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New longitudinal paper from my lab: on the relation between sleep, brain development and mood swings in adolescence. Yara Toenders describes her findings here 👇 SYNClab

I am currently at the Society for Research on Adolescence conference in Chicago and am attending such great sessions. The lecture by Margaret Spencer was fantastic and now in a session on youth participatory action research with brave young mothers; they motivate me to do the best possible research

I'm thrilled to be appointed as chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of MIND Us with Yara Toenders as secretary. This organisation has the important mission to enhance well-being of youth under honorary leadership of Queen Maxima of the Netherlands: mindus.nl/wetenschappeli…

An amazing honor to be elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, very special! Erasmus University SYNClab

Vandaag verscheen een interview in het NRC over m’n werk naar welzijn van jongeren. Dit onderzoek doe ik samen met superslimme onderzoekers zoals Lysanne te Brinke Yara Toenders Kayla Green Suzanne van de Groep Anne-Wil Kramer en veel anderen SYNClab nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/05…

Today I received the thesis book Rhytms of Resilience from my PhD student (soon to be Dr.) Lina van Drunen, PhD. I am so proud of you Lina, you will rock at your thesis defense June 18th. As always your science sisters Simone Dobbelaar and Yara Toenders were there to celebrate with you💫

Very exciting to see our work on adolescent prosociality and societal engagement published in TICS. Pleasure to write this perspectives paper with Suzanne van de Groep and Lysanne te Brinke. This work was based on an European Research Council (ERC) grant on prosocial development 👇 Erasmus University SYNClab

Just saw Cyrille Aimée in the Bimhuis, love her music (and performance)

Thanks Erasmus University and National Academy of Sciences!

A day at the museum

Today was a super special day, together with youth from vocational and university education we organized rounds table discussion on what -they- need for a better future with respect to well-being, trust and government support. Thanks to my amazing lab, our partners and #MINDUs

We published a new paper “From developmental neuroscience to policy: A novel framework based on participatory research” in DCN. Thanks Yara Toenders and Kayla Green for taking the lead on this team science paper 🌟SYNClab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Hoe beleven jongeren het om op te groeien in een #klimaatcrisis? Deze vraag staat centraal in het manifest ‘Jongerenperspectief op de klimaatcrisis’ dat het team van YoungXperts overhandigde aan Minister voor Klimaat en Energie Rob Jetten. Meer info: eur.nl/essb/nieuws/jo…

New paper by my brilliant PhD student Lina van Drunen, PhD who will defend her thesis next week 🌟. Read all about her work on genetic and environmental influences on brain development here👇

I am always amazed by the creativity and resilience of youth. We studied young people’s involvement with climate change and collected their ‘take actions’. These were discussed with Minister of Climate Rob Jetten last week. ➡️ Read the full report here: eur.nl/essb/nieuws/jo…

Welkom terug in Rotterdam Carola Schouten!

Together with Lina van Drunen, PhD I wrote this review/perspectives paper on how neuroscience can inform theory on self-concept development (and vice versa): now out in Human Development: karger.com/hde/article/do…

New paper from my lab by brilliant Yara Toenders, now out in HBM. In this paper she analyzed two longitudinal datasets and unraveled the dynamic relation between mood variability and RS brain connectivity in children and adolescents: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hb… SYNClab

Ik ben supertrots op mijn nieuwe boek "Generatie Zelfvertrouwen: De ontwikkeling van een gezond zelfbeeld bij jongeren" wat ik heb geschreven samen met Renske van der Cruijsen. Vanaf 2 oktober overal verkrijgbaar!