Michiel Claessen
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. M.H.G. Claessen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6034
- m.h.g.claessen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7971-5759
Short CV
Dr. Michiel Claessen is employed as an Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology in Leiden University’s Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Department. He teaches in the MA courses “Adult and Old Age Clinical Neuropsychology: Clinical Practice” and “Intervention Strategies in Clinical Neuropsychology: Practical Training”. He is co-coordinator of “Adult and Old Age Clinical Neuropsychology: Clinical Practice”. Besides this employment, he also works as a Health Care Psychologist in training for Goudenhart, an organisation for elderly care. Goudenhart is involved in geriatric rehabilitation (including neurorehabilitation) and long-term care for people with somatic and psychogeriatric diseases. His main tasks and interests concern psychodiagnostic assessment of cognition, mood and behavior, (neuro)psychological treatment based on cognitive behavioral treatment and EMDR, giving advice about how to deal with and approach patients, and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings.
Michiel Claessen obtained his PhD in 2017 (from Utrecht University in collaboration with University Medical Center Utrecht and De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation) based on a dissertation about navigation ability after stroke. He conducted research on the cognitive characteristics of navigation impairment in stroke patients and developed a training to improve navigation ability in stroke patients. He devotes part of his time to research activities with specific focuses on navigation ability, navigation impairment and stroke.
Relevant links
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Gezondheids, Medische- Neuropsychologie
- Ham C.J.M. van der & Claessen M.H.G. (2022), A clinical guide to assessment of navigation impairment: : standardized subjective and objective instruments and normative data, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 44(7): 487-498.
- Ham C.J.M. van der & Claessen M.H.G. (2022), A clinical guide to assessment of navigation impairment: standardized subjective and objective instruments and normative data, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 44(7): 487-498.
- Van der Ham I.J.M. & Claessen M.H.G. (2022), A clinical guide to assessment of navigation impairment: standardized subjective and objective instruments and normative data, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 44(7): 487-498.
- Ham C.J.M. van der, Kuil M.N.A. van der & Claessen M.H.G. (2021), Quality of self-reported cognition: effects of age and gender on spatial navigation self-reports, Aging and Mental Health 25(5): 873-878.
- Ham I.J.M. van der & Claessen M.H.G. (2020), How age relates to spatial navigation performance: functional and methodological considerations, Ageing Research Reviews 58: 101020.
- Ham I.J.M. van der, Kuil M.N.A. van der, Evers A.W.M. & Claessen M.H.G. (2020), Large-scale assessment of human navigation ability across the lifespan, Scientific Reports 10: 3299.
- Claessen M.H.G., Van Zandvoort M.J.E., Leijten F.S.S. & Van der Ham I.J.M. (2019), Memory for novel and familiar environments relies on the hippocampus: A case study on a patient with a right anteromesial temporal lobectomy, Hippocampus 29(9): 869-875.
- De Rooij N.K., Claessen M.H.G., Van der Ham I.J.M., Post M.W.M. & Visser-Meily J.M.A. (2019), The Wayfinding Questionnaire: A clinically useful self-report instrument to identify navigation complaints in stroke patients, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 29(7): 1042-1061.
- Claessen M.H.G., Van der Ham I.J.M., De Rooij N.K. & Visser-Meily J.M.A. (2018), De weg kwijt na een beroerte: Screening, diagnostiek en behandeling, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Revalidatiegeneeskunde 2: 48-51.
- Claessen M.H.G. & Ham I.J.M. van der (2017), Classification of navigation impairment: A systematic review of neuropsychological case studies, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 73: 81-97.
- Claessen M.H.G., Visser-Meily J.M.A., Meilinger T., Postma A., Rooij N.K. de & Ham I.J.M. van der (2017), A systematic investigation of navigation impairment in chronic stroke patients: Evidence for three distinct types, Neuropsychologia 103: 154-161.
- Ham C.J.M. van der, Martens M.A.G., Claessen M.H.G. & Berg E. van den (2017), Landmark agnosia: Evaluating the definition of landmark-based navigation impairment, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 32(4): 472-482.
- Claessen M.H.G., Visser-Meily J.M.A., Rooij N.K. de, Postma A. & Ham C.J.M. van der (2016), The Wayfinding Questionnaire as a self-report screening instrument for navigation-related complaints after stroke: internal validity in healthy respondents and chronic mild stroke patients, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 31(8): 839-854.
- Van der Ham C.J.M. & Claessen M.H.G. (2016), Navigation ability. In: Postma A. & Ham C.J.M. van der (Eds.), The Neuropsychology of Space. Spatial Functions of the Human Brain. Cambridge, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.
- GZ-psycholoog