Stoptober just got started: a month dedicated to quitting smoking. Psychologie Magazine thought this was a great moment to highlight research of Nikki van Sante from our team on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as a potential innovative treatment to quit…
As of April 1st, the NofA Lab has officially moved from the Clinical Psychology Team to the Brain & Cognition Team, while remaining within the same department at Erasmus University. This move reflects an effort to strengthen the “Brain” focus…
In the first week of February, our Clinical Psychology department held its annual writing retreat—a dedicated week focused on writing and fostering collaboration as a team. This year, we gathered at the Erasmus Hub in Rotterdam Zuid. During 4 productive days,…
The NOFA Lab has started the year off well! On January 8, Janna and Emese hosted a group of students from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Along with their accompanying professors, they visited Amsterdam to learn more about cannabis use.…
In January 2024, Emese Kroon and Lauren Kuhns successfully defended their dissertations at the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam. Their dissertations, titled “Addiction in Context” and “Looking for Interactions,” mark the ending of a successful PhD journey at the University of Amsterdam,…
In July 2023, PhD candidate Inês Macedo joined the NofA lab for a rotation program of 5 months. Inês holds a master’s degree in Clinical and Health Psychology. She is affiliated with the University of Porto’s Neuropsychophysiology Lab, first as an…
The University of the Netherlands invited Janna Cousijn to tell about our research. In a clear story she explains why one becomes addicted and another not. In her story you hear about the effects of age, about the brain, social pressure and growing up.
This spring, two new PhD students started working for the Neuroscience of Addiction lab: Christophe Romein and Nora de Bode. Christophe obtained his research master’s degree in Neuroscience & Cognition at Utrecht University and started the Aging Matters project in…