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In General:

The project is an international multicenter project. A broad range of expertise is brought together to study this psychiatric disorder in a careful well-though manner but with the required scientific methodological rigour. A well-balanced team with differential views on the etiology of DID is brought together. It is thought that an open discussion between people holding different views can only be beneficial for the project as the best ideas usually originate from challenging discussions. Patient inclusion is supported through the Dutch National Centre for Early Childhood Traumatization "Het Landelijk Centrum voor Vroegkinderlijke Traumatisering (LCVT)".

The center part consists of four people, the project leader and three PhD students:

• The project leader:
  
  Dr. A.A.T.Simone Reinders, Msc PhD (London/Groningen)


• The PhD students:
  
  
  1. Eline Vissia, MSc (Groningen)
  
  
  2. Mechteld Giesen, MSc (Groningen/Amsterdam)
  
  
  3. Sima Chalavi, MSc (London)
  
  
• The MSc Student(s):
  
  
  1. Audrey Chung (London)
  
  

Other people closely involved in the current project from The Netherlands are:

• Prof. Dr. Andre Aleman, PhD (BCN-NiC/UMCG): Promotor
• Prof. Dr. Dick V. Veltman, PhD (VUMC/AMC): Promotor
• Dr. Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis (GGZ Drenthe): Patient inclusion, Clinical DID expert
• Dr. Nel Draijer, PhD (VUMC/GGZba): Patient inclusion, Clinical DID expert
• Prof. Dr. Miranda Olff, PhD (VUMC/AMC): Patient inclusion
• Dr. Rafaele J.C. Huntjes, PhD (RuG)
• Prof. Dr. J.A. (Hans) den Boer, PhD (UMCG)
• Prof. Dr. Harald L.G.J. Merckelbach, PhD (UM)
• Dr. Timo Giesbrecht, PhD (UM)
• Linsey Raymaekers, MSc (UM)
• Hedwig Hofstetter, MSc (RuG): Statistical expert

International collaboration:

• The Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King's College London (KCL), UK
  • Prof. Gareth Barker
  • Dr. Paola Dazzan
  • James Cole
  
  
• Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), UCLA, USA
  • Prof. Arthur Toga
  • Prof. Paul Thompson
  
  
• Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST), division Athinoula A. Martinos Center for biomedical imaging
  • Robert L. Savoy
  • Blaise Frederick
  
  
• University of Zurich, Psychology institute, division Neuropsychology
  • Yolanda Schlumpf is receiving supervision from Dr. A.A.T.Simone Reinders for the neuroimaging research in DID patients, which is part of Yolanda's PhD project.

This project is financially supported by (i) the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO, through a personal NWO-VENI grant (no. 451-07-009) to Dr. A.A.T.Simone Reinders, and (ii) the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)

Last update 27 November 2009 © a.a.t.s.reinders 2008-2009