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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 1998 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Julien Mendlewicz is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with focused subfields including Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, and Genetics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Mendlewicz has contributed to numerous academic publications, frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Some of the recent significant papers involving Mendlewicz include:

  • Identifying the Common Genetic Basis of Antidepressant Response, 2021, Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science
  • Higher polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia may be suggestive of treatment non-response in major depressive disorder, 2020, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • A polygenic predictor of treatment-resistant depression using whole exome sequencing and genome-wide genotyping, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • A meta-analysis of polygenic risk scores for mood disorders, neuroticism, and schizophrenia in antidepressant response, 2021, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Body mass index and clinical outcomes in individuals with major depressive disorder: Findings from the GSRD European Multicenter Database, 2023, Journal of Affective Disorders

Frequent collaborators in their scientific work include:

  • Daniel Souery
  • Alessandro Serretti
  • Joseph Zohar
  • Stuart Montgomery
  • Chiara Fabbri

Julien Mendlewicz received recognition through the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences award in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Depression in the community: the first pan-European study DEPRES (Depression Research in European Society)

    Lépine Jp;Gastpar M;Mendlewicz J;Tylee A

  • Gender differences in depression. Epidemiological findings from the European DEPRES I and II studies.

    J. Angst;A. Gamma;M. Gastpar;J.-P. Lépine

  • Clinical factors associated with treatment resistance in major depressive disorder: results from a European multicenter study.

    Daniel Souery;Pierre Oswald;Isabelle Massat;Ursula Bailer

  • Treatment resistant depression: methodological overview and operational criteria.

    D. Souery;J. Amsterdam;C. de Montigny;Y. Lecrubier

  • Adoption study supporting genetic transmission in manic–depressive illness

    Julien Mendlewicz;John D. Rainer

  • Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder.

    Ricardo Segurado;Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh;Douglas F. Levinson;Cathryn M. Lewis

  • The 24-hour profile of adrenocorticotropin and cortisol in major depressive illness.

    P Linkowski;J Mendlewicz;R Leclercq;M Brasseur

  • Frontal and parietal metabolic disturbances in unipolar depression.

    Françoise Biver;Serge Goldman;Véronique Delvenne;André Luxen

  • HLA antigens and schizophrenia.

    Julien Mendlewicz;Paul Linkowski

  • Guidelines for depot antipsychotic treatment in schizophrenia

    John M.John Kane;Eugenio Aguglia;A. CarloA. Altamura;José Luis Ayuso Gutierrez

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder: Diagnosis and epidemiology, comorbidity and social consequences, biology and treatment

    Nicoletta Brunello;Jonathan R. T.R. Davidson;Martin Deahl;Ron C.Ron Kessler

  • 24-hour profiles of adrenocorticotropin, cortisol, and growth hormone in major depressive illness: effect of antidepressant treatment.

    Paul Linkowski;Julien Mendlewicz;Myriam Kerkhofs;Raoul Leclercq

  • Measuring depression: Comparison and integration of three scales in the GENDEP study

    Rudolf Uher;Anne Farmer;W. Maier;Marcella Rietschel

  • DEPRES II (Depression Research in European Society II): a patient survey of the symptoms, disability and current management of depression in the community. DEPRES Steering Committee.

    A Tylee;M Gastpar;J P Lépine;J Mendlewicz

  • Shortened onset of action of antidepressants in major depression using acetylsalicylic acid augmentation : a pilot open-label study

    Julien Mendlewicz;Philippe Kriwin;Pierre Oswald;Daniel Souery

  • Brain glucose metabolism in borderline personality disorder

    JoséManuel De la Fuente;Serge Goldman;Etienne Stanus;Coro Vizuete

  • The role of noradrenaline and selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibition in depression

    Nicoletta Brunello;Julien Mendlewicz;Siegfried Kasper;Brian Leonard

  • POLYMORPHIC DNA MARKER ON X CHROMOSOME AND MANIC DEPRESSION

    Julien Mendlewicz;Serge Sevy;Huguette Brocas;Philippe Simon

  • Partial response and nonresponse to antidepressant therapy: current approaches and treatment options.

    Robert M A Hirschfeld;Stuart A. Montgomery;Eugenio Aguglia;Mario Amore

  • Serotonin 5-HT2 receptor imaging in major depression: focal changes in orbito-insular cortex.

    Françoise Biver;David Wikler;Françoise Lotstra;Philippe Damhaut

  • HOW BLIND IS THE DOUBLE-BLIND?: AN ASSESSMENT IN A LITHIUM-PROPHYLAXIS STUDY

    F. Stallone;J. Mendlewicz;R.R. Fieve

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Serretti
Alessandro Serretti Kore University of Enna
Siegfried Kasper
Siegfried Kasper Medical University of Vienna
Stuart Montgomery
Stuart Montgomery Imperial College London
Paul Linkowski
Paul Linkowski Université Libre de Bruxelles
Joseph Zohar
Joseph Zohar Sheba Medical Center
Raffaella Calati
Raffaella Calati University of Milano-Bicocca
Jurgen Del-Favero
Jurgen Del-Favero University of Antwerp
Christine Van Broeckhoven
Christine Van Broeckhoven University of Antwerp
Rolf Adolfsson
Rolf Adolfsson Umeå University
Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna

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