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Victor I. Spoormaker

Victor I. Spoormaker

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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
6897
World Ranking
8285
National Ranking
700

Overview

Victor I. Spoormaker is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, concentrating on cognitive and behavioral studies related to mental health and brain function.

The primary fields of study for Victor I. Spoormaker include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these fields, the scientist focuses on several subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Clinical Psychology

The main topics covered in their work reveal an emphasis on the biological and psychological aspects of mental health and brain function, including:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Notable recent papers authored by Victor I. Spoormaker and collaborators include:

  • The biological classification of mental disorders (BeCOME) study: a protocol for an observational deep-phenotyping study for the identification of biological subtypes, 2020, BMC Psychiatry
  • No robust differences in fear conditioning between patients with fear-related disorders and healthy controls, 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Neural Processing During Fear Extinction Predicts Intrusive Memories, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Pupil Dilation during Reward Anticipation Is Correlated to Depressive Symptom Load in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder, 2020, Brain Sciences
  • Pupillometry tracks cognitive load and salience network activity in a working memory functional magnetic resonance imaging task, 2021, Human Brain Mapping

Victor I. Spoormaker frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Neuroscience Applied
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Journal of Sleep Research

The scientist collaborates often with the following frequent co-authors:

  • Tanja Brückl
  • Elisabeth B. Binder
  • Michael Czisch
  • Philipp G. Sämann
  • Dorothee Pöhlchen

This overview highlights Victor I. Spoormaker's engagement with interdisciplinary research connecting neuroscience, psychology, and clinical domains, contributing studies that explore cognitive processes, stress responses, and neural mechanisms related to mental health conditions.

Best Publications

  • Disturbed sleep in post-traumatic stress disorder: secondary symptom or core feature?

    Victor I. Spoormaker;Paul Montgomery

  • Development of the Brain's Default Mode Network from Wakefulness to Slow Wave Sleep

    Philipp G. Sämann;Renate Wehrle;David Hoehn;Victor I. Spoormaker

  • Neural Correlates of Dream Lucidity Obtained from Contrasting Lucid versus Non-Lucid REM Sleep: A Combined EEG/fMRI Case Study

    Martin Dresler;Renate Wehrle;Victor I. Spoormaker;Stefan P. Koch

  • Development of a Large-Scale Functional Brain Network during Human Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

    Victor I. Spoormaker;Manuel S. Schröter;Pablo M. Gleiser;Katia C. Andrade

  • Initial Validation of the SLEEP-50 Questionnaire

    Victor I Spoormaker;Ingrid Verbeek;Jan van den Bout;Ed C Klip

  • Nightmares: from anxiety symptom to sleep disorder.

    Victor I. Spoormaker;Michael Schredl;Jan van den Bout

  • Dreamed Movement Elicits Activation in the Sensorimotor Cortex

    Martin Dresler;Stefan P. Koch;Renate Wehrle;Victor I. Spoormaker

  • Sleep spindles and hippocampal functional connectivity in human NREM sleep.

    Katia C. Andrade;Victor I. Spoormaker;Martin Dresler;Renate Wehrle

  • Lucid dreaming treatment for nightmares: a pilot study.

    Victor I. Spoormaker;Jan van den Bout

  • Simultaneous Electroencephalographic and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Indicate Impaired Cortical Top–Down Processing in Association with Anesthetic-induced Unconsciousness

    Denis Jordan;Rüdiger Ilg;Valentin Riedl;Anna Schorer

  • Spatiotemporal Reconfiguration of Large-Scale Brain Functional Networks during Propofol-Induced Loss of Consciousness

    Manuel S. Schröter;Victor I. Spoormaker;Anna Schorer;Afra Wohlschläger

  • The role of rapid eye movement sleep for amygdala-related memory processing

    L.K.E. Genzel;V.I. Spoormaker;B.N. Konrad;M. Dresler

  • Aetiology and treatment of nightmare disorder: State of the art and future perspectives

    Annika Gieselmann;Malik Ait Aoudia;Michelle Carr;Anne Germain

  • Increased sleep pressure reduces resting state functional connectivity

    Philipp G. Sämann;Carolin Tully;Victor I. Spoormaker;Thomas C. Wetter

  • Effects of rapid eye movement sleep deprivation on fear extinction recall and prediction error signaling.

    Victor I. Spoormaker;Manuel S. Schröter;Kátia C. Andrade;Martin Dresler

  • Spontaneous pupil dilations during the resting state are associated with activation of the salience network

    Max Schneider;Pamela Hathway;Laura Leuchs;Philipp G. Sämann

  • Internet-delivered or mailed self-help treatment for insomnia?: a randomized waiting-list controlled trial

    Jaap Lancee;Jan van den Bout;Annemieke van Straten;Victor I. Spoormaker

  • Depression and anxiety complaints; relations with sleep disturbances.

    Victor I. Spoormaker;Jan van den Bout

  • The neural correlates and temporal sequence of the relationship between shock exposure, disturbed sleep and impaired consolidation of fear extinction.

    V. I. Spoormaker;A. Sturm;K. C. Andrade;M. S. Schröter

  • Disentangling reward anticipation with simultaneous pupillometry / fMRI.

    Max Schneider;Laura Leuchs;Michael Czisch;Philipp G. Sämann

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Czisch
Michael Czisch Max Planck Society
Philipp G. Sämann
Philipp G. Sämann Max Planck Society
Jaap Lancee
Jaap Lancee University of Amsterdam
Jan van den Bout
Jan van den Bout Utrecht University
Martin Dresler
Martin Dresler Radboud University
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society
Jens Blechert
Jens Blechert University of Salzburg
Frank H. Wilhelm
Frank H. Wilhelm University of Salzburg
Hellmuth Obrig
Hellmuth Obrig Max Planck Society
Graeme J. Taylor
Graeme J. Taylor University of Toronto

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