Karin Johanna Hendrika Verweij, Ph.D.
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Karin Johanna Hendrika Verweij, Ph.D.
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Professor
Amsterdam University Medical Centers, The Netherlands
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Karin Johanna Hendrika Verweij, Ph.D., Professor, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, The Netherlands, seeks to unravel the causal relationship between cannabis use and mental illness. Does cannabis use increase the risk or severity of mental illness, or can a mental illness lead individuals to increase their use of cannabis (for example as self-medication)? The team will use novel, genetically informed methods to investigate this question.
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