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Research interests
Milou S. C. Sep is psychologist at GGZ inGeest and postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Vinkers at the department of psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC/VUmc. Her key interest is the between-individual variation in resilience to stress/trauma and its consequences for psychiatric disorders.
In her postdoctoral research, Sep focuses on individual stress system dynamics in major depressive disorder following childhood trauma. She participates in the STRESS-EU database, RESET, and REACT projects.
specialisation
Sep studied Biomedical Sciences (BSc 2010), Clinical Psychology (BSc 2012; MSc 2015), and Neuroscience (MSc 2015) at Utrecht University. She acquired a prestigious personal NWO grant (2014) to execute her self-designed PhD project at UMC Utrecht and the Dutch Ministry of Defence, under the supervision of Prof. Joëls and Dr. Geuze. Sep combined clinical and preclinical work in her PhD thesis (2022) on neurobiological variation in context encoding under stress and susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, The Butterfly Effect of Trauma Contextualization: How neurobiological variation in context encoding impacts susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University
Award Date: 10 May 2022
External positions
Psychologist, GGZ inGeest De Nieuwe Valerius
1 Sept 2021 → …
Keywords
- RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
- BF Psychology
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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REACT: Brain dynamics in childhood trauma-related depression
Pasteuning, J., Sep, M., Schoonheim, M. & Vinkers, C.
1/01/2022 → …
Project: Research
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RESET: REStoring mood in Early life Trauma
Linsen, F., Gathier, A., Broeder, C., Sep, M., Verhoeven, J., Schoonheim, M., van Oppen, P., Penninx, B. & Vinkers, C.
1/01/2020 → …
Project: Research
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Individual differences in the encoding of contextual details following acute stress: An explorative study
Sep, M. S. C., Joëls, M. & Geuze, E., May 2022, In: European Journal of Neuroscience. 55, 9-10, p. 2714-2738 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus) -
The relation between anxious personality traits and fear generalization in healthy subjects: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Sep, M. S. C., Steenmeijer, A. & Kennis, M., Dec 2019, In: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 107, p. 320-328 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access38 Citations (Scopus) -
Time-dependent effects of psychosocial stress on the contextualization of neutral memories
Sep, M. S. C., van Ast, V. A., Gorter, R., Joëls, M. & Geuze, E., Oct 2019, In: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 108, p. 140-149 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access9 Citations (Scopus) -
Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) antagonism as disease-modifying treatment for MDD with childhood trauma: protocol of the RESET-medication randomized controlled trial
Linsen, F., Broeder, C., Sep, M. S. C., Verhoeven, J. E., Bet, P. M., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Meijer, O. C. & Vinkers, C. H., 1 Dec 2023, In: BMC psychiatry. 23, 1, 331.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The Butterfly Effect of Trauma Contextualization: How neurobiological variation in context encoding impacts susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder
Sep, MSC., 2022Research output: PhD Thesis › Phd-Thesis - Research and graduation external
Open Access
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STRESS-NL meeting 2022
Milou Sep (Member of programme committee)
Feb 2022 → Jul 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ... › Academic
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The Role of the Hippocampus in the Context of Trauma
Milou Sep (Speaker)
11 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic