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Overview

Damiaan Denys is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans several intersecting fields including psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology within these broader domains.

The scholar's work explores topics related to obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, neurological disorders and treatments, and functional brain connectivity studies. Additional research interests include transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, autism spectrum disorder research, and investigations into anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. They also contribute to the field of mental health research topics.

Denys has co-authored publications frequently with several researchers including Guido van Wingen, Isidoor O. Bergfeld, Pepijn van den Munckhof, Roel J. T. Mocking, and Nienke Vulink.

They have published numerous papers, with recent notable works including:

  • "Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders" (2020), published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Misophonia: Phenomenology, comorbidity and demographics in a large sample" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups" (2020), published in the American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Consensus Definition of Misophonia: A Delphi Study" (2022), published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Efficacy of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Anterior Limb of the Internal Capsule for Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Clinical Cohort of 70 Patients" (2020), published in the American Journal of Psychiatry

Denys's research is disseminated across multiple venues with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Psychological Medicine

Best Publications

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Damiaan Denys;Mariska Mantione;Martijn Figee;Pepijn van den Munckhof

  • Revealing the complex genetic architecture of obsessive-compulsive disorder using meta-analysis

    Paul D. Arnold;Kathleen D. Askland;Cristina Barlassina;Laura Bellodi

  • New Developments in Human Neurocognition: Clinical, Genetic, and Brain Imaging Correlates of Impulsivity and Compulsivity

    Naomi A Fineberg;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Anna E. Goudriaan;Dan J. Stein

  • Deep brain stimulation restores frontostriatal network activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Martijn Figee;Judy Luigjes;Ruud Smolders;Carlos-Eduardo Valencia-Alfonso

  • Misophonia: diagnostic criteria for a new psychiatric disorder.

    Arjan Schröder;Nienke Vulink;Damiaan Denys;Damiaan Denys

  • OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A REVIEW OF THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA AND POSSIBLE SUBTYPES AND DIMENSIONAL SPECIFIERS FOR DSM-V

    James F. Leckman;Damiaan Denys M.D.;H. Blair Simpson;David Mataix-Cols

  • Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    S. E. Stewart;D. Yu;J. M. Scharf;B. M. Neale

  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Treatment Outcome and Predictors of Response

    Pino Alonso;Daniel Cuadras;Loes Gabriëls;Damiaan Denys

  • The role of dopamine in obsessive-compulsive disorder: preclinical and clinical evidence.

    Damiaan Denys;Joseph Zohar;Herman G. M. Westenberg

  • Distinct Subcortical Volume Alterations in Pediatric and Adult OCD: A Worldwide Meta- and Mega-Analysis.

    Premika S.W. Boedhoe;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe;Stephanie H. Ameis

  • Dysfunctional reward circuitry in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Martijn Figee;Matthijs Vink;Femke de Geus;Nienke Vulink

  • Partitioning the heritability of tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture

    Lea K. Davis;Dongmei Yu;Clare L. Keenan;Eric R. Gamazon

  • Multicenter Voxel-Based Morphometry Mega-Analysis of Structural Brain Scans in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Stella J. De Wit;Pino Alonso;Lizanne Schweren;David Mataix-Cols

  • Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Anterior Limb of the Internal Capsule for Treatment-Resistant Depression A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Isidoor O. Bergfeld;Mariska Mantione;Mechteld L. C. Hoogendoorn;Henricus G. Ruhé;Henricus G. Ruhé

  • Brain circuitry of compulsivity.

    Odile A. van den Heuvel;Odile A. van den Heuvel;Odile A. van den Heuvel;Guido van Wingen;Carles Soriano-Mas;Carles Soriano-Mas;Pino Alonso;Pino Alonso

  • A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Quetiapine Addition in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Refractory to Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

    Damiaan Denys;Femke de Geus;Harold J. G. M. van Megen;Herman G. M. Westenberg

  • Should OCD be classified as an anxiety disorder in DSM‐V?

    Dan J. Stein;Naomi A. Fineberg;Naomi A. Fineberg;O. Joseph Bienvenu;Damiaan Denys

  • Pharmacotherapy of obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

    Damiaan Denys

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Martijn Figee
Martijn Figee Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Guido A. van Wingen
Guido A. van Wingen University of Amsterdam
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein University of Cape Town
Herman G.M. Westenberg
Herman G.M. Westenberg Utrecht University
José M. Menchón
José M. Menchón University of Barcelona
Wim van den Brink
Wim van den Brink University of Amsterdam
Danielle C. Cath
Danielle C. Cath Utrecht University
María del Pino Alonso Ortega
María del Pino Alonso Ortega Bellvitge University Hospital
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Eske M. Derks
Eske M. Derks QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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