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Laura Luyten

@lauraluyten.bsky.social
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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

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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Really enjoyed our symposium at #EABCT2026 this afternoon. Glad to see that so many clinicians and researchers were interested in our translational (from rats to patients!) exposure-related work!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Full house this morning at #EABCT2026 for a symposium with our Maastricht colleagues, including a talk by Naomi Carpentier about the latest data from our project, supported by my #BBRF YI Grant!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
So..... I guess I ended up in Narnia instead of Princeton University campus? What is this place? 🤩
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Check it out, indeed ☺️. Includes our "Triggered Minds" paper!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My kids loved it! 🧠🩵
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#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 ;-)!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🛟 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
Psychoactive Drugs: Tolerance and Sensitization (Goudie & Emmett-Oglesby)Screenshot showing the missing pages of the book
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
She did that, indeed! 🎉💪🏻
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🔥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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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Throwback to Thursday, with Xena Serifova presenting her most recent #EEG #DBS #OCD work at the BeNe Brain Stimulation Conference! #proudmentor
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
After months (well, years...) of planning our clinical study together, finally my first site visit! #anxiety #fearlearning @bbrfoundation.bsky.social 🙏🏻
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Proud supervisor moment 🤩🤩!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Oh, #Bordeaux...! The city where conference rooms have temperatures starting at 30°C and traffic lights are merely a suggestion... In any case, I've seen a lot of interesting behavioral neuroscience (rats still rule!) and we had a great symposium. Thank you all for that! Au revoir! #EBBS2025
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hi Bluesky, quick question. Which passive avoidance setup for rats do you like best? 🐀 Thanks!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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)!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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"
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
KU Leuven, don't worry about your 600th birthday 🎂, just celebrate 😉! Great 600-s lecture, @filipraes.bsky.social!
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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 ☺️.
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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Sunday was Science Day! Just there as a visitor this edition 🙂. Thanks to all the young and enthusiastic researchers for educating and entertaining my children! #DVDW #DVDW2024
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