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Marieke Wichers is a researcher affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, contributing extensively to the field of psychology, particularly in mental health research. Their primary area of study encompasses experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, applied psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research covers several main topics related to mental health, including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Wichers has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • European Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • BMC Medicine
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on psychopathological networks, dynamic psychological states, and personalized approaches in mental health treatment. Selected recent works include:

  • Psychopathological networks: Theory, methods and practice (2021), Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Comorbidity between depression and anxiety: assessing the role of bridge mental states in dynamic psychological networks (2020), BMC Medicine
  • Time to get personal? The impact of researchers choices on the selection of treatment targets using the experience sampling methodology (2020), Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Early Warning Signals Based on Momentary Affect Dynamics can Expose Nearby Transitions in Depression: A Confirmatory Single-Subject Time-Series Study (2020), Journal for Person-Oriented Research
  • A Narrative Review of Network Studies in Depression: What Different Methodological Approaches Tell Us About Depression (2021), Frontiers in Psychiatry

Collaboratively, Wichers frequently partners with other researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Jim van Os
  • Cathérine Derom
  • Evert Thiery
  • Nele Jacobs
  • Claudia Menne-Lothmann

Best Publications

  • Cytokines and major depression.

    Olga J.G. Schiepers;Marieke C. Wichers;Michael Maes

  • What Do Centrality Measures Measure in Psychological Networks

    Laura F. Bringmann;Timon Elmer;Sacha Epskamp;Robert W. Krause

  • Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression.

    Ingrid A. van de Leemput;Marieke Wichers;Angélique O. J. Cramer;Denny Borsboom

  • A network approach to psychopathology: New insights into clinical longitudinal data

    Laura F. Bringmann;Nathalie Vissers;Marieke Wichers;Nicole Geschwind

  • IDO and interferon-alpha-induced depressive symptoms: a shift in hypothesis from tryptophan depletion to neurotoxicity

    Marieke C. Wichers;G.H. Koek;Geert Robaeys;R. Verkerk

  • Evidence That Onset of Clinical Psychosis Is an Outcome of Progressively More Persistent Subclinical Psychotic Experiences: An 8-Year Cohort Study

    Maria-de-Gracia Dominguez;Marieke Wichers;Roselind Lieb;Roselind Lieb;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Mindfulness Training Increases Momentary Positive Emotions and Reward Experience in Adults Vulnerable to Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Nicole Geschwind;Frenk Peeters;Marjan Drukker;Jim van Os

  • Dimensions of normal personality as networks in search of equilibrium: you can’t like parties if you don’t like people

    Angelique O. J. Cramer;Sophie Van der Sluis;Sophie Van der Sluis;Arjen Noordhof;Marieke Wichers

  • Resilience in mental health: linking psychological and neurobiological perspectives

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

  • The psychoneuroimmuno-pathophysiology of cytokine-induced depression in humans

    Marieke Wichers;Michael Maes

  • Critical Slowing Down as a Personalized Early Warning Signal for Depression

    Marieke Wichers;Peter C. Groot

  • No Time Like the Present: Discovering the Hidden Dynamics in Intensive Longitudinal Data

    Ellen L. Hamaker;Marieke Wichers

  • The dynamic nature of depression: a new micro-level perspective of mental disorder that meets current challenges

    M. Wichers

  • The role of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) in the pathophysiology of interferon-alpha-induced depression.

    Marieke C. Wichers;Michael Maes

  • Moving From Static to Dynamic Models of the Onset of Mental Disorder: A Review

    Barnaby Nelson;Patrick D. McGorry;Marieke Wichers;Johanna T. W. Wigman

  • 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

  • Early adversity and 5-HTT/BDNF genes: new evidence of gene-environment interactions on depressive symptoms in a general population.

    M. Aguilera;B. Arias;Marieke Wichers;N. Barrantes-Vidal

  • How to Boost Positive Interpretations? A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretation

    Claudia Menne-Lothmann;Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Petra Höhn;Zuzana Kasanova

  • Psychopathological networks: Theory, methods and practice

    Laura F. Bringmann;Casper Albers;Claudi Bockting;Denny Borsboom

  • Mindfulness training promotes upward spirals of positive affect and cognition: multilevel and autoregressive latent trajectory modeling analyses

    Eric L. Garland;Nicole Geschwind;Frenk Peeters;Marieke Wichers

  • A Time-Lagged Momentary Assessment Study on Daily Life Physical Activity and Affect

    Marieke Wichers;Frenk P. M. L. Peeters;Bart P. F. Rutten;Nele Jacobs

  • Unveiling patterns of affective responses in daily life may improve outcome prediction in depression: A momentary assessment study

    M Wichers;F Peeters;N Geschwind;N Jacobs;N Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Nele Jacobs
Nele Jacobs Maastricht University
Evert Thiery
Evert Thiery Ghent University Hospital
Frenk Peeters
Frenk Peeters Maastricht University
Koen Schruers
Koen Schruers Maastricht University
Marc De Hert
Marc De Hert KU Leuven
Harriette Riese
Harriette Riese University Medical Center Groningen
Sinan Guloksuz
Sinan Guloksuz Maastricht University
Peter de Jonge
Peter de Jonge University of Groningen
Denny Borsboom
Denny Borsboom University of Amsterdam

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