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Erik J. Giltay is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine, with a particular focus on clinical and experimental cognitive psychology as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Their publication record includes notable recent papers such as:

  • The mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with and without depressive, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorders: a longitudinal study of three Dutch case-control cohorts, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Comorbidity between depression and anxiety: assessing the role of bridge mental states in dynamic psychological networks, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Depression profilers and immuno-metabolic dysregulation: Longitudinal results from the NESDA study, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Adverse cardiovascular events and mortality in men during testosterone treatment: an individual patient and aggregate data meta-analysis, 2022, The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Cohort profile of the longitudinal Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) on etiology, course and consequences of depressive and anxiety disorders, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders

Giltay often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Brenda W.J.H. Penninx
  • Albert M. van Hemert
  • Robert A. Schoevers
  • Nic J.A. van der Wee
  • Nathaly Rius Ottenheim

Their work is widely published across journals such as:

  • European Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity

The scientist's research spans various main fields including psychology and medicine, with subfields focused on:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry

Topics prominently addressed in Giltay's research include:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Treatment of Major Depression

Best Publications

  • Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression.

    Ingrid A. van de Leemput;Marieke Wichers;Angélique O. J. Cramer;Denny Borsboom

  • A long-term follow-up study of mortality in transsexuals receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones

    H. Asscheman;E.J. Giltay;J.A.J. Megens;W. de Ronde

  • Major Depression as a Complex Dynamic System

    Angélique O J Cramer;Claudia D van Borkulo;Erik J Giltay;Han L J van der Maas

  • The mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with and without depressive, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorders: a longitudinal study of three Dutch case-control cohorts.

    Kuan Yu Pan;Almar A.L. Kok;Merijn Eikelenboom;Melany Horsfall

  • Childhood life events and childhood trauma in adult patients with depressive, anxiety and comorbid disorders vs. controls

    J. G. F. M. Hovens;J. E. Wiersma;E. J. Giltay;P. van Oppen

  • Dispositional Optimism and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of Elderly Dutch Men and Women

    Erik J. Giltay;Johanna M. Geleijnse;Frans G. Zitman;Tiny Hoekstra

  • Docosahexaenoic acid concentrations are higher in women than in men because of estrogenic effects

    Erik J. Giltay;Louis J. G. Gooren;Arno W. F. T. Toorians;Martijn B. Katan

  • Effects of testosterone supplementation on markers of the metabolic syndrome and inflammation in hypogonadal men with the metabolic syndrome: the double‐blinded placebo‐controlled Moscow study

    Svetlana Y. Kalinchenko;Yuliya A. Tishova;George J. Mskhalaya;Louis J. G. Gooren

  • The importance of childhood trauma and childhood life events for chronicity of depression in adults

    Jenneke E. Wiersma;Jacqueline G. F. M. Hovens;Patricia van Oppen;Erik J. Giltay

  • Effects of sex steroids on components of the insulin resistance syndrome in transsexual subjects

    Jolanda M H Elbers;Erik J Giltay;Tom Teerlink;Peter G Scheffer

  • Long-Term Treatment of Transsexuals with Cross-Sex Hormones: Extensive Personal Experience

    Louis J. Gooren;Erik J. Giltay;Mathijs C. Bunck

  • Phenomenology of depression in older compared with younger adults: meta-analysis.

    J. M. Hegeman;R. M. Kok;R. C. van der Mast;E. J. Giltay

  • Impact of childhood life events and trauma on the course of depressive and anxiety disorders

    J. G. F. M. Hovens;E. J. Giltay;J. E. Wiersma;P. Spinhoven

  • Increased Sympathetic and Decreased Parasympathetic Activity Rather Than Changes in Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity Is Associated with Metabolic Abnormalities

    Carmilla M. M. Licht;Sophie A. Vreeburg;Arianne K. B. van Reedt Dortland;Erik J. Giltay

  • Neuropsychiatric symptoms in a European Huntington's disease cohort (REGISTRY)

    Erik van Duijn;Erik van Duijn;David Craufurd;David Craufurd;Anna A M Hubers;Erik J Giltay

  • Dispositional Optimism and the Risk of Cardiovascular Death: The Zutphen Elderly Study

    Erik J. Giltay;Marjolein H. Kamphuis;Sandra Kalmijn;Frans G. Zitman

  • Effects of sex steroid deprivation/administration on hair growth and skin sebum production in transsexual males and females.

    E. J. Giltay;L. J. G. Gooren

  • Lifestyle and dietary correlates of dispositional optimism in men: The Zutphen Elderly Study.

    Erik J. Giltay;Johanna M. Geleijnse;Frans G. Zitman;Brian Buijsse

  • Breast Cancer Development in Transsexual Subjects Receiving Cross-Sex Hormone Treatment

    Louis J. Gooren;Michael A.A. van Trotsenburg;Erik J. Giltay;Paul J. van Diest

  • Effects of sex steroids on plasma total homocysteine levels: a study in transsexual males and females.

    E. J. Giltay;E. K. Hoogeveen;J. M. H. Elbers;L. J. G. Gooren

Frequent Co-Authors

Frans G. Zitman
Frans G. Zitman Leiden University
Johanna M. Geleijnse
Johanna M. Geleijnse Wageningen University & Research
Nic J.A. van der Wee
Nic J.A. van der Wee Leiden University Medical Center
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University
Robert A. Schoevers
Robert A. Schoevers University Medical Center Groningen
Bernet M. Elzinga
Bernet M. Elzinga Leiden University
Femke Lamers
Femke Lamers Amsterdam UMC
A.J. Willem Van der Does
A.J. Willem Van der Does Leiden University
Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München

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