Wim Van Den Brink MD, PhD

Dr. Wimvan den Brink is currently Professor of Psychiatry & Addiction, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA) and Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research (AIAR).

He has received medical degree from the VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1981 and PhD degree cum laude from the University of Groningen.

The aim of Professor van den Brink’s research is to uncover the neurobiological processes involved in the development of addictive behaviours, and the effects of neurobiological interventions in preventing relapse in alcohol- and drug-dependent patients and pathological gamblers, using neuropsychological tests, neurophysiological procedures, and/or neuroimaging techniques.

.His publications are as follows:
Luigjes J, van den Brink W, Feenstra M, van den Munckhof P, Schuurman PR, Schippers R, Mazaheri A, de Vries TJ, Denys D, Deep brain stimulation in addiction: a review of potential brain targets. MOL PSYCHIATR 2012;17 (6):572-583.

van Holst RJ, Veltman DJ, Büchel C, van den Brink W, Goudriaan AE, Distorted Expectancy Coding in Problem Gambling: Is the Addictive in the Anticipation?. BIOL PSYCHIAT 2012;71 (8):741-748.

de Ruiter MB, Veltman DJ, Goudriaan AE, Oosterlaan J, Sjoerds Z, van den Brink W, Response Perseveration and Ventral Prefrontal Sensitivity to Reward and Punishment in Male Problem Gamblers and Smokers. NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOL 2009;34 (4):1027-1038.