Cognitive and Biological Psychology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Department of Cognitive and Biological Psychology is persueing both fundamental and applied research on human psychological functions and their biological basis.
The Department of Cognitive and Biological Psychology is persueing both fundamental and applied research on human psychological functions and their biological basis.
Research topics of this unit are:
• relationship between brains and behavior
• biopsychological mechanisms of neural and behavioral plasticity
• learning and memory
• neurocognitive disorders
• experimental psychopathology; preclinical studies on the etiology & treatment of development-based and degenerative brain and behavioral disorders
Description research unit:
Biomedical variables generally explain only a part of a person’s experience of health and illness and in many instances a novel approach including social and psychological influences is needed. The KU Leuven Research Group “Health Psychology” aims at unravelling how psychological and somatic variables interact in health and disease from a psycho-bio-social perspective. Both fundamental and applied research is ...
The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences consists of 8 research units: Occupational & Organisational Psychology and Professional Learning; Brain and Cognition; Education, Culture and Society; Parenting and Special Education; Behaviour, Health and Psychopathology; Methods, Individual and Cultural Differences, Affect and Social Behavior; Education and Training; School Psychology and Child and Adolescent Development.
department with education and research on:
Cognitive Psychology
Atypical development
Personality & Psychopathology
Diagnostics & Treatment
Clinical Experimental Psychology
Biological Psychology
Social Psychology
Work and Organizational Psychology
Methods in Psychology
The research group of Clinical Psychology investigates: (a) processes in the development and course of psychological problems and psychopathology, and (b) the development of assessment and intervention methods.
The research group consists of the following researchers (in alphabetical order):
Clinical Psychology, option (young) adults
Laurence Claes
Her research is situated in the domain of (a) clinical ...
The Research Group Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences focuses on the interplay between substantive-psychological research and the development of novel formal models (including associated procedures for model estimation and testing). On the basis of substantive questions new formal models are being developed; in turn, these models are estimated and tested in substantive research, and contribute there to a breeding ground for ...
The research unit Occupational & Organisational Psychology and Professional Learning consists of 2 research groups: the group Work, Organisational and Personnel Psychology, and the group Professional Learning & Development, Corporate Training and Lifelong Learning.
Learning and memory processes in psychological function and dysfunction, in particular in relation to anxiety, depression and substance use, including: