Dick F. Swaab

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2008 - Academy Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Intra- and extrahypothalamic vasopressin and oxytocin pathways in the rat

  R. M. Buijs;D. F. Swaab;J. Dogterom;F. W. van Leeuwen

  1519
  Citations

• The stress system in the human brain in depression and neurodegeneration.

  Dick F. Swaab;Ai-Min Bao;Paul J. Lucassen

  1238
  Citations

• The suprachiasmatic nucleus of the human brain in relation to sex, age and senile dementia

  D.F. Swaab;E. Fliers;T.S. Partiman

  1204
  Citations

• Effect of bright light and melatonin on cognitive and noncognitive function in elderly residents of group care facilities: a randomized controlled trial.

  Rixt F. Riemersma-van der Lek;Dick F. Swaab;Jos Twisk;Elly M. Hol

  975
  Citations

• A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality

  J.-N. Zhou;M.A. Hofman;L.J.G. Gooren;D.F. Swaab

  958
  Citations

• Increased numbers of corticotropin-releasing hormone expressing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of depressed patients.

  Frederik C. Raadsheer;Witte J.G. Hoogendijk;Frans C. Stam;Fred J.H. Tilders

  950
  Citations

• A sexually dimorphic nucleus in the human brain

  Dick F. Swaab;E. Fliers

  727
  Citations

• Alterations in the circadian rest-activity rhythm in aging and Alzheimer's disease.

  W. Witting;I.H. Kwa;P. Eikelenboom;M. Mirmiran

  723
  Citations

• The stress system in depression and neurodegeneration: Focus on the human hypothalamus

  A.-M. Bao;G. Meynen;D.F. Swaab

  707
  Citations

• Bright Light Therapy: Improved Sensitivity to Its Effects on Rest-Activity Rhythms in Alzheimer Patients by Application of Nonparametric Methods

  E. J. W. Van Someren;D. F. Swaab;C. C. Colenda;W. Cohen

  647
  Citations

• The vasopressinergic innervation of the brain in normal and castrated rats.

  G. J. DeVries;R. M. Buijs;F. W. van Leeuwen;A. R. Caffé

  624
  Citations

• Increased number of vasopressin- and oxytocin-expressing neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in depression.

  Jan S. Purba;Witte J. G. Hoogendijk;Michel A. Hofman;Dick F. Swaab

  602
  Citations

• Indirect bright light improves circadian rest-activity rhythm disturbances in demented patients

  E.J.W. van Someren;A. Kessler;M. Mirmiran;D.F. Swaab

  596
  Citations

• Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus

  Frank P. M. Kruijver;Jiang-Ning Zhou;Chris W. Pool;Michel A. Hofman

  558
  Citations

• Alterations in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and its oxytocin neurons (putative satiety cells) in Prader-Willi syndrome: a study of five cases.

  D F Swaab;J S Purba;M A Hofman

  556
  Citations

• Circadian rest-activity rhythm disturbances in Alzheimer's disease

  Eus J.W. van Someren;Eveline E.O. Hagebeuk;Cees Lijzenga;Philip Scheltens

  541
  Citations

• Neuropathology of stress

  Paul J. Lucassen;Jens Pruessner;Nuno Sousa;Osborne F. X. Almeida

  541
  Citations

• Alteration of the microRNA network during the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

  Pierre Lau;Koen Bossers;Rekin's Janky;Evgenia Salta

  524
  Citations

• Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone mRNA Levels in the Paraventricular Nucleus of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Depression

  F. C. Raadsheer;J. J. Van Heerikhuize;P. J. Lucassen;W. J. G. Hoogendijk

  506
  Citations

• Immunofluorescence of vasopressin and oxytocin in the rat hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system

  D. F. Swaab;C. W. Pool;F. Nijveldt

  456
  Citations

• Handbook of clinical neurology

  Pierre J. Vinken;George W. Bruyn;Michael J. Aminoff;François Boller

  9
  Citations