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Ysbrand D. van der Werf

Ysbrand D. van der Werf

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Neuroscience

D-Index
59
Citations
12155
World Ranking
4012
National Ranking
124

Overview

Ysbrand D. van der Werf is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. The scientist's work encompasses numerous subfields, prominently including cognitive neuroscience, neurology, experimental and cognitive psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and clinical psychology.

Their research topics primarily address functional brain connectivity studies, sleep and wakefulness research, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, sleep and related disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Ysbrand D. van der Werf has published extensively in various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Sleep Research, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and Movement Disorders.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist cover topics related to sleep, brain function, and neurological diseases. These include:

  • The Sleeping Brain: Harnessing the Power of the Glymphatic System through Lifestyle Choices (2020), published in Brain Sciences
  • Associations between sex hormones, sleep problems and depression: A systematic review (2020), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Sleep disorders in people with type 2 diabetes and associated health outcomes: a review of the literature (2021), published in Diabetologia
  • International Multicenter Analysis of Brain Structure Across Clinical Stages of Parkinson's Disease (2021), published in Movement Disorders
  • Local molecular and global connectomic contributions to cross-disorder cortical abnormalities (2022), published in Nature Communications

Their frequent collaborators include Odile A. van den Heuvel, Chris Vriend, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M. Thompson, and Sophie Fitzsimmons.

Best Publications

  • The intralaminar and midline nuclei of the thalamus. Anatomical and functional evidence for participation in processes of arousal and awareness

    Ysbrand D Van der Werf;Menno P Witter;Henk J Groenewegen

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Deficits of memory, executive functioning and attention following infarction in the thalamus; a study of 22 cases with localised lesions

    Ysbrand D. Van der Werf;Philip Scheltens;Jaap Lindeboom;Menno P. Witter

  • ENIGMA and Global Neuroscience: A Decade of Large-Scale Studies of the Brain in Health and Disease Across More Than 40 Countries

    Paul Thompson

  • Sleep benefits subsequent hippocampal functioning

    Ysbrand D Van Der Werf;Ysbrand D Van Der Werf;Ellemarije Altena;Ellemarije Altena;Menno M Schoonheim;Ernesto J Sanz-Arigita;Ernesto J Sanz-Arigita

  • Reduced Orbitofrontal and Parietal Gray Matter in Chronic Insomnia: A Voxel-Based Morphometric Study

    Ellemarije Altena;Ellemarije Altena;Hugo Vrenken;Ysbrand D. Van Der Werf;Ysbrand D. Van Der Werf;Odile A. van den Heuvel

  • Functional mapping of thalamic nuclei and their integration into cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical loops via ultra-high resolution imaging-from animal anatomy to in vivo imaging in humans.

    Coraline D. Metzger;Coraline D. Metzger;Ysbrand D. van der Werf;Ysbrand D. van der Werf;Martin Walter;Martin Walter

  • Presupplementary motor area hyperactivity during response inhibition: a candidate endophenotype of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Stella J. de Wit;Froukje E. de Vries;Ysbrand D. van der Werf;Danielle C. Cath

  • Prefrontal hypoactivation and recovery in insomnia

    Ellemarije Altena;Ellemarije Altena;Ysbrand D Van Der Werf;Ysbrand D Van Der Werf;Ernesto J Sanz-Arigita;Ernesto J Sanz-Arigita;Thom A Voorn

  • Contributions of thalamic nuclei to declarative memory functioning

    Ysbrand D Van der Werf;Jelle Jolles;Menno P Witter;Harry B M Uylings

  • Sleep loss affects vigilance: effects of chronic insomnia and sleep therapy

    Ellemarije Altena;Ysbrand D. Van Der Werf;Ysbrand D. Van Der Werf;Rob L. M. Strijers;Eus J. W. Van Someren;Eus J. W. Van Someren

  • Modulating neural networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation applied over the dorsal premotor and primary motor cortices.

    Philippe A. Chouinard;Ysbrand D. Van Der Werf;Gabriel Leonard;Tom ´ aÿ Paus

  • The Sleeping Brain: Harnessing the Power of the Glymphatic System through Lifestyle Choices.

    Oliver Cameron Reddy;Ysbrand D. van der Werf

  • Compensatory Frontoparietal Activity During Working Memory: An Endophenotype of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Froukje E. de Vries;Stella J. de Wit;Danielle C. Cath;Ysbrand D. van der Werf;Ysbrand D. van der Werf

  • Sleep deprivation leads to a loss of functional connectivity in frontal brain regions

    Ilse M Verweij;Nico Romeijn;Dirk Ja Smit;Giovanni Piantoni

  • Thalamic volume predicts performance on tests of cognitive speed and decreases in healthy aging. A magnetic resonance imaging-based volumetric analysis.

    Ysbrand D Van Der Werf;Danielle J Tisserand;Pieter Jelle Visser;Paul A.M Hofman

  • Slow dissolving of emotional distress contributes to hyperarousal

    Rick Wassing;Jeroen S. Benjamins;Jeroen S. Benjamins;Kim Dekker;Sarah Moens

  • Sleep disorders in people with type 2 diabetes and associated health outcomes: a review of the literature

    Samantha B. J. Schipper;Samantha B. J. Schipper;Maaike M. van Veen;Petra J. M. Elders;Petra J. M. Elders;Annemieke van Straten;Annemieke van Straten

  • Individual differences in white matter diffusion affect sleep oscillations.

    G. Piantoni;S.-S. Poil;K. Linkenkaer-Hansen;I. M. Verweij

  • The Sleeping Cerebellum.

    Cathrin B. Canto;Yoshiyuki Onuki;Bastiaan Bruinsma;Ysbrand D. van der Werf;Ysbrand D. van der Werf

  • Depressive symptoms in Parkinson's disease are related to reduced [123I]FP-CIT binding in the caudate nucleus

    Chris Vriend;Chris Vriend;Pieter Raijmakers;Dick J Veltman;Dick J Veltman;Karin D van Dijk;Karin D van Dijk

Frequent Co-Authors

Eus J.W. Van Someren
Eus J.W. Van Someren Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Odile A. van den Heuvel
Odile A. van den Heuvel VU University Medical Center
Henk W. Berendse
Henk W. Berendse Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Dick J. Veltman
Dick J. Veltman Amsterdam UMC
Danielle C. Cath
Danielle C. Cath Utrecht University
Linda Douw
Linda Douw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Chris I. De Zeeuw
Chris I. De Zeeuw Erasmus University Rotterdam
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Daniel Weintraub
Daniel Weintraub University of Pennsylvania
Martin Walter
Martin Walter Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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