research on upbringing and diversity 03 September 2021What influence do children’s upbringing and education have on their world view? This is the question Professor Judi Mesman is trying to answer. For he...
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Michelle Achterberg receives Award for PhD Thesis on brain development in children 14 June 2021
On June 10, Michelle Achterberg received the prize for best dissertation from the Dutch Neurofederation, the network of Dutch neuroscientists, for her...
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Developing your own self-image and choosing the right study programme 14 June 2021How you think about yourself is important for the choices you make. Adolescents are faced with choosing a study programme that will determine their fu...
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Best friends forever? How the adolescent brain reacts to good friends 12 January 2021During adolescence, some young people have stable best-friend relationships, while others change best friends frequently. Developmental psychologist L...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde spends Heineken Young Scientist Award on science vlogs 07 July 2020She considers herself lucky. She talks about the research projects she has ended up in and a network like the Young Academy Leiden (YAL). Van Duijvenv...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde receives Heineken Young Scientists Award 29 June 2020The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded the Heineken Young Scientist Award 2020 in the Social Sciences to developmental ...
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Don’t underestimate the developing child brain 12 March 2020Children’s brains react in the same way to social feedback as adults’ brains. But handling frustration or aggression after being rejected is a differe...
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Genetic predisposition to social anxiety disorder measurable in the brain 13 January 2020It was already known that social anxiety disorder often affects more than one person in the same family. But research by PhD student Janna Marie Bas-H...
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Social brain active in childhood already 09 December 2019Exclusion elicits the same response in children as in adolescents and adults. That is what psychologist Mara van der Meulen found when she studied bra...
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Eveline Crone new ERC Vice-President 31 October 2019Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Development Psychology at Leiden University, has been elected as the new Vice President of the European Res...
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Scientists present NeuroLabNL research agenda to ministers 04 July 2018What effect does bullying have on the brain? This is just one of the key research questions included in the NeuroLabNL science agenda. Scientists pre...