Yara Toenders

Yara Toenders is a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus SYNC lab. She is interested in mental health during development from childhood to young adulthood.

Yara previously did her PhD at the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne in Australia. During her PhD she focused on depression in young people, more specifically on the onset of depression and the heterogeneity of depression. She was also involved in the international ENIGMA MDD consortium, a worldwide effort to combine data to increase our understanding of depression.

Before her PhD, Yara obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and finished a Neurobiology research master at the University in Amsterdam. During this Master she first gained experience with neuroimaging in young people. At the Amsterdam Medical Centre, she studied brain connectivity in children with a posttraumatic stress disorder.

Related publications

Within‐person biological mechanisms of mood variability in childhood and adolescence

Toenders, Y. J., de Moor, M. H., van der Cruijsen, R., Green, K., Achterberg, M., & Crone, E. A.

From developmental neuroscience to policy: a novel framework based on participatory research

Toenders, Y. J., Green, K. H., Te Brinke, L. W., van der Cruijsen, R., van de Groep, S., & Crone, E. A.

Mood variability during adolescent development and its relation to sleep and brain development

Toenders, Y. J., van der Cruijsen, R., Runze, J., van de Groep, S., Wierenga, S., & Crone, E. A.

Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on structural brain development in early adolescence

van Drunen, L., Toenders, Y. J., Wierenga, L. M., & Crone, E. A.

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