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Hemmo A. Drexhage is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Medicine and Neuroscience, including subfields such as Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Behavioral Neuroscience, Immunology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work primarily covers topics related to neuropsychiatric disorders and immune system interactions. Prominent research themes include Tryptophan and brain disorders, Stress responses and cortisol regulation, Treatment of major depression, Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, Long-term effects of COVID-19, Schizophrenia research and treatment, and Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Some of their recent publications are as follows:

  • Depression and suicidality: A link to premature T helper cell aging and increased Th17 cells (2020), Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Monocyte mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammaging, and inflammatory pyroptosis in major depression (2021), Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Brain-immune crosstalk in the treatment of major depressive disorder (2020), European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Childhood trauma, suicide risk and inflammatory phenotypes of depression: insights from monocyte gene expression (2020), Translational Psychiatry
  • Immunological profiling in long COVID: overall low grade inflammation and T-lymphocyte senescence and increased monocyte activation correlating with increasing fatigue severity (2023), Frontiers in Immunology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Hemmo A. Drexhage include Annemarie Wijkhuijs, Norbert Müller, Sara Poletti, Francesco Benedetti, and Carmen Schiweck.

Their publications are often found in specialized venues such as:

  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Subclinical hypothyroidism is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction in elderly women: the Rotterdam Study

    Hak Ae;Pols Ha;Visser Tj;Drexhage Ha

  • Low maternal free thyroxine concentrations during early pregnancy are associated with impaired psychomotor development in infancy

    Pop Vj;Kuijpens Jl;van Baar Al;Verkerk G

  • Premature ovarian failure and ovarian autoimmunity.

    Annemieke Hoek;Joop Schoemaker;Hemmo Drexhage

  • Subclinical hyperthyroidism and the risk of dementia. The Rotterdam study.

    Sandra Kalmijn;Kala M. Mehta;Huibert A. P. Pols;Albert Hofman

  • Immunohistochemical characterization of monocytes-macrophages and dendritic cells involved in the initiation of the insulitis and beta-cell destruction in NOD mice.

    Annemarie Jansen;Françoise Homo-Delarche;Herbert Hooijkaas;Pieter J Leenen

  • Postpartum Thyroiditis and Autoimmune Thyroiditis in Women of Childbearing Age: Recent Insights and Consequences for Antenatal and Postnatal Care

    Alex F. Muller;Hemmo A. Drexhage;Arie Berghout

  • The immune theory of psychiatric diseases: a key role for activated microglia and circulating monocytes.

    Wouter Beumer;Sinead M. Gibney;Roosmarijn C. Drexhage;Lorena Pont-Lezica

  • A discriminating messenger RNA signature for bipolar disorder formed by an aberrant expression of inflammatory genes in monocytes.

    Roos C. Padmos;Manon H. J. Hillegers;Esther M. Knijff;Ronald Vonk

  • Aspirin: a review of its neurobiological properties and therapeutic potential for mental illness

    Michael Berk;Olivia Dean;Olivia Dean;Olivia Dean;Hemmo Drexhage;John James McNeil

  • Prevalence of interferon type I signature in CD14 monocytes of patients with Sjögren's syndrome and association with disease activity and BAFF gene expression

    Zana Brkic;Naomi I Maria;Cornelia G van Helden-Meeuwsen;Joop P van de Merwe

  • Autoimmunity, inflammation, and psychosis: a search for peripheral markers.

    Veerle Bergink;Sinead M. Gibney;Hemmo A. Drexhage

  • 1-alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)(2)D(3)) hampers the maturation of fully active immature dendritic cells from monocytes.

    MO Canning;K Grotenhuis;H de Wit;C Ruwhof

  • High rate of autoimmune thyroiditis in bipolar disorder: lack of association with lithium exposure.

    Ralph W Kupka;Willem A Nolen;Robert M Post;Susan L McElroy

  • EVIDENCE FOR THYROID-GROWTH-STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULINS IN SOME GOITROUS THYROID DISEASES

    H.A. Drexhage;G.F. Bottazzo;D. Doniach;L. Bitensky

  • The mononuclear phagocyte system and its cytokine inflammatory networks in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Roosmarijn C Drexhage;Esther M Knijff;Roos C Padmos;Leonie van der Heul-Nieuwenhuijzen

  • Evidence for a Dysregulated Immune System in the Etiology of Psychiatric Disorders

    Sinead M Gibney;Hemmo A Drexhage

  • Low-Grade Inflammation as a Predictor of Antidepressant and Anti-Inflammatory Therapy Response in MDD Patients: A Systematic Review of the Literature in Combination With an Analysis of Experimental Data Collected in the EU-MOODINFLAME Consortium.

    Gara Arteaga-Henríquez;Gara Arteaga-Henríquez;Maria S. Simon;Bianka Burger;Elif Weidinger

  • Thyroid peroxidase antibodies during gestation are a marker for subsequent depression postpartum.

    J.L. Kuijpens;H.L. Vader;H.A. Drexhage;W.M. Wiersinga

  • Neuroinflammation in bipolar disorder : A [C-11]-(R)-PK11195 positron emission tomography study

    Bartholomeus C M Benno Haarman;Rixt F Riemersma-Van der Lek;Jan Cees de Groot;Henricus G Eric Ruhé

  • Comparison of placebo with L-thyroxine alone or with carbimazole for treatment of sporadic non-toxic goitre

    A. Berghout;W.M. Wiersinga;J.L. Touber;N.J. Smits

  • Increased level of serum cytokines, chemokines and adipokines in patients with schizophrenia is associated with disease and metabolic syndrome

    Wouter Beumer;Roosmarijn C. Drexhage;Harm De Wit;Marjan A. Versnel

  • The activation of monocyte and T cell networks in patients with bipolar disorder.

    Roosmarijn C. Drexhage;Thomas H. Hoogenboezem;Marjan A. Versnel;Arie Berghout

Frequent Co-Authors

Willem A. Nolen
Willem A. Nolen University Medical Center Groningen
Pieter J. M. Leenen
Pieter J. M. Leenen Erasmus University Rotterdam
Herbert Hooijkaas
Herbert Hooijkaas Erasmus University Rotterdam
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Gordon B. Snow
Gordon B. Snow Amsterdam UMC
Judith G.M. Rosmalen
Judith G.M. Rosmalen University Medical Center Groningen
Huibert Burger
Huibert Burger University Medical Center Groningen
Sara Poletti
Sara Poletti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Francesco Benedetti
Francesco Benedetti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Cristina Colombo
Cristina Colombo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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