A large team of psychologists, psychiatrists, neurobiologists and neuroscientists from Leiden University have created the Leiden Social Anxiety Network (LSAN) to facilitate the much needed multidisciplinary research on social phobia. 

They are currently preparing a research project to investigate person-environment interactions in social phobia. This activity is part of the Leiden University research profile Health, Prevention, and the Human Life Cycle. For more information about the research profile, see the website.

 This research profile is one out of eleven university-wide research programs which receive direct support from the university board for 2010-2014. 

CONFERENCE NEWS:

The Social Anxiety Conference 2011 was a great success. Sponsored by the KNAW and the Leiden University Research Profile Area: Health, Prevention and the Human Life Cycle, some 50 experts attended the two-day session in Amsterdam and about 80 people attended the third day in Leiden. 

photo by Alex Tromp

Click here for the photos.

See the program of the KNAW Academy Colloquium, and the Master Class day  program. 

Various articles have appeared as a result of the conference and describing the Social Anxiety research project. These articles are mainly in Dutch. Click here for an overview of these articles.