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.
Research group Psychiatry with six aspects of research: Contextual Psychiatry, Developmental Psychiatry, Public Health Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Clinical Psychiatry and Mind-body Research.
The Center for Neuropsychiatry comprises 2 groups
Their joint aim is to define imaging biomarkers of neuropsychiatric ...
The BBCO research group focuses its research on the comprehensive study of mental processes and their biological (brain and body) correlates in different domains of human functioning and behavior, such as cognition, social judgment, affect, well-being and sleep. Without doubt, the study of the brain and body, and its related mental processes is at the forefront of current research in many disciplines of psychology. Together with behavioral ...
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 ...
The department's research is organized within four large programmes with significant interactions between them: development of instruments and outcome measurement, educational research, clinical epidemiology and health care organisation research. It focusses on a broad range of clinical situations, with care for the elderly and diagnostics as its corner-stones. 1. Instrument development and outcome research Together with 11 other institutes ...
Organ Systems is the home of research groups based in clinical departments and units engaging into research in Developmental Medicine (maternal-fetal and reproductive medicine, neonatology, pediatrics, pediatric urology, pediatric surgery, pediatric orthopedic surgery) and Regenerative Medicine (gynaecology, urology, orthopedic, trauma, plastic, abdominal surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation). Their research is ...
The department of 'Imaging and Physical Sciences' consists of the subunits Radiology and Clinical Imaging (RADI), 'Radiotherapy' (KANK), 'Nuclear Medicine' (NUGE). The main research topics for these three subunits are: For Radiology and Clinical Imaging: 1. Diffusion and perfusion magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and their application to the characterisation of healthy and pathologic tissues; 2. Susceptibility MR imaging of trabecular bone and ...
Tomographic evaluation of tracer distribution (PET, SPECT). - Medical Imaging: acquition, reconstruction PET and SPECT. - Metabolic Imaging in acute and chronic heart disease. - Metabolic Imaging in oncology and inflammation - Neuroactivation, protein deposit and receptor studies of the brain. - Radio immunotherapy. - Molecular imaging - Brain imaging. - Image registration (PET, SPECT, MRI, CT).
The common research line of the Alliance for Neuromodulation in Epilepsy (AMIE) research group is preclinical, clinical and translational scientific research in the field of epilepsy and its major comorbidities (ie, anxiety and major depression, learning and memory disorders, brain infarction). The researchers concerned attempt to understand the pathophysiology of epilepsy, characterize cellular and network changes, and consequently develop ...