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  • Sex, Love, Corona | Episode 4 | New technologies

    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.

    Sex, Love, Corona | Episode 4
  • NWO Vici grant for Prof. Chantal (Sjaan) Nederkoorn

    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...

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  • Two Vici grants for Maastricht researchers

    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)...

  • UM psychiatrist joins Queen Máxima's online working visit

    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...

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  • Research: all antipsychotics cause weight gain

    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.

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  • Glynis Bogaard | Outsmarting liars

    At the end of 2020, Glynis Bogaard was awarded an NWO, VENI grant for her research project: Outsmarting liars: Towards an interviewing protocol that allows for single-case lie-detection. Bogaard, now Assistant Professor, is part of the Forensic Psychology section at the Faculty of Psychology and...

  • Anna Schueth, Illuminating the unseen with novel 3D microscopy technology

    Anna Schueth (Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience) is a post-doctoral researcher, who recently received a NWO VENI grant to further develop and apply her ground-breaking, light-sheet microscope prototype, which she co-developed and set up in the lab at...