PsychiatryAmsterdam

Vacancy alert: We are hiring a PhD student for the Stress in Action consortium, fluent in Dutch, who will contribute to new data collection on #stress in daily life, using ambulatory assessment (EMA, wearables, passive sensing). Read more (in Dutch) here: buff.ly/F7frLFH

New review and #metaanalysis on #predictors of #response to Deep Brain Stimulation #DBS in #depression found no quantitative support for current expert opinions about who benefit most from DBS. This may help identifying patients eligible for DBS. ➡️ buff.ly/0gCWOys

New episode of the #stressnavigation #podcast with prof.dr. Eco de Geus on #exercisephysiology and measuring it outside the lab: buff.ly/ISe2VHF

💻 Psychiatryamsterdam.nl is LIVE! Very proud of our new research #website created by our department of #psychiatry of Amsterdam UMC, together with our regional partners. Join us in our journey!

Noa van Zwieten presents her work on daily affect and inflammation & metabolic health at SAA2025 in Leuven today

Multiple Stress in Action team members are presenting today and tomorrow at the annual meeting of the Society of Ambulatory Assessment. Check out the work or Marcos Ross, Noa van Zwieten and George Aalbers!

Is the #brainage of young people who have experienced a first episode of mania different from that of peers who have not? Does it improve after treatment? And do lithium and quetiapine affect #brainage differently? Find out (open access) 👉 shorturl.at/WP2bB

Congrats to em. prof. Ralph Kupka for being awarded the Pieter Baan Lecture at #NVvP2025 for his vital work in #bipolardisorder #research! This biennial award recognizes eminent Dutch researchers who have distinguished themselves in the field of mental health research. #VJC2025

New #paper by Camille Souama and other colleagues on the #metabolic signature of #childhoodtrauma in #NESDA published @BiologicalPsyc1. Full text ➡️: buff.ly/WxnsAdn

This weekend, Artemis Gkitakou gave an impressive #talk at #EPA2025 on "#Anxiety and #Mood Disorders on the #Rise: Exploring Clinical Profiles and Risk Factors in the #Netherlands"

Friday the 28th at 11:45am, Elias Balt will defend his PhD thesis 'Recording the Echoes of Suicide: Informant-based psychosocial autopsy to understand and prevent suicide in the Netherlands' in the VU aula. A livestream is available here: youtube.com/c/VUBeadlesOff…

Tomorrow 27th at 4pm, Laurens van de Mortel is defending his PhD thesis 'Puzzling Patterns. Exploring the potential of diagnostic and prognostic #neuroimaging in mental disorders' in the Agnietenkapel of the UvA. There is a livestream at tinyurl.com/4aa53dtk

Tomorrow, Dore Loef will defend her thesis 'Currents of change: Neurobiological mechanisms, effectiveness, and cognitive side-effects of electroconvulsive therapy for depression ' in the VU aula at 1:45pm. You can watch online via: tinyurl.com/zbvk8y4u #ECT #depression

Capturing #cognition using a #smartphone is no simple task, and the field is finding creative ways to do so. Typing errors and speed can be used, innovative performance tasks too. Feel free to share what you think about remotely assessing cognition! 🧵3/3

We expected that lower scores on self-reported cognitive functioning would correlate more strongly to depression severity than performance-based tasks. Still, this reflects the importance of self-reports in patient monitoring, especially in a dimension like cognition. 🧵2/3

📱 Can smartphone-based cognitive assessments be used to monitor #depression? 📈Self-reported cognitive functioning correlates more strongly to depression severity than performance-based tasks 📖onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… by Ross-Adelman et al. 🧵1/3 @RADARCNS @StressInAction

@AmsNeuroscience introduces five newly appointed Principle Investigators (PI) at the Department of #Psychiatry! Proud congratulations to @YMilaneschi, @JurjenLuykx, Anja Lok, Dirk Smit, and Jorien Treur. Interested in their scientific mission? Visit: shorturl.at/rtubh

A new study involving the #NESDA cohort shows that cellular #metabolic dysfunctions may represent a key pathway in depression pathophysiology, potentially accessible through #acylcarnitines metabolism

Our new study in @Transl_Psych showed that acylcarnitines (involved in mitochondrial #energy production) were linked to the presence+severity of #depression. Bioenergetic pathways may open new avenues in psychiatry #MetabolicPsychiatry check the paper ➡️: rdcu.be/eaWoN

As researchers, it's crucial to share our research findings through more than just scientific journals. A fantastic initiative is the @StressInAction #podcast on #Stress, with experts in stress research as guests. Find out more details here: stress-in-action.nl/podcast-stress…