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Marie-José van Hoof, M.D/M.Sc

Marie-José van HoofMarie-José van Hoof is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and orthopedagoge, graduated from Leiden University,

Involved in: the neuroimaging study EPISCA (Emotional Pathways' Imaging Studies in Clinical Adolescents) as a Ph.D. student at Curium-LUMC in collaboration with Child and Family Studies Faculty of Social Sciences Leiden University since 2006.

Besides she is working at the outpatient mental health organisation GGZ Kinderen en Jeugd Rivierduinen and its psychotrauma center, location Duin- en Bollenstreek, heading the team.

In the nineties she participated in two research projects in the United States: one for half a year at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Boston and a second for one and a half year at New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University New York. The first project was on headache and sleep, the second concerned PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections). 

Ph.D.study ; Within research project EPISCA Marie-José co-ordinates the selection and participation of patients from Psychotrauma center and GGZ Kinderen en Jeugd Rivierduinen who qualify for anxiety or depressive disorder or have experienced sexual abuse. Her research questions focuse on emotion regulation and attachment in trauma before and after psychotherapy specifically. Therefore she administers the Adult Attachment Interview to the participating adolescents and relates this to neuroimaging and neurobiology results from MRI scans and saliva. Her research is being supported by Carien Gelderblom, research assistant, and students from Child and Family Studies.

Acknowledgement has to be given to GGZ Rivierduinen whose Board has decided to support EPISCA for three years by generously financing Marie-José 's part of the study and to the Hilly Roever Bonnet Fonds of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Vrouwelijke Artsen (VNVA - Association of Dutch Female Physicians) that has selected EPISCA for a stimulating award.

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