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Willem A. Nolen is affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Pharmacology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Speech and Hearing.

Their work extensively covers several main topics, including:

  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Hormonal and Reproductive Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Willem A. Nolen has published research in various notable scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nolen include:

  • Pharmacological treatment for psychotic depression, 2021, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Development and implementation of guidelines for the management of depression: a systematic review, 2020, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Clinicians' preferences and attitudes towards the use of lithium in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorders around the world: a survey from the ISBD Lithium task force, 2023, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Double jeopardy in the United States: Early onset bipolar disorder and treatment delay, 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • Psychomotor Retardation and the prognosis of antidepressant treatment in patients with unipolar Psychotic Depression, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research

Nolen frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Ralph Kupka
  • Heinz Grunze
  • Robert M. Post
  • Lori L. Altshuler
  • Susan L. McElroy

Best Publications

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    Stephan Ripke;Naomi R Wray;Cathryn M Lewis;Steven P Hamilton

  • Modification of the Clinical Global Impressions (CGI) scale for use in bipolar illness (BP): the CGI-BP

    Melissa K. Spearing;Robert M. Post;Gabriele S. Leverich;Diane Brandt

  • The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA): rationale, objectives and methods.

    B.W.J.H. Penninx;A.T.F. Beekman;J.H Smit;F.G. Zitman

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2013.

    Lakshmi N. Yatham;Sidney H. Kennedy;Sagar V. Parikh;Ayal Schaffer

  • Comorbidity Patterns of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in a Large Cohort Study: the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)

    Femke Lamers;Patricia van Oppen;Hannie C. Comijs;Johannes H. Smit

  • Axis I psychiatric comorbidity and its relationship to historical illness variables in 288 patients with bipolar disorder

    Susan L. McElroy;Lori L. Altshuler;Trisha Suppes;Paul E. Keck

  • The International Society for bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders

    Isabella Pacchiarotti;David J. Bond;Ross J. Baldessarini;Willem A. Nolen

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Antidepressants for Bipolar Depression: A Systematic Review of Randomized, Controlled Trials

    Harm J. Gijsman;John R. Geddes;Jennifer M. Rendell;Willem A. Nolen

  • Duration of major depressive episodes in the general population: Results from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study (NEMESIS)

    Jan Spijker;Ron De Graaf;Rob V. Bijl;Aartjan T.F. Beekman

  • The Stanley Foundation Bipolar Treatment Outcome Network. II. Demographics and illness characteristics of the first 261 patients.

    Trisha Suppes;Trisha Suppes;Gabriele S Leverich;Gabriele S Leverich;Paul E Keck;Paul E Keck;Willem A Nolen

  • Prevalence and predictors of recurrence of major depressive disorder in the adult population

    F. Hardeveld;J. Spijker;R. De Graaf;W. A. Nolen

  • The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Task Force report on the nomenclature of course and outcome in bipolar disorders

    Mauricio Tohen;Mauricio Tohen;Ellen Frank;Charles L. Bowden;Francesc Colom

  • Early physical and sexual abuse associated with an adverse course of bipolar illness.

    Gabriele S Leverich;Susan L McElroy;Susan L McElroy;Trisha Suppes;Trisha Suppes;Paul E Keck;Paul E Keck

  • Morbidity in 258 bipolar outpatients followed for 1 year with daily prospective ratings on the NIMH Life Chart Method

    Robert M. Post;Kirk D. Denicoff;Gabriele S. Leverich;Lori L. Altshuler

  • Risk of Switch in Mood Polarity to Hypomania or Mania in Patients With Bipolar Depression During Acute and Continuation Trials of Venlafaxine, Sertraline, and Bupropion as Adjuncts to Mood Stabilizers

    Gabriele S. Leverich;Lori L. Altshuler;Mark A. Frye;Trisha Suppes

  • Genome-wide association for major depressive disorder: a possible role for the presynaptic protein piccolo

    P.F. Sullivan;E.J.C. de Geus;G. Willemsen;M.R. James

  • Factors associated with suicide attempts in 648 patients with bipolar disorder in the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network.

    Gabriele S. Leverich;Lori L. Altshuler;Mark A. Frye;Trisha Suppes

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    S. Ripke;N. R. Wray;C. M. Lewis;S. P. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Lori L. Altshuler
Lori L. Altshuler University of California, Los Angeles
Trisha Suppes
Trisha Suppes Stanford University
Susan L. McElroy
Susan L. McElroy University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Paul E. Keck
Paul E. Keck University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Robert M. Post
Robert M. Post George Washington University
Mark A. Frye
Mark A. Frye University of California, Los Angeles
Heinz Grunze
Heinz Grunze Paracelsus Medical University
Hemmo A. Drexhage
Hemmo A. Drexhage Erasmus University Rotterdam
Johan Ormel
Johan Ormel University Medical Center Groningen

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