Dick F. Swaab

Research interests

Publications

• Alteration of the microRNA network during the progression of Alzheimer's disease

  EMBO Molecular Medicine · 2013 · 10.1002/emmm.201201974

• Neuropathology of stress

  Acta Neuropathologica · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-013-1223-5

• Sexual differentiation of the human brain: Relation to gender identity, sexual orientation and neuropsychiatric disorders

  Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology · 2011 · 10.1016/j.yfrne.2011.02.007

• Increased Numbers of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Expressing Neurons in the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus of Depressed Patients

  Neuroendocrinology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1159/000126778

• Hypocretin (orexin) loss in Parkinson's disease

  Brain · 2007 · 10.1093/brain/awm090

• The stress system in depression and neurodegeneration: Focus on the human hypothalamus

  Brain Research Reviews · 2007 · 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2007.04.005

• The stress system in the human brain in depression and neurodegeneration

  Ageing Research Reviews · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2005.03.003

• The human pineal gland and melatonin in aging and Alzheimer's disease

  Journal of Pineal Research · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1600-079x.2004.00196.x

• Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus

  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2000 · 10.1210/jcem.85.5.6564

• Decreased Melatonin Levels in Postmortem Cerebrospinal Fluid in Relation to Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Apolipoprotein E-ε4/4 Genotype1

  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 1999 · 10.1210/jcem.84.1.5394

• Bright Light Therapy: Improved Sensitivity to Its Effects on Rest-Activity Rhythms in Alzheimer Patients by Application of Nonparametric Methods

  Chronobiology International · 1999 · 10.3109/07420529908998724

• Indirect bright light improves circadian rest-activity rhythm disturbances in demented patients

  Biological Psychiatry · 1997 · 10.1016/s0006-3223(97)89928-3

• Circadian rest—activity rhythm disturbances in alzheimer's disease

  Biological Psychiatry · 1996 · 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00370-3

• Alterations in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and its oxytocin neurons (putative satiety cells) in Prader-Willi syndrome: a study of five cases.

  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 1995 · 10.1210/jcem.80.2.7852523

• A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality

  Nature · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1038/378068a0

• Corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA levels in the paraventricular nucleus of patients with Alzheimer's disease and depression

  American Journal of Psychiatry · 1995 · 10.1176/ajp.152.9.1372

• An enlarged suprachiasmatic nucleus in homosexual men

  Brain Research · 1990 · 10.1016/0006-8993(90)90350-k

• Alterations in the circadian rest-activity rhythm in aging and Alzheimer's disease

  Biological Psychiatry · 1990 · 10.1016/0006-3223(90)90523-5

• The suprachiasmatic nucleus of the human brain in relation to sex, age and senile dementia

  Brain Research · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(85)91350-2

• The vasopressinergic innervation of the brain in normal and castrated rats

  The Journal of Comparative Neurology · 1985 · 10.1002/cne.902330206

• A Sexually Dimorphic Nucleus in the Human Brain

  Science · 1985 · 10.1126/science.3992248

• Ontogeny of the vasopressinergic neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus and their extrahypothalamic projections in the rat brain—presence of a sex difference in the lateral septum

  Brain Research · 1981 · 10.1016/0006-8993(81)90989-6

• Intra- and extrahypothalamic vasopressin and oxytocin pathways in the rat

  Cell and Tissue Research · 1978 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00224932

• Immunofluorescence of vasopressin and oxytocin in the rat hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system

  Journal of Neural Transmission · 1975 · 10.1007/bf01253126

• Handbook of clinical neurology

  · 1969

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