239 search results for “bipolar disorder” in the Staff website
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Podcast: A life with Bipolar Disorder
We talk to Justin, who was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder type 1 over 14 years ago. Justin is very candid and talks about his first manic episode at the age of 28, and how he learned to live a stable life. Justin is doing well, and he owes this in particular to his own perseverance. What do you experience…
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Manja KoendersFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Food for Thought “Mental Health Disorders ”
Lecture, Food for Thought
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Galaxies have bipolar gas outflows far into intergalactic space
For the first time, astronomers have observed in three dimensions that gas from spiral galaxies is blown upwards and downwards at high speed, far out of the galaxy. They thereby confirm the theory of galaxy evolution: that star-forming galaxies create intergalactic gas flows by discharging gas along…
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Jacqueline Guicherit-Dicke
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Philip SpinhovenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wouter StaalFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maretha de JongeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Podcast: Social Anxiety Disorder
Have you ever experienced the feeling of awkwardness when attending a party where you didn’t know anybody? Ever felt shy at a party within the first few minutes? While this feeling is labelled loosely as feeling socially anxious, social anxiety disorder goes to a much further extent.
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Annemieke van Drenth
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Don WeeninkFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne Krause-Utz
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Petra BarneveldFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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'Dissociation in borderline personality disorder can hinder daily life and the course of therapy'
Dissociation is a common symptom in borderline personality disorder and is associated with an increased risk of suicidality and self-harm. Dialectical behaviour therapist Anne Krause-Utz has written a book for clinicians, researchers and students who want to better understand and recognise the pheno…
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Rachel de JongFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Perspective for people with borderline personality disorder
‘Raising awareness of the disorder is crucial since borderline personality disorder (BPD) still faces considerable stigma ’, says Anne Krause-Utz (Clinical Psychology) . Together with an international team of excellent scientists, Krause-Utz provides an update of current knowledge about this disorder,…
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Why early detection of bone disorders matters
As a professor, Natasha Appelman-Dijkstra understands better than anyone how important it is to recognise bone and mineral conditions at an early stage. She emphasises the importance of flexibility and collaboration for better care, groundbreaking research and strong education.
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Yvette Dijkxhoorn
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Julie HallFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Reportage: training anxious children should help prevent disorders and depression
Many primary school children suffer from anxiety and their numbers are increasing. Psychologists from the Knowledge Center Anxiety & Stress (KAS) are developing and researching preventive training.
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Researchers unravel mystery behind rare pregnancy disorder
Leiden researchers have found clues to why a rare pregnancy disorder is mild in some babies but life-threatening in others. Their discovery opens the door to a test that could identify severe cases during pregnancy. Fortunately, a treatment already exists.
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Hans AertsFaculty of Science
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Nutrition and fasting for the brain: why the Keto diet shows promise
Autism, Alzheimer’s, and bipolar disorder: can the development of these mental health conditions be influenced by the ketogenic diet? Increasingly, research suggests it might. 'For those it helps, it can be life-changing,' says neuroscientist Eline Dekeyster.
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Bold and anxious fish help in the hunt for medication for ADHD and depression
Personality is genetic in zebrafish: risk-taking parents have risk-taking children. These are the findings of research by Christian Tudorache and his team published in BMC Neuroscience.
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Better screening can help GPs recognise anxiety disorders earlier
Only one in five young people with emotional health problems such as an anxiety disorder receives appropriate professional help. GPs often fail to properly recognise the signals in children and young people, according to psychologist Semiha Aydin. How can we improve this? PhD defence 23 February.
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Andrea SpruijtFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Binge-eating disorders in the Arab world and the Netherlands
Psychologist Bernou Melisse was shocked at the long waiting lists in the Netherlands for people with binge-eating disorders. The problem was not yet on the map in Saudi Arabia. She therefore decided to study how people suffering from binge eating can be helped better in their own region of the world.…
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Evelien UrbanusFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eiko FriedFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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New insights into characteristics of Conduct Disorder with "limited prosocial emotions"
In a recent study, Dr. Moji Aghajani and colleagues show that adolescents with a severe form of Conduct Disorder (CD) -with limited prosocial emotions- require an unusually large amount of brain capacity to read emotional faces. These effects were found in comparison to CD youth without limited prosocial…
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Marike KooistraFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rianne de KleineFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maartje SchoorlFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Leo de Sonneville
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nikki NibberingFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Elise KortinkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Janna Marie Bas-HoogendamFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Johanna Greeven
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Frederiek Halbertsma
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Thomas WillemsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rayyan ToutounjiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Danielle OprelFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Hinke EndedijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jan Dirk BlomFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Greta NoordenbosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Semiha AydinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marit Guda
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Evert Scholte
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bianca BoyerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Willem van der DoesFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences