Biography
Why do some lose control over drug use, while others do not? I am intrigued by the fine line between addiction risk and resilience. To this end, I study the processes underlying trajectories of drug use. In 2021 I founded the Neuroscience of Addiction Lab at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, after transitioning from the University of Amsterdam. I use an interdisciplinary approach to learn how the environment shapes drug users. As such, my team studies neurobiology in rodents and men, but also the role of social dynamics and culture. Moreover, I develop theory and methods, invest in team science and use an impact agenda in my science and teaching.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Associate professor | Clinical Psychology
- cousijn@essb.eur.nl
- Room
- T13-25
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Janna Cousijn, Gabry Mies, Nora Runia, Maik Derksen, Ingo Willuhn & Heidi Lesscher (2023) - The impact of age on olfactory alcohol cue-reactivity: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in adolescent and adult male drinkers - Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research - doi: 10.1111/acer.15037 - [link]
- Antonio Verdejo-Garcia, Tara Rezapour, Emily Giddens, Arash Khojasteh Zonoozi, Parnian Rafei, Jamie Berry, Alfonso Caracuel, Marc L Copersino, Matt Field, Eric L Garland, Valentina Lorenzetti, Leandro Malloy-Diniz, Victoria Manning, Ely M Marceau, David L Pennington, Justin C Strickland, Reinout Wiers, Rahia Fairhead, Alexandra Anderson, Morris Bell, Wouter J Boendermaker, Samantha Brooks, Raimondo Bruno, Salvatore Campanella, Janna Cousijn, Miles Cox, Andrew C Dean, Karen D Ersche, Ingmar Franken, Brett Froeliger, Pedro Gamito, Thomas E Gladwin, Priscila D Goncalves, Katrijn Houben, Joanna Jacobus, Andrew Jones, Anne M Kaag, Johannes Lindenmeyer, Elly McGrath, Talia Nardo, Jorge Oliveira, Charlotte R Pennington, Kelsey Perrykkad, Hugh Piercy, Claudia I Rupp, Mieke H J Schulte, Lindsay M Squeglia, Petra Staiger, Dan J Stein, Jeff Stein, Maria Stein, William W Stoops, Mary Sweeney, Katie Witkiewitz, Steven P Woods, Richard Yi, Min Zhao & Hamed Ekhtiari (2022) - Cognitive training and remediation interventions for substance use disorders: A Delphi consensus study - Addiction - doi: 10.1111/add.16109 - [link]
- John Marsden, Jamie Brown, Luke Clark, Janna Cousijn, Wayne Hall, Matt Hickman, John Holmes, Keith Humphreys, Sarah E Jackson, Amy Peacock & Jalie Tucker (2022) - The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on addictive disorders: An update - Addiction, 117 (11), 2762-2766 - doi: 10.1111/add.16033 - [link]
- Helle Larsen, Reinout W Wiers, Shuang Su & Janna Cousijn (2022) - Excessive smartphone use and addiction: When harms start outweighing benefits - Addiction, 118 (4), 586-588 - doi: 10.1111/add.16060
- Emese Kroon, Lauren Kuhns, Annette Dunkerbeck & Janna Cousijn (2022) - The who and how of attentional bias in cannabis users: Associations with use severity, craving, and interference control - Addiction, 118 (2), 307-316 - doi: 10.1111/add.16059
- Lauren Kuhns, Emese Kroon, Heidi Lesscher, Gabry Mies & Janna Cousijn (2022) - Age-related differences in the effect of chronic alcohol on cognition and the brain: A systematic review - Translational Psychiatry, 12 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41398-022-02100-y - [link]
- Sharon R Sznitman, Lukas van Rijswijk & Janna Cousijn (2022) - Cannabis use as a predictor and outcome of positive and negative affect in college students: An ecological momentary assessment study - Addictive Behaviors, 128 - doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107221 - [link]
- Emese Kroon, Lauren N Kuhns, Anne Marije Kaag, Francesca Filbey & Janna Cousijn (2022) - The role of sex in the association between cannabis use and working memory-related brain activity - Journal of Neuroscience Research, 100 (6), 1347-1358 - doi: 10.1002/jnr.25041 - [link]
- John Marsden, Janna Cousijn & John Stapleton (2022) - Pre-registration: Not a daunting practice - Addiction, 117 (4), 845-846 - doi: 10.1111/add.15819 - [link]
- K Richard Ridderinkhof, Lukas Snoek, Geert Savelsbergh, Janna Cousijn & A Dilene van Campen (2022) - Action intentions, predictive processing, and mind reading: Turning goalkeepers into penalty killers - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 789817 - doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.789817
- Shuang Su, Helle Larsen, Janna Cousijn, Reinout W. Wiers & Regina J. J. M. Van den Eijnden (2022) - Problematic smartphone use and the quantity and quality of peer engagement among adolescents: A longitudinal study - Computers in Human Behavior, 126 - doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.107025 - [link]
- Janna Cousijn, Yara Toenders, Laura S van Velzen & Anne Marije Kaag (2022) - The relation between cannabis use, dependence severity and white matter microstructure: A diffusion tensor imaging study - Addiction Biology, 27 (1) - doi: 10.1111/adb.13081 - [link]
- , Jonatan Ottino-Gonzalez, Matthew D Albaugh, Zhipeng Cao, Renata B Cupertino, Nathan Schwab, Phillip A Spechler, Nicholas Allen, Eric Artiges, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L W Bokde, Erin Burke Quinlan, Rüdiger Brühl, Catherine Orr, Janna Cousijn, Sylvane Desrivières, Herta Flor, John J Foxe, Juliane H Fröhner, Anna E Goudriaan, Penny Gowland, Antoine Grigis, Andreas Heinz, Robert Hester, Kent Hutchison, Chiang-Shan R Li, Edythe D London, Valentina Lorenzetti, Maartje Luijten, Frauke Nees, Rocio Martin-Santos, Jean-Luc Martinot, Sabina Millenet, Reza Momenan, Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Martin P Paulus, Luise Poustka, Lianne Schmaal, Gunter Schumann, Rajita Sinha, Zsuzsika Sjoerds, Michael N Smolka, Nadia Solowij, Dan J Stein, Elliot A Stein, Anne Uhlmann, Ruth J van Holst, Dick J Veltman, Henrik Walter & Robert Whelan (2021) - Brain structural covariance network differences in adults with alcohol dependence and heavy drinking adolescents - Addiction, 117 (5), 1312-1325 - doi: 10.1111/add.15772 - [link]
- Lauren Kuhns, Emese Kroon, Karis Colyer-Patel & Janna Cousijn (2021) - Associations between cannabis use, cannabis use disorder, and mood disorders: longitudinal, genetic, and neurocognitive evidence - Psychopharmacology, 239 (5), 1231-1249 - doi: 10.1007/s00213-021-06001-8 - [link]
- Zhipeng Cao, Jonatan Ottino-Gonzalez, Renata B Cupertino, Nathan Schwab, Colin Hoke, Orr Catherine, Janna Cousijn, Alain Dagher, John J Foxe, Anna E Goudriaan, Robert Hester, Kent Hutchison, Chiang-Shan R Li, Edythe D London, Valentina Lorenzetti, Maartje Luijten, Rocio Martin-Santos, Reza Momenan, Martin P Paulus, Lianne Schmaal, Rajita Sinha, Zsuzsika Sjoerds, Nadia Solowij, Dan J Stein, Elliot A Stein, Anne Uhlmann, Ruth J van Holst, Dick J Veltman, Reinout W Wiers, Murat Yücel, Sheng Zhang, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M Thompson, Patricia Conrod, Scott Mackey & Hugh Garavan (2021) - Mapping cortical and subcortical asymmetries in substance dependence: Findings from the ENIGMA Addiction Working Group - Addiction Biology, 26 (5) - doi: 10.1111/adb.13010 - [link]
- Emese Kroon, Lauren Kuhns & Janna Cousijn (2021) - Context dependent differences in working memory related brain activity in heavy cannabis users - Psychopharmacology, 239 (5), 1373-1385 - doi: 10.1007/s00213-021-05956-y - [link]
- Janna Cousijn (2 december 2022) - Feiten en meningen en cannabis
- Janna Cousijn (14 september 2022) - Studio Erasmus – Talkshow twee gezichten van cannabis
- Janna Cousijn (8 juli 2022) - Interview VIDI onderzoek
- Janna Cousijn (1 juli 2022) - Onderzoek naar de twee gezichten van cannabis krijgt VIDI subsidie
- Janna Cousijn (28 maart 2022) - Therapeutic digital gaming and VR to level-up treatment for addiction
- J (Janna) Cousijn (21 december 2021) - ‘Runner’s high’ is geen endorfineboost
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2 december 2021) - Het Kwartje - S2E9 - dr. Janna Cousijn over de impact van Alcohol en Wiet op het brein
- J (Janna) Cousijn (20 september 2021) - Cannabis may alter a teen’s developing brain
- J (Janna) Cousijn (20 september 2021) - Cannabis may alter a teen’s developing brain
- J (Janna) Cousijn (7 mei 2021) - Nederlanders roken meer wiet tijdens de pandemie
- J (Janna) Cousijn (17 maart 2021) - Help, een blowende tiener: dit kun je als ouder tegen wietgebruik doen
- J (Janna) Cousijn (5 februari 2021) - Cannabis use and the brain with Janna Cousijn
- J (Janna) Cousijn (15 januari 2021) - How did the Dutch lockdown influence cannabis use and addiction?
- J (Janna) Cousijn (13 augustus 2018) - UvA’ers doen onderzoek in de coffeeshop: ‘Hij kon zijn ogen maar niet openhouden’
- J (Janna) Cousijn (31 mei 2018) - Een cannabisverslaving kan net zo destructief zijn als heroïneverslaving
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2 juni 2017) - Elke dag blowen - Interview Janna Cousijn
- Janna Cousijn (2022) - Cannabis Use disorder and the brain: What’s culture got to do with it?
- Janna Cousijn (2022) - Annual meeting of the The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD)
- Janna Cousijn (2022) - The impact of age on olfactory alcohol cue-reactivity: a fmri study inadolescent versus adult drinkers
- Janna Cousijn (2022) - Cannabis and the Brain workshop
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2022) - Clinical Psychology (Organisational unit)
- Janna Cousijn (2022) - Erasmus University Rotterdam (Organisational unit)
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2021) - Cannabis and Cannabinoids – From Science to Practice to Policy: An International Perspective
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2021) - Keynote presentation: Cannabis use, dependence and the brain – What do we know?
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2021) - Young Academy of Europe (External organisation)
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2021) - Aging Brain Matter; a developmental key to addiction risk and resilience
- Janna Cousijn (2022) - NWO VIDI Grant (800.000 Euro): Blowing Minds: detangling the highs and lows of cannabis for brain health
- Lauren Kuhns & J (Janna) Cousijn (2021) - Back on Track: An Online Self-Guided Intervention for Cannabis Use Reduction (38.150 Euro)
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2020) - ERC Starting Grant (1.500.000 Euro): Aging Brain Matter; a developmental key to addiction risk and resilience
- J (Janna) Cousijn & Francesca Filbey (2017) - National Institute of Drug Abuse RO1 (Project ID:1R01DA042490-01A1, 2.500.000 American Dollar, role: PI): The Role of Motivation and Control in Cannabis Use Disorders: A Cross-Cultural Longitudinal Neuroimaging Study
- J (Janna) Cousijn, Heidi Lesscher & Ingo Willuhn (2017) - Amsterdam Brain and Cognition project grant (250.000 Euro, role: PI): Unraveling adolescent risk and resilience to alcohol: A parallel fMRI study in humans and rats
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2016) - APS rising star
- Valentina Lorenzetti, Nadia Solowij, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia & J (Janna) Cousijn (2016) - NHMRC Project Grant, Australia (Project ID: APP1130079, 732.000 Australian Dollar, role: co-I): Characterising neurobiological abnormalities in Cannabis Use Disorders.
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2016) - American Psychological Association, travel award
- J (Janna) Cousijn, Heidi Lesscher & Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren (2015) - DOY-grant, Utrecht University (100.000 Euro). Unraveling adolescent risk and resilience to alcohol use disorders
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2012) - IVO addiction masterclass, best paper award
- J (Janna) Cousijn (2011) - NIDA travel award
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