1,547 search results for “medical psychology” in the Public website
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Biomedical Imaging
The rapid advances in imaging technology enable to see inside the body with ever increasing detail.
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RESIST Study
Knowledge of mental distress and resilience factors over the time span from before to after a stressor is important to be able to leverage the most promising resilience factors and promote mental health at the right time. To shed light on this topic, we designed the RESIST Study, in which we assessed…
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Faculties
Leiden University was founded in 1575 and is one of the leading international research universities in Europe. Its motto is Praesidium Libertatis – Bastion of Freedom
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Organisation
The Executive Committee consists of the following members:
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Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining from patient experience repositories
This project develops a scientific method to extract clinically relevant new information from patient forum websites that discuss patient experiences concerning e.g. medication, nutrition, co-morbidities, genetic factors etc.
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Illness and Literature in the Low Countries. From the Middle Ages until the 21th Century
From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine.
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Why Leiden University?
The Master Health, Ageing and Society will equip you with the kind of knowledge and academic skills that will enable you to enhance the lives of our senior citizens. As no other, you will be primed to play a key role in improving the future of our ageing society.
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Placebo research: Pharmacological conditioning
The major aim is to examine the potential of learning the body to produce a similar physiological (autonomic, neuroendocrine, or immune) and physical (e.g., desensitization of persistent physical symptoms) response to placebo medication than to active medication (pharmacological conditioning). If proven…
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Student for a Day - MSc Psychology (research)
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Student for a Day - MSc Psychology (research)
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Experience Day International Bachelor in Psychology
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Experience Day International Bachelor in Psychology
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Student for a Day at Psychology
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Career preparation
Leiden University offers you several services related to career orientation and job application skills.
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Alumni Career Event Methodology and Statistics Psychology
Alumni event
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Psychologist Davood Ghara Gozli received a Veni grant
Davood Ghara Gozli (Cognitive Psychology) has received a Veni grant. As such, he is officially recognised as a promising young scientist by science funding agency NWO and will receive financial support to further develop his ideas.
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Imaging and Bioinformatics
On the basis of the characteristic aspects of a picture, certain computers can tell us what the picture is showing. They can learn this in the same way that young children are able to learn to recognize images. Further improving these techniques opens the way to a whole range of new applications. Biology…
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Why MT3 at Leiden University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona?
The collaboration between Leiden University (Medical Center) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona forms one of the most powerful international alliances for the creation and transmission of knowledge in the field of transfusion medicine.
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Student for a Day at Psychology
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How can we encourage responsible financial behaviour?
PhD candidate Shekinah Dare researched which psychological factors contribute to responsible financial behaviour and well-being. She wants to use this knowledge to develop interventions to encourage people to manage their money better. PhD ceremony on 10 November.
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Vision and Imaging
On the basis of the characteristic aspects of a picture, certain computers can tell us what the picture is showing. They can learn this in the same way that young children are able to learn to recognize images. Further improving these techniques opens the way to a whole range of new applications. Biology…
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Blood vessels on a chip make the cause of dementia visible
New technology offers many new possibilities for research, such as on dementia. ‘Organ-on-a-chip’ is a new technology in which small bits of organ are grown out of stem cells on a small plastic plate. A small piece of blood vessel, heart or nerve offers many new possibilities for research, such as…
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Classical conditioning to improve immunotherapy in cancer
Can the conditioning paradigm be used for checkpoint inhibition cancer treatment?
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Contact
For questions regarding education, you can go to the Student Services Center (ground floor). For other questions, you can go to the unit’s secretariat.
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Martin Giera
Assistant Professor at the Metabolomics group, LUMC, The Nederlands
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LUMC Partnership
This partnership is based on an academic collaboration between the Leiden University Medical Center and the Institute of Public Administration, research has been conducted on leadership in the domain of health care in times of crisis.
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ZonMw - Stimulating academic gatekeeper engagement in responsible research assessment
The project “Optimizing the responsible researcher” (see below) has enriched the knowledge base about the shared values of responsible biomedical research and the various ways in which these ideals are (or are not) put into practice.
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Education in the LUMC
At the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), you will be prepared for the world of tomorrow. We bring research and patient care together in a unique way in our education.
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care
What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? Communication researcher Liesbeth van Vliet, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels and research intern Fiona Brosig will put these questions on open…
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4D Picture project
Helping cancer patients with treatment choices.
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Biomedical Sciences Health
The Biomedical Sciences Health specialisation aims to provide you with a theoretical background and academic competences in multidisciplinary research in Biomedical Sciences and in clinical practice in Medicine. Since the programme is partly taught in English and partly in Dutch, fluency in Dutch is…
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Taking care of your health
Health is a wonderful gift, both for humans and for society. If we are able to prevent both physical and mental illnesses, we can spare a lot of suffering and fight rising health costs. Social scientists and physicians in Leiden are working closely together to conduct research on the human mental, behavioural…
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Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for Rüya Akdağ
Rüya Akdağ is part of a research team with the aim of further studying social anxiety. The Leiden psychologist receives the grant for her doctoral research on the role of emotions and cognition in the emergence and occurrence of social anxiety in adolescents.
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Indonesia
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Leiden University Medical Center with the University of Indonesia
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Natashe Lemos Dekker awarded Distinguished Women Scientists Fund
Natashe Lemos Dekker has been awarded the Distinguished Women Scientists Fund 2021. This travel grant for female postdocs allows her to spend a period as a visiting fellow at the UCLA Department of Anthropology in the United States.
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Alumni meet students in Psychology Methodology & Statistics
Alumni event
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Boardgames and graphic animations: creative ways to present academic information
For an assignment for the course Medical Anthropology, students were asked to choose a theme related to the Covid-19 pandemic, find information and present their work in a creative way. The results are impressive.
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari
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a.mashaghi.tabari@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4425
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Corry Donner on her retirement: 'I’ll definitely miss the intellectual stimulation, but what I want most now is to get out of my head.'
As Board Secretary, Corry Donner aims to be a ‘spider in the web’; someone who keeps a watchful eye on and brings together all the different perspectives of the institute’s board. Now she's left her carefully woven web at the university and transfer her tasks to her successor. Last September, we talked…
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Young Medical Delta Symposium: Accessibility to and through MedTech
Conference
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Anatomical Collections as Public History
The third project, worked on by dr. Rina Knoeff, is a synthesising project directed at studying the Leiden anatomical collections as important parts of ‘public history’. It will use the results of the other projects in order to analyse anatomical collections (their focus, significant silences, audiences,…
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United States
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University Medical Center with Boston Children’s Hospital in the USA.
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Partnerships
We enjoy working with a variety of partners: with other knowledge institutions, the business community, government, civil society organisations, NGOs, museums and charities. Close by, in our cities of Leiden and The Hague, but also regionally, nationally and internationally.
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Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study
This project investigates the globalization and cultural mediation of palliative care practices, policies and discourses.
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Career prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers. However, there are far more graduates than vacancies, especially in mental health care, and competition is therefore fierc…
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Tailor-made medicines
More and more medicines are becoming available that target a tumour’s specific traits. The use of chemotherapy is continually undergoing improvement.
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Partnerships
The LACDR represents the core of bio-pharmaceutical research at Leiden University, and we interact closely with our partners: