Miranda Olff
Miranda Olff is associate professor in the field of psychotrauma and specialized in research on psychobiological aspects of trauma and stress. She is head of the Centre for Psychological Trauma at the department of Psychiatry at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has a visiting professorship in Norway.
The centre offers ambulant treatment for patients with posttrauma psychopathology. She has been trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for PTSD (BEP) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR). She has done several treatment studies as well as psychobiological studies in the field of (traumatic) stress, anxiety and depression.
Current research includes randomized controlled trials on different forms of debriefing, early interventions and psychotherapy in traumatized patients. The psychobiological research includes neuroimaging studies of patients with post traumatic stress disorder, neuroendocrine aspects of PTSD. Disaster related research include for instance Enschede firework disaster. An epidemiological survey on mental health problems in Afghanistan as well as a large epidemiological survey on trauma and PTSD in the Netherlands have been conducted and politicians' responses to terrorist threat and personal security measures have been examined. A large study on the incidence, prevention and prediction of posttrauma psychopathology at the trauma unit as a consequence of a severe accident is ongoing as well as study on the effect of cortisol administration and a large trial comparing efficacy of trauma focused CBT to medication.