Dik ten Hove

Research physician, Postdoctoral researcher Profile

Research physician, Postdoctoral researcher

Clinical research with psychedelics

Currently, I am working as a research physician for two projects at the department of psychiatry. These projects evaluate the effect of a classic psychedelic: Psilocybin, on therapy resistant depression and end-of-life distress. There is a clear need for new treatment modalities in psychiatry, and psychedelics have shown promising initial results for these conditions. I hope that through these studies we will be able to gain a better understanding of whether these innovative treatments indeed benefit these patients, and if so, through what mechanisms they produce their therapeutic effects.