Anne Marije Kaag's research focuses on identifying gender and sex differences in the development and treatment of addiction and other psychiatric disorders. In her research she uses various neuroimaging techniques, including functional MRI, to investigate neurocognitive processes, including memory, attention and emotions, which play a role in addiction and other psychiatric illnesses. She is currently working on the following projects (I) Sex differences in the neural working mechanism of addiction, a project that aims to investigate whether there are differences between men and women in the (neural) working mechanism of cannabis and cocaine use disorder (collaboration with UvA Developmental Psychology, among others), (II) Sex and gender differences in the acute effects of guanfacine on emotion regulation in patients with an alcohol addiction. Using pharmacological MRI it is investigated whether there are differences between men and women in the effects of guanfacine on improving emotion and stress regulation in individuals with an alcohol use disorder ; (III) In the Memory Modification lab, we investigates the effectiveness of a 3MDR intervention on smoking cessation (collaboration AUMC VUMC); (IV) Together with Anja Huizink, Annet Kleiboer and Insan Firdaus (Clinical and Developmental Psychologyt) we investigate the relationship between stress and problematic alcohol use, focusing on the role of heart rate variability as an index of stress (regulation); (V) Sex and gender differences in the long-term outcomes of ADHD, in which we examine (among other things) sex and gender differences in the long-term outcomes of ADHD, based on the ADHD neuro Image cohort (collaboration Marjolein Luman, Jaap Oosterlaan and Siri Noordermeer); (IV) In collaboration with the AUMC AMC, we investigate the relationship between impairments in working memory and emotion regulation in adults with ADHD.
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Dr. A. M. (Anne Marije) Kaag, Assistant professor
Kathryn Antolich, PhD candidate
Merel de Niet, Junior researcher