Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

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The Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) is an international faculty with students and staff from diverse cultural backgrounds. Our curiosity drives us to explore the broad field of psychology from a biological and cognitive perspective. By using the Problem-Based Learning method of teaching we encourage a similar curiosity in our students by handing them the tools to discover the world of the human brain.

Fast facts

high level education using Problem-Based Learning
cutting edge research facilities
international students and staff
all disciplines of psychology and neuroscience are represented in our master's programmes
programmes in Dutch and English

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FPN News

From heart to head: on depression and brain stimulation

How closely linked are the heart and brain, really? Eva Dijkstra completed her PhD on the heart–brain connection as a predictor for the effectiveness of brain stimulation in treating depression. Alongside her supervisor, neuroscientist Alexander Sack, they discuss depression and, brain stimulation.

ERC Consolidator grant for dr. Ryszard Auksztulewicz

Researchers

Dr. Ryszard Auksztulewicz, assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN), has been awarded the ERC Consolidator grant for his research proposal entitled MemPred - Mnemonic and predictive influences on sensory processing: mapping the neural computations .