Malek Bajbouj

10.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
207 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

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Malek Bajbouj is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Malek Bajbouj has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 59 papers in Clinical Psychology and 59 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Malek Bajbouj's work include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (44 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (30 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (30 papers). Malek Bajbouj is often cited by papers focused on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (44 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (30 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (30 papers). Malek Bajbouj collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Malek Bajbouj's co-authors include Isabella Heuser, Simone Grimm, Undine E. Lang, Sabine Aust, Heidi Danker‐Hopfe, Angela Merkl, Matti Gärtner, Melanie Feeser, Eva‐Lotta Brakemeier and Rainer Hellweg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Malek Bajbouj

198 papers receiving 6.6k citations

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Efficacy and Safety of Flexibly Dosed Esketamine Nasal Spray Combined With a Newly Initiated Oral Antidepressant in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Double-Blind Active-Controlled Study

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Machine Learning Classification of Smoking Behaviours—From Social Environment to the Prefrontal Cortex 2025 ·Addiction Biology ·(unknown), Norman Zacharias, (unknown), (unknown), Barbara Hollunder, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kerstin Ritter, Malek Bajbouj, Thomas F. Wienker, Jürgen Gallinat, Norbert Thürauf, Johannes Kornhuber, Falk Kiefer, Michael Wagner, Oliver Tuescher, (unknown), Georg Winterer	1
2	Mental health literacy and the public perception of persons with depression and schizophrenia in Vietnam 2024 ·Frontiers in Psychiatry ·(unknown), Thi Minh Tam Ta, Dehong Cao, Kerem Böge, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Malek Bajbouj, Eric Hahn	0
3	A digital self-help tool to promote mental well-being for Ukrainians affected by war - Assessing predictors of stress 2024 ·Neuroscience Applied ·(unknown), Iryna Frankova, (unknown), Eric Vermetten, Joseph Zohar, Manuel Spitschan, Malek Bajbouj	6
4	Mental health and well-being in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic among different population subgroups: evidence from representative longitudinal data in Germany 2023 ·BMJ Open ·(unknown), Yuliya Kosyakova, (unknown), Lena Walther, (unknown), Jannes Jacobsen, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Eric Hahn, Silke Hans, Malek Bajbouj	6
5	The influence of electroconvulsive therapy on reconsolidation of autobiographical memories: A retrospective quasi-experimental study in patients with depression 2023 ·International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology ·(unknown), (unknown), Malek Bajbouj, Simone Grimm, Sabine Aust	2
6	Increasing sample diversity in psychiatric genetics – Introducing a new cohort of patients with schizophrenia and controls from Vietnam – Results from a pilot study 2021 ·The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry ·Văn Tuân Nguyên, Alice Braun, Julia Kraft, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Georgia Panagiotaropoulou, (unknown), (unknown), Vassily Trubetskoy, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Isabella Heuser, Norman H. Lam, Kerem Böge, (unknown), Malek Bajbouj, (unknown), Eric Hahn, Stephan Ripke	2
7	Prevalence of depressive symptoms and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers in Germany: systematic review and meta-analysis 2021 ·BJPsych Open ·Andreas Hoell, (unknown), Hans Joachim Salize, Andreas Heinz, Frank Padberg, Ute Habel, Inge Kamp‐Becker, (unknown), Kerem Böge, Malek Bajbouj	41
8	Psychological distress among refugees in Germany: a cross-sectional analysis of individual and contextual risk factors and potential consequences for integration using a nationally representative survey 2020 ·BMJ Open ·Lena Walther, Hannes Kröger, Ana N. Tibubos, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Eric Hahn, Malek Bajbouj	42
9	The role of emotion regulation as a mediator between early life stress and posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety in Syrian refugees 2020 ·Translational Psychiatry ·(unknown), Kerem Böge, Yan Fan, (unknown), (unknown), Eric Hahn, Joachim Seybold, Malek Bajbouj	32
10	Psychological distress among refugees in Germany - A representative study on individual and contextual risk factors and the potential consequences of poor mental health for integration in the host country 2019 ·Econstor (Econstor) ·Lena Walther, Hannes Kröger, Ana N. Tibubos, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Eric Hahn, Malek Bajbouj	3
11	Efficacy and Safety of Flexibly Dosed Esketamine Nasal Spray Combined With a Newly Initiated Oral Antidepressant in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Double-Blind Active-Controlled Study breakdown → 2019 ·American Journal of Psychiatry ·Vanina Popova, Ella Daly, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Kimberly Cooper, Rosanne Lane, Pilar Lim, Christine Mazzucco, David Hough, Michael E. Thase, Richard C. Shelton, Patricio Molero, Eduard Vieta, Malek Bajbouj, Husseini K. Manji, Wayne C. Drevets, Jaskaran Singh	483
12	P11 promoter methylation predicts the antidepressant effect of electroconvulsive therapy 2018 ·Translational Psychiatry ·Alexandra Neyazi, Wiebke Theilmann, Claudia Brandt, Tomi Rantamäki, Nobuaki Matsui, Mathias Rhein, Johannes Kornhuber, Malek Bajbouj, Wolfgang Sperling, Stefan Bleich, Helge Frieling, Wolfgang Löscher	31
13	Aberrant working memory processing in major depression: evidence from multivoxel pattern classification 2018 ·Neuropsychopharmacology ·Matti Gärtner, (unknown), Milan Scheidegger, (unknown), Yan Fan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), A Henning, Malek Bajbouj, Karsten Borgwardt, Thorsten Barnhofer, Simone Grimm	32
14	Different patterns of local field potentials from limbic DBS targets in patients with major depressive and obsessive compulsive disorder 2014 ·Molecular Psychiatry ·Wolf‐Julian Neumann, Julius Huebl, Christof Brücke, Loes Gabriëls, Malek Bajbouj, Angela Merkl, Gerd‐Helge Schneider, Bart Nuttin, Peter Brown, Andrea A. Kühn	83
15	Childhood maltreatment and adult proinflammatory status in patients with major depression. 2013 ·PubMed ·(unknown), (unknown), Malek Bajbouj, Isabella Heuser, Ion Anghelescu, Arnim Quante	24
16	The role of early emotional neglect in alexithymia. 2012 ·Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy ·Sabine Aust, (unknown), Isabella Heuser, Malek Bajbouj	96
17	The influence of daytime napping versus controlled activity on the subjective well-being of patients with major depression 2012 ·Psychiatry Research ·Judith Peth, Francesca Regen, Malek Bajbouj, Isabella Heuser, Ion Anghelescu, (unknown)	10
18	Vagus nerve stimulation for depression: efficacy and safety in a European study (vol 38, pg 651, 2008) 2008 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Thomas E. Schläepfer, Caroline Frick, Astrid Zobel, (unknown), Isabella Heuser, Malek Bajbouj, (unknown), Ciarán Corcoran, Rolf Adolfsson, Michael Trimble, H. Rau, (unknown), Frank Padberg, (unknown), Kurt Audenaert, Dirk Van den Abbeele, Zeno Stanga, Mustafa Hasdemir	2
19	Neuromodulation durch Vagusnervstimulation bei Depression 2007 ·Journal für Kardiologie (Krause & Pachernegg GmbH) ·Ute Fiedler, Malek Bajbouj	1
20	For and Against: Broader Indication of Electroconvulsive Therapy 2005 ·Psychiatrische Praxis ·Francesca Regen, Malek Bajbouj, Ion Anghelescu, Here Folkerts	1

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