Locomotor and Neurological Disorders KU Leuven
One of the primary aims of the IORT is to facilitate innovate research to ultimately improve our understanding and practice of orthopaedics.
One of the primary aims of the IORT is to facilitate innovate research to ultimately improve our understanding and practice of orthopaedics.
Topic A: Norms and validation of questionnaires- -Topic B: Structure of personality disorders- -Topic C: Neuropsychological assessment techniques- -Topic D: Aging- -Topic E: Insomnia- -Topic F: Cognitive effects of psychopharmaca- -Topic G: Attribution Theory- -Topic H: Emotion and motivation
The Center for Neuropsychiatry comprises 2 groups
Their joint aim is to define imaging biomarkers of neuropsychiatric ...
Major research questions focus on cell type vulnerability and single-cell heterogeneity, protein aggregation and proteopathic stress, synaptic function, as well as microglial activation and neuroimmunology.
The Oral Health Research Unit conducts research that generates and applies biomedical knowledge and technology to oral health and disease and promotes translation of this acquired expertise to oral health and oral health care.
For more information about the research topics of the different research teams belonging to this department see: Population studies in Oral Health; Biomaterials - BIOMAT; Orthdontics; Periodontology and Oral ...
The faculty of Medicine is sub-divided in "The Faculty of Medicine Administrative Direction", "Student and Programme Office" "Dean's Office", "Academic Consultants", "Teaching and Learning Office" and "The Alumni".
Some standard personality questionnaires (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2, Baron Emotional Quotient Inventory, Millon Clinical Multiaxional Inventory) have been translated into Dutch and research is done in order to construct local norms and to validate the different questionnaires in different clinical settings and with different groups of patients. At the same time new scales are constructed to measure personality disorders ...
The main research topics of the department COPS are the following: 1. New paradigms for hypnotic treatment in insomnia and depression; 2. Quality of life assessment in chronic insomnia and narcolepsy; 3. Psychoneuroimmunology in insomnia and sleep apnea syndrome; 4. Shift work as a contributor to occupational stress; 5. Development of neuropsychological assessment procedures for children; 6. Neuropsychological screening of ALTE and SIDS ...