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Overview

Bernard Sabbe is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and has made contributions across multiple disciplines including psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their body of work spans various subfields such as clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and biological psychiatry.

Their research topics reflect a focus on neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly related to mood and psychotic conditions. Major themes include tryptophan and brain disorders, schizophrenia research and treatment, bipolar disorder and treatment, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, electroconvulsive therapy studies, treatment of major depression, and personality disorders and psychopathology.

Bernard Sabbe has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Neuropsychobiology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
  • European Psychiatry

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Anhedonia in Depressive Disorder: A Narrative Review," 2020, Psychopathology
  • "Inflammation, Hippocampal Volume, and Therapeutic Outcome following Electroconvulsive Therapy in Depressive Patients: A Pilot Study," 2020, Neuropsychobiology
  • "Immune and Neuroendocrine Trait and State Markers in Psychotic Illness: Decreased Kynurenines Marking Psychotic Exacerbations," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "The neuropsychology of child sexual offending: A systematic review," 2020, Aggression and Violent Behavior
  • "The associations between childhood trauma and work functioning in adult workers with and without depressive and anxiety disorders," 2020, European Psychiatry

Bernard Sabbe has collaborated frequently with a core group of coauthors, including:

  • Manuel Morrens
  • Didier Schrijvers
  • Linda van Diermen
  • Violette Coppens
  • E. Constant

Best Publications

  • The gender paradox in suicidal behavior and its impact on the suicidal process

    Didier L. Schrijvers;Jos Bollen;Bernard G.C. Sabbe

  • Reducing the treatment gap for mental disorders: a WPA survey.

    Vikram Patel;Mario Maj;Alan J Flisher;Mary J De Silva

  • Drug-induced stimulation and suppression of action monitoring in healthy volunteers

    Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Wouter Hulstijn;Wouter Hulstijn;Robbert J. Verkes;Gé S. F. Ruigt

  • Psychomotor symptoms in depression: a diagnostic, pathophysiological and therapeutic tool.

    Didier Schrijvers;Wouter Hulstijn;Wouter Hulstijn;Bernard G.C. Sabbe

  • Psychomotor Slowing in Schizophrenia

    Manuel Morrens;Wouter Hulstijn;Bernard Sabbe

  • Optimized filtering reduces the error rate in detecting genomic variants by short-read sequencing

    Joke Reumers;Joke Reumers;Peter De Rijk;Hui Zhao;Hui Zhao;Anthony Liekens

  • GPs' perspectives of type 2 diabetes patients' adherence to treatment: A qualitative analysis of barriers and solutions

    Johan Wens;Etienne Vermeire;Paul Van Royen;Bernard Sabbe

  • Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory: a mediator between rumination and ineffective social problem-solving in major depression?

    Filip Raes;Dirk Hermans;J. Mark G. Williams;Koen Demyttenaere

  • Dependency and self‐criticism: relationship with major depressive disorder, severity of depression, and clinical presentation

    Patrick Luyten;Bernard Sabbe M.D.;Sidney J. Blatt;Sieglinde Meganck

  • Differences in impulsivity and sensation seeking between early- and late-onset alcoholics

    G. Dom;W. Hulstijn;B.G.C.C. Sabbe

  • Effects of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs on action monitoring in healthy volunteers.

    Ellen R.A. de Bruijn;Bernard G.C. Sabbe;Wouter Hulstijn;Wouter Hulstijn;Gé S.F. Ruigt

  • Antidepressants and the Risk of Hyponatremia: A Class-by-Class Review of Literature

    Livia De Picker;Filip Van Den Eede;Glenn Dumont;Greta Moorkens

  • A good quality of life under the influence of methadone: A qualitative study among opiate-dependent individuals

    Jessica De Maeyer;Wouter Vanderplasschen;Laura Camfield;Stijn Vanheule

  • Structural and functional brain abnormalities associated with exposure to different childhood trauma subtypes: A systematic review of neuroimaging findings

    Laura L. M. Cassiers;Bernard G. C. Sabbe;Lianne Schmaal;Dick J. Veltman

  • Action monitoring in major depressive disorder with psychomotor retardation

    Didier Schrijvers;Ellen R.A. de Bruijn;Yvonne Maas;Carmen De Grave

  • Current quality of life and its determinants among opiate-dependent individuals five years after starting methadone treatment.

    Jessica De Maeyer;Wouter Vanderplasschen;Jan Lammertyn;Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen

  • Mechanisms of gene–environment interactions in depression: evidence that genes potentiate multiple sources of adversity

    M Wichers;D Schrijvers;N Geschwind;N Jacobs

  • Persistence and outcome of auditory hallucinations in adolescence: A longitudinal general population study of 1800 individuals

    Ellen De Loore;Nicole Gunther;Nicole Gunther;Marjan Drukker;Frans Feron

  • Hair ethyl glucuronide levels as a marker for alcohol use and abuse: A review of the current state of the art

    Cleo L. Crunelle;Michel Yegles;Alexander L.N. van Nuijs;Adrian Covaci

  • Decision-making deficits in alcohol-dependent patients with and without comorbid personality disorder.

    Geert Dom;Bieke De Wilde;Wouter Hulstijn;Wim van den Brink

  • Retardation in depression: assessment by means of simple motor tasks

    Bernard Sabbe;Wouter Hulstijn;Jacques van Hoof;H.G Tuynman-Qua

  • The use of atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of catatonia.

    Filip Van Den Eede;Jan Van Hecke;Arjen Van Dalfsen;Bart Van den Bossche

Frequent Co-Authors

Wouter Hulstijn
Wouter Hulstijn University of Antwerp
Ellen R.A. de Bruijn
Ellen R.A. de Bruijn Leiden University
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
Guido Pieters
Guido Pieters KU Leuven
Jurgen Del-Favero
Jurgen Del-Favero University of Antwerp
Frans G. Zitman
Frans G. Zitman Leiden University
Marc De Hert
Marc De Hert KU Leuven

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