Projects
Effects of anticipatory anxiety on attention control: an integrated psychophysiological approach Ghent University
Anxiety is a powerful motivational drive, with substantial impact on attention allocation strategies and processes. Both the scientific literature and the clinical practice suggest that different types of anxiety (e.g., social anxiety vs. specific phobias) might differentially influence attention. As a consequence, perception can be changed in different, and sometimes opposite, ways. In this project we investigate the effects of different ...
Effects of continual oxytocin treatment on core social symptoms in children with autism with and without comorbid intellectual disability: A verification trial with long-term follow-up KU Leuven
For better health in university and college students: pin-pointing the interplay between social support, study stress, substance use and mental health across different study programs. University of Antwerp
Shaping Social Commitment. Architecture and Intellectuality in the 1970s and '80s KU Leuven
The overall research question that guides this dissertation, together with that of my colleague Elke Couchez, revolves around the formative years of architectural theory in Flanders. What conditions allowed architectural theory to mature into a self-aware and recognized discipline in the 1980s and 1990s?
To this aim, the notion of ‘architectural theory’ is broadened to that of ‘architecture intellectuality’, which simply refers to ...
Partner violence and pregnancy, an intervention study in perinatal care Ghent University
The first part of the study is a prevalence-/incidence study about physical, psychological and sexual violence during pregnancy. The second part is a RCT that randomises the sample singelblind into an intervention and controle group. Amongst others following variables will be measured: partnerviolence, psychosocial status (anxiety, depression, self-esteem, stress and mastery), helpseeking behaviour and safety behaviour.
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Loneliness in adolescence: Epigenetic Insights KU Leuven
The project examines why social anxiety tends to persist over time in some adolescents and can lead to serious complications. A complex interplay between the social environment and adolescents’ personal characteristics is typically invoked to account for this persistence and the accompanying complications. Parenting and relationships with peers are thought to be important factors in the social environment and regarding adolescents’ personal ...
How The Anxious Brain Learns To Avoid: The Neural Signature Of Relief KU Leuven
How The Anxious Brain Learns To Avoid - The Neural Signature Of Relief KU Leuven
The science of fear has shown spectacular progress in the laboratory, but significant improvement in the treatment of clinical anxiety stays away. One reason may be that the propensity to avoid all things feared is more disabling than the fear itself. Avoidance is reinforced by pleasant relief experiences, but both avoidance and relief have received insufficient attention. I will establish a neural signature of relief that may share ...