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Jan Van den Stock

Jan Van den Stock

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Neuroscience

D-Index
35
Citations
4896
World Ranking
9197
National Ranking
110

Overview

Jan Van den Stock is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work focuses on several interconnected areas, including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, and clinical psychology.

Their research addresses various specialized topics such as:

  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Advanced MRI techniques and applications
  • Electroconvulsive therapy studies
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Jan Van den Stock has published in multiple well-known scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Brain Communications
  • Cerebral Cortex

Notable recent papers illustrate the range and focus of the scientist's research. Examples include:

  • Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders, 2020, Brain
  • Use of Multimodal Imaging and Clinical Biomarkers in Presymptomatic Carriers of C9orf72 Repeat Expansion, 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • Biophysical mechanisms of electroconvulsive therapy-induced volume expansion in the medial temporal lobe: A longitudinal in vivo human imaging study, 2021, Brain Stimulation
  • Clinical recognition of frontotemporal dementia with right anterior temporal predominance: A multicenter retrospective cohort study, 2024, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Lower regional gray matter volume in the absence of higher cortical amyloid burden in late-life depression, 2021, Scientific Reports

Collaboration plays a significant role in their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Mathieu Vandenbulcke
  • Louise Emsell
  • Filip Bouckaert
  • Maarten Laroy
  • Stefan Sunaert

The scientist's scholarly output reflects comprehensive investigations in neurological and psychiatric conditions using cutting-edge imaging and clinical biomarker methods, supported by a sustained publication record in leading journals. Their interdisciplinary expertise spans experimental and clinical domains, integrating advanced methodologies to explore brain function and pathology.

Best Publications

  • Body expressions influence recognition of emotions in the face and voice.

    Jan Van den Stock;Ruthger Righart;Beatrice de Gelder

  • Standing up for the body. Recent progress in uncovering the networks involved in the perception of bodies and bodily expressions

    Beatrice de Gelder;Jan Van den Stock;Jan Van den Stock;Hanneke K.M. Meeren;Charlotte B.A. Sinke;Charlotte B.A. Sinke

  • Chemotherapy-induced structural changes in cerebral white matter and its correlation with impaired cognitive functioning in breast cancer patients

    Sabine Deprez;Frederic Amant;Refika Yigit;Kathleen Porke

  • Age at symptom onset and death and disease duration in genetic frontotemporal dementia: an international retrospective cohort study.

    Katrina M. Moore;Jennifer Nicholas;Murray Grossman;Corey T. McMillan

  • Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders

    Simon Ducharme;Annemiek Dols;Robert Laforce;Emma Devenney

  • Intact navigation skills after bilateral loss of striate cortex

    Beatrice de Gelder;Marco Tamietto;Marco Tamietto;Marco Tamietto;Geert van Boxtel;Rainer Goebel

  • Neural correlates of emotion-attention interactions : From perception, learning, and memory to social cognition, individual differences, and training interventions

    Florin Dolcos;Yuta Katsumi;Matthew Moore;Nick Berggren

  • Beyond the face: exploring rapid influences of context on face processing.

    Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Hanneke K M Meeren;Hanneke K M Meeren;Hanneke K M Meeren;Ruthger Righart;Jan van den Stock

  • Cortico-subcortical visual, somatosensory, and motor activations for perceiving dynamic whole-body emotional expressions with and without striate cortex (V1)

    Jan Van den Stock;Marco Tamietto;Bettina Sorger;Swann Pichon

  • Audiovisual emotion recognition in schizophrenia: Reduced integration of facial and vocal affect

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  • Body expressions of emotion do not trigger fear contagion in autism spectrum disorder

    Nouchine Hadjikhani;Robert M. Joseph;Dara S. Manoach;Paulami Naik

  • Visual imagery influences brain responses to visual stimulation in bilateral cortical blindness.

    Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Marco Tamietto;Alan J. Pegna;Jan Van den Stock

  • No Association of Lower Hippocampal Volume With Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Late-Life Depression

    François-Laurent De Winter;Louise Emsell;Filip Bouckaert;Lene Claes

  • Neural Correlates of Perceiving Emotional Faces and Bodies in Developmental Prosopagnosia: An Event-Related fMRI-Study

    Jan Van den Stock;Jan Van den Stock;Wim A. C. van de Riet;Ruthger Righart;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

  • Perceiving emotions from bodily expressions and multisensory integration of emotion cues in schizophrenia

    Jan Van den Stock;Sjakko J. de Jong;Paul P. G. Hodiamont;Beatrice de Gelder

  • Lateralization for dynamic facial expressions in human superior temporal sulcus

    François-Laurent De Winter;Qi Zhu;Jan Van den Stock;Koen Nelissen

  • Instrumental Music Influences Recognition of Emotional Body Language

    Jan Van den Stock;Jan Van den Stock;Isabelle Peretz;Julie Grèzes;Beatrice M.L. de Gelder;Beatrice M.L. de Gelder

  • Human and animal sounds influence recognition of body language.

    Jan Van den Stock;Julie Grèzes;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

  • Use of Multimodal Imaging and Clinical Biomarkers in Presymptomatic Carriers of C9orf72 Repeat Expansion.

    Joke De Vocht;Jeroen Blommaert;Martijn Devrome;Ahmed Radwan

  • Affective scenes influence fear perception of individual body expressions

    Jan Van den Stock;Mathieu Vandenbulcke;Charlotte B.A. Sinke;Charlotte B.A. Sinke;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

  • Neural correlates of body and face perception following bilateral destruction of the primary visual cortices

    Jan Van den Stock;Marco Tamietto;Minye Zhan;Armin Heinecke

  • Dissimilar processing of emotional facial expressions in human and monkey temporal cortex.

    Qi-Yong Zhu;Koen Nelissen;Jan Van den Stock;François-Laurent De Winter

  • Real Faces, Real Emotions: Perceiving Facial Expressions in Naturalistic Contexts of Voices, Bodies, and Scenes

    Beatrice de Gelder;Jan Van den Stock

Frequent Co-Authors

Beatrice de Gelder
Beatrice de Gelder Maastricht University
Marco Tamietto
Marco Tamietto University of Turin
Wim Vanduffel
Wim Vanduffel Harvard University
Alan J. Pegna
Alan J. Pegna University of Queensland

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