Ingmar Franken
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Ingmar Franken
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Professor of clinical psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Interest in addictive behaviors, addiction treatment, reward processing, cognitive control.
Director of Center for Substance use and Addiction Research (CESAR) cesarresearch.nl
Exciting new publication alert! 🎉

We're thrilled to share the latest work from our PhD students Olga Boer and Doga Ultanir, demonstrating the important role of the Error-Related Negativity (ERN) in alcohol use research.

www.bpsgos.org/article/S266...
Adolescent risky alcohol use is associated with electrophysiological markers of error processing: Findings from a large cohort study
Altered electrophysiological error processing, measured via the error-related negativity (ERN), error-related positivity (Pe) and midfrontal theta power (FM-theta), has been associated with problemati...
www.bpsgos.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Protect international education in Dutch Academia! openletter.earth/against-lang...
Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia
openletter.earth
May 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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"Time spent using digital media is not without cost."

This Viewpoint discusses the evolving recognition of digital media use disorders and the need for a nuanced taxonomy to identify problematic usage patterns.

https://ja.ma/4cUQRTr
Defining Problematic Media Usage Patterns in Adolescents
This Viewpoint discusses the urgent need to form an analogous taxonomy for digital media use that identifies patterns of use, irrespective of content, that could be problematic, particularly for children and adolescents.
ja.ma
April 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Engaging article about ADHD and the risks of pathologizing the tail of a normally distributed behavior that then justifies the widespread use of methamphetamines in kids. Particularly impressed by investigators questioning decades of their own work (not easy to do).
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...
Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?
With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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En dat NSC ons heeft opgezadeld met nikskunner Eppo Bruins vergeten we in het onderwijs, de wetenschap en bij de publieke omroep ook niet meer. Bedankt, hè!
April 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc

✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning

We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching

Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
April 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The Dow is down nearly 1400 points in two days.
March 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I find this provocative essay intriguing. While I don't agree with everything, it offers plenty of food for thought.

aeon.co/essays/i-am-...
I am a better therapist since I let go of therapeutic theory | Aeon Essays
After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm
aeon.co
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Retirement in academia is where you stop doing the things you were paid for but carry on with the many things you were never paid for.
January 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Een van mijn wensen voor 2025 (en alle jaren daarna) is dat niemand in Nederland nog het woord 'impact' zal gebruiken.
January 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Yeh well I guess this feels possibly true
December 6, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Just saw the Outrun. Beautiful movie with great acting of main character about the struggles of a young woman with alcohol problems.
November 24, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Drugshandel speelde cruciale rol bij instandhouding kolonialisme in Azië historiek.net/opiumhandel-...
November 20, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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ACT now for MND: acceptance and commitment therapy can help people with motor neuron disease https://buff.ly/3UrQkQM

The COMMEND trial in The Lancet provides the first evidence to support the use of a psychotherapy to help people with early stage MND, maintain or improve their quality of life.
November 6, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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Please direct anyone who might be interested in the Drink Less app, either as a user or a researcher (I have been both!), to this very useful website. Thanks!
November 22, 2024 at 10:53 AM
See the great Cesar team in action at Lisbon Addiction conference past month cesarresearch.nl?p=2188
November 21, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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PODCAST!

LET'S TALK ABOUT DRUGS IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST

We believe that the more we can openly and safely talk about drug use, the better we can understand it, treat it, de-stigmatize it, and research it. And the better we can do, the more we can do. medicine.utah.edu/internal-med...
November 20, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Great book! Have a look at chapter 18 😉
November 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Great to receive the shiny physical copy of the book that I contributed to! I think it's a very comprehensive volume, really useful for up-to-date overviews of different research topics. I'll be using several chapters in my undergraduate teaching from 2025 onwards (1).
November 18, 2024 at 9:57 AM