The main research aim of the department of Psychiatry is to contribute to better prevention and treatment of common mental disorders. Therefore, our main research questions are: what are important causes of common mental disorders and what are predictors of their course? Most of our research focuses on depression and anxiety disorders.
Organisation
Research and teaching are organised within one psychiatric care facility and two academic research institutes that closely collaborate:
- GGZ inGeest , program Amsterdam Study on Anxiety and Depression (AMSTAD): support of clinical management development and studies on applied care, efficacy, and genetic/biological epidemiology. Coordinator: Prof. Jan Smit and Prof. Aaartjan Beekman.
- EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, Mental Health program: epidemiologic and implementation studies. Coordinator: Prof. Brenda Penninx, PhD and Prof. Hans Koot, PhD.
- Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam (NCA), program Neurobiology of Depression and Anxiety Disorders: biological and genetic studies. Coordinator: Prof. Brenda Penninx; Prof. Dick Veltman and Prof. Eco de Geus
