dr. Y. (Yvonne) Groen

Social cognition and social skills in ADHD and ASD:

• Running multidisciplinary research project with Jonx (part of Lentis): Elucidating Female Autism Study (EmFASiS)
• Running PhD project by Drs. Elke de Jonge at Accare Child study center: social cognition in adolescents with ADHD (SCASS)
• Finished own project: self-reported empathy on the Dutch translation of the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and Systemizing Quotient (SQ-R)
• Finished PhD project by Dr. Francien Kok: The female side of ADHD and ASD (PhD thesis)
• Finished Postdoc project with Accare Child study center: Effects of Oxytocine on the processing of empathy evokong pictures in young male adults with ASD

School neuropsychology:

• Ongoing studies in collaboration with Stichting Schaakbrein: Testing the executive function hypothesis of chess (Worden kinderen slimmer van schaken?)
• Ongoing studies in collaboration with the ADHD study group of the department of clinical neuropsychology: ADHD@university: Everyday functioning and mental health of college students with ADHD
• Ongoing studies in collaboration with Dr. Anselm Fuermaier & Prof. Dr. Oliver Tucha: psychometric development of the Everyday Life Attention Scale (ELAS)
• Finished PhD project Dr. Geraldina Gaastra: Reward sensitivity in ADHD; what do we know and how can we use it? (PhD thesis)
  • Classroom interventions for ADHD (funded by NRO: https://www.nro.nl/klasseninterventies-helpen-gedrag-van-kind-met-adhd-te-verbeteren/)
  • ADHD@school: classroom management strategies for ADHD; a teacher survey
  • Learning by means of social and material reward in children with ASD and children with ADHD (funded by the Hersenstichting)

Reward sensitivity and motivation:

• Finished own PhD-project in collaboration with Dr. Monika Althaus, Dr. Ben Mulder, Dr. Berry Wijers, & Prof. Dr. Ruud Minderaa: The psychophysiology of error and feedback processing in ADHD and ASD