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Overview

Martijn Figee is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neurological disorders and treatments, with a particular emphasis on obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders and brain stimulation techniques.

Their recent published work includes:

  • "Cingulate dynamics track depression recovery with deep brain stimulation," 2023, Nature
  • "Efficacy of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Anterior Limb of the Internal Capsule for Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Clinical Cohort of 70 Patients," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression," 2022, Neurotherapeutics
  • "Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder," 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a crisis of access," 2022, Nature Medicine

Martijn Figee collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Helen S. Mayberg, Ki Sueng Choi, Brian H. Kopell, Damiaan Denys, and Patricio Riva-Posse.

The scientist's publications often appear in notable journals such as Biological Psychiatry, Brain Stimulation, Neurotherapeutics, Neurosurgery, and preprint reports from bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Their main fields of study are Medicine and Neuroscience, supported by extensive work in the following subfields:

  • Neurology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Main topics covered in Martijn Figee's research include:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Best Publications

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Damiaan Denys;Mariska Mantione;Martijn Figee;Pepijn van den Munckhof

  • Revealing the complex genetic architecture of obsessive-compulsive disorder using meta-analysis

    Paul D. Arnold;Kathleen D. Askland;Cristina Barlassina;Laura Bellodi

  • Deep brain stimulation restores frontostriatal network activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Martijn Figee;Judy Luigjes;Ruud Smolders;Carlos-Eduardo Valencia-Alfonso

  • Dysfunctional reward circuitry in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Martijn Figee;Matthijs Vink;Femke de Geus;Nienke Vulink

  • Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Anterior Limb of the Internal Capsule for Treatment-Resistant Depression A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Isidoor O. Bergfeld;Mariska Mantione;Mechteld L. C. Hoogendoorn;Henricus G. Ruhé;Henricus G. Ruhé

  • GPi vs STN deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease: Three-year follow-up

    Vincent J J Odekerken;Judith A Boel;Ben A Schmand;Rob J de Haan

  • Current Status of Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Clinical Review of Different Targets

    Pelle P. de Koning;Martijn Figee;Pepijn van den Munckhof;P. Richard Schuurman

  • Treatment-resistant depression and suicidality

    Isidoor O. Bergfeld;Mariska Mantione;Martijn Figee;P. Richard Schuurman

  • Cingulate dynamics track depression recovery with deep brain stimulation

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  • Compulsivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder and addictions

    Martijn Figee;Tommy Pattij;Ingo Willuhn;Judy Luigjes

  • The Neural Substrate of Reward Anticipation in Health: A Meta-Analysis of fMRI Findings in the Monetary Incentive Delay Task

    Robin Paul Wilson;Marco Colizzi;Matthijs Geert Bossong;Matthijs Geert Bossong;Paul Allen;Paul Allen

  • Dopaminergic activity in Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Damiaan Denys;Damiaan Denys;Froukje de Vries;Danielle Cath;Martijn Figee

  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression

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  • Think twice: Impulsivity and decision making in obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Giacomo Grassi;Stefano Pallanti;Lorenzo Righi;Martijn Figee

  • Efficacy of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Anterior Limb of the Internal Capsule for Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Clinical Cohort of 70 Patients.

    Damiaan Denys;Ilse Graat;Roel Mocking;Pelle de Koning

  • Deep brain stimulation induces striatal dopamine release in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Martijn Figee;Pelle de Koning;Sanne Klaassen;Nienke Vulink

  • Striatal dopamine regulates systemic glucose metabolism in humans and mice

    Kasper W. ter Horst;Nicolette M. Lammers;Richard Trinko;Darren M. Opland

  • Cognitive–behavioural therapy augments the effects of deep brain stimulation in obsessive–compulsive disorder

    M. Mantione;D. H. Nieman;M. Figee;D. Denys

  • Individual white matter bundle trajectories are associated with deep brain stimulation response in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    L.C. Liebrand;M.W.A. Caan;P.R. Schuurman;P. van den Munckhof

  • The revised dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia: evidence from pharmacological MRI studies with atypical antipsychotic medication.

    Fabiana da Silva Alves;Martijn Figee;Therese van Amelsvoort;Dick Veltman

  • Deep brain stimulation for obsessive–compulsive disorders: long-term analysis of quality of life

    Pieter Ooms;Mariska Mantione;Martijn Figee;P Richard Schuurman

  • Deep brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders

    Martijn Figee;P. P. Schuurman;Damiaan Denys

Frequent Co-Authors

Damiaan Denys
Damiaan Denys University of Amsterdam
Guido A. van Wingen
Guido A. van Wingen University of Amsterdam
Helen S. Mayberg
Helen S. Mayberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ali Mazaheri
Ali Mazaheri University of Birmingham
Stefano Pallanti
Stefano Pallanti Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Matthijs Vink
Matthijs Vink Utrecht University
Danielle C. Cath
Danielle C. Cath Utrecht University
Dick J. Veltman
Dick J. Veltman Amsterdam UMC
Herman G.M. Westenberg
Herman G.M. Westenberg Utrecht University
Donatella Marazziti
Donatella Marazziti University of Pisa

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