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Symposium
Dr. Anne Marieke Doornweerd successfully defended her thesis entitled Hormone Heroines on January 24 2025
Symposium
Past events
Symposium
We hosted an exciting symposium on January 23rd. About how stress and sex hormones affect adolescent development.
Past events
Past events
I had the pleasure to talk at Studium Generale 'Hormonen en Emoties' , Betweterfestival and Radboud Reflects 'Are we our hormones' . Videos are online!
May 2024 presented at ESCAN in Ghent
At the meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience I got to present our newest findings on daily fluctuations in sex hormones and psychological well-being. We hope to submit these results for publication soon!
April 2024 ADAA meeting in Boston
April 2024 presenting work at ADAA meeting in Boston on how cortisol, hormonal contraception and childhood trauma all interact on prognostic depressive symptoms in adolescents. We had a lovely symposium on sex specific risk factors on consequences of trauma, with Dr. Cecilia Hinojosa, Stephanie Haring and Dr. Mirjam van Zuiden
February Lorentz meeting
Proud to host the Lorentz meeting on Female sex hormones and mental health !
January 2024 Promoted to Associate professor
As of the start of this year I got promoted to Associate professor in Clinical Psychology. I am very grateful for this opportunity and will continue working on the role of body and mind in psychopathology
November 2023 Dr. Emma Twait defended her thesis
On November 2nd Emma defended succesfully her PhD thesis at Utrecht University. I was very happy to be part of her supervisor team.
September 2023 early scholar award at ISPNE
At the ISPNE conference in London I received the early scholar award based on our work on the effect of oral contraceptives on stress reactivity and prospective mood in the RADAR cohort.
May 2023 Funding for our project on oral contraceptive use in adolescents
From the Dynamics of Youth research hub we received funding to further unravel the role of oral contraceptives on mood and stress regulation in adolescence. Collaboration with Pedagogical Sciences (Dr.Stefanie Nelemans) and Veterinary Sciences (Dr. Marijke Achterberg).
dec 2022 Results from study on hormonal contraceptives on stress regulation
A group of thesis students conducted the Trier Social Stress Test and found increased stress responses in naturally cycling women compared to men and women on hormonal contraceptives
dec 2021 results are in from the study on effects of nature on mood
A group of thesis students ran a cool experiment in which they studied what the effect was on a walk through nature on mood and stress regulation