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Nicholas T. Van Dam

Nicholas T. Van Dam

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Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
8405
World Ranking
10041
National Ranking
576

Overview

Nicholas T. Van Dam is a researcher affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their work primarily focuses on the field of psychology, contributing notably within clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, and general health professions.

Their research topics span multiple areas, including:

  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Music Therapy and Health
  • Child Therapy and Development
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Van Dam has produced scholarly work published across a variety of journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Mindfulness
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

Among recent papers where Van Dam is either primary or co-author, key publications include:

  • "Dose-response Relationship of Reported Lifetime Meditation Practice with Mental Health and Wellbeing: a Cross-sectional Study" (2022, Mindfulness)
  • "Prevalence and 20-year trends in meditation, yoga, guided imagery and progressive relaxation use among US adults from 2002 to 2022" (2024, Scientific Reports)
  • "Mindfulness meditation alters neural activity underpinning working memory during tactile distraction" (2020, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • "Underestimating harm in mindfulness-based stress reduction" (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • "Subjective Experiences of Committed Meditators Across Practices Aiming for Contentless States" (2023, Mindfulness)

Van Dam frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably:

  • Jonathan N. Davies
  • Julieta Galante
  • Saampras Ganesan
  • Bradford A. Moffat
  • Valentina Lorenzetti

Their body of work largely addresses mental health and wellbeing through mindfulness and related cognitive interventions. The cross-disciplinary nature of their research encompasses clinical approaches, neurocognitive mechanisms, and digital mental health tools, which reflect a broad engagement with evolving psychological sciences and public health concerns. Van Dam's contributions include both empirical investigations and conceptual discussions on mindfulness practices and their potential benefits and harms.

Best Publications

  • Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation:

    Nicholas T Van Dam;Marieke K van Vugt;David R Vago;Laura Schmalzl

  • Self-compassion is a better predictor than mindfulness of symptom severity and quality of life in mixed anxiety and depression.

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Sean C. Sheppard;John P. Forsyth;Mitch Earleywine

  • Validation of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale--Revised (CESD-R): pragmatic depression assessment in the general population.

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Mitch Earleywine

  • Mindfulness, by any other name…: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and science

    Paul Grossman;Nicholas T. Van Dam

  • Measuring mindfulness? An Item Response Theory analysis of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale.

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Mitch Earleywine;Ashley Borders

  • Differential item function across meditators and non-meditators on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Mitch Earleywine;Sharon Danoff-Burg

  • Cognition–Emotion Integration in the Anterior Insular Cortex

    Xiaosi Gu;Xun Liu;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Patrick R. Hof

  • Cognitive control and attentional functions

    Melissa-Ann Mackie;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Jin Fan;Jin Fan

  • Anxious brain networks: A coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies in anxiety

    Jie Xu;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Chunliang Feng;Chunliang Feng;Yuejia Luo

  • Different topological organization of human brain functional networks with eyes open versus eyes closed

    Pengfei Xu;Ruiwang Huang;Ruiwang Huang;Jinhui Wang;Nicholas T. Van Dam

  • Childhood Maltreatment, Altered Limbic Neurobiology, and Substance Use Relapse Severity via Trauma-Specific Reductions in Limbic Gray Matter Volume

    Nicholas T Van Dam;Kenneth Rando;Marc N Potenza;Ken I Tuit

  • Spontaneous Brain Activity Relates to Autonomic Arousal

    Jin Fan;Pengfei Xu;Nicholas T Van Dam;Tehila Eilam-Stock;Tehila Eilam-Stock

  • Establishing a trait anxiety threshold that signals likelihood of anxiety disorders

    Nicholas T Van Dam;Daniel F Gros;Mitch Earleywine;Martin M Antony

  • Functional deficits of the attentional networks in autism

    Jin Fan;Silvia Bernardi;Nicholas T Van Dam;Nicholas T Van Dam;Evdokia Anagnostou

  • Neural basis of emotional decision making in trait anxiety

    Pengfei Xu;Ruolei Gu;Lucas S Broster;Runguo Wu

  • Mind Your Words Positive and Negative Items Create Method Effects on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Andréa L. Hobkirk;Sharon Danoff-Burg;Mitch Earleywine

  • Data-Driven Phenotypic Categorization for Neurobiological Analyses: Beyond DSM-5 Labels

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Nicholas T. Van Dam;David O’Connor;David O’Connor;Enitan T. Marcelle;Enitan T. Marcelle;Erica J. Ho

  • Gender inequality in awarded research grants

    Gillinder Bedi;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Marcus R Munafo

  • Abnormal autonomic and associated brain activities during rest in autism spectrum disorder

    Tehila Eilam-Stock;Tehila Eilam-Stock;Tehila Eilam-Stock;Pengfei Xu;Miao Cao;Xiaosi Gu;Xiaosi Gu

  • Pulmonary function in cannabis users: Support for a clinical trial of the vaporizer.

    Nicholas T. Van Dam;Mitch Earleywine

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitch Earleywine
Mitch Earleywine University at Albany, State University of New York
Jin Fan
Jin Fan City University of New York
Paul B. Fitzgerald
Paul B. Fitzgerald Australian National University
Yuejia Luo
Yuejia Luo Shenzhen University
Judson A. Brewer
Judson A. Brewer Brown University
Ruolei Gu
Ruolei Gu Chinese Academy of Sciences
David R. Vago
David R. Vago Vanderbilt University
Xun Liu
Xun Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rajita Sinha
Rajita Sinha Yale University

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