Camille Souama
Researcher
- Name
- Drs. C.P. Souama
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- c.p.souama@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- null
Camille Souama is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Clinical Psychology, and psychologist at the Leiden University Treatment and Expertise Centre (LUBEC). Her research aims to understand the lifelong health outcomes linked to childhood trauma. She also works as a psychologist with light therapy to help patients with depression.
Camille Souama is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Clinical Psychology, and psychologist at the Leiden University Treatment and Expertise Centre (LUBEC). Her research aims to understand the lifelong health outcomes linked to childhood trauma. She also works as a psychologist with light therapy to help patients with depression.
Research
Camille conducts research on the link between childhood trauma and various health outcomes later in life. Specifically, she is interested in the intersection between mental and somatic health. Childhood trauma has been linked to various diseases in adulthood, such as depression, obesity, and cardiac disease. In addition, depression is known to co-occur with various somatic diseases. By developing a better understanding of how early-life experiences, such as childhood trauma, shape people's mental and somatic health, we may be able to screen and monitor people at risk of developing (comorbid) diseases and develop early interventions to promote their health.
Education
She is a tutor of the course on Perspective on Career Planning for Bachelor students in Psychology.
Background
Camille was born in France in 1993. Between 2014 and 2019, she studied Psychology at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and at the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. For her PhD trajectory, from 2020 until 2024, she conducted research at the psychiatry department of the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. Her PhD thesis focuses on the comorbidity of depression and cardiometabolic disease after exposure to childhood trauma and is embedded in the EU-funded EarlyCause consortium (earlycause.eu). Since 2023, Camille works as a psychologist at LUBEC to treat patients with depression using light therapy. This treatment is embedded as part of a clinical trial of the Bioclock Consortium. In 2024, she started working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Clinical Psychology department.
Awards
- Travel grant of the APH Mental Health Program 2023
- Award ECNP's Got Talent 2022
Researcher
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Klinische Psychologie
- Souama Camille Lamers Femke Milaneschi Yuri Vinkers Christiaan H. H. Defina Serena Garvert Linda Stein Frederike Woofenden Tom Brosch Katharina Dannlowski Udo Galenkamp Henrike de Graaf Ron Jaddoe Vincent W. V. Lok Anja van Rijn Bas B. B. Volzke Henry Cecil Charlotte A. M. Felix Janine F. F. Grabe Hans J. J. Kircher Tilo Lekadir Karim ten Have Margreet Walton Esther Penninx Brenda W. J. H. (2023), Depression, cardiometabolic disease, and their co-occurrence after childhood maltreatment: an individual participant data meta-analysis including over 200,000 participants, BMC medicine 21(1): 93.
- Souama Camille Milaneschi Yuri Lamers Femke Vinkers Christiaan H. Giltay Erik J. Liemburg Edith J. Penninx Brenda W. J. H. (2023), Metabolic syndrome after childhood trauma: a 9-year longitudinal analysis, Psychological Medicine 54: 1373-1381.
- Yücel Dilan E. van Emmerik Arnold A.P. Souama Camille Lancee Jaap (2020), Comparative efficacy of imagery rehearsal therapy and prazosin in the treatment of trauma-related nightmares in adults: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Sleep Medicine Reviews 50: 101248 (101248).
- Lancee Jaap Yücel Dilan E. Souama Camille van Emmerik Arnold A.P. (2020), Reply to Zhang et al.: Downgrading recommendation level of prazosin for treating trauma-related nightmares: Should decision be based on a single study?, Sleep Medicine Reviews 51: 101286 (101286).