Neeltje Van Haren MD, PhD

Neeltje was focus research on investigating the neurobiological and (social) cognitive basis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, using experimental cognitive paradigms, neuroimaging, and family and longitudinal designs. Since early in Neeltje career struck by the severity and bizarreness of symptoms that patients with severe mental illness experience, sometimes resulting in bizarre behavior and dramatically limiting daily life functioning. This in combination with subtlety of the biological abnormalities. My drive is to increase our knowledge about the biology of mood and psychotic disorders by integrating genetic information, (social) cognition, and structural/functional brain measures, with the ultimate goal to predict, prevent and treat these severe disorders.