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  • Consortium receives grant to improve Precision Electroconvulsive therapy for people suffering from depression

    A consortium of depression researchers, led by psychiatrist Annemiek Dols, receives 600,000 euro from the Dutch organization for health research ZonMw. With this ZonMw grant, the clinical scientists analyze and advance electroconvulsive therapy for people suffering from depression. The consortium is a good representation of a large national collaboration with eight different institutes on board. […]

  • Christiaan Vinkers awarded with a Vidi grant

    Christiaan Vinkers, psychiatrist and researcher in our group, has been awarded a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This prestigious award, worth 800,000 euros, enables recipients to develop their own innovative line of research and set up their own research group in the coming five years. He obtained the award for his proposal […]

  • Research should facilitate discontinuation of antidepressants

    How do you reduce the use of antidepressants safely and without major problems? That is a question that concerns many patients and physicians. Amsterdam UMC and Radboudumc in the Netherlands are going to investigate this with a ZonMw grant of 1.5 million euros. The TAPER-AD study is the first robust study worldwide to directly compare […]

  • Annual report 2019 online!

    The annual report 2019 is now available online! Our annual report highlights our research projects and societal impact and provides an overview of our researchers and their research output.  Our research group is performing well. This becomes visible through the consistent high number of international, peer reviewed scientific papers produced by the research group. In […]

  • Joannes Juda Groen award for Prof. Brenda Penninx

    On Thursday afternoon 24th, September Brenda Penninx received the senior Joannes Juda Groen Prijs for her research. This award is for researchers who have made a great contribution to interdisciplinary behavioral science.  Around the award ceremony, a small symposium with (inter)national speakers was held. 

  • Funding Dutch Brain Foundation for treatment insomnia in anxiety disorders

    The department of psychiatry of Amsterdam UMC, VUmc, has received 300,000 Euros from the Dutch Brain Foundation for the project “Overnight alleviation of anxiety”. Eus van Someren, Patricia van Oppen and Neeltje Batelaan are involved in this project, together with Annemieke van Straten (VU University). The Dutch Brain Foundation (Hersenstichting) has awarded 2 million Euros […]

  • Grant to study older patients with bipolar disorder without medication

    Stichting tot Steun VCVGZ has awarded over 160,000 Euros to Annemiek Dols and Alexandra Beunders for a mixed-methods study in older people with bipolar disorder without medication. This research consists of a quantitative part and a qualitative part and is being conducted by Alexandra Beunders, psychiatrist training in PhD student at GGZ inGeest. Patient experts […]

  • Funding for treatment of depression after childhood trauma

    The Dutch Brain Foundation (Hersenstichting) awards 600,000 Euros to psychiatrist and researcher Christiaan Vinkers (Amsterdam UMC) and professor Onno Meijer (LUMC ) for research into the treatment of depression after childhood trauma. The aim of the study is to see whether mifepristone, a medicine that has been used outside of psychiatry for years, can treat […]

  • Two Horizon 2020 grants obtained

    Our department has obtained two EU grants (Horizon 2020). Brenda Penninx, Femke Lamers and Yuri Milaneschi are involved in both studies, focusing on comorbidity of depression and cardiovascular disease, both with a different focus. TO_AITION addresses the hypothesis that immune-metabolic dysregulation, occurring as a result of genetic, lifestyle and environmental risk factors ‘training’ innate immunity, […]

  • Amsterdam Neuroscience projects awarded

    Amsterdam Neuroscience has awarded five project proposals from researchers of the department of psychiatry: Application of machine learning to neuroimaging data (ENIGMA related project). Moji Aghajani (BI). The clinical sensitivity, specificity, and validity of neuroimaging in neuropsychiatry remain a major conundrum. Amsterdam Neuroscience has, therefore, awarded a grant (60.000 Euro) to a team of Amsterdam UMC […]

  • Joint grant for research into smoking cessation among people with serious mental illness

    Stichting tot Steun and ZonMw have awarded Marcel Adriaanse (Health Sciences, VU) and Berno van Meijel (VUmc-GGZ inGeest/InHolland/Parnassia Groep) a joint grant of 510.000€ for research into smoking cessation among people with serious mental illness. People with serious mental illness (SMI) smoke more often compared to the general population. Smoking is the leading cause of […]

  • Queen Maxima visits department of Anatomy & Neurosciences

    October 31st queen Maxima visited the department of Anatomy & Neurosciences in Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc. After visiting the Imaging Center and some labs, she concluded her visit with an expert meeting on how research can lead to improvement in neuroscience and mental health care. Researchers and psychiatrists Hein van Marle and Christiaan Vinkers, also […]