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Femke Gazendam (1983) is a PhD student working at the department of Clinical Psychology under supervision of Prof. dr.   Merel Kindt and Prof. dr. Jan Henk Kamphuis. In 2009 she received a NWO TopTalent grant (Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research) for her PhD research proposal on the transition of adaptive fear responses to pathological anxiety.

Whereas several lines of research suggest that stable individual differences moderate the vulnerability for developing anxiety disorders, individual variability in fear learning is often ignored in experimental fear learning studies. Our experiments aim to test the effect of risk traits on associative fear and safety learning, to gain a better understanding of how initially adaptive fear associations evolve into pathological fears. 

Short Biography       

Femke obtained her bachelor's degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), which included one year of interdisciplinary studies at Boston College, USA (Cum Laude). After this, she completed the Research Master Psychology and the master program in Clinical Psychology at the UvA (Cum Laude). Her clinical internship concerned diagnostics and treatment at the policlinic anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders (GGZinGeest, VU Medical Centre, supervised by Drs. Hillen, Dr. van Oppen and Prof. dr. van Balkom).  During her Masters, she has worked as a research assistant of Prof. dr. Merel Kindt, and supervised several research projects testing the fear inhibition paradigm in healthy students and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients. In her Clinical Master's treatment study, she investigated the processes of virtual reality exposure therapy in patients with a specific phobia, supervised by Prof. dr. Paul Emmelkamp. The Research Master thesis project was pursued with Prof. dr. Merel Kindt, investigating the experimental effects of worry following fear acquisition on associative fear learning.    

Publications 

Gazendam FJ, Kindt M (2012) Worrying Affects Associative Fear Learning: A Startle Fear Conditioning Study. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34882. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034882 

Gazendam FJ, Kamphuis JH & Kindt M (2013).  Deficient Safety Learning Characterizes High Trait Anxious Individuals. Biological Psychology 92(2), 342-352. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.11.006

Gazendam FJ, Kamphuis JH,  Eigenhuis A, Huizenga H, Soeter M, Bos MGN, Sevenster D, & Kindt M (provisionally accepted). Personality Predicts Individual Variation in Fear Learning: a Multi-level Growth Modeling approach. 

Gazendam FJ, Kamphuis JH, van der Leij AR, Huizenga H, Eigenhuis A, Scholte HS & Kindt M (In Prep.).[Working title]: Individual Differences in Associative Fear learning: the Representative ID1000 Study.

Presentations

Gazendam, Kamphuis & Kindt (2013). Individual differences in associative fear learning. Oral presentation at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT), September 25-September 28, Marrakech, Maroc.

Gazendam, Kamphuis & Kindt (2013). Individual differences in associative fear learning: personality and sex differences at the symposium Sex differences in Emotional memory, EndoNeuroPsycho meeting (ENP), may Lunteren, The Nederlands. 

Gazendam, Kamphuis & Kindt (2013). Individual differences in associative fear learning: a multi-level modeling approach. Oral presentation at the 9th International Conference Multilevel Analysis, March 27-28, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Gazendam, Kamphuis & Kindt (2013). Individual differences in associative fear learning, final presentation at the symposium Pressure to impress? On the where's, how's, when's and what's of funding, Experimental Psychopathology (EPP) Symposium, january 18, Kappelerput, The Netherlands. 

Gazendam, Kamphuis & Kindt (2012). Personality risk traits affect associative fear learning. Oral presentation at the symposium: Anxiety and Fear Conditioning: Modern insights on brain, genes and the role of individual differences at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT), August 29-September 1, Geneva, Swiss.

Gazendam, Kamphuis & Kindt (2011). From adaptive fear to pathological anxiety. Oral presentation at the 3rd European Human Fear Conditioning meeting, May 29-31, Brussels, Belgium.

Gazendam, Kamphuis & Kindt (2010). Deficient safety learning in high trait anxious individuals. Poster presented at the World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies  (WCBCT), June 2-5, Boston, USA.

Gazendam, Kamphuis & Kindt (2010). Deficient safety learning in high trait anxious individuals. Oral presentation at the 2nd European Human Fear Conditioning meeting, May 26-28, Brussels, Belgium.

Gazendam & Kindt (2009). Worrying affects associative fear learning. Poster presented at the 1^st European Human Fear Conditioning meeting, May 24-26, Bruges, Belgium. 

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Refereed Academic Publications

Gazendam FJ , Kindt M (2012) Worrying Affects Associative Fear Learning: A Startle Fear Conditioning Study. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34882. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034882

Gazendam FJ, Kamphuis JH & Kindt M (2013).  Deficient Safety Learning Characterizes High Trait Anxious Individuals. Biological Psychology 92(2), 342-352. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.11.006

Gazendam FJ, Kamphuis JH,  Eigenhuis A, Huizenga H, Soeter M, Bos MGN, Sevenster D, & Kindt M (provisionally accepted). Personality Predicts Individual Variation in Fear Learning: a Multi-level Growth Modeling approach.

Submitted or in Preparation 

Gazendam FJ, Kamphuis JH, van der Leij AR, Huizenga H, Eigenhuis A, Scholte HS & Kindt M (In Prep.). [Working title]: Individual Differences in Associative Fear learning: the Representative ID1000 Study.

Schagen SC,  Kamphuis JH, Eigenhuis A, Gazendam FJ & Verhuere BJ (In Prep.). The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) as a 3-factor measure of psychopathic traits

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