
Eleana Pinto
Profile
Eleana obtained her master degree in Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at the University of Padova (Italy). During her studies, she did her internship at the Neuroscience of Movement Lab (NEMO Lab, University of Padova). Her master thesis concerned motor facilitation during action observation (investigated with TMS) and psychological correlates of empathy and pro- social behavior. In January 2017 she moved to Rotterdam (Netherlands) where she started a post- graduation internship in the TMS Lab of Erasmus MC (Department of Psychiatry). During this period, she investigated GABA-mediated mechanisms of cortical inhibition and plasticity in neurotypical and clinical populations. From September 2017 until September 2018, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Psychiatry (Erasmus MC). During this year, she investigated hormonal and physiological underpinnings of aggressive behavior in a forensic population, implementing an idiographic method. Starting from November 2018 she is a PhD student in the Health Psychology LAB, under the supervision of Stefaan Van Damme. Her PhD trajectory focuses on the effect of motor actions on pain processing, combining neurophysiological (EEG), behavioral and psychological measurements. The aim of this project is to understand how the brain solves conflictual demands during pain and action executions.
Interests
- Motor actions
- Pain
- Psychosomatic
- Cognitive neuroscience
- EEG

Meet the team
Meet our enthousiastic and lively team of professors, post-doctoral researchers, phd students and research assistants
Fleur Baert
Fleur graduated as a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University.
Maya Braun
Maya obtained her Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University. After collecting experience in different areas of psychology during her student jobs, internships and theses, she joined the Health Psychology Lab of Ghent University as a doctoral student
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez is Professor of Health Psychology in the Department of Experimental-Health Psychology at Ghent University.
Marie De Breucker
I obtained my Master of Science in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 2021. During my six month research internship at the Ghent Experimental Psychiatry Lab, where I investigated an attentional bias to food in patients with anorexia nervosa, my interest in research was further enhanced, especially involving clinical populations.