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Overview

Eric Vermetten is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Their work primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as clinical psychology, epidemiology, molecular biology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and general health professions.

The research topics covered by Vermetten include:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Vermetten has contributed to multiple recent publications with a diverse focus:

  • A computational solution for bolstering reliability of epigenetic clocks: implications for clinical trials and longitudinal tracking (2022), published in Nature Aging
  • Reviewing the Potential of Psychedelics for the Treatment of PTSD (2020), published in The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Psychedelic Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Patient Experiences in Qualitative Studies (2020), published in CNS Drugs
  • Adverse events in clinical treatments with serotonergic psychedelics and MDMA: A mixed-methods systematic review (2022), published in Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Efficacy of immersive PTSD treatments: A systematic review of virtual and augmented reality exposure therapy and a meta-analysis of virtual reality exposure therapy (2020), published in Journal of Psychiatric Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Vermetten include:

  • Elbert Geuze
  • Suzette Brémault-Phillips
  • Mirjam J. Nijdam
  • Rakesh Jetly
  • Bart P. F. Rutten

Vermetten has published extensively in various venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Military Veteran and Family Health
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research

Best Publications

  • Magnetic resonance imaging-based measurement of hippocampal volume in posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood physical and sexual abuse--a preliminary report.

    J. Douglas Bremner;Penny Randall;Penny Randall;Eric Vermetten;Lawrence Staib

  • Emotion Modulation in PTSD: Clinical and Neurobiological Evidence for a Dissociative Subtype

    Ruth A. Lanius;Eric Vermetten;Richard J. Loewenstein;Bethany Brand

  • Childhood Trauma Associated With Smaller Hippocampal Volume in Women With Major Depression

    Meena Vythilingam;Christine Heim;Christine Heim;Christine Heim;Jeffrey Newport;Jeffrey Newport;Jeffrey Newport;Andrew H. Miller;Andrew H. Miller;Andrew H. Miller

  • MRI and PET Study of Deficits in Hippocampal Structure and Function in Women With Childhood Sexual Abuse and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    J. Douglas Bremner;Meena Vythilingam;Eric Vermetten;Steven M. Southwick

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  • Reduced volume of orbitofrontal cortex in major depression

    J.Douglas Bremner;Meena Vythilingam;Eric Vermetten;Ahsan Nazeer

  • 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

  • Long-term treatment with paroxetine increases verbal declarative memory and hippocampal volume in posttraumatic stress disorder

    Eric Vermetten;Eric Vermetten;Meena Vythilingam;Steven M. Southwick;Steven M. Southwick;Dennis S. Charney

  • 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

  • Assessment of HPA-axis function in posttraumatic stress disorder: Pharmacological and non-pharmacological challenge tests, a review

    C. S. de Kloet;E. Vermetten;E. Geuze;Annemieke Kavelaars

  • Stress and development: Behavioral and biological consequences.

    J D Bremne;E Vermetten

  • Hippocampal volume, memory, and cortisol status in major depressive disorder: effects of treatment.

    Meena Vythilingam;Eric Vermetten;George M Anderson;David Luckenbaugh

  • The dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder: rationale, clinical and neurobiological evidence, and implications.

    Ruth A. Lanius M.D.;Bethany Brand;Eric Vermetten M.D.;Paul A. Frewen

  • A computational solution for bolstering reliability of epigenetic clocks: implications for clinical trials and longitudinal tracking

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  • MR-based in vivo hippocampal volumetrics: 2. Findings in neuropsychiatric disorders

    E Geuze;E Vermetten;J D Bremner

  • Dissociative disorders in DSM‐5

    David Spiegel;Richard J. Loewenstein;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Vedat Sar

  • Structural and functional plasticity of the human brain in posttraumatic stress disorder

    J. Douglas Bremner;Bernet Elzinga;Christian G. Schmahl;Eric Vermetten

  • Positron emission tomographic imaging of neural correlates of a fear acquisition and extinction paradigm in women with childhood sexual-abuse-related post-traumatic stress disorder.

    J. Douglas Bremner;Eric Vermetten;Christian G. Schmahl;Viola Vaccarino

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of hippocampal and amygdala volume in women with childhood abuse and borderline personality disorder.

    Christian G. Schmahl;Eric Vermetten;Bernet M. Elzinga;J. Douglas Bremner

  • Higher cortisol levels following exposure to traumatic reminders in abuse-related PTSD.

    Bernet M Elzinga;Christian G Schmahl;Eric Vermetten;Richard van Dyck

  • Hippocampal and amygdalar volumes in dissociative identity disorder.

    Eric Vermetten;Christian Schmahl;Sanneke Lindner;Richard J. Loewenstein

  • Functional neuroimaging studies in posttraumatic stress disorder: review of current methods and findings.

    V. Francati;E. Vermetten;J.D. Bremner

Frequent Co-Authors

Elbert Geuze
Elbert Geuze Utrecht University
J. Douglas Bremner
J. Douglas Bremner Emory University
Marco P. Boks
Marco P. Boks University of Amsterdam
Dewleen G. Baker
Dewleen G. Baker University of California, San Diego
Caroline M. Nievergelt
Caroline M. Nievergelt University of California, San Diego
Bart P. F. Rutten
Bart P. F. Rutten Maastricht University Medical Centre
Dennis S. Charney
Dennis S. Charney Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Annemieke Kavelaars
Annemieke Kavelaars The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University

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