Organisations
Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI) University of Antwerp
Mind-body Research KU Leuven
The Center for Mind-Body research focuses on the study of the biological stress response (HPA axis and autonomous nervous system) in psychiatric disorders such as major depression, chronic fatigue syndrome and eating disorders. Stress sensitivity is studied both in lab conditions and in daily life, using remote patient monitoring devices. In order to understand individual differences in stress sensitivity and disease vulnerability, the Center ...
Applied Molecular Genomics University of Antwerp
Experimental Pharmacology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the research group Experimental Pharmacology the vast majority of scientists are trained in pharmacology and psychopharmacology. Our team has however a nice complementarity between a number of neuroscientists-pharmacologists engaged in preclinical research, a number of analytical experts looking for new sensitive methods for monitoring numerous neuromediators, brain biomarkers and pharmacological read-outs, and a number of colleagues who ...
Clinical Psychology KU Leuven
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 ...
Public Health Psychiatry KU Leuven
The Center studies (longitudinal) patterns of mental illness and emotional wellbeing in societies worldwide, using large epidemiological population-representative samples and complex statistical modelling. The CPHP contributes to the etiopathogenesis and structure of common mental disorders and low-prevalent conditions (such as suicidal thoughts and behaviors) by studying temporal patterns of prevalence, incidence, and persistence of ...
Centre for Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology KU Leuven
Learning and memory processes in psychological function and dysfunction, in particular in relation to anxiety, depression and substance use, including:
- - Basic and applied research on emotional changes, especially with regard to anxiety and depression.
- - The role of classical (Pavlovian) conditioning in evaluative processes.
- - Psychophysiological measurements with computer-assisted data processing.
- - Basic ...
Neuropsychiatry KU Leuven
The Center for Neuropsychiatry comprises 2 groups
- Laboratory for Translational Neuropsychiatry, investigating the neurobiology of late onset psychiatric disorders and social cognitive deficits caused by neurodegeneration;
- Academic Center for ECT and Neuromodulation (AcCENT), focusing on brain stimulation techniques in psychiatric disorders.
Their joint aim is to define imaging biomarkers of neuropsychiatric ...
Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Drug Analysis and Drug Information Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Within the FASC department two research groups are active. The research group « Experimental Neuropharmacology » is involved in in vivo neurochemistry, neuropharmacology and pharmacokinetics in animal models of a number of neurological disorders. The group is particularly interested in Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, focal transient brain ischemia and more recently cognitive decline and depression. The aim is to study the pathophysiological ...