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Overview

Koen Schruers is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands, contributing extensively to several fields within psychological and medical research. Their work spans the domains of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Medicine, with particular emphasis on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Koen Schruers has published frequently in several academic venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface
  • Translational Psychiatry

Among recent papers, notable titles include:

  • "A Delphi-method-based consensus guideline for definition of treatment-resistant depression for clinical trials," 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and pairwise/network meta-analysis," 2022, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Blended care in the treatment of subthreshold symptoms of depression and psychosis in emerging adults: A randomised controlled trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Daily-Life (ACT-DL)," 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "Antioxidant Biomolecules and Their Potential for the Treatment of Difficult-to-Treat Depression and Conventional Treatment-Resistant Depression," 2022, Antioxidants
  • "Translational evaluation of novel selective orexin-1 receptor antagonist JNJ-61393215 in an experimental model for panic in rodents and humans," 2020, Translational Psychiatry

Koen Schruers collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Liesbet Goossens
  • Linda Ackermans
  • Nicole Leibold
  • Samantha Baldi
  • Stijn Michielse

Best Publications

  • Resilience in mental health: linking psychological and neurobiological perspectives

    B. P. F. Rutten;C. Hammels;N. Geschwind;C. Menne-Lothmann

  • A therapeutic application of the experience sampling method in the treatment of depression: a randomized controlled trial

    Ingrid Kramer;Claudia J. P. Simons;Jessica A. Hartmann;Claudia Menne-Lothmann

  • Double-blind clinical trial of thalamic stimulation in patients with Tourette syndrome.

    Linda Ackermans;Annelien Duits;Chris van der Linden;Marina A. Tijssen

  • Comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression: Prevalence, symptom severity, and treatment effect.

    Thea Overbeek;Koen Schruers;Eric Vermetten;Eric Griez

  • Age of onset in obsessive-compulsive disorder: admixture analysis with a large sample

    G.E. Anholt;I.M. Aderka;A.J.L.M. van Balkom;J.H. Smit

  • Amygdala hyperfunction in phobic fear normalizes after exposure.

    Liesbet Goossens;Stefan Sunaert;Ronald Peeters;Eric J.L. Griez

  • Deep brain stimulation in Tourette's syndrome: two targets?

    Linda Ackermans;Yasin Temel;Danielle Cath;Chris van der Linden

  • Selective processing of social stimuli in the superficial amygdala.

    Liesbet Goossens;Juraj Kukolja;Juraj Kukolja;Juraj Kukolja;Oezguer A. Onur;Oezguer A. Onur;Oezguer A. Onur;Gereon R. Fink;Gereon R. Fink

  • Prenatal stress and subsequent exposure to chronic mild stress in rats; interdependent effects on emotional behavior and the serotonergic system

    D.L.A. Van den Hove;D.L.A. Van den Hove;N.K. Leibold;E. Strackx;M. Martinez-Claros

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder : a critical review of therapeutic perspectives

    K. Schruers;K. Koning;J. Luermans;M. J. Haack

  • Endogenous Opioid Release in the Human Brain Reward System Induced by Acute Amphetamine Administration

    Alessandro Colasanti;Graham E. Searle;Christopher J. Long;Samuel P. Hill

  • Effects of tryptophan depletion on carbon dioxide provoked panic in panic disorder patients.

    Koen Schruers;Tineke Klaassen;Henk Pols;Thea Overbeek

  • Experimental pathophysiology of panic.

    E Griez;K Schruers

  • A Novel Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Algorithm to Predict the Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease Using Socio-Demographic Characteristics, Clinical Information, and Neuropsychological Measures.

    Massimiliano Grassi;Nadine Rouleaux;Daniela Caldirola;David Loewenstein;David Loewenstein

  • Cigarette smoking and panic: a critical review of the literature.

    Fiammetta Cosci;Inge J. E. Knuts;Kenneth Abrams;Eric J. L. Griez

  • Carbon dioxide inhalation induces dose-dependent and age-related negative affectivity.

    Eric J. Griez;Eric J. Griez;Alessandro Colasanti;Rob van Diest;Ewa Salamon

  • Behavioral pattern separation and its link to the neural mechanisms of fear generalization

    Iris Lange;Liesbet Goossens;Stijn Michielse;Jindra Bakker

  • Acute exercise reduces the effects of a 35% CO2 challenge in patients with panic disorder.

    Gabriel Esquivel;John Díaz-Galvis;Koen Schruers;Carlos Berlanga

  • Effect of cytochrome CYP2C19 metabolizing activity on antidepressant response and side effects: Meta-analysis of data from genome-wide association studies

    Chiara Fabbri;Katherine E. Tansey;Roy H. Perlis;Joanna Hauser

  • Deep brain stimulation in Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome.

    Veerle Visser-Vandewalle;Linda Ackermans;Chris van der Linden;Yasin Temel

  • Acids in the brain: a factor in panic?

    G. Esquivel;K. R. Schruers;R. J. Maddock;Alessandro Colasanti

  • Alcohol use disorders and panic disorder: a review of the evidence of a direct relationship.

    Fiammetta Cosci;Koen R. J. Schruers;Kenneth Abrams;Eric J. L. Griez

  • CO2 challenge induced HPA axis activation in panic.

    Marlies A. van Duinen;Koen R. J. Schruers;Michael Maes;Eric J. L. Griez

Frequent Co-Authors

Marieke Wichers
Marieke Wichers Maastricht University
Fiammetta Cosci
Fiammetta Cosci University of Florence
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Giampaolo Perna
Giampaolo Perna Humanitas University
Arjan Blokland
Arjan Blokland Maastricht University
David A. Loewenstein
David A. Loewenstein University of Miami

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