Mirjam Wever
Researcher
- Name
- Dr. M.C.M. Wever
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- m.c.m.wever@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0210-6709
Mirjam Wever researches the reciprocal relationship in parent-child interactions and the development and maintenance of depressive symptoms in adolescents. Within this topic, she focuses on the neurobiological processes involved in this interaction and neural responses that play a role in the (dys)functional behaviour within these interactions.
Mirjam Wever researches the reciprocal relationship in parent-child interactions and the development and maintenance of depressive symptoms in adolescents. Within this topic, she focuses on the neurobiological processes involved in this interaction and neural responses that play a role in the (dys)functional behaviour within these interactions.
Summary
Mirjam Wever graduated at the VU University of Amsterdam (research master Neurosciences) and was involved in research projects about eating disorders and intolerance of uncertainty (IU) in Utrecht. Currently she works as a PhD student at Leiden University and is involved in the RE-PAIR study. The aim of this study is to determine the bidirectional relationship between parent-adolescent interactions and the development and/or maintenance of depressive symptoms in adolescents. The study includes behavioral observations of parent-adolescent interactions during interaction tasks in the lab, electronic diaries (EMA), and functional MRI. Mirjam primarily focusses on the underlying neurobiological processes involved in these parent-adolescent interactions and the neural responses, in both parents and adolescents, that play a role in the (dys)functional behavior within the parent-adolescent interactions.
Research
The RE-PAIR study Mirjam is involved in is about the bidirectional relationship between parent-adolescent interactions and the development and/or maintenance of depressive symptoms in adolescents. This intergenerational project will disentangle how daily conflictual parent-adolescent interactions contribute to depressive symptoms of adolescents and which (dysfunctional) processes in the social brain of both parents and adolescents are important in these interactions. The parent-adolescent interactions will be studied in multiple ways, including behavioral observations of parent-adolescent interactions during interaction tasks in the lab, electronic diaries (EMA), and (dys)functional processes in the social brain will be studied, in both parents and adolescents, with functional MRI. Mirjam will primarily focus on the underlying neurobiological processes involved in the parent-adolescent interactions, as well as which neural responses play a role in the (dys)functional behavior within these parent-adolescent interactions, in both parents and adolescents.
Promotores: Prof.dr. Bernet Elzinga, Dr. Geert-Jan Will en Dr. Marieke Tollenaar.
Publications
Wever, M., Smeets, P., & Sternheim, L. (2015) Neural correlates of intolerance of uncertainty in clinical disorders. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 27(4), 345-353.
Wever, M.C.M., Dingemans, A.E., Geerets, T., & Danner, U.N. (2018) Screening for Binge Eating Disorder in people with obesity. Obesity research & clinical practice.
Relevant links
Researcher
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Klinische Psychologie
- Wever M.C.M. (11 January 2024), I see you: insights into the neural and affective signatures of connectedness between parents and adolescents (Dissertatie. Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Elzinga B.M., Will G.J. & Tollenaar M.S.
- Veenman M., Janssen L.H.C., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wever M.C.M., Verkuil B. & Epskamp S. (2024), A network study of family affect systems in daily life, Multivariate Behavioral Research 59(2): 371-405.
- Janssen L.H., Sloan C.J., Verkuil B., Van Houtum L.A., Wever M.C., Fosco G.M. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Adolescents' and parents' affect in relation to discrepant perceptions of parental warmth in daily life, Journal of Research on Adolescence 33(4): 1320-1334.
- Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wever M.C.M., Schie C.C. van, Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Sticky criticism? : Affective and neural responses to parental criticism and praise in adolescents with depression, Psychological Medicine : 1-10.
- Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Schie C.C. van, Wever M.C.M., Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Tailby C., Grenyer B.F.S., Will G.J., Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Aberrant neural network activation during reliving of autobiographical memories in adolescent depression, Cortex 168: 14-26.
- Wever M.C.M., Van Houtum L.A.E.M., Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Spruit I.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Looking into troubled waters: Childhood emotional maltreatment modulates neural responses to prolonged gazing into one’s own, but not others’ eyes, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 23: 1598–1609.
- van Houtum L.A.E.M., Will G.J., Wever M.C.M., Janssen L.H.C., Schie C.C. van, Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2022), Adolescents’ affective and neural responses to parental praise and criticism , Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 54: 1-12 (101099).
- Wever M.C.M, Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Janssen L.H.C., Spruit I.M., Tollenaar M.S., Aan het Rot M. & Elzinga B.M. (2022), Eyes on you: ensuring empathic accuracy or signalling empathy?, International Journal of Psychology : 1-10.
- Wever M.C.M., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2022), Neural and affective responses to prolonged eye contact with one's own adolescent child and unfamiliar others, NeuroImage 260: 1-12 (119463).
- Wever M.C. van Meer F. Charbonnier L. Crabtree D.R. Buosi W. Giannopoulou A. ... Smeets P.A. (2021), Associations between ghrelin and leptin and neural food cue reactivity in a fasted and sated state, NeuroImage 240: 1-11 (118374).
- Wever M.C.M., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Janssen L.H.C., Will G.J., Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2021), Neural signatures of parental empathic responses to imagined suffering of their adolescent child, NeuroImage 232(117886): 1-13.
- Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wever M.C.M, Janssen L.H.C., Schie C.C. van, Will G.J., Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2021), Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 16(4): 406-417.
- Janssen L.H.C., Verkuil B., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wever M.C.M. & Elzinga B.M. (2021), Perceptions of parenting in daily life: adolescent-parent differences and associations with adolescent affect, Journal of Youth and Adolescence 50: .
- Janssen L.H.C., Kullberg M.-L., Verkuil B., Zwieten N. van, Wever M.C.M., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wentholt W.G.M. & Elzinga B.M. (2020), Does the COVID-19 pandemic impact parents’ and adolescents’ well-being? An EMA-study on daily affect and parenting, PLOS One 15(10): e0240962.
- Wever M.C.M., Dingemans A.E., Geerets T. & Danner U.N. (2018), Screening for Binge Eating Disorder in people with obesity, Obesity Research and Clinical Practice 12(3): 299-306.
- Wever M., Smeets P. & Sternheim L. (2015), Neural Correlates of Intolerance of Uncertainty in Clinical Disorders, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 27(4): 345-353.