Cognitive enhancement is het gebruik van elke methode of techniek met als doel het verbeteren van cognitieve prestaties.

De STAP-studie onderzoekt de kosteneffectiviteit van Written Exposure Therapy (WET) voor PTSS-symptomen in de huisartsenpraktijk.

Bernard Bernards onderzoekt beperkingen op innovatie door te focussen op cognitieve onzekerheid als toestand die innovatief werkgedrag kan beïnvloeden.

Het onderzoek dat wordt gedaan binnen het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap heeft als gemene deler dat er vanuit verschillende politicologische sub-disciplines wordt gekeken naar de dynamiek van en wisselwerking tussen politieke instituties, individuele besluitvorming en collectief gedrag.

De onderzoeksgroep Organizational & Entrepreneurial Behavior onderzoekt het gedrag van individuen en groepen die in organisaties werken, organisaties starten, of organisaties leiden, met als doel om organisatorische praktijken te informeren. Door zich te concentreren op het gedrag van (groepen) werknemers,…

By training with virtual opponents known as computer generated forces (CGFs), trainee fighter pilots can build the experience necessary for air combat operations, at a fraction of the cost of training with real aircraft.

To improve cancer treatments, personalized medicine approaches have aimed to identify exactly which mutations are driving tumor development in a given patient and specifically target these mutations using precision therapies.

Op 1 april 2020 verdedigde Marc Broekema zijn proefschrift 'Cognitive Bias in the Judgment of Business Valuations and Valuators'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. J.I. van der Rest.

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Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Veel kinderen leren niet op een niveau dat aansluit bij hun potentieel om te leren. Diagnostiek in de leerlingbeleiding zou daarom inzicht moeten geven in hoe een kind begeleid kan worden in het verder ontwikkelen van zijn of haar sterke kanten terwijl het tegelijkertijd handvatten biedt voor het ondersteunen…

Promotor: Carel J. ten Cate, Co-Promotor: Hans W. Slabbekoorn

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

In this thesis, we used genetically engineered mouse models to identify genes and pathways that are involved in ILC formation and in the development of resistance to FGFR-targeted therapy.

The main aim of my Ph.D. thesis is to further explore the value of using early developing zebrafish larvae (up to 5 dpf) as a model to study anxiety-like behaviour and their pharmacological modulation with drugs.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Promotores: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson, Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink. Co-promotor: C.P. Bagowski

The investigation into the bidirectional communication between the gut and its host is a rapidly growing area of research, attracting considerable attention for its potential to provide crucial insights into health and disease.

The research described in this thesis focused on identifying novel drug targets and synergistic combinations for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), a virulent subtype of breast cancer with a dismal prognosis and limited therapeutic options.

Op 12 october promoveert Fatemeh Tabassi Mofrad. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Fatemeh!

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Politicologen Tom Louwerse, Simon Otjes en Cynthia van Vonno introduceren hun Dutch Parliamentary Behaviour Dataset, waarin zij het stemgedrag in de Tweede Kamer sinds 1945 beschikbaar maken voor onderzoek.

In dit artikel onderzoekt Rutger Leukfeldt, bijzonder hoogleraar Governing Cybercrime, met collega's de relatie tussen PMT-factoren en zelfbeschermend onlinegedrag.

This thesis focuses on using liposomes in two different treatment strategies; vaccination (or immunotherapy) and delivery of a small molecule, and in two different disease models; cancer and atherosclerosis.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

On 4 and 5 November 2021 an ICOG-workshop will be held on the cognitive turn in history. It is possible to attend this workshop online. The participants of the workshop are cultural and intellectual historians of the pre-modern periods and/or of the historiography of academia from a long-term perspective,…

Een belangrijke uitdaging in de neurowetenschappen is het begrijpen hoe neuronen in honderden onderling verbonden hersengebieden sensorische input integreren met eerdere verwachtingen om bewegingen te initiëren en beslissingen te nemen.

In dit artikel onderzoeken Lara van Osch, Sandra Groeneveld en Ben Kuipers de manier waarop leidinggend gedrag van eerstelijnsfunctionarissen in teams wordt ingezet om publieke waarde te creëren.

Vast, often populated, areas in dryland ecosystems face the dangers of desertification.

Up to 45% of patients with Parkinson's disease experience impulse control disorders, characterised by a loss of voluntary control over impulses, drives or temptations. This study aimed to investigate whether previously identified genetic and psychiatric risk factors interact towards the development…

Dit artikel introduceert een nieuwe dyadische benadering om stemgedrag in de Raad van de Europese Unie te bestuderen.

The researchers examine the Council of the European Union's voting behaviour between 2010 and 2021 and the impact of different independent variables.

Inactivating mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes predispose to several types of cancer.

Actuele vraagstukken uit zowel Nederland als de internationale gemeenschap, zetten we in om de nieuwsgierigheid van studenten en onderzoekers te prikkelen.

This article by Danielle Goldwert, Sara Constantino, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and colleagues presents one of the largest behavioral 'megastudies' to date, testing how different interventions can stimulate public, political and financial climate advocacy.

Thirty years ago, mutations in the BRCA1 gene were first linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, establishing a genetic basis for cancer development.

Cognitieve psychologie is de studie van mentale functies, waaronder aandacht, geheugen, bewustzijn, emotie, taal en actiecontrole. Het doel is om de complexe relaties tussen brein, cognitie en gedrag te begrijpen.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. C.A. Mandemakers, Co-Promotor: G. Bloothooft

In this thesis, the researcher developed a nanosystem based on the metallophilic Interaction between cyclometalated complexes.

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) constitutes a small subtype (~15%) of breast cancer, but causes the majority of breast cancer-related deaths.

The effects of anthropogenic noise on interactions between predators and their prey are still little understood.

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

Humans can see the world through the eyes of other humans and imagine what they know, want, and intend. This competence is known as Theory of Mind.

In dit interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma werken onderzoekers uit vijf verschillende disciplines met elkaar samen. Zij stellen zich hieronder (in het Engels) aan u voor.