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Neeltje M. Batelaan

Neeltje M. Batelaan

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Overview

Neeltje M. Batelaan is affiliated with Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on psychological and mental health topics, with a specialization in anxiety and depressive disorders. They have contributed extensively to the field of Psychology, with particular emphasis on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology.

Batelaan's work encompasses a range of subfields within psychology, including:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Pharmacology

Their research addresses major topics such as Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes, along with Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development. Other focal areas include Mental Health Research Topics, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Mental Health Treatment and Access, and Eating Disorders and Behaviors.

Frequent publication venues for Batelaan include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE

Some notable recent papers by Batelaan are:

  • The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Exposure-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Severe Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Meta-analysis, 2022, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and pairwise/network meta-analysis, 2022, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Antidepressants or running therapy: Comparing effects on mental and physical health in patients with depression and anxiety disorders, 2023, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Facilitating factors and barriers in help-seeking behaviour in adolescents and young adults with depressive symptoms: A qualitative study, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Guided internet-based transdiagnostic individually tailored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for symptoms of depression and/or anxiety in college students: A randomized controlled trial, 2022, Behaviour Research and Therapy

Batelaan collaborates frequently with a set of co-authors, including:

  • Anton J.L.M. van Balkom
  • Anna Muntingh
  • Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn
  • Brenda W.J.H. Penninx
  • Patricia van Oppen

Best Publications

  • Costs of nine common mental disorders: Implications for curative and preventive psychiatry

    Filip Smit;Pim Cuijpers;Pim Cuijpers;Jan Oostenbrink;Neeltje Batelaan

  • Anxiety and new onset of cardiovascular disease: critical review and meta-analysis.

    Neeltje M. Batelaan;Adrie Seldenrijk;Mariska Bot;Anton J. L. M. van Balkom

  • Long-term disability in anxiety disorders

    Sanne M. Hendriks;Jan Spijker;Carmilla M. M. Licht;Florian Hardeveld

  • Long-term Outcomes of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety-Related Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Eva A. M. van Dis;Suzanne C. van Veen;Muriel A. Hagenaars;Neeltje M. Batelaan

  • Clinical relevance of comorbidity in anxiety disorders: A report from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)

    Mieke Klein Hofmeijer-Sevink;Neeltje M. Batelaan;Harold J.G.M. van Megen;Brenda W. Penninx;Brenda W. Penninx;Brenda W. Penninx

  • Recurrence of anxiety disorders and its predictors

    Willemijn D. Scholten;Neeltje M. Batelaan;Anton Jlm. van Balkom;Brenda Wjh. Penninx

  • Depression, anxiety and 6-year risk of cardiovascular disease

    Adrie Seldenrijk;Nicole Vogelzangs;Neeltje M. Batelaan;Iris Wieman

  • Risk of relapse after antidepressant discontinuation in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis of relapse prevention trials

    Neeltje M Batelaan;Renske C Bosman;Anna Muntingh;Willemijn D Scholten

  • The 7-year course of depression and anxiety in the general population

    D. Rhebergen;N. M. Batelaan;R. de Graaf;W. A. Nolen

  • Economic costs of full-blown and subthreshold panic disorder.

    Neeltje Batelaan;Neeltje Batelaan;Filip Smit;Filip Smit;Ron de Graaf;Anton van Balkom

  • The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Exposure–Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Severe Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Meta-analysis

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  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a systematic review and pairwise/network meta-analysis

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  • Long-term work disability and absenteeism in anxiety and depressive disorders

    Sanne M. Hendriks;Jan Spijker;Jan Spijker;Carmilla M.M. Licht;Florian Hardeveld

  • Clinical relevance of comorbidity in obsessive compulsive disorder: the Netherlands OCD Association study.

    Mieke Klein Hofmeijer-Sevink;Patricia van Oppen;Harold J. van Megen;Neeltje M. Batelaan

  • Antidepressants or running therapy: Comparing effects on mental and physical health in patients with depression and anxiety disorders.

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  • Disability in anxiety disorders

    Sanne M. Hendriks;Jan Spijker;Jan Spijker;Carmilla M.M. Licht;Aartjan T.F. Beekman

  • Evidence-based pharmacotherapy of panic disorder: an update

    Neeltje M. Batelaan;Anton J. L. M. Van Balkom;Dan J. Stein

  • Thresholds for health and thresholds for illness: panic disorder versus subthreshold panic disorder.

    Neeltje M. Batelaan;Ron De Graaf;Anton Van Balkom;Wilma Vollebergh

  • Prevalence and course of subthreshold anxiety disorder in the general population: A three-year follow-up study

    Renske C Bosman;Margreet ten Have;Ron de Graaf;Anna Dt Muntingh

  • Anxiety sensitivity, its stability and longitudinal association with severity of anxiety symptoms

    Johanna H. M. Hovenkamp-Hermelink;Date C. van der Veen;Richard C. Oude Voshaar;Neeltje M. Batelaan

  • Diagnostic instability of recurrence and the impact on recurrence rates in depressive and anxiety disorders

    Willemijn D. Scholten;Neeltje M. Batelaan;Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Anton J.L.M. van Balkom

  • The course of panic attacks in individuals with panic disorder and subthreshold panic disorder: A population-based study

    Neeltje M. Batelaan;Ron de Graaf;Jan Spijker;Jan H. Smit

  • Long-term antidepressant use: a qualitative study on perspectives of patients and GPs in primary care

    Renske C. Bosman;Klaas M. Huijbregts;Peter F. M. Verhaak;Henricus G. Ruhe

Frequent Co-Authors

Anton J. L. M. van Balkom
Anton J. L. M. van Balkom University of Amsterdam
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Danielle C. Cath
Danielle C. Cath Utrecht University
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University
Robert A. Schoevers
Robert A. Schoevers University Medical Center Groningen
Patricia van Oppen
Patricia van Oppen Amsterdam UMC
Wilma A. M. Vollebergh
Wilma A. M. Vollebergh Utrecht University
Heleen Riper
Heleen Riper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Eirini Karyotaki
Eirini Karyotaki Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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