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Personal profile
Research interests
Milou S. C. Sep is psychologist at GGZ inGeest and postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Vinkers at the department of psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC/VUmc. Her key interest is the between-individual variation in resilience to stress/trauma and its consequences for psychiatric disorders.
In her postdoctoral research, Sep focuses on individual stress system dynamics in major depressive disorder following childhood trauma. She participates in the STRESS-EU database, RESET, and REACT projects.
Specialisation
Sep studied Biomedical Sciences (BSc 2010), Clinical Psychology (BSc 2012; MSc 2015), and Neuroscience (MSc 2015) at Utrecht University. She acquired a prestigious personal NWO grant (2014) to execute her self-designed PhD project at UMC Utrecht and the Dutch Ministry of Defence, under the supervision of Prof. Joëls and Dr. Geuze. Sep combined clinical and preclinical work in her PhD thesis (2022) on neurobiological variation in context encoding under stress and susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Related documents
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, The Butterfly Effect of Trauma Contextualization: How neurobiological variation in context encoding impacts susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University
Award Date: 10 May 2022
External positions
Psychologist, GGZ inGeest De Nieuwe Valerius
Keywords
- RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
- BF Psychology
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Research output
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Brain network centrality following stress in adults with major depressive disorder and childhood trauma
Broeder, C., Pasteuning, J. M., Broeders, T. A. A., Linsen, F., Schoonheim, M. M., Sep, M. S. C. & Vinkers, C. H., Jun 2026, In: Neurobiology of Stress. 42, 100817.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Mathematical modeling of the cortisol stress response to develop indicators that are applicable across studies
STRESS-EU consortium, Jun 2026, In: Neurobiology of Stress. 42, 100790.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Dynamic time warping to model daily life stress reactivity in a clinical and non-clinical sample – An ecological momentary assessment study
Pasteuning, J., Broeder, C., Sep, M., Elzinga, B., Penninx, B., Vinkers, C. & Giltay, E., 1 Dec 2025, In: Journal of affective disorders. 390, 119833.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Laboratory stress research in psychiatric and neurological populations: toward a consensus guideline
Broeder, C., de Nooij, L., van den Eijnden, M. J. M., Hermans, E. J., Hernaus, D., Quaedflieg, C. W. E. M., Smits, F. M., Vinkers, C. H. & Sep, M. S. C., 1 Dec 2025, In: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 182, 107641.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Machine-learning detection of stress severity expressed on a continuous scale using acoustic, verbal, visual, and physiological data: lessons learned
Ciharova, M., Amarti, K., van Breda, W., Gevonden, M. J., Ghassemi, S., Kleiboer, A., Vinkers, C. H., Sep, M. S. C., Trofimova, S., Cooper, A. C., Peng, X., Schulte, M., Karyotaki, E., Cuijpers, P. & Riper, H., 2025, In: Frontiers in psychiatry. 16, 1548287.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The Role of the Hippocampus in the Context of Trauma
Sep, M. (Speaker)
11 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic
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STRESS-NL meeting 2022
Sep, M. (Member of programme committee)
Feb 2022 → Jul 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › organising
Prizes
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Dr. Catharine van Tussenbroek B beurs - Travel Grant (€3k)
Sep, M. (Recipient), May 2023
Prize › Academic
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