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Heuvel, van den O.A.

VUmc, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Nederland

Voorzitter Commissie Wetenschappelijke Activiteiten (CWA)

CURRICULUM VITAE 
Odile A. van den Heuvel studied medicine (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) and specialized in Psychiatry (GGZ in Geest, Amsterdam). She finished her PhD thesis in 2005 (with honor), on the involvement of limbic and frontal-striatal circuits in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. In 2007, she was awarded an NWO veni grant for an innovative study on emotion regulation in OCD using transcranial magnetic modulation. In collaboration with dr. Y.D. van der Werf she extended this multimodal neuroimaging work to study cognition in Parkinson. She recently received the NARSAD Young Investigator’s Award. Since 2007, she has a permanent clinical (50%) and research (50%) position at the VU medical center. Her clinical work focuses on liaison/hospital psychiatry and the neuropsychiatric disorders in Parkinson’s disease. Her research now focuses on the involvement of frontal-striatal and limbic circuits underlying neuropsychiatric disorders within the compulsive-impulsive spectrum.

CURRENT PROJECTS
1. Emotion regulation in OCD: a rTMS-MEG-MRI study investigating the interactions between limbic and frontal-striatal circuits (PhD student: S. de Wit; co-supervision with dr. Y.D. van der Werf) 
2. Cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical connectivity in Parkinson’s disease, an rTMS-MEG-MRI study (PhD student: K.M.W. Verhoef; co-supervision with dr. Y.D. van der Werf) 
3. Netherlands OCD Association family study (PhD student F. de Vries, co-supervision with D.C, Cath) 
4. Structural brain abnormalities in depressed elderly (PhD student M. Oudega, co-supervision with E. van Exel)

KEY PUBLICATIONS
van den Heuvel OA, Veltman DJ, Groenewegen HJ,  et al. Frontal-striatal dysfunction during planning in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005; 62: 301-310

van den Heuvel OA, Veltman DJ, Groenewegen HJ, et al. Disorder-specific neuroanatomical differentiation of emotional Stroop interference effects in obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder and hypochondriasis. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005; 62: 922-933

Mataix-Cols D & van den Heuvel OA. Common and distinct neural correlates of OCD and related disorders. Psychiatry Clinics of North America, 2006; 29: 391-410

van den Heuvel OA, Remijnse PL, Mataix-Cols D et al. The major symptom dimensions of OCD are mediated by partially distinct neural systems: voxel-based morphometry of 55 unmedicated patients. Brain, 2009; 132: 853-68

van den Heuvel OA, Groenewegen HJ, Barkhof F, Lazeron RHC, van Dyck R, Veltman DJ. Frontostriatal system in planning complexity: a parametric functional MR version of the Tower of London task. NeuroImage, 2003; 18: 367-374 

Bron: VUmc