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Huibert Burger is affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans disciplines primarily within medicine and psychology, with a specialization in clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

Their work has been published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Affective Disorders, BMJ Open, and Frontiers in Psychiatry. Other publication venues include The Lancet Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine.

Key topics addressed in their research include mental health research topics, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, digital mental health interventions, mental health treatment and access, treatment of major depression, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Huibert Burger has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Claudi Bockting, Marlies E. Brouwer, Marjolein Y. Berger, Retha Arjadi, and Amanda M Legemaat.

Recent publications by Huibert Burger include:

  • Effectiveness of digital psychological interventions for mental health problems in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Effectiveness of cognitive remediation in depression: a meta-analysis, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • Pharmacological treatment for psychotic depression, 2021, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Recurrence of depression can be foreseen by monitoring mental states with statistical process control., 2023, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
  • Gender Differences in Developing Biomarker-Based Major Depressive Disorder Diagnostics, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Best Publications

  • Fracture incidence and association with bone mineral density in elderly men and women: the Rotterdam Study.

    S.C.E Schuit;M van der Klift;A.E.A.M Weel;C.E.D.H de Laet

  • Disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders across the world.

    Johan Ormel;Maria Petukhova;Somnath Chatterji;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola

  • Mental disorders among persons with heart disease - results from World Mental Health surveys.

    Johan Ormel;Michael Von Korff;Huibert Burger;Kate Scott

  • Polymyositis: an overdiagnosed entity.

    M. F.G. van der Meulen;I. M. Bronner;J. E. Hoogendijk;H. Burger

  • Adjuvant Aspirin Therapy Reduces Symptoms of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders : Results From a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Wijnand Laan;Diederick E. Grobbee;Jean Paul Selten;Cobi J. Heijnen

  • Effectiveness of digital psychological interventions for mental health problems in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Zhongfang Fu;Huibert Burger;Retha Arjadi;Claudi L H Bockting

  • 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

  • Socioeconomic position and mental health problems in pre- and early-adolescents: the TRAILS study.

    Kennedy Amone-P'Olak;Huibert Burger;Huibert Burger;Johan Hans Ormel;Martijn Huisman

  • Efficacy and safety of methylphenidate in 45 adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. A randomized placebo-controlled double-blind cross-over trial.

    J. J. S. Kooij;H. Burger;A. M. Boonstra;P. D. Van Der Linden

  • Depressive symptoms in subjects with diagnosed and undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.

    Mirjam J. Knol;Eibert R. Heerdink;Antoine C. G. Egberts;Mirjam I. Geerlings

  • Correlates of prenatal and postnatal mother-to-infant bonding quality: A systematic review

    Elke Tichelman;Myrte Westerneng;Anke B Witteveen;Anneloes L van Baar

  • Loneliness is associated with poor prognosis in late-life depression: Longitudinal analysis of the Netherlands study of depression in older persons

    Floor Holvast;Huibert Burger;Margot M.W. de Waal;Harm W.J. van Marwijk

  • Pharmacological treatment for psychotic depression

    Jaap Wijkstra;Jeroen Lijmer;Huibert Burger;Andrea Cipriani

  • Postpartum depression predicts offspring mental health problems in adolescence independently of parental lifetime psychopathology

    Tjitte Verbeek;Claudi L H Bockting;Mariëlle G van Pampus;Johan Ormel

  • Impact of stressful life events, familial loading and their interaction on the onset of mood disorders: study in a high-risk cohort of adolescent offspring of parents with bipolar disorder.

    Manon H J Hillegers;Huibert Burger;Marjolein Wals;Catrien G Reichart

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy to prevent complicated grief among relatives and spouses bereaved by suicide: cluster randomised controlled trial

    Marieke de Groot;Jos de Keijser;Jan Neeleman;Ad Kerkhof

  • Acute inhibition of hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase does not affect gluconeogenesis but directs gluconeogenic flux toward glycogen in fasted rats - A pharmacological study with the chlorogenic acid derivative S4048

    van Theo Dijk;van der Fjodor Sluijs;CH Wiegman;Jfw Baller

  • Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among Children of Different Ethnic Origin

    Barbara W. C. Zwirs;Huibert Burger;Tom W. J. Schulpen;Martin Wiznitzer

  • Effectiveness of preventive cognitive therapy while tapering antidepressants versus maintenance antidepressant treatment versus their combination in prevention of depressive relapse or recurrence (DRD study): a three-group, multicentre, randomised controlled trial.

    Claudi L H Bockting;Claudi L H Bockting;Nicola S Klein;Hermien J Elgersma;Gerard D van Rijsbergen

  • Developing core sets for persons following amputation based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a way to specify functioning.

    Friedbert Kohler;Alarcos Cieza;Gerold Stucki;Joannes Geertzen

  • Response to methylphenidate in adults with ADHD is associated with a polymorphism in SLC6A3 (DAT1)

    J. Sandra Kooij;A. Marije Boonstra;Sita H. Vermeulen;Angelien G. Heister

  • The WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ron de Graaf;Johan Ormel;Margreet ten Have;Huibert Burger

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudi L H Bockting
Claudi L H Bockting University of Amsterdam
Johan Ormel
Johan Ormel University Medical Center Groningen
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
André Aleman
André Aleman University Medical Center Groningen
Heleen Riper
Heleen Riper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Jack Dekker
Jack Dekker Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Albertine J. Oldehinkel
Albertine J. Oldehinkel University Medical Center Groningen
Alishia D. Williams
Alishia D. Williams University of New South Wales
Frank C. Verhulst
Frank C. Verhulst Erasmus University Rotterdam

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