Dr Jean-Paul Selten

Dr. Jean-Paul Selten (Netherlands)
Jean-Paul Selten received his medical degree from the University of Amsterdam and trained in psychiatry there. From 1989 to 1995 he worked at the admission ward of a psychiatric hospital in The Hague, where he wrote his Ph.D. thesis about the subjective experience of negative symptoms. Since 1995 he is psychiatrist at the University Medical Centre in Utrecht. His work has focused on the epidemiology of schizophrenia, in particular schizophrenia and migration. In collaboration with Dr. Cantor-Graae he developed the social defeat hypothesis, which could explain how social factors influence brain functioning. He was awarded the Janssen-Cilag Award 2000 for the most talked-about schizophrenia research conducted in the Netherlands. He conducted first-contact incidence studies in the Netherlands and in Surinam. The study in Surinam was the
first study of its kind on the South-American continent.