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Jan Booij is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has an extensive research record primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their scholarly work spans subfields such as Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research topics focus on neurological disorders and treatments, with particular attention to Parkinson's Disease mechanisms and treatments. Additional areas of study include advanced MRI techniques and applications, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, functional brain connectivity studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, and neuroendocrine tumor research advances.

Jan Booij's publication record features papers in multiple prestigious venues. Frequent publication outlets include Neuroscience Applied, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Research Square, and EJNMMI Research.

Significant published papers by this scientist include:

  • Infusion of donor feces affects the gut-brain axis in humans with metabolic syndrome (2020), Molecular Metabolism
  • Late onset depression: dopaminergic deficit and clinical features of prodromal Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional study (2020), Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Brain responses to nutrients are severely impaired and not reversed by weight loss in humans with obesity: a randomized crossover study (2023), Nature Metabolism
  • Reliability and Reproducibility of Neuromelanin-Sensitive Imaging of the Substantia Nigra: A Comparison of Three Different Sequences (2020), Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Autonomic failure in Parkinson's disease is associated with striatal dopamine deficiencies (2020), Journal of Neurology

Jan Booij has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, which include:

  • Elsmarieke van de Giessen
  • Marieke van der Pluijm
  • Lieuwe de Haan
  • Anouk Schrantee
  • Thérèse van Amelsvoort

Best Publications

  • Idiopathic hyposmia as a preclinical sign of Parkinson's disease

    Mirthe M. Ponsen;Diederick Stoffers;Diederick Stoffers;Jan Booij;Berthe L. F. van Eck-Smit

  • Gender differences in Parkinson’s disease

    Charlotte A. Haaxma;Bastiaan R. Bloem;George F. Borm;Wim J. G. Oyen

  • Accurate differentiation of parkinsonism and essential tremor using visual assessment of [123I]-FP-CIT SPECT imaging: the [123I]-FP-CIT study group.

    Hani T. S. Benamer;Jim Patterson;Donald G. Grosset;J. Booij

  • Sensitivity and specificity of dopamine transporter imaging with 123I-FP-CIT SPECT in dementia with Lewy bodies: a phase III, multicentre study

    Ian McKeith;John O'Brien;Zuzana Walker;Klaus Tatsch

  • [123I]FP-CIT SPECT shows a pronounced decline of striatal dopamine transporter labelling in early and advanced Parkinson's disease.

    J. Booij;G. Tissingh;G. J. Boer;J. D. Speelman

  • EANM procedure guidelines for PET brain imaging using [(18)F]FDG : version 2

    Andrea Varrone;Susanne Asenbaum;Thierry Vander Borght;Jan Booij

  • Subclinical dopaminergic dysfunction in asymptomatic Parkinson's disease patients' relatives with a decreased sense of smell

    Henk W. Berendse;Jan Booij;Chantal M. J. E. Francot;Paul L. M. Bergmans

  • EANM procedure guidelines for brain neurotransmission SPECT using (123)I-labelled dopamine transporter ligands, version 2

    Jacques Darcourt;Jan Booij;Klaus Tatsch;Andrea Varrone

  • The clinical benefit of imaging striatal dopamine transporters with [123I]FP-CIT SPET in differentiating patients with presynaptic parkinsonism from those with other forms of parkinsonism.

    Jan Booij;Johannes D. Speelman;Martin W. I. M. Horstink;Erik C. Wolters

  • Effect of age and gender on dopamine transporter imaging with [123I]FP-CIT SPET in healthy volunteers

    J. Lavalaye;J. Booij;L. Reneman;J. B. A. Habraken

  • Clinical and pathologic abnormalities in a family with parkinsonism and parkin gene mutations

    B.P.C. van de Warrenburg;M.M.Y. Lammens;C.B. Lucking;P. Denefle

  • Dermal phospho-alpha-synuclein deposits confirm REM sleep behaviour disorder as prodromal Parkinson’s disease

    Kathrin Doppler;Hanna-Maria Jentschke;Lena Schulmeyer;David Vadasz

  • SNM Practice Guideline for Dopamine Transporter Imaging with 123I-Ioflupane SPECT 1.0

    David S.W. Djang;Marcel J.R. Janssen;Nicolaas Bohnen;Jan Booij

  • Parkinson's disease is overdiagnosed clinically at baseline in diagnostically uncertain cases: a 3-year European multicenter study with repeat [123I]FP-CIT SPECT.

    Vicky L. Marshall;Cornelia B. Reininger;Moritz Marquardt;Jim Patterson

  • European multicentre database of healthy controls for [123I]FP-CIT SPECT (ENC-DAT): age-related effects, gender differences and evaluation of different methods of analysis

    Andrea Varrone;John C. Dickson;Livia Tossici-Bolt;Terez Sera

  • Imaging of Dopamine Transporters with Iodine-123-FP-CIT SPECT in Healthy Controls and Patients with Parkinson's Disease

    J. Booij;J. B. A. Habraken;P. Bergmans;G. Tissingh

  • The Acute and Chronic Effects of MDMA (“Ecstasy”) on Cortical 5-HT2A Receptors in Rat and Human Brain☆

    Liesbeth Reneman;Erik Endert;Kora de Bruin;Jules Lavalaye

  • Dopamine transporter imaging with [(123)I]FP-CIT SPECT: potential effects of drugs.

    Jan Booij;Paul Kemp

  • Drug-naive patients with Parkinson's disease in Hoehn and Yahr stages I and II show a bilateral decrease in striatal dopamine transporters as revealed by [123I]beta-CIT SPECT

    G. Tissingh;P. Bergmans;J. Booij;A. Winogrodzka

  • Lower striatal dopamine D2/3 receptor availability in obese compared with non-obese subjects

    Barbara A de Weijer;Elsmarieke van de Giessen;Thérèse A van Amelsvoort;Erik Boot

Frequent Co-Authors

Liesbeth Reneman
Liesbeth Reneman University of Amsterdam
Wim van den Brink
Wim van den Brink University of Amsterdam
Andrea Varrone
Andrea Varrone Karolinska Institute
Flavio Nobili
Flavio Nobili University of Genoa
Aart H. Schene
Aart H. Schene University of Amsterdam
Dick J. Veltman
Dick J. Veltman Amsterdam UMC
Susanne E. la Fleur
Susanne E. la Fleur University of Amsterdam
Henk W. Berendse
Henk W. Berendse Amsterdam University Medical Centers

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