July 2024
What a way to start the summer: Selin's paper on the role of anxiety and fear of negative evaluation in non-social and social learning has been accepted for publication in Journal of Affective Disorders! For more info, see Publications.
March 2023
It's the 8th of March: International Women's day!
We had a wonderful Lorentz Workshop here in Leiden last week, which also served as the kick-off symposium for our ERC project on hormonal fluctuations across the female lifespan. Together with an amazing group of international researchers from all sorts of disciplines (psychology, gynaecology, psychiatry, neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, and sociology) we made exciting plans to improve female’s mental health by taking an interdisciplinary hormonal lifespan perspective.
The first steps in setting up a much-needed international research network were taken and we recently launched FLAME, the female lifespan association for mental health and neuroendocrinology. You can find us for now on LinkedIn, where the ‘young’ researchers in this group posted their thoughts in a video in honour of Women’s Day.
What a way to start the summer: Selin's paper on the role of anxiety and fear of negative evaluation in non-social and social learning has been accepted for publication in Journal of Affective Disorders! For more info, see Publications.
March 2023
It's the 8th of March: International Women's day!
We had a wonderful Lorentz Workshop here in Leiden last week, which also served as the kick-off symposium for our ERC project on hormonal fluctuations across the female lifespan. Together with an amazing group of international researchers from all sorts of disciplines (psychology, gynaecology, psychiatry, neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, and sociology) we made exciting plans to improve female’s mental health by taking an interdisciplinary hormonal lifespan perspective.
The first steps in setting up a much-needed international research network were taken and we recently launched FLAME, the female lifespan association for mental health and neuroendocrinology. You can find us for now on LinkedIn, where the ‘young’ researchers in this group posted their thoughts in a video in honour of Women’s Day.
February 2023
Very excited about our upcoming Lorentz workshop on ''Hormonal fluctuations across the female lifespan: Fostering mental health and wellbeing through all ages", from 26 February - 1 March in Leiden.
We will be in the unique position to discuss the gaps and opportunities in this important and emerging research domain with an international group of amazing researchers and clinicians. We plan to harmonize our research methods in this interdisciplinary field with the aim of developing best practices in female lifespan research and to stimulate large-scale international collaborations.
More information on this topic can be found here. We recently started a new 5-year research project (funded by the EU; see below) focusing on the effects of hormonal fluctuations on neurocognition across the female lifespan, targeting the natural hormonal transition periods of puberty, menstrual cycle and (peri)menopause. More information on this exciting new project and an introduction of the people who recently joined our team to work on this will follow soon!
But, first, getting ready for the workshop!
Very excited about our upcoming Lorentz workshop on ''Hormonal fluctuations across the female lifespan: Fostering mental health and wellbeing through all ages", from 26 February - 1 March in Leiden.
We will be in the unique position to discuss the gaps and opportunities in this important and emerging research domain with an international group of amazing researchers and clinicians. We plan to harmonize our research methods in this interdisciplinary field with the aim of developing best practices in female lifespan research and to stimulate large-scale international collaborations.
More information on this topic can be found here. We recently started a new 5-year research project (funded by the EU; see below) focusing on the effects of hormonal fluctuations on neurocognition across the female lifespan, targeting the natural hormonal transition periods of puberty, menstrual cycle and (peri)menopause. More information on this exciting new project and an introduction of the people who recently joined our team to work on this will follow soon!
But, first, getting ready for the workshop!
January 2024
Myrthe's paper on the effects of L-DOPA and oxytocin on monitoring of performance for self and others has been accepted for publication in Psychopharmacology. For a link, see Publications.
November 2023
Myrthe successfully defended her excellent PhD thesis entitled 'My Bad! Subclinical and neurochemical alterations of performance monitoring for self and others' and was very deservingly awarded with the distinction cum laude! Congratulations Myrthe!
June 2023
Iris Koele, from the Change Lab @Leiden University, has published her paper on own and observed error processing in a peer context across development in Neuropsychologia. For a link, see Publications.
March 2023
Selin's review paper on learning under different uncertainty conditions across development has been accepted for publication in Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. For a link, see Publications.
February 2023
Myrthe's paper on on the effects of L-DOPA and oxytocin on the neurocomputational mechanisms of self-benefitting and prosocial reinforcement learning has been accepted for publication in Neuroimage.
Excited to announce that Ellen was awarded a Vici Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for female lifespan research! @NWONieuws @NWOFunding NWO (Dutch Research Council)
Ellen's lecture on 'Alarm signals in our brain' as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series on 'Dealing with uncertainty' (Onvoorst/pelbaar) is online (in Dutch). You can watch it here.
January 2023
Very happy to announce that Ellen was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to examine the effects of hormonal fluctuations on neurocognitive functioning across the female lifespan! Looking forward to setting up and carrying out this exciting research with our team and amazing collaborators for the next five years. #EUFunded #ERCCog @FLIRT
January 2023
Excited to announce that the program for the interdisciplinary public lecture series on 'Dealing with uncertainty' is now online. We organise this lecture series (in Dutch) in the context of the interdisciplinary research program Social Resilience and Security and in collaboration with Studium Generale.
The aim of this lecture series is to connect disciplines in an accessible way around the theme of uncertainty, creating unexpected, but above all interesting and new combinations of perspectives. In four duo lectures, scientists from the faculties of social sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, law, archaeology, humanities and governance and global affairs will give their interdisciplinary perspective on the topics of risk taking, conspiracy thinking, uncertainty in the brain, the role of emotions in decision-making, and the positive effects of uncertainty in our distant past and near future.
Dates: 6, 13, 20 and 27 February, 19.30-21.30 hrs, Lipsius Building, Leiden University.
Excited to announce that the program for the interdisciplinary public lecture series on 'Dealing with uncertainty' is now online. We organise this lecture series (in Dutch) in the context of the interdisciplinary research program Social Resilience and Security and in collaboration with Studium Generale.
The aim of this lecture series is to connect disciplines in an accessible way around the theme of uncertainty, creating unexpected, but above all interesting and new combinations of perspectives. In four duo lectures, scientists from the faculties of social sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, law, archaeology, humanities and governance and global affairs will give their interdisciplinary perspective on the topics of risk taking, conspiracy thinking, uncertainty in the brain, the role of emotions in decision-making, and the positive effects of uncertainty in our distant past and near future.
Dates: 6, 13, 20 and 27 February, 19.30-21.30 hrs, Lipsius Building, Leiden University.
