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Psychiatry

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.

The strength of our young, but experienced, research group is that it has access to large psychiatric cohorts through GGZ Buitenamstel (health care facility for psychiatric problems) and, at the same time, is embedded in strong academic research facilities, such as the Clinical PET center, the Netherlands Twin Register, and the Microarray facility of the VU University and VU University Medical Center.


Research programs

Longitudinal aging study Amsterdam (LASA)


Organisation

Research and teaching are organised within one psychiatric care facility and two academic research institutes that closely collaborate:

 

  • GGZ Buitenamstel, 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. Richard van Dyck, Dr. Jan Smit and Prof. Witte Hoogendijk
  • EMGO-Institute, program Common Mental Disorders: epidemiologic and implementation studies. Coordinator: Prof. Aartjan Beekman and Dr. Brenda Penninx
  • Research Institute Neurosciences (ICEN), Graduate school Neurosciences Amsterdam (ONWA), program Neurobiology of Depression and Anxiety Disorders: biological and genetic studies. Coordinator: Prof. Witte Hoogendijk; Prof. Dick Veltman and Prof. Richard van Dyck

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