Updates

I will be talking at the following upcoming events:

Studium Generale on September 9:'Hormonen en Emoties' . At the Betweterfestival on September 27 I will talk about our findings of hormonal contraception and I will also speak at Radboud Reflects 'Are we our hormones' on October 10.

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!

On May 17, 2024 Nicole Montijn successfully defended her thesis on the role of episodic future thinking in anxiety

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

Proud to host the Lorentz meeting on Female sex hormones and mental health !

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

On November 2nd Emma defended  succesfully her PhD thesis at Utrecht University. I was very happy to be part of her supervisor team.

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.

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).

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

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

Together with Dr. Mirjam Geerlings, Dr. Sanne Peters and professor Lenore Launer we received funding from Alzheimer NL to study the sex differences in dementia incidence. We will identify what biological mechanisms explain that men are more likely to get Vascular dementia, whereas women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.