Laura Luyten
@lauraluyten.bsky.social
Behavioral neuroscientist at KU Leuven (fear, anxiety, avoidance, DBS, BST) • Mom of three • 🎶 • Still a tiny bit in that other place as well (for now): X.com/luyten_laura
It's time to fly back from Princeton PNI to KU Leuven PSI... Everyone here has been so warm (pun intended) and welcoming during my "microsabbatical", in the groups of Nathaniel Daw and Yael Niv, and also beyond. Thanks to everyone I've met over the past few weeks! Here's to new collaborations!
So..... I guess I ended up in Narnia instead of Princeton University campus? What is this place? 🤩
I've been a bit quiet lately (lots of teaching duties...), but I am glad to share that I will have some academic "me time" for the next few weeks. I will be at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Department of Psychology, for a research stay hosted by @nathanieldaw.bsky.social!
Check it out, indeed ☺️. Includes our "Triggered Minds" paper!
Trends in Neurosciences@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 4mo agoCheck out the April 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences! www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Featured articles & more: cell.com/trends/neuro... Cover article: ‘Decoding the functions of nuclear speckles in neurodegeneration’, by Xu Chen & Bokai Zhu www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#Scienceville this weekend was great! More than 40 people (mostly kids) participated in a conditioning experiment and many more came by to learn about fear and anxiety research - or just to meet Jefke the rat ;-)!
Planning to do #symptom_provocation research in patients with an #anxiety_disorder, #OCD or #PTSD? This paper is your first stop! Very proud to share Xena Serifova's newest paper in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social! 🤩 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social
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Do Laboratory Fear Extinction, Avoidance and Generalization Predict Exposure Outcomes for Fear of Spiders? 😱🕷️ ➡️ Find the answer in our new paper, the crown jewel 👑 of Naomi Carpentier's PhD in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders! doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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🛟 Anyone who happens to have this book "Psychoactive Drugs: Tolerance and Sensitization" and who can dm me pictures of pages 162 and 163? It's for a new project we are working on.... Thanks! 🙏🏻 @tombeckers.bsky.social
She did that, indeed! 🎉💪🏻
Alba López-Moraga@albalm.bsky.social · 7mo agoA favorite project of mine is now published 🙌 It was rewarding not only for the research questions we tackled, but also because I used the #DeepLabCut and #SimBA that took blood, sweat and tears to analyze the platform-mediated avoidance data. You can find the code here: osf.io/g3s4u/overview
🔥New paper out, together with @albalm.bsky.social and Mirte De Ceuninck! ➡️"Differential effects of chronic restraint stress on two active avoidance tasks in rats" doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...
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Throwback to Thursday, with Xena Serifova presenting her most recent #EEG #DBS #OCD work at the BeNe Brain Stimulation Conference! #proudmentor
After months (well, years...) of planning our clinical study together, finally my first site visit! #anxiety #fearlearning @bbrfoundation.bsky.social 🙏🏻
Cosy Maastricht as a nice setting for the BeNe Brain Stimulation Conference! Tried to convince some people of the benefits of study preregistration. Thanks to everyone who came to my poster about this controversial (?? 🤷🏻♀️) topic!
Arrived in #Bordeaux this evening for #EBBS2025! I can assure you all science here will be hot off the press... 🔥🥵 Please join our symposium on Monday at 14:30 in Amphi E! Avoidance! Sex differences!(?)! with @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social, @sydneytrask.bsky.social & Raul Andero
Hi Bluesky, quick question. Which passive avoidance setup for rats do you like best? 🐀 Thanks!
And another one by @albalm.bsky.social ! 🤩 Recommended reading 💯 if you want to up your game and integrate measurements of fear, avoidance, generalization and extinction (in rodents)!
Alba López-Moraga@albalm.bsky.social · last yr.🚨Paper alert!!🚨 Excited to share out latest research where we investigated avoidance, fear generalization and extinction learning using a modified platform-mediated avoidance procedure in male and female rats. rdcu.be/eesmc
Behold Laura Vercammen's (scientific) firstborn 🐣! What a beautiful baby ☺️. Laura looked at the impact of dopamine receptor blockade on avoidance acquisition. @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social @biopsylbp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.nl...
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After a weekend full of #ScicComm, I was delighted to find a letter from @bbrfoundation.bsky.social in my mailbox to inform me that my YI grant was selected for their Research Partners Program! Yours truly, from now on aka the "Ellen Schapiro & Gerald Axelbaum Investigator"
Dit weekend weer héél wat kinderhoofdjes gevuld over "bang zijn"! 😱🧠 Thanks to all the children (and their parents) for taking 600 s to come and listen to one of my lectures at the Psychology Department or in the central KU Leuven kids hub!!! 🙏🏻 @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social
KU Leuven, don't worry about your 600th birthday 🎂, just celebrate 😉! Great 600-s lecture, @filipraes.bsky.social!
Our University turns 600!! 🎂 (For once, I'll continue in Dutch, sorry!) Kom dit weekend mee vieren in Leuven! Je vindt alle info - ook over mijn kinderlezing die ik 4(!) keer geef - via kuleuven.be/600jaar/programma/600-secondenlezingen-voor-jong-en-oud. Tot dan! #SciComm #ForChildren
She did it! 🥳 (Of course she did!). Very proud of you, @albalm.bsky.social, PhD! Again a pleasure to supervise such an excellent young researcher together with @tombeckers.bsky.social ☺️.
