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Overview

Robert A. Schoevers is affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, medicine, and neuroscience.

The scientist has made significant contributions to several subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, pharmacology, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and biological psychiatry. Their work also covers a range of mental health research topics, with a particular emphasis on the treatment of major depression and the study of tryptophan and brain disorders.

Prominent themes in their research include schizophrenia research and treatment, psychedelics and drug studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Robert A. Schoevers has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable coauthors include Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Jeanine Kamphuis, Erik J. Giltay, Jolien K. E. Veraart, and Harriëtte Riese.

The scientist has published extensively in a range of journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Psychological Medicine
  • BJPsych Open
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • BMC Psychiatry

Among the recent papers associated with or referenced alongside Robert A. Schoevers are:

  • Comparing network structures on three aspects: A permutation test., 2022, Psychological Methods
  • Single-Dose Psilocybin for a Treatment-Resistant Episode of Major Depression, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Psychedelic Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Patient Experiences in Qualitative Studies, 2020, CNS Drugs
  • Mental health stigma and mental health knowledge in Chinese population: a cross-sectional study, 2020, BMC Psychiatry
  • Adverse events in clinical treatments with serotonergic psychedelics and MDMA: A mixed-methods systematic review, 2022, Journal of Psychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Systematic Review

    Rose M. Collard;Han Boter;Robert A. Schoevers;Richard C. Oude Voshaar

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • 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

  • Depression and cardiac mortality: results from a community-based longitudinal study.

    Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Aartjan T.F. Beekman;Adriaan Honig;Dorly J.H. Deeg

  • Comparing network structures on three aspects: A permutation test.

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  • The current status of urban-rural differences in psychiatric disorders

    J. Peen;R. Schoevers;A.T.F. Beekman;J.J.M. Dekker

  • Single-Dose Psilocybin for a Treatment-Resistant Episode of Major Depression.

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  • Mental disorders as networks of problems: a review of recent insights

    Eiko I Fried;Claudia D van Borkulo;Angélique O J Cramer;Lynn Boschloo

  • Association of Symptom Network Structure With the Course of Depression

    Claudia van Borkulo;Claudia van Borkulo;Lynn Boschloo;Denny Borsboom;Brenda W. J. H. Penninx

  • A new method for constructing networks from binary data

    Claudia D van Borkulo;Denny Borsboom;Sacha Epskamp;Tessa F Blanken

  • Feelings of loneliness, but not social isolation, predict dementia onset: results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)

    Tjalling Jan Holwerda;Dorly J H Deeg;Aartjan T F Beekman;Theo G van Tilburg

  • Risk factors for anxiety and depression in the elderly: A review

    Dagmar Vink;Marja J. Aartsen;Robert A. Schoevers

  • Prevalence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in substance use disorder patients: A meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis

    Katelijne van Emmerik-van Oortmerssen;Geurt van de Glind;Wim van den Brink;Filip Smit;Filip Smit

  • Comparing network structures on three aspects: A permutation test

    Claudia Van Borkulo;Lynn Boschloo;Jolanda Kossakowski;Pia Tio

  • Depression and risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease. Results of two prospective community-based studies in The Netherlands.

    M.I. Geerlings;R.A. Schoevers;A. Beekman;C. Jonker

  • Data-driven subtypes of major depressive disorder: a systematic review

    Hanna Maria van Loo;Peter de Jonge;Jan-Willem Romeijn;Ronald Kessler

  • The Network Structure of Symptoms of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

    Lynn Boschloo;Claudia D. van Borkulo;Mijke Rhemtulla;Katherine M. Keyes

  • Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Co-Occurrence and Longitudinal Patterns in Elderly Patients

    Robert A. Schoevers;D.J.H. Deeg;W. van Tilburg;A.T.F. Beekman

  • The association between low vitamin D and depressive disorders

    Y. Milaneschi;W.J.G. Hoogendijk;P.T.A.M. Lips;A.C. Heijboer

  • Risk factors for depression in later life; results of a prospective community based study (AMSTEL).

    R.A. Schoevers;A.T.F. Beekman;D.J.H. Deeg;M.I. Geerlings

  • The Effectiveness of Long-Term Psychoanalytic Therapy: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies

    Saskia de Maat;Frans de Jonghe;Robert Schoevers;Jack Dekker

  • Comorbidity and risk‐patterns of depression, generalised anxiety disorder and mixed anxiety‐depression in later life: results from the AMSTEL study

    R. A. Schoevers;A. T. F. Beekman;D. J. H. Deeg;C. Jonker

Frequent Co-Authors

Aartjan T.F. Beekman
Aartjan T.F. Beekman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jack Dekker
Jack Dekker Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lynn Boschloo
Lynn Boschloo Utrecht University
Harriette Riese
Harriette Riese University Medical Center Groningen
Richard C. Oude Voshaar
Richard C. Oude Voshaar University Medical Center Groningen
Femke Lamers
Femke Lamers Amsterdam UMC
Judith G.M. Rosmalen
Judith G.M. Rosmalen University Medical Center Groningen
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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