Camille Souama is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her research aims to understand the lifelong health outcomes linked to a history of childhood trauma. She also recently started working as a psychologist at the Leiden University Treatment and Expertise Centre (LUBEC) in a medical psychology unit to treat patients with mental and somatic complaints. She was born in France, but studied psychology and did her PhD in the Netherlands. Her PhD thesis focuses on the comorbidity of depression and cardiometabolic disease after exposure to childhood trauma.
Why do people who were maltreated as children face higher risks of both mental and physical illness? A new Mendelian randomisation study suggests that metabolic markers — like triglycerides and blood sugar — may be part of the chain connecting adversity to later multimorbidity.
