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Esmée Verwijk is an Assistant Professor at the Psychology Research Institute of the University of Amsterdam, specializing in Brain and Cognition within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Her area of expertise includes clinical neuropsychology, neurological psychiatric disorders, invasive brain stimulation treatments, and chronotherapy. Dr. Verwijk's research centers on the behavioral and cognitive changes induced by invasive brain stimulation treatment methods such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). She has extensively studied ECT throughout her career, with a PhD project focused on cognitive changes associated with ECT. As a collaborator in the Dutch/Flemish ResPECT consortium, she is involved in research projects addressing ECT-related anxiety, cognitive rehabilitation, and interventions for behavioral psychological symptoms in dementia. In 2017, her research interests have expanded to include brain stimulation methods that are effective interventions for severe brain disorders, including Parkinson's disease and melancholic depression. Dr. Verwijk aims to develop personalized treatment applications by understanding the predictive factors and underlying mechanisms that influence the cognitive changes resulting from treatments like DBS and ECT.
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