projects

targeted nutrition

MOCIA: Maintaining Optimal Cognitive function in...

MOCIA: Maintaining Optimal Cognitive function in Ageing – a personalised lifestyle prevention approach.

Description The MOCIA programme aims at being able to signal an increased risk of cognitive decline and to improve prevention by...

eating behaviour

The ACHIEVE project

The ACHIEVE project

Title

The ACHIEVE project: An interactive embodied play environment that lets children discover the impact that nutrition has on their health...

eating behaviour

"Samen Happie": An intervention for parents...

"Samen Happie": An intervention for parents to prevent childhood obesity

Description

Childhood obesity is a serious public health epidemic in most industrialized countries, particularly among people with lower socio-economic background. The...

eating behaviour

“G(V)OED voor elkaar!”

“G(V)OED voor elkaar!”

Description

A longitudinal study on the dynamic interplay of peers and parents in explaining adolescents eating behavior. Eating behaviors are critical to...

targeted nutrition

FOod and COgnition Model systems (FOCOM,...

FOod and COgnition Model systems (FOCOM, WP4)

Description

The mission of the public-private collaboration in FOCOM is to achieve innovative breakthroughs in our knowledge about how food and...

targeted nutrition

BriteN: Early nutritional Interventions for healthy...

BriteN: Early nutritional Interventions for healthy brain development

Description The BriteN project is aimed at finding biomarkers for the effects of nutrition on the developing child brain. Neurocognitive measures...

eating behaviour

FOod and COgnition Model systems (FOCOM,...

FOod and COgnition Model systems (FOCOM, WP1-3)

Description

The mission of the public-private collaboration in FOCOM is to achieve innovative breakthroughs in our knowledge about how food and...

eating behaviour

Satisfaction: Elucidating the neurocognitive mechanisms controlling...

Satisfaction: Elucidating the neurocognitive mechanisms controlling satiation

Description

This project investigates the mechanisms linking mastication and attention to satiation, enabling activities that could directly reduce the prevalence of...