Name:
Willemijn A. van Gastel
Department of Psychiatry
Section Genetic basis of developmental disorders
Function:
PhD student
E-mail:
W.vanGastel@umcutrecht.nl
Tel: +31 88-755 6278
Supervisor:
R.S. Kahn, M.Boks
Title research:
The influence of cannabis on mental health; a large scale longitudinal study (CannabisQuest)
Summary research:
Definition of a risk profile for adverse psychiatric effects of cannabis use on the long term. Is there a synchronicity of change in cannabis use and psychotic and depressive symptoms over a period of years? And is this relation mediated by genetic predisposition, personality, social economic status, trauma, smoking behaviour …?