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Johanna M.P. Baas

Johanna M.P. Baas

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Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
6211
World Ranking
9468
National Ranking
414

Overview

Johanna M.P. Baas is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, with a primary focus on pharmacology and cognitive neuroscience. The subfields of their work include cellular and molecular neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of domains related to cannabis and cannabinoid research, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional topics include stress responses and cortisol, neural and behavioral psychology studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Johanna M.P. Baas include C. Kwee, Daniëlle C. Cath, Lotte Gerritsen, Puck Duits, and Anton J.L.M. van Balkom.

Notable publication venues where Baas has contributed multiple papers are European Neuropsychopharmacology, Neuroscience Applied, Chronic Stress, Psychoneuroendocrinology, and Biological Psychiatry.

Recent papers authored by Baas include:

  • "Cannabidiol enhancement of exposure therapy in treatment refractory patients with social anxiety disorder and panic disorder with agoraphobia: A randomised controlled trial", 2022, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Latent class growth analyses reveal overrepresentation of dysfunctional fear conditioning trajectories in patients with anxiety-related disorders compared to controls", 2021, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • "Large-scale remote fear conditioning: Demonstration of associations with anxiety using the FLARe smartphone app", 2021, Depression and Anxiety
  • "Cannabidiol in clinical and preclinical anxiety research. A systematic review into concentration-effect relations using the IB-de-risk tool", 2022, Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • "Anxiolytic effects of endocannabinoid enhancing compounds: A systematic review and meta-analysis", 2023, European Neuropsychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear

    Tina B. Lonsdorf;Mareike M. Menz;Marta Andreatta;Miguel A. Fullana

  • Updated Meta-Analysis of Classical Fear Conditioning in the Anxiety Disorders

    Puck Duits;Danielle C. Cath;Shmuel Lissek;Joop J. Hox

  • A review of the modulation of the startle reflex by affective states and its application in psychiatry.

    Christian Grillon;Johanna Baas

  • Context conditioning and behavioral avoidance in a virtual reality environment: effect of predictability.

    Christian Grillon;Johanna M.P. Baas;Brian Cornwell;Linda Johnson

  • A Single Administration of Testosterone Reduces Fear-Potentiated Startle in Humans

    Erno J. Hermans;Peter Putman;Johanna M. Baas;Hans P. Koppeschaar

  • Exogenous testosterone attenuates the integrated central stress response in healthy young women.

    Erno J. Hermans;Erno J. Hermans;Peter Putman;Johanna M. Baas;Nynke M. Gecks

  • The benzodiazepine alprazolam dissociates contextual fear from cued fear in humans as assessed by fear-potentiated startle.

    Christian Grillon;Johanna M.P. Baas;Daniel S. Pine;Shmuel Lissek

  • Benzodiazepines have no effect on fear-potentiated startle in humans

    Johanna M. P. Baas;Christian Grillon;Koen B. E. Böcker;Anouk A. Brack

  • Fear conditioning in virtual reality contexts: a new tool for the study of anxiety

    Johanna M Baas;Monique Nugent;Shmuel Lissek;Daniel S Pine

  • Stimulus-preceding negativity induced by fear: a manifestation of affective anticipation

    K.B.E Böcker;J.M.P Baas;J.L Kenemans;M.N Verbaten

  • On the processing of spatial frequencies as revealed by evoked-potential source modeling

    J. L. Kenemans;J. M P Baas;George R Mangun;M. Lijffijt

  • Threat-induced cortical processing and startle potentiation.

    J. M. P. Baas;J. L. Kenemans;K. B. E. Böcker;M. N. Verbaten

  • Neural responses to auditory stimulus deviance under threat of electric shock revealed by spatially-filtered magnetoencephalography

    Brian R. Cornwell;Johanna M.P. Baas;Linda Johnson;Tom Holroyd

  • Failure to condition to a cue is associated with sustained contextual fear

    J.M.P. Baas;L. van Ooijen;A. Goudriaan;J.L. Kenemans

  • Sensation seeking and the aversive motivational system.

    Shmuel Lissek;Johanna M. P. Baas;Daniel S. Pine;Kaebah Orme

  • How Human Amygdala and Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis May Drive Distinct Defensive Responses.

    Floris Klumpers;Marijn C.W. Kroes;Marijn C.W. Kroes;Johanna M.P. Baas;Guillén Fernández

  • Brainstem correlates of defensive states in humans.

    Johanna M.P. Baas;Jean Milstein;Meghan Donlevy;Christian Grillon

  • Impaired fear inhibition learning predicts the persistence of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

    Marit Sijbrandij;Iris M. Engelhard;Miriam J.J. Lommen;Miriam J.J. Lommen;Arne Leer

  • Testing the effects of Δ9-THC and D-cycloserine on extinction of conditioned fear in humans

    Floris Klumpers;Damiaan Denys;J. Leon Kenemans;Christian Grillon

  • Cortisol and DHEA-S are associated with startle potentiation during aversive conditioning in humans

    Christian Grillon;Daniel S. Pine;Johanna M. P. Baas;Megan Lawley

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Grillon
Christian Grillon National Institutes of Health
J. Leon Kenemans
J. Leon Kenemans Utrecht University
Koen B.E. Böcker
Koen B.E. Böcker Utrecht University
Danielle C. Cath
Danielle C. Cath Utrecht University
Iris M. Engelhard
Iris M. Engelhard Utrecht University
Marinus N. Verbaten
Marinus N. Verbaten Utrecht University
Shmuel Lissek
Shmuel Lissek University of Minnesota
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Damiaan Denys
Damiaan Denys University of Amsterdam
Peter Putman
Peter Putman Leiden University

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