Organisations
Department of Psycho-analysis and clinical consulting Ghent University
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 ...
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 ...
Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI) 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 ...
Contextual Psychiatry KU Leuven
The Center for Contextual Psychiatry is a research center mainly focusing on the study of the interaction between the person and the context in the development of psychopathology in general, and psychosis specifically. This is investigated along 4 research lines:
- Methodological and Statistical Advances in Experience Sampling Research
- Phenomenology and Psychological Mechanisms of Psychosis
- Epidemiology and ...
Research Group Psychiatry KU Leuven
Research group Psychiatry with six aspects of research: Contextual Psychiatry, Developmental Psychiatry, Public Health Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Clinical Psychiatry and Mind-body Research.
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 ...
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 ...