2026 Gregor Hasler: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	53	4729	4380	45	43	183	15870

Overview

Gregor Hasler is affiliated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple disciplines including psychology, medicine, and neuroscience, with a focus on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and pharmacology.

The main topics covered in their work include psychedelics and drug studies, treatment of major depression, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, tryptophan and brain disorders, bipolar disorder and treatment, chemical synthesis and alkaloids, and various mental health research topics.

Gregor Hasler has published extensively in several journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Journal of Affective Disorders
Bipolar Disorders
Frontiers in Psychiatry
European Neuropsychopharmacology
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

They have collaborated regularly with the following co-authors:

Abigail E. Calder
Melanie Haynes
Christopher Ritter
Andreas Buchmann
Ruth Tuura

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gregor Hasler include:

Towards an understanding of psychedelic-induced neuroplasticity (2022, Neuropsychopharmacology)
The social cost of depression: Investigating the impact of impaired social emotion regulation, social cognition, and interpersonal behavior on social functioning (2023, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports)
Physical and mental health impact of COVID-19 on children, adolescents, and their families: The Collaborative Outcomes study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times - Children and Adolescents (COH-FIT-C&A) (2021, Journal of Affective Disorders)
Randomised controlled cognition trials in remitted patients with mood disorders published between 2015 and 2021: A systematic review by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition Task Force (2022, Bipolar Disorders)
Evaluating endophenotypes for bipolar disorder (2021, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders)

Best Publications

Discovering endophenotypes for major depression.

Gregor Hasler;Wayne C Drevets;Husseini K Manji;Dennis S Charney

1442
Citations
Vagus Nerve as Modulator of the Brain-Gut Axis in Psychiatric and Inflammatory Disorders.

Sigrid Breit;Aleksandra Kupferberg;Gerhard Rogler;Gregor Hasler

1115
Citations
Reduced Prefrontal Glutamate/Glutamine and γ-Aminobutyric Acid Levels in Major Depression Determined Using Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Gregor Hasler;Jan Willem van der Veen;Toni Tumonis;Noah Meyers

1001
Citations
The association between short sleep duration and obesity in young adults: a 13-year prospective study.

Gregor Hasler;Gregor Hasler;Daniel J Buysse;Richard Klaghofer;Alex Gamma

864
Citations
Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

808
Citations
Pathophysiology of depression: do we have any solid evidence of interest to clinicians?

Gregor Hasler

765
Citations
Social functioning in major depressive disorder

Aleksandra Kupferberg;Lucy Bicks;Gregor Hasler;Gregor Hasler

659
Citations
Toward Constructing an Endophenotype Strategy for Bipolar Disorders

Gregor Hasler;Wayne C. Drevets;Todd D. Gould;Irving I. Gottesman

534
Citations
Obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom dimensions show specific relationships to psychiatric comorbidity

Gregor Hasler;V. Holland LaSalle-Ricci;Jonne G. Ronquillo;Sarah A. Crawley

372
Citations
Asthma and Panic in Young Adults: A 20-Year Prospective Community Study

Gregor Hasler;Peter J. Gergen;David G. Kleinbaum;Vladeta Ajdacic

352
Citations
Discovering imaging endophenotypes for major depression

G Hasler;G Northoff

334
Citations
Reduced Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Density in Major Depression Determined by [11C]ABP688 PET and Postmortem Study

Alexandra Deschwanden;Beata Karolewicz;Anteneh M. Feyissa;Valerie Treyer

310
Citations
Depressive symptoms during childhood and adult obesity: the Zurich Cohort Study

G Hasler;D S Pine;D G Kleinbaum;A Gamma

299
Citations
Caloric vestibular stimulation modulates affective control and mood

Nora Preuss;Gregor Hasler;Fred W. Mast

280
Citations
Towards an understanding of psychedelic-induced neuroplasticity

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266
Citations
The associations between psychopathology and being overweight: a 20-year prospective study

Gregor Hasler;D. S. Pine;A. Gamma;G. Milos

259
Citations
Neural response to catecholamine depletion in unmedicated subjects with major depressive disorder in remission and healthy subjects.

Gregor Hasler;Stephen Fromm;Paul J. Carlson;David A. Luckenbaugh

243
Citations
Familiality of Factor Analysis-Derived YBOCS Dimensions in OCD-Affected Sibling Pairs from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study

Gregor Hasler;Anthony Pinto;Benjamin D. Greenberg;Jack Samuels

198
Citations
Further development of YBOCS dimensions in the OCD Collaborative Genetics study: symptoms vs. categories.

Anthony Pinto;Benjamin D. Greenberg;Marco A. Grados;O. Joseph Bienvenu

193
Citations
Cerebral blood flow in immediate and sustained anxiety.

Gregor Hasler;Stephen Fromm;Ruben P. Alvarez;David A. Luckenbaugh

187
Citations
The Association Between Short Sleep Duration and Obesity in Young Adults: a 13-Year Prospective Study SLEEP, SLEEP RESTRICTION, AND PERFORMANCE

Gregor Hasler;Daniel J. Buysse;Richard Klaghofer;Alex Gamma

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Schnyder University of Zurich

Lars Bertram University of Lübeck

James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh

James MacKillop McMaster University

Pierre Fontanillas 23andMe (United States)

Abraham A. Palmer University of California, San Diego

Danielle Posthuma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Meena Kumari University of Essex

Peter K. Joshi University of Edinburgh

André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

External Links

Personal website of Gregor Hasler

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