Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy
Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy
The aim of the Adapted Physical Activity (APA) research unit consists of the study of the relationship ‘impairment – activity’ in the continuum from rehabilitation to elite sports. Minimizing the impact of impairment on activity will enlarge the social range of action (rehabilitation) and provide a solid basis for fair sports classification (elite sports). Future research of the APA unit is embedded in international research projects ...
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 ...
The Center for the History of Education (CHE) is part of the research group Education, Culture and Society of the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogical Sciences.
The CHE focuses on the historical study of a wide variety of educational practices as well as theories. Starting from the premise that educational processes and insights never fall out of the blue, the emergence and dissemination of educational concepts, educational ...
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH (E&H)
The Centre for Environment and Health (E&H) includes the following closely linked areas of research: (a) Occupational and Environmental Exposure and Toxicological Assessment; (b) Occupational and Environmental medicine; (c) Insurance medicine; (d) Youth Health Care; (e) Infection Prevention and Control; (f) Nutrition. The interaction between environment and health in different age groups and settings ...
A major concern of families of patients with a rare disease is the risk of developing a developmental disorder including intellectual disability (ID) and psychopathology. Developmental disorders (DD) are broadly defined as cognitive and/or behavioral conditions that have early onset in childhood and include language disorders, intellectual disability, motor disorders or autism spectrum disorders. In a subgroup of patients, these rare diseases ...
HISTORY
Existing collaboration between the Gerontology (GERO) Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Clinical Department of Geriatrics (UZ Brussels) has led in 2007 to the creation of the Frailty in Ageing (FRIA) research group for both fundamental and clinical research on frailty in the elderly. FRIA conducts a focussed research program on Frailty.
DEFINITION
Frailty is a complex geriatric syndrome ...
For more information about the research topics of the different research teams belonging to this department see: - Division for geometry - Division for algebra and topology - Division for analysis - Center for plasma astrophysics - Division for applied mathematics - Division for pure and applied differential geometry
Cardiovascular & respiratory rehabilitation, adapted physical activity & psychomotor therapy. Within this unit clinical & fundamental research are encouraged. There is a close cooperation and integration with various departments in the University Hospital and the Rehabilitation Center. The research is focused on cardiovascular rehabilitation, exercise capacity, physiotherapeutic interventions in patients with respiratory disease, ...
The Centre for Logic and Analytic Philosophy (CLAW) co-ordinates all research at the Institute of Philosophy concerning logic and analytic philosophy, with a special focus on the philosophy of particular sciences.
The Centre cooperates with other Belgian scholars at the National Centre for Research in Logic and international researchers in philosophy of science research programmes. The Centre is very active in the organization of ...