Today, we raise awareness for people in poverty. At our faculty, prof. @bramvervliet and Dr. @CSamaey show how poverty affects people more than one can imagine. They demonstrate research on poverty and mental health and show how research can aid in solving poverty-related issues.

The missing half of CBT: Perspectives on Understanding and Reversing Diminished Pleasure Our own @bramvervliet and @AZLWester presented together with fellow colleagues @liesbethbgrt , @raziraes and @bdepr in a symposium about the interplay positive and negative affect at @EABCT

Today, our group is represented again at the 2026 @EABCT congress. At 09:30, professor @bramvervliet and PhD researcher @AZLWester will talk about negative and positive affect in a symposium entitled “The missing half of CBT”.

We are proud of our lab members representing their research yesterday at the @EABCT conference in Brussels. Celine, Liselotte and Zhenjie together presented a wonderful symposium on how adversity shapes safety and avoidance learning.

📢Nieuws! In het laatste nummer van "'Tijdschrift voor gedragstherapie en cognitieve therapie" is het boek "Waarom we Bang zijn" van onze prof. @bramvervliet besproken met veel mooie woorden! Lees het hier: tijdschriftgedragstherapie.n…

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT! Last week, our very own @AnneLWillems beautifully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "The pleasure of absent danger". We are pleased to now reintroduce you as our very own Dr. Willems! 👏🎉 @PPW_KULeuven @BiolPsychol @leuvenbrainins1 @KU_Leuven #PhD #Defense

@AZLWester is presenting her poster at #LEARNMEM2023 NOW!! Come and check!!

Subjective relief as a proxy for prediction error dynamics in avoidance learning. Great talk from @bramvervliet at #LEARNMEM2023

At #LEARNMEM2023 DAY 2, our💡talks received great interest! @AnneLWillems showed VTA and striatal responses to the unexpected omissions of threat. @SilviaPapalini presented the effects of fasting on the neuro-mechanisms of relief during avoidance and fear extinction learning.

Bramlab was also well represented at #ICPS2023 @AnneLWillems @LauraMVercammen and @Lu__Leng presented their posters about their work in our lab:

Tonight, @_ERLNMYR showed that an AI robot can perfectly fine join improv theatre! In an amusing show, they displayed the humor of chatbot Alex at the @KU_Leuven! 👏🏻 #Artificial_Intelligence #theatre @AZLWester @AnneLWillems

What happens when we are afraid? @AZLWester explained what happens in the brain and the body, and showed the children in Antwerp how one can use skin conductance measures to detect lies! @KU_Leuven @PPW_KULeuven @BiolPsychol #science #communication