Fifteen years of the Netherlands study of depression and anxiety: An introduction to the special issue

TY - JOUR

T1 - Fifteen years of the Netherlands study of depression and anxiety

T2 - An introduction to the special issue

AU - Penninx, Brenda W. JH

AU - Spinhoven, Philip

N1 - Funding Information: Fifteen years ago, we could not have imagined that the utilization of the NESDA research infrastructure would have been so large. Over 600 scientific papers have been written based on NESDA's data: Some of these papers are sole NESDA papers, but other papers utilize the NESDA data as part of larger consortia such as in the field of genetics or neuro-imaging. The multidisciplinary nature of these papers is large, and their focus ranges from psychosocial aspects of depression and anxiety disorders to its clinical course to their pathophysiology. The NESDA research infrastructure has obtained funding for almost 20 years now. This has not always been easy. Although we started out with a Dutch Scientific Research Organization grant and co-financing by our Universities and involved Mental Health Care Organizations, in the past decades lots of international organizations (e.g. the European Commission and the US National Institutes of Health) have contributed to NESDA's research infrastructure. We are very grateful for all financial contributions to our research infrastructure. Due to these, we are still able to extend our data collections and maintain a very well-organized data management system. We are proud to hear from many external researchers that they find the NESDA database easy to work with through its clear structure and documentation materials.

PY - 2022/2/1

Y1 - 2022/2/1

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U2 - 10.1016/j.jad.2021.11.003

DO - 10.1016/j.jad.2021.11.003

M3 - Letter

C2 - 34774644

VL - 298

SP - 355

EP - 356

JO - Journal of Affective Disorders

JF - Journal of Affective Disorders

SN - 0165-0327

ER -