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Overview

Nic J.A. van der Wee is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience and clinical applications.

Their recent work includes studies on functional brain connectivity and mental health, especially related to major depression and anxiety disorders. Key topics covered in their research are functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, treatment of major depression, tryptophan and brain disorders, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and bipolar disorder and treatment.

The scientific output of Nic J.A. van der Wee includes the following recent publications:

  • Stress resilience during the coronavirus pandemic, 2020, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Mega-analysis methods in ENIGMA: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Dick J. Veltman, Marie-José van Tol, Paul M. Thompson, and Dan J. Stein.

The venues in which they most often publish include:

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

Their expertise covers extensive subfields of study such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and pharmacology.

Best Publications

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Evidence-based pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder: A revision of the 2005 guidelines from the British Association for Psychopharmacology

    David S. Baldwin;David S. Baldwin;Ian M. Anderson;David J. Nutt;Christer Allgulander

  • Whole brain resting-state analysis reveals decreased functional connectivity in major depression

    Ilya M. Veer;Ilya M. Veer;Christian F. Beckmann;Christian F. Beckmann;Marie-Jose van Tol;Marie-Jose van Tol;Luca Ferrarini

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Stress resilience during the coronavirus pandemic.

    Christiaan H. Vinkers;Therese van Amelsvoort;Jonathan I. Bisson;Igor Branchi

  • The impact of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic on stress resilience and mental health: A critical review across waves.

    Mirko Manchia;Anouk W Gathier;Hale Yapici-Eser;Mathias V Schmidt

  • Reduced Medial Prefrontal Cortex Volume in Adults Reporting Childhood Emotional Maltreatment

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Marie-José van Tol;Nic J.A. van der Wee;Dick J. Veltman

  • Regional brain volume in depression and anxiety disorders.

    Marie-Jose van Tol;Nic J. A. van der Wee;Odile A. van den Heuvel;Marjan M. A. Nielen

  • Two-year course of depressive and anxiety disorders: Results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)

    Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Willem A. Nolen;Femke Lamers;Frans G. Zitman

  • Social brain, social dysfunction and social withdrawal

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

  • Routine outcome monitoring and feedback on physical or mental health status: evidence and theory.

    Ingrid V.E. Carlier;Denise Meuldijk;Irene M. Van Vliet;Esther Van Fenema

  • Evaluating the evidence for biotypes of depression: Methodological replication and extension of Drysdale et al. (2017)

    Richard Dinga;Lianne Schmaal;Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Marie Jose van Tol

  • White matter disturbances in major depressive disorder: a coordinated analysis across 20 international cohorts in the ENIGMA MDD working group

    Laura S. van Velzen;Sinead Kelly;Sinead Kelly;Dmitry Isaev;Andre Aleman

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • Neuroticism modulates amygdala-prefrontal connectivity in response to negative emotional facial expressions.

    Henk R. Cremers;Liliana R. Demenescu;Liliana R. Demenescu;André Aleman;Remco Renken;Remco Renken

  • Enhanced amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Marie-José van Tol;Liliana R. Demenescu;Nic J. A. van der Wee

  • Low level of dopaminergic D2 receptor binding in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Damiaan Denys;Nic van der Wee;Joost Janssen;Femke De Geus

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Vermeiren
Robert Vermeiren Leiden University Medical Center
André Aleman
André Aleman University Medical Center Groningen
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
Sarah E. Medland
Sarah E. Medland QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Ilya M. Veer
Ilya M. Veer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Frans G. Zitman
Frans G. Zitman Leiden University
Margaret J. Wright
Margaret J. Wright University of Queensland
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Barbara Franke
Barbara Franke Radboud University

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