KLEP focuses on the following focal research areas

• Development of personality traits, personality disorders and psychopathology across the lifespan:
  Investigating developmental pathways – based on biological and psychosocial factors – towards vulnerability or protection for psychopathology and considers the evolution of personality characteristics across the life phases.

• Infant development and parenting:
  Studying different aspects of infant development and parenting, such as parent-infant interactional synchronasition, intersubjectivity, communication development, attachment processes, parenting behavior, parenting styles, motherhood and infanthood representations.

• Bio-physiological markers of the clinical manifestations of learning disabilities and the implications for interventions:
  Revealing the underlying bio-physiological correlates of the cognitive and behavioral manifestations of learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia) and its subtypes.