Statement of Interest

Theo G.M. van Erp, Ph.D., has an academic appointment as an Assistant Researcher in the Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at UCLA.  He earned his bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in neuropsychology at the University of Nijmegen (1996) and his doctoral degree at the University of Utrecht (2007) in the Netherlands. He spent a year (1995-1996) in clinical and research training in the Brain Behavior Center at the University of Pennsylvania, before taking a position with Dr. Tyrone D. Cannon in the Clinical Neuroscience (CNS) Laboratory at the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he became the lab manager. He moved with the CNS Laboratory to UCLA in 1999.  Dr. Van Erp’s research interests focus on understanding the nature, sources (genetic / environmental), and pathogenesis (development) of the neural mechanisms underlying schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, through the use of behavioral, brain morphological (MRI), biochemical (MRS), and functional (fMRI) measures.  His Ph.D. thesis focused on understanding the sources of hippocampal morphological abnormalities and the nature and the sources of episodic memory abnormalities in schizophrenia. Dr. Van Erp has numerous published works on neurobiological endophenotypes for schizophrenia.  For further information, please call (310) 206-4902, email vanerp@psych.ucla.edu, or see http://vanerp.bol.ucla.edu, http://cannonlab.psych.ucla.edu, or http://www.capps.ucla.edu.