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 developmental cognitive neuroscientist. Her research focuses on adolescent risk taking, including online risk behavior. In her research she combines biological en behavioral methods.
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Neeltje Blankenstein is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist. Her research focuses on adolescent risk taking, including online risk behavior. In her research she combines biological en behavioral methods.
Research
Neeltje Blankenstein's research focuses on the (neuro)biological and psychological mechanisms that underlie risk-taking behavior in youth. She investigates why some adolescents take more risks than others. She also studies the role of hormones, brain function, psychophysiology, and personal characteristics in the development of risk taking from childhood to young adulthood. She also investigates online risk-taking behavior, such as sexting and online gambling, and the influence of social media on adolescent risk taking.
Short CV
Blankenstein has a background in cognitive neuroscience (graduated with honors in 2014), after which she completed her PhD at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology on decision-making behavior of adolescents under different levels of risk (2019). For her PhD research she combined behavioral modelling and neuroimaging techniques.
After this, she completed a postdoc at the Youth at Risk section of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosocial Care (Amsterdam UMC), where she studied negative manifestations of adolescent risk taking: antisocial behavior. She conducted research on the development of delinquency and aggression by combining physiological and hormonal, psychological, and social environment measures, in multi-sample studies.
She then returned to the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology where she first conducted postdoc research on adolescent risk taking in different domains. Since 2022 she is Assistant Professor and has her own research line on adolescent online risk taking, such as online gambling and sexting.
Grants and Awards
- Leids Universiteits Fonds Scientific Project (2022): 35.000
- ECNP conference Excellence Award (2020): best abstract
- Leids Universiteits Fonds travel grant (2017): €1000
Teaching
- Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Evidence Based Practice in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Master's thesis
Master's Education Committee (MOC)
In addition to her research and teaching, Blankenstein is a teaching member of the Master's Education Committee (MOC) of Psychology.
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.
- Teeuw J., Mota N.R., Klein M., Blankenstein N.E., Tielbeek J.J., Jansen L.M.C., Franke B. & Hulshoff P.H.E. (2023), Polygenic risk scores and brain structures both contribute to externalizing behavior in childhood: a study in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) cohort, Neuroscience Applied 2: 101128 (101128).
- Cruijsen R. van der, Blankenstein N.E., Spaans J.P., Peters S. & Crone E.A.M. (2023), Longitudinal self-concept development in adolescence, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 18: nsac062.
- 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., 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., 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., 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., 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.
- 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. (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.
- 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. & 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., 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.