On brain health of queenagers: a life phase of vulnerability and transformation

“Queenager” is a more positive term for middle-aged women who are in perimenopause. The majority of these women is dealing with brain symptoms, such as brain fog, mental fatigue, mood swings, and sleep disturbances. This blog post explores the mental vulnerabilities of queenagers and shares lifestyle strategies based on the work by neuroscientist and nutritioner Lisa Mosconi. What if we viewed perimenopause not as a time of decline, but as an opportunity to consciously invest in women’s brain health?

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Let’s write about sex and gender

Why and how do you measure sex or gender in your research participants? Are you still using a single binary question (male/female), or do you still add the option “other”? Are you aware of the differences between sex and gender? This blog post provides some hands-on best practices tips for including sex and/or gender in your research and for writing about them in an inclusive way.

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Buddy program for persons with a severe mental illness

In her buddy program, Dr. Lisette van der Meer couples psychology students to people with a serious mental illness. The aim? Stimulate a reconnection with society for service users while at the same time create a learning opportunity beyond the textbooks for students. Mindwise interviewed Dr. Lisette van der Meer and buddy Justin L. Abu Hoof about their experiences.

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Everyone knows what attention is

One hundred and thirty years after this famous quote by William James, psychologists are still struggling to measure attention reliably, particularly impairments of attention. Together with my neuropsychologist colleagues, I developed the Everyday Life Attention Scale (ELAS) to help in the assessment of attention. Here I share our discoveries about attention.

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The green heart of our faculty

You could not have missed the building activities at the Heymans building. And you may have been forced to walk a detour through the garden to reach the new restaurant or other buildings of the faculty. But did you know that this garden is actually an ancient botanical garden that hides centuries of history? Your detour through the garden might not be so boring after all!

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