Welcome to the Brain and Development Lab
The Leiden Brain and Development lab is located in the Psychology department of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University, and has a formal collaboration with the department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam.
Our lab explores the relations between brain development and cognitive development. A special focus of the lab is to investigate how brain development, including changes in function and connectivity, relates to typical and atypical development of control, decision-making and self-regulation.
The lab has a strong focus on the fundamental changes in brain function that underlie our ability to anticipate, produce and evaluate complex decisions in daily life. In addition, the lab tries to delineate how, when and why brain development results in childhood disorders. Thus, our goals are to shed light not only on classic developmental questions related to mechanisms underlying developmental change, but also the pathogenesis of various developmental disorders.
Eveline Crone has been elected as a new member of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Academy members are chosen on the basis of recommendations by peers from inside and outside the Academy. Among 14 other new members Eveline will be installed on September 30, 2013 in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam.
During the National Weekend of Science (6-7 Oct), the Brain and Development Lab was present in Science Center NEMO. To more than 5000 visitors we demonstrated several of our experiments to children, adolescents and their parents. Eveline also gave a crash course 'Brain Development for Dummies'.