Femke Lamers

14.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
171 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Femke Lamers is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Femke Lamers has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 47 papers in Biological Psychiatry and 41 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Femke Lamers's work include Mental Health Research Topics (62 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (47 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (34 papers). Femke Lamers is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Research Topics (62 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (47 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (34 papers). Femke Lamers collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Femke Lamers's co-authors include Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Yuri Milaneschi, Aartjan T.F. Beekman, Kathleen R. Merikangas, Nicole Vogelzangs, Johannes H. Smit, Peter de Jonge, Robert A. Schoevers, Hannie C. Comijs and Willem A. Nolen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Psychiatry and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Femke Lamers

156 papers receiving 8.4k citations

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Comorbidity Patterns of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in a Large Cohort Study

2011 642 citations Femke Lamers, Hannie C. Comijs et al. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry profile →
Understanding the somatic consequences of depression: biological mechanisms and the role of depression symptom profile

2013 588 citations Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Yuri Milaneschi et al. profile →
Evidence for a differential role of HPA-axis function, inflammation and metabolic syndrome in melancholic versus atypical depression

2012 528 citations Femke Lamers, Kathleen R. Merikangas et al. profile →
Association of inflammation with depression and anxiety: evidence for symptom-specificity and potential causality from UK Biobank and NESDA cohorts

2021 205 citations Yuri Milaneschi, Femke Lamers et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Femke Lamers Netherlands	50	2.9k	2.1k	2.1k	1.4k	1.3k	171	8.5k
Witte J.G. Hoogendijk Netherlands	59	2.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	3.6k 2.5×	1.7k 1.3×	208	11.7k
Christian Otte Germany	46	1.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	3.6k 2.5×	1.2k 0.9×	234	9.9k
Nicole Vogelzangs Netherlands	44	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	971 0.7×	73	6.9k
Mark Hyman Rapaport United States	51	2.2k 0.8×	2.7k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	3.2k 2.4×	194	10.5k
Rodrigo B. Mansur Canada	50	1.4k 0.5×	2.9k 1.4×	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	3.1k 2.3×	278	10.4k
Martin Preisig Switzerland	53	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	3.1k 1.5×	820 0.6×	2.5k 1.9×	286	13.8k
Giampaolo Perna Italy	45	2.2k 0.8×	773 0.4×	2.2k 1.1×	698 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	223	6.1k
Eric J. Lenze United States	56	3.4k 1.2×	965 0.5×	2.8k 1.4×	590 0.4×	2.7k 2.0×	352	12.0k
Isabella Heuser Germany	62	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	2.8k 1.9×	3.6k 2.7×	296	12.6k
Arun Ravindran Canada	53	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	3.8k 2.8×	192	10.8k

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Lamers, Femke, Yuri Milaneschi, Rick Jansen, et al.. (2025). The Metabolomic Signature of Childhood Trauma. Biological Psychiatry. 98(10). 779–787. 1 indexed citations

Kang, Sun Jung, Wei Guo, Vadim Zipunnikov, et al.. (2025). Impact of cardiovascular risk factors on associations between state and trait indices of major depression disorder and objectively assessed physical activity, sleep and circadian rhythmicity within a population based cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders. 378. 360–372.

Coppens, Violette, Elfi Vergaelen, Seline van den Ameele, et al.. (2024). Efficacy of inflammation-based stratification for add-on celecoxib or minocycline in major depressive disorder: Protocol of the INSTA-MD double-blind placebo-controlled randomised clinical trial. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 41. 100871–100871. 6 indexed citations

Basten, Maartje, Kuan‐Yu Pan, Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn, et al.. (2024). Estimating additive interaction in 2-stage individual participant data meta-analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(6). 1661–1667. 1 indexed citations

Jansen, Femke, Antonella Delle Fave, Birgit I. Lissenberg‐Witte, et al.. (2023). The Change in Social Eating over Time in People with Head and Neck Cancer Treated with Primary (Chemo)Radiotherapy: The Role of Swallowing, Oral Function, and Nutritional Status. Cancers. 15(5). 1603–1603. 2 indexed citations

Milaneschi, Yuri, Rick Quax, Jie Li, et al.. (2023). A network analysis of depressive symptoms and metabolomics. Psychological Medicine. 53(15). 7385–7394. 9 indexed citations

Glaus, Jennifer, Sun Jung Kang, Wei Guo, et al.. (2023). Objectively assessed sleep and physical activity in depression subtypes and its mediating role in their association with cardiovascular risk factors. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 163. 325–336. 10 indexed citations

Fatt, Cherise R. Chin, Leanne M. Williams, Alan F. Schatzberg, et al.. (2023). Features of immunometabolic depression as predictors of antidepressant treatment outcomes: pooled analysis of four clinical trials. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 224(3). 89–97. 18 indexed citations

Pistis, Giorgio, Yuri Milaneschi, Caroline L. Vandeleur, et al.. (2021). Obesity and atypical depression symptoms: findings from Mendelian randomization in two European cohorts. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 96–96. 40 indexed citations

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Lamers, Femke, Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn, Anouk E. de Wit, et al.. (2021). Oral contraceptives, depressive and insomnia symptoms in adult women with and without depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 133. 105390–105390. 15 indexed citations

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Goërtz, Yvonne, Annemarie Braamse, Martijn A. Spruit, et al.. (2021). Fatigue in patients with chronic disease: results from the population-based Lifelines Cohort Study. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 20977–20977. 80 indexed citations

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Şen, Zümrüt Duygu, Marie Woelfer, Femke Lamers, et al.. (2020). Linking atypical depression and insulin resistance-related disorders via low-grade chronic inflammation: Integrating the phenotypic, molecular and neuroanatomical dimensions. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 93. 335–352. 37 indexed citations

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Genugten, Claire van, Josien Schuurmans, Femke Lamers, et al.. (2020). Experienced Burden of and Adherence to Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment in Persons with Affective Disorders. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(2). 322–322. 41 indexed citations

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Gaspersz, Roxanne, Femke Lamers, Justine Kent, et al.. (2016). Longitudinal Predictive Validity of the <em>DSM-5</em> Anxious Distress Specifier for Clinical Outcomes in a Large Cohort of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 78(2). 207–213. 61 indexed citations

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Schaakxs, Roxanne, Hannie C. Comijs, Femke Lamers, Aartjan T.F. Beekman, & Brenda W.J.H. Penninx. (2016). Age-related variability in the presentation of symptoms of major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine. 47(3). 543–552. 78 indexed citations

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Ramsey, Jordan M., Jason D. Cooper, Mariska Bot, et al.. (2016). Sex Differences in Serum Markers of Major Depressive Disorder in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA). PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0156624–e0156624. 54 indexed citations

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Hu, Mandy X., Femke Lamers, Eco J. C. de Geus, & Brenda W.J.H. Penninx. (2016). Differential Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity in Depression and Anxiety During Stress Depending on Type of Stressor. Psychosomatic Medicine. 78(5). 562–572. 66 indexed citations

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Korten, Nicole, Hannie C. Comijs, Femke Lamers, & Brenda W.J.H. Penninx. (2012). Early and late onset depression in young and middle aged adults: Differential symptomatology, characteristics and risk factors?. Journal of Affective Disorders. 138(3). 259–267. 93 indexed citations

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Lamers, Femke, Marcy Burstein, Jian-Ping He, et al.. (2012). Structure of major depressive disorder in adolescents and adults in the US general population. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 201(2). 143–150. 64 indexed citations

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Lamers, Femke, Peter de Jonge, Willem A. Nolen, et al.. (2010). Identifying Depressive Subtypes in a Large Cohort Study. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 71(12). 1582–1589. 218 indexed citations

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