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18 search results for “brain development” in the Public website

• Media use and brain development during adolescence Research output

  Nowadays children grow up with social media. This may influence the development of brain regions involved in social interaction. In their review article in Nature Communications, Crone and Konijn illustrate how neuroscience can contribute to a better understanding of how media and peers influence adolescents'…

• Sex effects on development of brain structure and executive functions: Greater variance than mean effects Research output

  This study is the first to directly relate brain development to sex differences and school performance. The results debunk the myth that brain development is slower in boys.

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  Eveline Crone Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Linda van Leijenhorst Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Eduard Klapwijk Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Het puberende brein Research output

  Eveline Crone wrote a new edition of

• Increased striatal activity in adolescence benefits learning Research output

  Heightened activation of the striatum that adolescents show in response to reward is often associated with risk-taking and negative health consequences. This article in Nature Communications investigates a potential positive side of this heightened activation. It shows that the activity peak in late…

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  Lara Wierenga Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Kiki Zanolie Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Dietsje Jolles Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Positive feedback activates adolescent brain News - 20 January 2016

  Children and adolescents really do use their ‘smart’ brain areas. This has been confirmed by an extensive and long-running study of the brain carried out by developmental psychologist Sabine Peters . Her findings can have important consequences for education. PhD defence 27 January.

• Brain connections predict adolescent impulsiveness News - 29 January 2016

  There is a link in adolescents between brain connections and impulsiveness. Leiden researchers have discovered that these connections also predict which adolescents will make more impulsive choices two years further on.

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  Lina van Drunen Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Anna van Duijvenvoorde Professor Developmental Psychology

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Berna Güroglu Professor of Neuroscience of Social Relations

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Me, My Fiends, and I Research output

  A neuro-ecological perspective on adolescent prosocial development

• XXY versus autism: evidence from neuroimaging Research project

  Brain development in children with an extra X chromosome as compared to children with autism: evidence from MRI

• ERC Consolidator Grant for Eveline Crone News - 19 January 2016

  Eveline Crone surmises that adolescence also has a positive effect on social development. She believes, for example, that it is in adolescence that young people learn the skills of cooperation, sharing and helpfulness. She will be researching this hypothesis in the coming period with an ERC Consolidator…