Country of Origin: The Netherlands
Contact:

Rintveld, Center for Eating Disorders

Oude Arnhemseweg 260

3705 BK Zeist

The Netherlands

 

Educational Background

• PhD in Social Psychology, Utrecht University, Supervisor: Prof. Henk Aarts (2003-2007). Thesis: By force of Habit: On the formation and maintenance of goal-directed habits.
• MSc in Social Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1997 - 2002)
• MSc in Social and Applied Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury (2000-2001)

Current Research Projects

My current research focusses on decision making processes in relation to eating disorders. In one project I am examining the influence of negative emotions of decision making performance in patients with Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. Another project is in collaboration with several colleagues at the Institute of Psychiatry in London (e.g. Dr. Kate Tchanturia) in which we investigate the relation between decision making performance and genetic risk factors in eating disordered patients and healthy controls. Furthermore, I am conducting a study on the relation between symptoms of eating pathology and decision making in a general female population.

Publications

• Danner, U. N., Evers, C., de Ridder, D.T.D, Brandys, M., & Elburg, A.A. (2008). Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation as a Risk Factor for Eating Pathology. Poster presented at the 14th annual conference of the Eating Disorder Research Society (EDRS), Montreal, VS, September 2008.
• Van Elburg, A. A., Hillebrand, J.J., Kas, M.J., Danner, U. N., Kuypers, R., Kaspers, P., Merks, M., Hoek, H.W., & Adan, R.A. (2008). Hyperactivity in Anorexia Nervosa patients, normal controls and balletstudents. presented at the 14th annual conference of the Eating Disorder Research Society (EDRS), Montreal, VS, September 2008.
• Danner, U. N., Evers, C., de Ridder, D.T.D, Brandys, M., & Van Elburg, A.A. (2008). Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation as a Risk Factor in Eating Disorders. Poster presented at the 22nd annual conference od the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Bath, UK, September 2008.

See also my CV

Contributions on conferences, workshops

• Danner, U.N. (2008). By force of habit: Cognitive processes underlying habitual behavior and implications for eating disorders. Invited presentation at the Department of Experimental Clinical Psychology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, October 2008.
• Tobias, K., & Danner, U. (2008). Neuropsychology and eating disorders: Background and implication for treatment. [Neuropsychologie en eetstoornissen: achtergronden en implicaties voor behandeling] Presentation at the Dutch Academy for Eating Disorders, Zwolle, The Netherlands, October 2008.
• Danner, U.N. (2007). Emotion regulation and eating disorders. Presentation at the workshop "New Directions in Emotion Regulation and Health" organized by the Psychology and Health Institute, Utrecht, October 2007. 

Special interest

In general, I am interested in neurocognitive functioning (e.g., set shifting, inhibitory control, central coherence) as phenotypes in patients with eating disorders, with a special interest in processes underlying decision making in Bulimia Nervosa and the relation with impulsivity