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Overview

Bart P. F. Rutten is affiliated with Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and psychology, with a substantial focus on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, genetics, molecular biology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several key research topics, including:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Bipolar disorder and treatment
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Mental health research topics
  • Health, environment, and cognitive aging

Bart P. F. Rutten has published numerous papers in leading venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology

Some recent papers authored by the scientist are:

  • A computational solution for bolstering reliability of epigenetic clocks: implications for clinical trials and longitudinal tracking (2022, Nature Aging)
  • DNA methylation meta-analysis reveals cellular alterations in psychosis and markers of treatment-resistant schizophrenia (2021, eLife)
  • Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of PTSD across 10 military and civilian cohorts identifies methylation changes in AHRR (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Social disadvantage, linguistic distance, ethnic minority status and first-episode psychosis: results from the EU-GEI case-control study (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • An epigenome-wide association study of posttraumatic stress disorder in US veterans implicates several new DNA methylation loci (2020, Clinical Epigenetics)

The scholar has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Jim van Os
  • Sinan Gülöksüz
  • Jurjen J. Luykx
  • Celso Arango
  • Miquel Bernardo

Best Publications

  • The environment and schizophrenia

    Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Gunter Kenis;Bart P. F. Rutten

  • The contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across Europe (EU-GEI): a multicentre case-control study

    Marta Di Forti;Marta Di Forti;Marta Di Forti;Diego Quattrone;Diego Quattrone;Diego Quattrone;Tom P. Freeman;Giada Tripoli

  • Gene-Environment Interactions in Schizophrenia: Review of Epidemiological Findings and Future Directions

    Jim Van Os;Bart P. F. Rutten;Richie Poulton

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • Treatment of motoneuron degeneration by intracerebroventricular delivery of VEGF in a rat model of ALS

    Erik Storkebaum;Diether Lambrechts;Mieke Dewerchin;Maria-Paz Moreno-Murciano

  • Resilience in mental health: linking psychological and neurobiological perspectives

    B. P. F. Rutten;C. Hammels;N. Geschwind;C. Menne-Lothmann

  • The Social Defeat Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: An Update

    Jean Paul Selten;Elsje Van Der Ven;Bart P.F. Rutten;Elizabeth Cantor-Graae

  • Consistent decrease in global DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in the hippocampus of Alzheimer's disease patients.

    Leonidas Chouliaras;Diego Mastroeni;Diego Mastroeni;Elaine Delvaux;Andrew Grover

  • The epigenetics of aging and neurodegeneration.

    Roy Lardenoije;Artemis Iatrou;Gunter Kenis;Konstantinos Kompotis

  • Hippocampal neuron loss exceeds amyloid plaque load in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

    Christoph Schmitz;Christoph Schmitz;Christoph Schmitz;Bart P.F. Rutten;Bart P.F. Rutten;Bart P.F. Rutten;Andrea Pielen;Stephanie Schäfer;Stephanie Schäfer

  • Epigenetic regulation of the BDNF gene: implications for psychiatric disorders.

    F Boulle;F Boulle;D L A van den Hove;D L A van den Hove;S B Jakob;B P Rutten

  • Epigenetic Mediation of Environmental Influences in Major Psychotic Disorders

    Bart P. F. Rutten;Jonathan Mill

  • Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions in Schizophrenia: Contemporary Challenges for Integrated, Large-scale Investigations

    Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Bart P. Rutten;Inez Myin-Germeys;Philippe Delespaul

  • Treated Incidence of Psychotic Disorders in the Multinational EU-GEI Study.

    Hannah Jongsma;Charlotte Gayer-Anderson;Antonio Lasalvia;Diego Quattrone

  • Epigenetic regulation in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease.

    Leonidas Chouliaras;Bart P.F. Rutten;Gunter Kenis;Odette Peerbooms

  • Longitudinal changes of telomere length and epigenetic age related to traumatic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder

    Marco P. Boks;Hans C. van Mierlo;Bart P.F. Rutten;Timothy R.D.J. Radstake

  • White Noise Speech Illusions : A Trait-Dependent Risk Marker for Psychotic Disorder?

    Elaine Schepers;Richel Lousberg;Sinan Guloksuz;Lotta-Katrin Pries

  • Traumatic stress and accelerated DNA methylation age: A meta-analysis

    Erika J Wolf;Hannah Maniates;Nicole Nugent;Adam X Maihofer

  • A Time-Lagged Momentary Assessment Study on Daily Life Physical Activity and Affect

    Marieke Wichers;Frenk P. M. L. Peeters;Bart P. F. Rutten;Nele Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Sinan Guloksuz
Sinan Guloksuz Maastricht University
Gunter Kenis
Gunter Kenis Maastricht University
Daniel L.A. van den Hove
Daniel L.A. van den Hove Maastricht University
Eric Vermetten
Eric Vermetten Leiden University Medical Center
Celso Arango
Celso Arango Complutense University of Madrid
Marco P. Boks
Marco P. Boks University of Amsterdam
Elbert Geuze
Elbert Geuze Utrecht University
Miguel Bernardo
Miguel Bernardo University of Barcelona
Julio Bobes
Julio Bobes University of Oviedo
Marieke Wichers
Marieke Wichers Maastricht University

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