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Dr. Wouter Cox

Universitair docent
Klinische psychologie

The aim of my research is to translate fundamental insights on fear memories and emotional episodic memories to new treatments for anxiety disorders and PTSD. To this end, I take an interdisciplinary approach and employ different - yet complementary - research paradigms at several levels of analysis (from neural activity to behavioral responses). I received my PhD at the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam in 2022 (Memory Transience versus Memory Persistence). In this work, which was supported by an NWO Research Talent grant, I aimed to elucidate how time, context, and memory reactivation modulate changes of emotional memory. In my postdoctoral work, funded by an ABC project grant, I studied the effects of exercise on emotional memory formation. This project involved a collaboration between the Department of Clinical Psychology, and the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, both at the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam, to connect neuroscience with psychological science. Currently, at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, I pursue these interests in research that is rooted in my belief that combinations of fundamental science and clinical science offer great opportunities, particularly to improve mental healthcare.