Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam is an assistant professor at the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. She is also affiliated with the department of Psychiatry (Leiden University Medical Center) and part of the Knowledge Center for Anxiety & Stress in Youth. 

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Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam is an assistant professor at the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. She is also affiliated with the department of Psychiatry (Leiden University Medical Center) and part of the Knowledge Center for Anxiety & Stress in Youth. 

Short CV

Janna Marie studied Medicine at the Erasmus Medical Center (2003-2007) and obtained her research master’s degree in Neuroscience and Cognition at Utrecht University in 2009 (cum laude). During her research master, she worked as an intern at the Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience (UMC Utrecht) and the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology (VU University Medical Center Amsterdam). During both internships, she used functional neuroimaging to investigate the human brain. In addition, she wrote a master thesis on the effects of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS). Following her masters, Janna Marie worked as a research assistant at the Department of Psychiatry of the UMC Utrecht, investigating the development of the adolescent brain with a focus on reward processing. 

After working in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab in Birmingham, Janna Marie started her PhD project in March 2013. This project, supervised by Michiel Westenberg, Nic van der Wee and Henk van Steenbergen, is embedded within the Leiden Family Study on Social Anxiety. The focus of her work was on profiling endophenotypes of social anxiety disorder using structural and functional MRI and she described her results in the thesis ‘Extremely Shy & Genetically Close’ (2020, cum laude). During her PhD-time, she was also involved in the NESDA study.

In 2021, she started a project with Daniel S. Pine (National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA), supported by a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council NWO. A pre-registration of this project, in which the structural brain correlates of childhood inhibited temperament are investigated, was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP).

In a new line of research, supported by a Medical Delta Talent Acceleration Grant (2021) and a subsidy from the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA; 2022), Janna Marie aims to explore the potential of real-time fMRI-based neurofeedback as an intervention for socially-anxious adolescents.

In addition, Janna Marie is co-chair of the ENIGMA-Anxiety working group, in which more than 200 international researchers collaborate to elucidate the neurobiology of anxiety disorders (https://enigma.ini.usc.edu/ongoing/enigma-anxiety/).

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Research

In her work, Janna Marie aims to explore the neurobiological characteristics of anxiety, especially social anxiety disorder (SAD). In the Leiden Family Lab study on Social Anxiety Disorder (LFLSAD), the neurobiological genetic vulnerability to develop social anxiety disorder was explored using an endophenotype approach in a two-generation study: patients with social anxiety as well as their family members of two generations were part of this research.

In her recent work, she investigates the neurobiology of childhood inhibited temperament, an innate trait strongly related to the development of anxiety later in life, and she aims to use insights from neuroimaging research to develop more effective interventions for SAD.

Past and present teaching

• (Research) Master thesis supervision 
• Bachelor thesis supervision
• Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 
• International Bachelor in Psychology
• The adolescent brain
• Developmental and Educational Psychology / Ontwikkelings- en onderwijspsychologie
• Developmental Psychopathology / Ontwikkelingspsychopathologie
• Applied developmental psychopathology

Registrations

• University Teaching Qualification 
• Completed course and examination 'Basic course for clinical investigators (BROK®)

Grants

2022
Small Projects NWA Routes 21/22 NeuroLabNL: €102.710 (2022)

2021
Medical Delta Talent Acceleration Call: €49.964 (2021)

2020
Niels Stensen Fellowship: €61.000 (2020)
Rubicon grant NWO: €67.193 (2020)
Travel grant Catharine van Tussenbroekfonds: €1.000 (2020)
Aspasia sub-grant: €10.000; Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology, Leiden University (2020)

2019
Travel award: €500 (European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 32nd ECNP Congress)

2017
Travel award: €200 (WASAD congress 2017, Würzburg, Germany)
Travel award: $2.000 (ENIGMA Annual Chair Retreat 2017, San Diego, USA)
Selected for participation in ECNP Workshop on Neuropsychopharmacology, Nice, Frankrijk.

2015
Funding to organize Lorentz Workshop: €21.000. ‘Endophenotypes of Social Anxiety Disorder: Can we detect them and are they useful in clinical practice?’
Travel award: €500 (European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 28th ECNP Congress)

Awards

2023
Selected for ‘Rising Star presentation’; Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, San Diego, USA (2023)
‘The Editors’ Best of 2022 Certificate’; Awarded by the Senior Editors of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2023)

2020
Second place Verhulst Award

2017 
Translational Neuroscience Award: best oral presentation 
LCTN Symposium 2017, Leiden, The Netherlands

Supervisors PhD project

• Prof. P.M. Westenberg 
• Prof. N.J.A. van der Wee 
• Dr. H. van Steenbergen (co-promotor)

Relevant links

Leiden Psychology Blog    
LinkedIn Profile    
Research Gate Profile    
ORCID  
Google Scholar   

Publications