Brenda W.J.H. Penninx
VU University Amsterdam
1217 Papers
9.5K Citations
Brenda W.J.H. Penninx is an academic researcher from VU University Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 170, co-authored 1139 publications. Previous affiliations of Brenda W.J.H. Penninx include University of Amsterdam & University of Jyväskylä.
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Papers
Experiential Avoidance and Bordering Psychological Constructs as Predictors of the Onset, Relapse and Maintenance of Anxiety Disorders: One or Many?
TL;DR: The tendency to frequently experience strong negative emotions, to evaluate these experiences as aversive and to engage in avoidant coping strategies may constitute a transdiagnostic factor predictive of anxiety disorders.
Exposure to secondhand smoke and depression and anxiety: A report from two studies in the Netherlands
Mariska Bot,Jacqueline M. Vink,Gonneke Willemsen,Johannes H. Smit,Jacoline Neuteboom,Cornelis Kluft,Dorret I. Boomsma,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx +7 more
TL;DR: In non-smoking adults from patient and population samples, there is no evidence that plasma cotinine levels were related to either depressive and/or anxiety disorders, or to depressive and anxiety symptoms.
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The association between lower educational attainment and depression owing to shared genetic effects? Results in ∼25 000 subjects
Wouter J. Peyrot,S.U. Lee,Y. Milaneschi,A. Abdellaoui,Enda M. Byrne,Tõnu Esko,E.J.C. deGeus,Gibran Hemani,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Stefan Kloiber,Douglas F. Levinson,Susanne Lucae,Nicholas G. Martin,S. E. Medland,Andres Metspalu,Lili Milani,Markus M. Noethen,James B. Potash,M. Rietschel,Cornelius A. Rietveld,Stephan Ripke,J. Shi,Gonneke Willemsen,Z. Zhu,Dorret I. Boomsma,Naomi R. Wray,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx +26 more
- 01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether pleiotropic genetic effects contribute to the association between lower educational attainment and an increased risk for depression and found that the association was not because of measurable pleiotropy between MDD and EA.
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Cognitive reserve and mortality in dementia: the role of cognition, functional ability and depression.
Mirjam I. Geerlings,Dorly J. H. Deeg,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Ben Schmand,Cees Jonker,Lex M. Bouter,W. van Tilburg +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that dementia patients with greater cognitive reserve have increased mortality rates, only if the disease has progressed to such an extent that clinical symptoms are more severe, and the reserve hypothesis needs a modification.
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Brain-immune crosstalk in the treatment of major depressive disorder
Igor Branchi,S. Poggini,Lucile Capuron,Francesco Benedetti,Sara Poletti,Ryad Tamouza,Hemmo A. Drexhage,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Carmine M. Pariante,Marion Leboyer +9 more
TL;DR: The link between the immune and the nervous system, which are deeply interconnected and continuously interacting, is one of the most important novel theoretical framework to investigate the biological bases of major depressive disorder and, more in general, mental illness as discussed by the authors.
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