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Biographical Sketch
Hilde Geurts obtained a MSc in Neuro- and Rehabiliation psychology (1996) at the University of Nijmegen (Radboud University). During her MSc she worked together with Anouk Scheres on a research project at the University of Essex (Colchester, England) with dr. Ricardo Russo and dr. Geoff Ward as her supervisors. Next she worked for approximately two years as a neuropsychologist in a psychiatric hospital for children. In 1998 she started with her PhD-project on Executive control in ADHD and Autism spectrum Disorders (ASD) at the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, with prof.dr. J.A. Sergeant, prof.dr. H. Roeyers and dr. J. Oosterlaan as advisors. She moved to the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at the Vrije Universiteit to finish her PhD-project. In the meanwhile she worked as a lecturer at the Department of Clinical Psychology (UvA).
From 2002 till 2009 she was assistant professor Clinical Neuropsychology at the Department of Psychonomics (UvA).Since 2009 she became an associate professor in clinical neuropsychology. In the summer of 2008, she visited the M.I.N.D institute of UC Davis (Sacramento, California) for a three month period to work with Blythe Corbett and Marjorie Solomon. One day a week she works as a senior researcher and psychologist in the autism expert team of the "poli Amsterdam"of the "Dr. Leo Kannerhuis".
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Research Interests
The main focus of her work is on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), two of the major neurodevelopmental disorders. ADHD and ASD have some salient overlapping clinical characteristics, but the distinctiveness of these disorders is also apparent. The idea is that these disorders have some shared disrupted developmental pathways which can be studied by focusing on cognition and behavior. The main question of her work is whether there are dissociations between these neurodevelopmental disorders and how we can account for the overlap. She focuses on cognitive control (inhibition, cognitive flexibility), intra individual variability, reinforcement learning, and pragmatics. Recent ongoing projects focus on how deficient processes in people with ADHD and ASD can be ameliorated. Most of these studies are behavioural studies in children (4 to 16 years) and recently she started to incorporate neuroimaging techniques to study the aforementioned topics. People who want to particpate in her studies are always welcome, please see for more information www.adhd-autisme.nl (in Dutch).
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Selected publications
Please, see for overview of publications the publications page atthe top of this website
Geurts, H.M. & Embrechts, M. (2008). Language profiles in ASD, SLI, and ADHD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1931-1943.
Geurts, H.M., Meel, van K., & Luman., M., (2008). What’s in a Game: The Effect of Social Motivation on Interference Control in Boys with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 848-857.
Geurts, H. M., Grasman, R., Verté,S., Oosterlaan, J., Roeyers, H., van Kammen, S., & Sergeant, J. A. (2008). Intra Individual Variability in ADHD, Autism, and Tourette’s Syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 46, 3030-3041.
Geurts, H.M., van der Oord, S., & Crone, E.C. (2006). Hot and cool aspects of cognitive control in children with ADHD: Decision-making and inhibition. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 811-822.
Geurts, H. M., Verté, S., Oosterlaan, J., Roeyers, H., & Sergeant, J. A. (2004). How specific are executive functioning deficits in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and autism? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 836-854.
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