Organisations
Vanderhaeghen Lab Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Parenting and Special Education KU Leuven
RESEARCH ON PROBLEM BEHAVIOR: - Research on the relationship between parenting and the development of antisocial behavior in young children. - Development of instruments to measure coercive parent-child interactions. - Research on different forms of aggressive behavior in children. - Research on developmental trajectories of disruptive behavior in children. RESEARCH ON THE PREVENTION OF CHILD MALTREATMENT: - Development of instruments to ...
Developmental Psychiatry KU Leuven
Research focuses on the perceptual, cognitive, socio-affective, neural and genetic determinants of neurodevelopmental disorders and child psychiatric conditions (ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder). Translational research comprises the development of diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic strategies, improvement of the transition from child to adult mental health care, and the implementation of Routine Outcome Measurement in the forensic ...
Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology KU Leuven
Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology is part of the research group Neurophysiology. Particular topics of present interest are animate and inanimate object processing, action processing, 3D shape processing, visual control of grasping, perceptual learning, categorization and modulations of visual cortical responses by attention and reward. At the technical level, the group investigates the relationship between neural activity and fMRI ...
Research Group Experimental Neurosurgery and Neuroanatomy KU Leuven
- Head injury: pharmacological agents. - Lumbardisc herniation: prevention of epidural scan tissue formation. - Hydrodynamic characteristics of the cerebrospinal fluid spaces in normal and hydrocephalic brain. Physiopathology of the Cushing response. - ICP during external vertricular drainage. - Biomechanics of skull- and braininjuries in cyclists. Protection by helmets. - Spinal cord stumulation using a new epidural lead and pulse generator. ...
Research Group Neurophysiology KU Leuven
The Research Group Neurophysiology consists of 2 laboratories: the Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology and the Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology.
Lab. for Neuro- and Psychophysiology The neuronal mechanisms underlying visual perception and memory. - Single cell properties in striate and extrastriate cortex of primates and higher mammals. - Link between single cells and perceptual discrimination performance of humans and ...
Laboratory for Biological Psychology KU Leuven
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