Aartjan Beekman

PROF.DR., (Principal Investigator)

Full Professor, Psychiatry
Full Professor, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress and Sleep
Full Professor, Amsterdam Public Health - Mental Health
Full Professor, Cancer Center Amsterdam - Treatment and Quality of Life

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Personal profile

Research interests

Aartjan Beekman studied medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1977-1985). He specialized in Psychiatry at GGZ-BuitenAmstel and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1987-1991).
He was trained in Child and adolescent psychiatry at Curium Oegstgeest and Social Psychiatry at the CRD Amsterdam.
He recieved his PhD in 1996 (cum laude) and was registered as an epidemiologist-B in 1999.

From 2003 untill 2008 Aartjan Beekman was Head of the training facility of GGZ Buitenamstel/VUmc.
In 2003 he became Professor of Psychiatry.
From 2004-2010 Aartjan was Head of the research program Mental Health at the EMGO⁺ Institute VUmc
in 2007 he became Head of department Psychiatry VUmc.
In 2008 he also became a member of the board of GGZ inGeest.
In 2011 - 2016 he was appointed President of NVvP (Dutch association of Psychiatry)

Research interests

a.beekman@ggzingeest.nl

+31207884535

External positions

Psychiatrist, GGZ InGeest, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Research Output

Diagnostic accuracy of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) for cognitive screening in old age psychiatry: Determining cutoff scores in clinical practice. Avoiding spectrum bias caused by healthy controls

Dautzenberg, G. R., Lijmer, J. & Beekman, A., Mar 2020, In : International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 35, 3, p. 261-269 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Empirical support for the vascular apathy hypothesis: A structured review

Wouts, L., van Kessel, M., Beekman, A. T. F., Marijnissen, R. M. & Oude Voshaar, R. C., 1 Jan 2020, In : International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 35, 1, p. 3-11 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank

Coleman, J. R. I., Peyrot, W. J., Purves, K. L., Davis, K. A. S., Rayner, C., Choi, S. W., Hübel, C., Gaspar, H. A., Kan, C., Van der Auwera, S., Adams, M. J., Lyall, D. M., Choi, K. W., Wray, N. R., Ripke, S., Mattheisen, M., Trzaskowski, M., Byrne, E. M., Abdellaoui, A., Adams, M. J. & 206 others, Agerbo, E., Air, T. M., Andlauer, T. F. M., Bacanu, S. A., Bækvad-Hansen, M., Beekman, A. T. F., Bigdeli, T. B., Binder, E. B., Bryois, J., Buttenschøn, H. N., Bybjerg-Grauholm, J., Cai, N., Castelao, E., Christensen, J. H., Clarke, T. K., Coleman, J. R. I., Colodro-Conde, L., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Craddock, N., Crawford, G. E., Davies, G., Deary, I. J., Degenhardt, F., Derks, E. M., Direk, N., Dolan, C. V., Dunn, E. C., Eley, T. C., Escott-Price, V., Kiadeh, F. F. H., Finucane, H. K., Foo, J. C., Forstner, A. J., Frank, J., Gaspar, H. A., Gill, M., Goes, F. S., Gordon, S. D., Grove, J., Hall, L. S., Hansen, C. S., Hansen, T. F., Herms, S., Hickie, I. B., Hoffmann, P., Homuth, G., Horn, C., Hottenga, J. J., Hougaard, D. M., Howard, D. M., Ising, M., Jansen, R., Jones, I., Jones, L. A., Jorgenson, E., Knowles, J. A., Kohane, I. S., Kraft, J., Kretzschmar, W. W., Kutalik, Z., Li, Y., Lind, P. A., MacIntyre, D. J., MacKinnon, D. F., Maier, R. M., Maier, W., Marchini, J., Mbarek, H., McGrath, P., McGuffin, P., Medland, S. E., Mehta, D., Middeldorp, C. M., Mihailov, E., Milaneschi, Y., Milani, L., Mondimore, F. M., Montgomery, G. W., Mostafavi, S., Mullins, N., Nauck, M., Ng, B., Nivard, M. G., Nyholt, D. R., O’Reilly, P. F., Oskarsson, H., Owen, M. J., Painter, J. N., Pedersen, C. B., Pedersen, M. G., Peterson, R. E., Pettersson, E., Peyrot, W. J., Pistis, G., Posthuma, D., Quiroz, J. A., Qvist, P., Rice, J. P., Riley, B. P., Rivera, M., Mirza, S. S., Schoevers, R., Schulte, E. C., Shen, L., Shi, J., Shyn, S. I., Sigurdsson, E., Sinnamon, G. C. B., Smit, J. H., Smith, D. J., Stefansson, H., Steinberg, S., Streit, F., Strohmaier, J., Tansey, K. E., Teismann, H., Teumer, A., Thompson, W., Thomson, P. A., Thorgeirsson, T. E., Traylor, M., Treutlein, J., Trubetskoy, V., Uitterlinden, A. G., Umbricht, D., Van der Auwera, S., van Hemert, A. M., Viktorin, A., Visscher, P. M., Wang, Y., Webb, B. T., Weinsheimer, S. M., Wellmann, J., Willemsen, G., Witt, S. H., Wu, Y., Xi, H. S., Yang, J., Zhang, F., Arolt, V., Baune, B. T., Berger, K., Boomsma, D. I., Cichon, S., Dannlowski, U., de Geus, E. J. C., DePaulo, J. R., Domenici, E., Domschke, K., Esko, T., Grabe, H. J., Hamilton, S. P., Hayward, C., Heath, A. C., Kendler, K. S., Kloiber, S., Lewis, G., Li, Q. S., Lucae, S., Madden, P. A. F., Magnusson, P. K., Martin, N. G., McIntosh, A. M., Metspalu, A., Mors, O., Mortensen, P. B., Müller-Myhsok, B., Nordentoft, M., Nöthen, M. M., O’Donovan, M. C., Paciga, S. A., Pedersen, N. L., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Perlis, R. H., Porteous, D. J., Potash, J. B., Preisig, M., Rietschel, M., Schaefer, C., Schulze, T. G., Smoller, J. W., Stefansson, K., Tiemeier, H., Uher, R., Völzke, H., Weissman, M. M., Werge, T., Lewis, C. M., Levinson, D. F., Breen, G., Børglum, A. D., Sullivan, P. F., Dunn, E. C., Vassos, E., Danese, A., Maughan, B., Grabe, H. J., Lewis, C. M., O’Reilly, P. F., McIntosh, A. M., Smith, D. J., Wray, N. R., Hotopf, M., Eley, T. C., Breen, G. & on the behalf of Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 23 Jan 2020, In : Molecular Psychiatry.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review