Depression
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ZonMw Personalized Medicine Grant for Amsterdam UMC researchers
Happy news from ZonMw! A group of researchers from the Amsterdam UMC – location VUmc and GGZ inGeest, led by Femke Lamers and Rick Jansen, have been awarded with a grant of €500.000 from ZonMw, the Netherlands Organization for Health [...]
NESDA sibling study: animation
April 18 the annual meeting of the Netherlands Study of Anxiety and Depression (NESDA day) took place in Leiden. PhD students Eleonore van Sprang en Marie-Louise Kullberg explained in a creative way why adding siblings (brothers and sisters) to our [...]
Society is changing. The percentage of depressed elderly people changes with it.
In 2012, almost twice as many Dutch people aged between 55 and 64 were seriously depressed than twenty years before, in 1992. Remarkably, there was a significant decrease (32%) in 2012 in the group of mild depressions compared to 2002. [...]
Psychological vulnerability to depression and anxiety deserves attention
Psychological factors that make people vulnerable to the development of depression and anxiety should receive more attention in the prevention and treatment of these disorders according to Sascha Struijs. Struijs will defend his thesis ‘Psychological Vulnerability in Depressive and Anxiety [...]
Nutritional supplements cannot prevent depression
Daily intake of nutritional supplements cannot prevent depression. This is the key finding of the MooDFOOD prevention trial, which is the largest randomized clinical trial to study the effects of nutritional strategies on the prevention of major depressive disorder. Over [...]
Antidepressants possibly increase risk for cardiovascular disease
Persons with a depression or anxiety disorder are at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. This relationship might be explained by a dysregulated autonomic nervous system in depression and anxiety. However, there are more factors involved, according to the [...]
The link between depression, eating habits and obesity
People with depression often have unhealthy eating habits. This is the conclusion that Deborah Gibson Smith (dietician) and Nadine Paans (psychologist) come to after their research on nutrition, eating styles and depression. They will defend their theses at February 11th [...]
