Happiness and hormones: spring breaks, autumn falls Our mood can be affected by the changing of the seasons. What do we understand about seasonal affective disorder (a.k.a. winter depression)? Marc Molendijk • February 01, 2013
Publishing open access: good or bad idea? On Wednesday 6 February 2013 the KNAW and the Young Academy organized a debate with the theme: ‘Publish Open access or perish’. The central question in this debate concerned the future of open access publishing. Is it a great new development or not? Eveline Crone • February 01, 2013
Leveling as a difference maker in clinical psychology Income inequality has pernicious effects on well-being. Still, it does not seem to have had a tremendous backlash in the field of clinical psychology. Should it? Marc Molendijk • January 31, 2013
Early dementia and functional brain networks This image shows the devastating changes in the brain of a dementia patient. Finding an early marker of dementia is currently the Holy Grail of dementia research. Serge Rombouts • January 28, 2013
Statistical errors in neuroscience: how a mouse turned into an elephant Analyzing a large corpus of the neuroscience literature we found that the same statistical error – comparing effect sizes by comparing their significance levels – is appearing throughout even the most prestigious journals in neuroscience. Sander Nieuwenhuis • January 27, 2013