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Wilhelmus Drinkenburg is affiliated with Johnson & Johnson in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience and medicine. Their work spans significant subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, neurology, and sensory systems.

The scientist's main research areas include neuroscience and neuropharmacology, memory and neural mechanisms, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, olfactory and sensory function studies, sleep and wakefulness research, functional brain connectivity, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Key recent publications by Wilhelmus Drinkenburg include:

  • Functional Neurophysiological Biomarkers of Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease: A Perspective of Network Hyperexcitability in Disease Progression, 2021, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Influencing cognitive performance via social interactions: a novel therapeutic approach for brain disorders based on neuroanatomical mapping?, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Sleep, neuronal hyperexcitability, inflammation and neurodegeneration: Does early chronic short sleep trigger and is it the key to overcoming Alzheimer's disease?, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Targeting Sleep Physiology to Modulate Glymphatic Brain Clearance, 2024, Physiology
  • Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer's Disease, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent co-authors working alongside Wilhelmus Drinkenburg include:

  • A. Ahnaou
  • Nikolay V. Manyakov
  • Martien J. Kas
  • Sean Tok
  • R. Biermans

The scientist's publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Neural Plasticity

Best Publications

  • International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) – EEG research workgroup: Recommendations on frequency and topographic analysis of resting state EEG rhythms. Part 1: Applications in clinical research studies

    Claudio Babiloni;Robert J. Barry;Erol Başar;Katarzyna J. Blinowska

  • Genetic models of absence epilepsy, with emphasis on the WAG/Rij strain of rats

    A.M.L. Coenen;W.H.I.M. Drinkenburg;M. Inoue;E.L.J.M. van Luijtelaar

  • What electrophysiology tells us about Alzheimer's disease: a window into the synchronization and connectivity of brain neurons.

    Claudio Babiloni;Katarzyna Blinowska;Laura Bonanni;Andrej Cichocki

  • Disorder specificity despite comorbidity: Resting EEG alpha asymmetry in major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder

    Andrew Kemp;K Griffiths;Kim Felmingham;Kim Felmingham;Stewart A. Shankman

  • Effects of diazepam and zolpidem on EEG beta frequencies are behavior-specific in rats.

    Hester van Lier;Wilhelmus H.I.M Drinkenburg;Yvonne J.W van Eeten;Anton M.L Coenen

  • The effects of QEEG-informed neurofeedback in ADHD: an open-label pilot study.

    Martijn Arns;Wilhelmus Drinkenburg;J. Leon Kenemans

  • Neurophysiological predictors of non-response to rTMS in depression

    Martijn Arns;Wilhelmus H Drinkenburg;Paul Bernard Fitzgerald;J Leon Kenemans

  • Spike-wave discharges and sleep-wake states in rats with absence epilepsy.

    W.H.I.M Drinkenburg;A.M.L Coenen;J.M.H Vossen;E.L.J.M Van Luijtelaar

  • Recognition memory in rats-I. Concepts and classification

    T. Steckler;W. H. I. M. Drinkenburg;A. Sahgal;John Aggleton

  • Guidelines for the recording and evaluation of pharmaco-EEG data in man: the International Pharmaco-EEG Society (IPEG).

    Marc Jobert;Frederick J. Wilson;Gé S.F. Ruigt;Martin Brunovsky

  • Blocking melanin-concentrating hormone MCH1 receptor affects rat sleep-wake architecture.

    Abdellah Ahnaou;Wilhelmus H.I.M. Drinkenburg;J. Adriaan Bouwknecht;Jesus Alcazar

  • Discovery of 3-Cyclopropylmethyl-7-(4-phenylpiperidin-1-yl)-8-trifluoromethyl[1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyridine (JNJ-42153605): A Positive Allosteric Modulator of the Metabotropic Glutamate 2 Receptor

    Jose María Cid;Jose María Cid;Gary Tresadern;Gary Tresadern;Juan Antonio Vega;Juan Antonio Vega;Ana Isabel de Lucas;Ana Isabel de Lucas

  • Hypolocomotive behaviour associated with increased microglia in a prenatal immune activation model with relevance to schizophrenia.

    Karlien Van den Eynde;Stephan Missault;Erik Fransen;Leen Raeymaekers

  • Carbon dioxide euthanasia in rats: oxygen supplementation minimizes signs of agitation and asphyxia.

    A. M. L. Coenen;W. H. I. M. Drinkenburg;R. Hoenderken;E. L. J. M. van Luijtelaar

  • Modulation of group II metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGlu2) elicits common changes in rat and mice sleep-wake architecture.

    Abdellah Ahnaou;Frank M. Dautzenberg;Helena Geys;Hassan Imogai

  • Translational Evaluation of JNJ-18038683, a 5-Hydroxytryptamine Type 7 Receptor Antagonist, on Rapid Eye Movement Sleep and in Major Depressive Disorder

    Pascal Bonaventure;Christine Dugovic;Michelle Kramer;Peter De Boer

  • How to Keep the Brain Awake? The Complex Molecular Pharmacogenetics of Wake Promotion

    Sibah Hasan;Sylvain Pradervand;Abdellah Ahnaou;Wilhelmus Drinkenburg

  • Pharmacological characterization of JNJ-40068782, a new potent, selective and systemically active positive allosteric modulator of the mGlu2 receptor and its radioligand [3H]JNJ-40068782

    Hilde Lavreysen;Xavier Langlois;Abdel Ahnaou;Wilhelmus Drinkenburg

  • Emergence of early alterations in network oscillations and functional connectivity in a tau seeding mouse model of Alzheimer's disease pathology.

    A. Ahnaou;D. Moechars;L. Raeymaekers;R. Biermans

  • Cortical EEG oscillations and network connectivity as efficacy indices for assessing drugs with cognition enhancing potential

    A. Ahnaou;H. Huysmans;T. Jacobs;W.H.I.M. Drinkenburg

  • Ketamine: differential neurophysiological dynamics in functional networks in the rat brain.

    A Ahnaou;H Huysmans;R Biermans;N V Manyakov

  • Recognition memory in rats—III. Neurochemical substrates

    T. Steckler;A. Sahgal;John Aggleton;W. H. I. M. Drinkenburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Babiloni
Claudio Babiloni Sapienza University of Rome
Jill C. Richardson
Jill C. Richardson MSD (United Kingdom)
Claudio Del Percio
Claudio Del Percio Sapienza University of Rome
Marina Bentivoglio
Marina Bentivoglio University of Verona
Martijn Arns
Martijn Arns Brainclinics
Xavier Langlois
Xavier Langlois AbbVie (Belgium)
Andrea Soricelli
Andrea Soricelli Parthenope University of Naples
Régis Bordet
Régis Bordet University of Lille
Roberta Lizio
Roberta Lizio Sapienza University of Rome
J. Leon Kenemans
J. Leon Kenemans Utrecht University

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