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Overview

Malek Bajbouj is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine with significant emphasis on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology.

Their work encompasses various topics, including:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Bajbouj has contributed to numerous publications in leading scientific journals and venues, with frequent appearance in:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Frontiers in Public Health

Several recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "Effectiveness of Self-Help Plus in Preventing Mental Disorders in Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Western Europe: A Multinational Randomized Controlled Trial," 2021, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • "Transcranial direct current stimulation as an additional treatment to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in adults with major depressive disorder in Germany (DepressionDC): a triple-blind, randomised, sham-controlled, multicentre trial," 2023, The Lancet
  • "Prevalence of depressive symptoms and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers in Germany: systematic review and meta-analysis," 2021, BJPsych Open
  • "Psychological distress among refugees in Germany: a cross-sectional analysis of individual and contextual risk factors and potential consequences for integration using a nationally representative survey," 2020, BMJ Open
  • "Antidepressant and neurocognitive effects of serial ketamine administration versus ECT in depressed patients," 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research

Frequent collaborators in Bajbouj's research include Kerem Böge, Eric Hahn, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Simone Grimm, and Frank Padberg. These partnerships highlight a collaborative approach to addressing complex challenges in mental health and psychiatric treatment.

Best Publications

  • Efficacy and Safety of Flexibly Dosed Esketamine Nasal Spray Combined With a Newly Initiated Oral Antidepressant in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Double-Blind Active-Controlled Study

    Vanina Popova;Ella J. Daly;Madhukar Trivedi;Kimberly Cooper

  • Association of a functional BDNF polymorphism and anxiety-related personality traits

    Undine E. Lang;Rainer Hellweg;Peter Kalus;Malek Bajbouj

  • Vagus nerve stimulation for depression: efficacy and safety in a European study.

    T. E. Schlaepfer;C. Frick;A. Zobel;W. Maier

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation enhances cognitive control during emotion regulation.

    Melanie Feeser;Kristin Prehn;Philipp Kazzer;Aditya Mungee;Aditya Mungee

  • Evidence for Impaired Cortical Inhibition in Patients with Unipolar Major Depression

    Malek Bajbouj;Sarah H. Lisanby;Undine E. Lang;Heidi Danker-Hopfe

  • Association of the G1947A COMT (Val108/158Met) gene polymorphism with prefrontal P300 during information processing

    Jürgen Gallinat;Malek Bajbouj;Thomas Sander;Peter Schlattmann

  • The role of early emotional neglect in alexithymia.

    Sabine Aust;Elif Alkan Härtwig;Isabella Heuser;Malek Bajbouj

  • Electroconvulsive therapy-induced brain plasticity determines therapeutic outcome in mood disorders.

    Juergen Dukart;Francesca Regen;Ferath Kherif;Michael Colla

  • Two-Year Outcome of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Malek Bajbouj;Angela Merkl;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Caroline Frick

  • Cognitive function over the treatment course of depression in middle-aged patients: correlation with brain MRI signal hyperintensities.

    Peter Neu;Malek Bajbouj;Andreas Schilling;Frank Godemann

  • Metabolic alterations in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex after treatment with high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with unipolar major depression.

    Alexander Luborzewski;Florian Schubert;Frank Seifert;Heidi Danker-Hopfe

  • Positive predictors for antidepressive response to prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

    Eva-Lotta Brakemeier;Alexander Luborzewski;Heidi Danker-Hopfe;Norbert Kathmann

  • Frontal and temporal dysfunction of auditory stimulus processing in schizophrenia.

    Jürgen Gallinat;Christoph Mulert;Malek Bajbouj;Werner M. Herrmann

  • GABA in the insula — a predictor of the neural response to interoceptive awareness

    Christine Wiebking;Niall W. Duncan;Brice Tiret;Dave J. Hayes

  • Gray matter abnormalities in patients with narcissistic personality disorder.

    Lars Schulze;Lars Schulze;Isabel Dziobek;Aline Vater;Aline Vater;Hauke R. Heekeren

  • No effects of slow oscillatory transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on sleep-dependent memory consolidation in healthy elderly subjects.

    Torsten Eggert;Hans Dorn;Cornelia Sauter;Michael A. Nitsche

  • Antidepressant effects after short-term and chronic stimulation of the subgenual cingulate gyrus in treatment-resistant depression

    Angela Merkl;Gerd-Helge Schneider;Thomas Schönecker;Sabine Aust;Sabine Aust

  • Glutamate as a spectroscopic marker of hippocampal structural plasticity is elevated in long-term euthymic bipolar patients on chronic lithium therapy and correlates inversely with diurnal cortisol.

    M Colla;F Schubert;M Bubner;J O Heidenreich;J O Heidenreich

  • Antidepressant electroconvulsive therapy: Mechanism of action, recent advances and limitations

    Angela Merkl;Isabella Heuser;Malek Bajbouj

  • Early life stress modulates amygdala-prefrontal functional connectivity: implications for oxytocin effects.

    Yan Fan;Ana Lucia Herrera‐Melendez;Karin Pestke;Melanie Feeser;Melanie Feeser

  • Association of the G1947A COMT (Val108/158Met) gene polymorphism with prefrontal P300 during information processing

    J. Gallinat;M. Bajbouj;T. Sander;K. Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Simone Grimm
Simone Grimm University of Zurich
Frank Padberg
Frank Padberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jürgen Gallinat
Jürgen Gallinat University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Christian Otte
Christian Otte Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hauke R. Heekeren
Hauke R. Heekeren Universität Hamburg
Georg Winterer
Georg Winterer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Arthur M. Jacobs
Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität Berlin
Georg Northoff
Georg Northoff University of Ottawa
Frank Schneider
Frank Schneider Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Thomas Sander
Thomas Sander University of Cologne

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