Projects
Project
Late-life depression and risk for Alzheimer's disease
01.09.2018
General project description
We know there is a temporal relation between late-life depression and dementia. The causal mechanism behind it is unclear. In this project we will examine the two leading hypotheses: glucocorticoid cascade hypothesis and the cardiovascular risk hypothesis. We will do this by using longitudinal data from two large cohorts of older people (AGES and SMART study).
Role
Project Leader & Researcher
Funding
Other grant (government funding) Alzheimer Nederland
External project members
- Dr. Mirjam Geerlings
Project
Stress and healthy aging
01.01.2014
General project description
Together with Karolinska Institute (department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) we investigate effects of psychosocial factors on biomarkers of aging
Role
Project Leader & Researcher
Funding
External funding :Forte grant (forskningsrådet för hälsa, arbetsliv och välfärd)
External project members
- Professor Nancy Pedersen and Dr. Sara Hagg
Completed Projects
Project
The stressed brain: an endophenotype model for depression
01.01.2013
to 31.10.2018
General project description
Combining genetics and stress to predict the onset of depression and examine to which extent brain is affected by stress and depression
Role
Project Leader
Funding
NWO grant Veni grant from ZonMW
Awards:
- Marie Curie FP7 Intra-European Individual Fellowship 2011
- Lundbeck stiftelsen grant 2012
- SOBP travel grant 2012
- Veni ZonMW 2012
- Forte grant 2012
- Alzheimer Nederland 2017