brain

Human Potential

Getting creative through food

We tend to think that ‘being creative’ is completely beyond our control, maybe even an inborn talent – you either are or aren’t a creative person. New research indicates that eating the right kinds of food can enhance our creative abilities.

Annelies de Haan • 30-09-2014

Human Potential

Eating and running your way to the right decision

Do you ever wonder why sometimes a decision seems straightforward, but at other times takes hours of deliberation? Some simple lifestyle choices might help you solve your everyday dilemmas!

Frank Hezemans • 19-08-2014

Stress and Emotion

Brain scars

Bernet Elzinga, professor Stress-related Psychopathology at Leiden University, studies how trauma effects brain function and behaviour.

Bernet Elzinga • 26-05-2014

Human Potential

Eating to stop

A famous statement of the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach is "Der Mensch ist, was er iβt" (you are what you eat), but is it really true that the food we eat modulates the way we think and perceive the world?

Lorenza Colzato • 11-02-2014

Human Potential

Refueling your mental engine, cheap and easy!

Ever feel like your brain is running out of fuel? Our study shows that eating the right food can give you back that edge needed to keep up your great performance. In fact, food is found to be an efficient and easy way to enhance your cognition!

Bryant Jongkees • 16-12-2013

Human Potential

Learning is a series of sprints, not a marathon

Many students (and people in general) like to mass their efforts to boost short-term performance when an important exam or deadline is approaching. Scientific research points to a more functional and efficient long-term strategy to raise performance.

Edward Spruit • 28-10-2013

Human Potential · Social

Why aren’t robots doing my laundry yet?

We are still waiting for robots that make our everyday life easier by doing the dishes and cleaning our homes. Of course, we have machines such as Roombas that can vacuum, sort of, but why do we still have to bother doing all those boring things ourselves?

Roy de Kleijn • 16-07-2013

Human Potential

The compensatory effects of food

The economic crisis has resulted in many budget cuts in health care and general care programs. The population as a whole is aging, and yet we desire to stay independent as long as possible. How can we retain the cognitive abilities supporting independence?

Laura Steenbergen • 10-06-2013

Pharma · Human Potential

Illuminate your mind: neuromodulation at the speed of light

Optogenetics has been chosen as 'Method of the year 2010' by the journal Nature Methods. But what exactly is optogenetics? And how can we use this neuromodulation technique to better understand behaviour?

Claudia Pama • 27-05-2013

Blogs

Getting creative through food

Eating and running your way to the right decision

Brain scars

Eating to stop

Refueling your mental engine, cheap and easy!

Learning is a series of sprints, not a marathon

Why aren’t robots doing my laundry yet?

The compensatory effects of food

Illuminate your mind: neuromodulation at the speed of light