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Recently, Bettina Sorger received an NWO VIDI grant for her proposal entitled ‘Out of the brain, into control’ – Towards brain-based means of social and environmental interaction for children with severe cerebral palsy.
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Honest talks with UM sexologist Marieke Dewitte and student guests.
Today we’re talking about new technologies, social media and toys, and how they affect our sex lives. Bea and Berkant join Marieke once again to look at this topic from a student’s, as well as an academic, perspective.
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Honest talks with UM sexologist Marieke Dewitte and student guests.
Today we’re talking about new technologies, social media and toys, and how they affect our sex lives. Bea and Berkant join Marieke once again to look at this topic from a student’s, as well as an academic, perspective.
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Prof. Chantal (Sjaan) Nederkoorn of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) obtained the coveted NWO Vici grant. The upcoming 5 years, she will use this grant to research why kids (between 3-5 years old) sometimes refuse food. Children even refuse food that they have never tried before. Nederkoorn wants to discover which cognitive processes are at play, and whether these processes can be influenced.
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Two researchers from Maastricht University (UM) have each received a Vici grant of € 1.5 million from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Professor Chantal Nederkoorn (Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Professor Lorenzo Moroni (MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine) will use the grants over the next five years to conduct research and develop or expand their own research groups.
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Queen Máxima spoke online on Tuesday, April 6, with researchers, psychiatrists, a general practitioner and the MIND patient organization. The digital working visit was devoted to the effects of the corona crisis on mental health. On behalf of UM, psychiatrist and researcher Suzanne van Bronswijk (FPN / MUMC +) took part in the visit.
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Local youth workers go into the neighborhood together with the @ease foundation to help the most vulnerable groups of young people and to gather more knowledge about their situation, problems, wishes and needs.
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It has long been known that the use of antipsychotics often causes weight gain. However, in a recent meta-analysis of more than 400 studies, researchers at Maastricht University (UM) have now shown that all antipsychotics have this effect.