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Femke Lamers

Femke Lamers

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Psychology

D-Index
67
Citations
16069
World Ranking
2606
National Ranking
139

Overview

Femke Lamers is affiliated with Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple fields including Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Their work primarily focuses on topics related to Mental Health Research, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Cancer survivorship and care, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Health, Environment, and Cognitive Aging.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from commonly reported quantiles in meta-analysis," 2020, published in Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • "Depression Heterogeneity and Its Biological Underpinnings: Toward Immunometabolic Depression," 2020, published in Biological Psychiatry
  • "Association of inflammation with depression and anxiety: evidence for symptom-specificity and potential causality from UK Biobank and NESDA cohorts," 2021, published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Fatigue in patients with chronic disease: results from the population-based Lifelines Cohort Study," 2021, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Depression profilers and immuno-metabolic dysregulation: Longitudinal results from the NESDA study," 2020, published in Brain Behavior and Immunity

Frequent co-authors in Lamers's research include Brenda W.J.H. Penninx with 91 coauthored works, Sara Siddi (43), Faith Matcham (42), Matthew Hotopf (42), and Josep María Haro (40).

Their publications appear predominantly in journals such as Psychological Medicine, Journal of Affective Disorders, arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Biological Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Comorbidity Patterns of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in a Large Cohort Study: the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)

    Femke Lamers;Patricia van Oppen;Hannie C. Comijs;Johannes H. Smit

  • Understanding the somatic consequences of depression: biological mechanisms and the role of depression symptom profile

    Brenda W J H Penninx;Yuri Milaneschi;Femke Lamers;Nicole Vogelzangs

  • Evidence for a differential role of HPA-axis function, inflammation and metabolic syndrome in melancholic versus atypical depression

    F. Lamers;N. Vogelzangs;K. R. Merikangas;de Peter Jonge

  • Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination With the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Brooke Levis;Brooke Levis;Ying Sun;Chen He;Yin Wu;Yin Wu

  • Two-year course of depressive and anxiety disorders: Results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)

    Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Willem A. Nolen;Femke Lamers;Frans G. Zitman

  • Equivalency of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8 and PHQ-9: A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

    Yin Wu;Brooke Levis;Kira E. Riehm;Nazanin Saadat

  • Association of inflammation with depression and anxiety : evidence for symptom-specificity and potential causality from UK Biobank and NESDA cohorts

    Yuri Milaneschi;Nils Kappelmann;Zheng Ye;Femke Lamers

  • Identifying depressive subtypes in a large cohort study: results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA).

    Femke Lamers;Peter de Jonge;Willem A. Nolen;Johannes H. Smit

  • Sleep Patterns and Mental Health Correlates in US Adolescents.

    Jihui Zhang;Diana Paksarian;Femke Lamers;Ian B. Hickie

  • Leptin Dysregulation Is Specifically Associated With Major Depression With Atypical Features: Evidence for a Mechanism Connecting Obesity and Depression

    Yuri Milaneschi;Femke Lamers;Mariska Bot;Madeleine L. Drent

  • Summed score of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 was a reliable and valid method for depression screening in chronically ill elderly patients

    Femke Lamers;Catharina C.M. Jonkers;Hans Bosma;Brenda W.J.H. Penninx

  • Depressive and anxiety disorders and the association with obesity, physical, and social activities.

    Leonore M. de Wit;Marjolein Fokkema;Annemieke van Straten;Femke Lamers

  • Using network analysis to examine links between individual depressive symptoms, inflammatory markers, and covariates

    E I Fried;S von Stockert;J M B Haslbeck;F Lamers

  • Genetic Association of Major Depression With Atypical Features and Obesity-Related Immunometabolic Dysregulations.

    Yuri Milaneschi;Femke Lamers;Wouter J Peyrot;Bernhard T Baune

  • Sleep, circadian rhythm, and physical activity patterns in depressive and anxiety disorders: A 2-week ambulatory assessment study.

    Sonia Difrancesco;Femke Lamers;Harriëtte Riese;Kathleen R. Merikangas

  • Using Smartphones and Wearable Devices to Monitor Behavioral Changes During COVID-19.

    Shaoxiong Sun;Amos A. Folarin;Amos A. Folarin;Yatharth Ranjan;Zulqarnain Rashid

  • Polygenic dissection of major depression clinical heterogeneity

    Yuri Milaneschi;F. Lamers;Wouter Peyrot;Abdel Abdellaoui

  • Sociodemographic and psychiatric determinants of attrition in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA).

    Femke Lamers;Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn;Johannes H. Smit;Richard van Dyck

  • Longitudinal Association Between Depression and Inflammatory Markers: Results From the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety

    Femke Lamers;Yuri Milaneschi;Johannes H Smit;Robert A Schoevers

  • Real-time Mobile Monitoring of the Dynamic Associations Among Motor Activity, Energy, Mood, and Sleep in Adults With Bipolar Disorder.

    Kathleen Ries Merikangas;Joel Swendsen;Joel Swendsen;Ian B. Hickie;Lihong Cui

  • Metabolic and inflammatory markers: associations with individual depressive symptoms

    F Lamers;Y Milaneschi;P de Jonge;E J Giltay

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen R. Merikangas
Kathleen R. Merikangas National Institutes of Health
Robert A. Schoevers
Robert A. Schoevers University Medical Center Groningen
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Johannes H. Smit
Johannes H. Smit Leiden University Medical Center
Harriette Riese
Harriette Riese University Medical Center Groningen
Flávia de Lima Osório
Flávia de Lima Osório Universidade de São Paulo
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Bernd Löwe
Bernd Löwe Universität Hamburg
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University

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