- Persistent Somatic Symptoms (PSS)/Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) and common somatic symptoms
- Gender and sex differences in health and healthcare
- Health-related social stigma

Auditory hallucinations, (early) psychosis, pathways to psychopathology, resilience

Researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation.

depression, e-health, experience sampling, metascience

Topics: Stress, psychological resilience, depression, psychiatry, stress physiology, physical activity
Methods/statistics: Experience sampling, ambulatory assessment, time-series analysis, single-subject studies

- Experience sampling method (diary studies)
- Clinical Psychology
- Affective disorders (depression, bipolar disorder)
- Time-Series analysis, Network analysis
- Qualitative research methods
- Implementation science

I combine qualitative and quantitative research methods with the ultimate goal to investigate the potential of the experience sampling method in clinical practice. I find it important to listen to the voices of patients and clinicians and use them in my research. I strive to close the gap between science and practice as much as possible.

Geriatric Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, Public Mental Health Services, Epidemiology of Mental Health Services

Epidemiology (methodology).

Developmental psychopathology; Psychiatric genetics; Reward sensitivity; Personality.

Anxiety disorders, OCD spectrum disorders, Tourette's disorder, somatic consequences of depressive and anxiety disorders

Causes and consequences of ADHD, aggression, tics and OCD. Cognition, biomarkers, stress physiology, gene-environment. Early adversities (pregnancy, stress, social). Predictors of treatment success. 

Chronobiology, chronotherapy, mood disorders, depressive disorder, anxiety disorder

Mood disorders

Psychiatry, Psychotic disorders.

Psychosis

Mood and Anxiety disorders / Bipolar disorders / Neurobiologie / Neuroinflammation

Somatisch onvoldoende verklaarde lichamelijke klachten; ouderenpsychologie

Psychopathology, depression, Experience Sampling Methodology, early warning signals, idiographic change processes

The development of (proneness to) somatic symptoms in children.

Anxiety disorders, depression, epidemiology, longitudinal data analysis
Intellectual disabilities, Down syndrome, dementia

Bertus Jeronimus studies individual differences in what humans feel, think, want and do (personality) and their subjective wellbeing ("happiness") and lifespan trajectories of these phenomena and their link to stress, anxiety, depression and the socioecology in which one lives and grows, especially intimate support relationships, daily activities, adverse events, culture, and history. Jeronimus works at the University of Groningen in the Department of Psychology and in the Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (www.ICPE.NL). See Google.Scholar or  Researchgate for details. Currently focused on happy neurotics, the stress process, and the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic and the psychosocial consequences.

Old Age Psychiatry

Deconstructing Depression (VICI project); Depression and Cardiovascular Disease (VIDI project); Stress in Action (Gravitation project)

Resilience and mental health development | Intergenerational transmission| Family and peer experiences | Parent-child interactions | Longitudinal data-analysis |Differential susceptibility | Gene-environment interactions 

Functional movement disorders

sleep disorders; psychopathology; aggression; PTSD; Prolonged Grief Disorder

My research is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach to improve the classification of psychiatric disorders, in particular of major depression, using insights from clinical psychiatry, statistics, epidemiology, genetics, and philosophy of science. My main areas of expertise include major depressive disorder, psychiatric disease classification and statistical modeling, psychiatric genetics, and comorbidity.

Clinical neuropsychopharmacologist

Dr. L. (Lisette) van der Meer, psychologist, received her PhD in cognitive neuropsychiatry. With her research group Group for Rehabilitation and Innovation in Psychiatry (GRIP), she conducts research on cognitive rehabilitation and identity development in people with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. In addition to her work for the Department of Clinical & Developmental Neuropsychology, she works as a principal investigator at Lentis at the Department for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Thus, GRIP's research is embedded in both university and clinical practice. On GRIP's website the various projects are described in more detail and a complete publication list can also be found.

Mood disorders

As clinician and head of the clinical training programme for residents in old age psychiatry, I am daily confronted with the lack of evidence for the treatment we offer to our older patients with psychiatric diseases. This confrontation has motivated me to devote my own research line to clinically relevant research of the common mental disorders, i.e. mood-, anxiety and somatoform disorders. Herein, my main interest lies in the interaction between somatic health and these common mental disorders.

Community medicine; Management. Expertise concerns public health and epidemiology, in particular prevention, early treatment and promotion of health-related social participation. Current research concerns youth and deprived groups.

Mood disorders, clinical implementation of experience sampling method (ESM), ambulatory momentary assessments (EMA), epidemiology, neuroticism, psychophysiology

Anxiety and depressive symptoms in children and adults, psychiatric epidemiology, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, publication bias

Psychosomatic medicine, persistent somatic symptoms, functional syndromes, somatic symptom disorders.

Interpersonal perspective on psychopathology; Social cognition; Experimental psychopharmacology; Intensive repeated measures in naturalistic settings

My main research theme is the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, with depression as a central theme . My aim is to develop more effective interventions based on a better understanding of what goes wrong in depression, both on psychological/social and neurobiological level. For this, I work in patient cohorts such as the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA), population studies such as LIFELINES and TRAILS, the psychiatry iLab focusing on individual symptom profiles and self management, and perform pilot studies and larger clinical trials. Pathophysiological mechanisms of interest include neuroinflammation and chronobiology, but I have become more and more interested in the therapeutic potential of novel (or not so novel) psychoplastic compounds such as ketamine and psilocybin for patients with hard to treat depression and other severe mental illnesses. As a clinician and supervisor I work in our Academic Mood Disorders program.  

Research Methods, Rehabilitation, Dyslexia

social and behavioral development in an intergenerational context. neurodevelopmental disorders (autism, ADHD); mental health; infants; parenthood; longitudinal data analysis

Autism and education

Klinische trials, ervaringsgerichte therapie, psychotische stoornissen, virtual reality

My reseach focuses on personalizing treatment based on symptoms, rather than diagnoses. To this end, I am interested in the methodological and statistical approaches, such as machine learning, Bayesian statistics and psychometrics.

Functional and structural Neuroimaging, Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Psychosis, Suïcidal behavior, Longitudinal Imaging, Rumination, Apathy, cognitive control

Epidemiology, Psychotic disorders, Transcultural Psychiatry, Global Mental Health, Virtual Reality

I offer help to students and PhD students for all kinds of issues. I have (extra) affinity with stress related issues, emotion regulation, trauma, family issues, attachment and anxiety.
I use tools from various methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mentalization based therapy and EMDR. Since we only offer short tracks, I can also guide you in finding a suitable referral address in case you need more.  
I speak Dutch and English. I understand German.

Development and treatment of affective disorders (mood and anxiety) over the life course, meta-science.

My main research interests lie in the development of patient-centered diagnostic and risk-prediction models for use in psychiatric practice. More specifically, my research focuses on the methodological and statistical approaches that are needed to develop such models in evidence-based research. My methodological/statistical interests lie in (1) Modern Psychometrics, (2) Modeling of (intensive) longitudinal data, (3) Prediction Modeling and (4) Machine Learning.
As part of my job, I work as a statistical advisor for researchers in the UMCG Department of Psychiatry and in affiliated mental healthcare institutions.

(Early) psychosis, development, psychopathology, clinical staging

mood disorders, transdiagnostic approaches, experience sampling methodology, reward processes, time-series

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