Anne Alkema

Psychiatry Resident, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

Anne Alkema is a psychiatry resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, and combines her clinical training with a PhD track about transdiagnostic effects of childhood adversity and gene-environment correlations.

Written by Anne Alkema

Photo of a child peeking over a pink slide against a blue sky, partially obscured by play equipment and tree branches.

The shadows cast by childhood abuse and neglect are not the same

Unravelling the pathways from different forms of childhood maltreatment to mental illness could lead to better treatments

by Anne Alkema & Marco Boks