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Tackling Global Mental Health "where the people are, not where the professionals are" 78% of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries. While across the world as a whole, an estimated 1 in 8, 970 million people, are living with a mental disorder. Numbers that Claudi Bockting, Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC and co-director of the Centre for Urban Mental Health, only sees going one way: upwards.
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Five Rings over Amsterdam The International Olympic Committee names Amsterdam UMC as one of its 11 Research Centres.
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The hunt for a rapid test for drug effectiveness Wouter de Jonge and Geert d'Haens recently received a Horizon Europe grant to make this a DNA test for drug effectiveness a reality. Something which could represent a huge advance in the treatment of Crohn's disease and related inflammatory diseases.
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Virus in The Sights Virologists are now one step closer to a Hepatitis C vaccine. This year, for the first time, they were able to map the structure of a crucial protein on the outside of the virus.
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Education at Amsterdam UMC: Amsterdam UMC is a leading academic medical center and focuses on education of the next generation health care professionals.
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Microbiome composition linked to depression Research by Amsterdam UMC, the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus MC delivers the most extensive evidence to date of a relationship between the composition of the microbiome and instances of depression. This composition also plays a role in the differing rates of depression across different ethnic groups. These studies, based partly on data from the HELIUS study, appear today as a double publication in Nature Communications.
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World's largest exome sequencing Alzheimer's study finds two new genes that raise risk of disease An international study led by Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands, Pasteur Institute of Lille, France and the University of Rouen Normandy, France, has led to the discovery of two new 'Alzheimer genes', and evidence for a third. A genetic alteration in any one of these genes can lead to a significantly increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. The study is published today in Nature Genetics.
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Healthy people with abnormal PET scans are at high risk of future memory problems Cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal amyloid-β and tau PET scans have a greatly increased risk of developing mild cognitive symptoms or even dementia within three-and-a-half years, according to new research by Amsterdam UMC's Alzheimer Center and Lund University in Sweden.
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More effective treatment of oesophageal cancer possible thanks to new insight Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are not always successful against oesophageal cancer. However, a new discovery by researchers at Amsterdam UMC Cancer Center Amsterdam, published today in Cell Reports Medicine, can provide more insight into why: irradiated oesophageal cancer cells have more mitochondria or 'energy factories'. With these factories they can make energy and repair the damage caused by the radiation.
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