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59
Citations
13202
World Ranking
3990
National Ranking
123

Overview

Martien J H Kas is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans primarily the field of Neuroscience, with significant contributions to several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Genetics.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation, 2020, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Measuring Behavior in the Home Cage: Study Design, Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives, 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Introduction to the EQIPD quality system, 2021, eLife
  • Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies, 2020, Addiction Biology
  • The role of clock genes in sleep, stress and memory, 2021, Biochemical Pharmacology

Their work is frequently published in venues such as:

  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Martien J H Kas collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Celso Arango
  • Brenda W.J.H. Penninx
  • Nic J.A. van der Wee
  • Gerard R. Dawson
  • Hugh Marston

The scientist's research covers important topics such as:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Animal testing and alternatives
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Best Publications

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • Social brain, social dysfunction and social withdrawal

    Stefano Porcelli;Nic Van Der Wee;Steven van der Werff;Moji Aghajani

  • A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa

    Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud;Gun Peggy Knudsen;Ole Andreas Andreassen;Thomas Espeseth

  • Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation

    Bernhard Voelkl;Naomi S. Altman;Anders Forsman;Wolfgang Forstmeier

  • The neurobiology of repetitive behavior: ...and men.

    Marieke Langen;Sarah Durston;Martien J H Kas;Herman van Engeland

  • The MC4 receptor and control of appetite

    R A H Adan;B Tiesjema;J J G Hillebrand;S E la Fleur

  • Eating disorders: the big issue

    Ulrike Schmidt;Roger Adan;Ilka Böhm;Iain C Campbell

  • The neurobiology of repetitive behavior: of mice....

    Marieke Langen;Martien J H Kas;Wouter G Staal;Herman van Engeland

  • Psychiatric Characteristics in a Self-Selected Sample of Boys With Klinefelter Syndrome

    Hilgo Bruining;Hanna Swaab;Martien Kas;Herman van Engeland

  • Intranasal Mesenchymal Stem Cell Treatment for Neonatal Brain Damage: Long-Term Cognitive and Sensorimotor Improvement

    Vanessa Donega;Cindy T. J. van Velthoven;Cora H. Nijboer;Frank van Bel

  • Novel approach to the behavioural characterization of inbred mice: automated home cage observations.

    L de Visser;R van den Bos;W W Kuurman;Martien Kas

  • A nonphotic stimulus inverts the diurnal-nocturnal phase preference in Octodon degus

    Martien J. H. Kas;Dale M. Edgar

  • Genetics of behavioural domains across the neuropsychiatric spectrum; Of mice and men

    M J H Kas;Cathy Fernandes;Cathy Fernandes;Cathy Fernandes;Leonard Schalkwyk;Leonard Schalkwyk;David Collier;David Collier

  • A quantitative approach to neuropsychiatry: The why and the how.

    Martien J Kas;Brenda Wjh Penninx;Bernd Sommer;Alessandro Serretti

  • Examination of the shared genetic basis of anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Zeynep Yilmaz;Matthew Halvorsen;Julien Bryois;Dongmei Yu

  • Assessing behavioural and cognitive domains of autism spectrum disorders in rodents: current status and future perspectives

    Martien J. Kas;Jeffrey C. Glennon;Jan Buitelaar;Elodie Ey;Elodie Ey

  • Inverse agonism gains weight.

    Roger A.H. Adan;Martien J.H. Kas

  • Traumatic stress and human DNA methylation: a critical review

    Christiaan H. Vinkers;Aimilia Lydia Kalafateli;Bart P. F. Rutten;Martien J. Kas

  • Leptin Treatment in Activity-Based Anorexia

    Jacquelien J G Hillebrand;Maarten P Koeners;Corine E de Rijke;Martien J H Kas

  • Dissecting the clinical heterogeneity of autism spectrum disorders through defined genotypes.

    Hilgo Bruining;Leo de Sonneville;Hanna Swaab;Hanna Swaab;Maretha de Jonge

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger A.H. Adan
Roger A.H. Adan Utrecht University
David A. Collier
David A. Collier Eli Lilly (United States)
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud University of Oslo
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Hunna J. Watson
Hunna J. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philip Gorwood
Philip Gorwood Université Paris Cité

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