My publications

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In preparation:

  1. van der Schaaf ME, Geerligs L, Toni I, Knoop H, Oosterman JM, Disentangling pain and fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome: a resting state connectivity study before and after cognitive behavioral therapy (submitted to Psychological medicine)

  2. Scholing JM, Lambregts BIHM, Aarts E, van der Schaaf ME*, Long-COVID fatigue is associated with altered reward seeking during effort-based decision making (in preparation)

  3. Lambregts BIHM, Vasenna E, Scholing JM, Janssen A, Kox M, Aarts E, van der Schaaf ME*, Effects of lipopolysaccharide-induced systemic inflammation and fatigue on cognitive effort expenditure (in preparation)

  4. Visch R. Janssen A, Kox M, van der Schaaf ME*, Individual differences in affective change after lipopolysaccharide depend on prior expectations (in preparation)


Invited commentary:

  1. van der Schaaf ME, The challenges of studying immune-related psychopathologies: What can we learn from individual differences in acute sickness response? Brain Behaviour and Immunity, 2022


Published:

  1. van der Schaaf ME, Schmidt K, Kaur J, Gamer M, Wiech K, Forkmann K, Bingel U, Acquisition learning is stronger for aversive than appetitive events, Communications Biology (2022)

  2. Rățală CE, Fallon SJ, van der Schaaf ME, Ter Huurne N, CoolsC, Sanfey AG, Catecholaminergic modulation of trust decisions, Psychopharmacology, 2019

  3. Roerink ME, Roerink SHPP, Skoluda N, van der Schaaf ME, Hermus ARMM, van der Meer JWM, Knoop H, Nater UM, Saliva and Hair Cortisol in a Large Cohort of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients. Hormones and Behaviour, 2018

  4. van der Schaaf ME, Roelofs K, de Lange FL, Geurts DEM, van der Meer JM, Knoop H, Toni I. Fatigue is associated with altered monitoring and preparation of physical effort in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, Biological psychiatry: Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, 2018

  5. Draper A, Koch R, Pickkers P, Husain M, van der Schaaf ME*, Effort but not reward sensitivity is altered by acute sickness induced by experimental endotoxemia in humans. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017.

  6. Roerink ME, van der Schaaf ME, Knoop H, van der Meer JMW, Interleukin-1 as a mediator of fatigue in disease, Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2017

  7. Timmer MHM, Sescousse G, van der Schaaf ME, Esselink RAJ, Cools R, Reward learning deficits in Parkinson’s disease depend on depression, Psychological Medicine, 2017

  8. van der Schaaf, ME, De Lange, FP, Schmits, IC, Geurts, DEM, Roelofs, K, van der Meer, JWM, Toni, I, Knoop, J, Prefrontal structure varies as function of pain symptoms in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Biological Psychiatry, 2017

  9. Fallon, S. van der Schaaf, ME, ter Huurne, NP, Cools, R., The neurocognitive cost of enhancing cognition with methylphenidate: improved distracter resistance but impaired updating, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017

  10. van der Schaaf ME, Toni I, Roelofs K, de Lange FL, Geurts DEM, van der Meer JM, Knoop H, Investigating neural mechanisms of change of cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial, BMC psychiatry (2015) pubmed

  11. Spronk, DB, Van der Schaaf, ME, Cools, R, De Bruijn, ERA, Franke, B, van Wel, JHP, Ramaekers, JG.6 & Verkes, RJ, (2015) Acute effects of cocaine and cannabis on reversal learning as a function of COMT and DRD2 genotype, Psychopharmacology (2015) pubmed

  12. Piray P, den Ouden HEM, van der Schaaf ME, Toni I, Cools R, Dopaminergic modulation of the functional ventrodorsal architecture of the human striatum,Cerebral Cortex (2015) pubmed

  13. ter Huurne NP, Fallon SJ, van Schouwenburg MR, van der Schaaf ME, Buitelaar JK, Jensen O, Cools R, Methylphenidate Alters Selective Attention by Amplifying Salience, Psychopharmacology (2015) pubmed

  14. Von Rhein R, Cools R, Zwiers MP, van der Schaaf ME, Franke B, Luman L, Oosterlaan J, Heslenfeld DJ, Hoekstra PJ, Hartman CA, Faraone SV, van Rooij D, van Dongen EV, Lojowska M, Mennes M, Buitelaar J, Increased Neural Responses to Reward in Adolescents and Young Adults With Attention‐Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder and Their Unaffected Siblings, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry(2015) pubmed

  15. van der Schaaf ME, van Schouwenburg MR, Geurts DEM, Schellekens AFA, Buitelaar JK, Verkes RJ, Cools R, Establishing the dopamine‐dependency of human striatal signals during reward and punishment reversal learning, Cerebral Cortex (2014), * F1000 Faculty recommended as being of special significance in its field by Prof. M. Frank pubmed

  16. van der Schaaf, ME, Fallon, SJ, ter Huurne, N, Buitelaar, J, & Cools, R, Working memory capacity predicts effects of methylphenidate on reversal learning, Neuropsychopharmacology (2013) pubmed

  17. van der Schaaf ME, Zwiers MP, van Schouwenburg MR, Geurts DEM, Schellekens AFA, Buitelaar JK, Verkes RJ, Cools R, Dopaminergic drug effects during reversal learning depend on anatomical connections between the orbitofrontal cortex and the amygdala, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2013) pubmed

  18. van Schouwenburg MR, Zwiers MP, van der Schaaf ME, Geurts DEM, Schellekens AFA, Buitelaar JK, Verkes RJ, Cools R (2013), Anatomical connection strength predicts dopaminergic drug effects on fronto‐striatal function. Psychopharmacology(2013) pubmed

  19. Winkel J, Van Maanen L, van der Schaaf ME, van Schouwenburg MR, Cools R, Forstmann BU, Bromocriptine does not alter speed‐accuracy tradeoff, Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience (2012) pubmed

  20. Van der Schaaf, ME, Warmerdam, E, Crone, EA, & Cools, R, Distinct linear and non‐linear trajectories of reward and punishment reversal learning during development: Relevance for dopamine’s role in adolescent decision making. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2011) pubmed

  21. van Holstein M, Aarts E, van der Schaaf ME, Geurts DE, Verkes RJ, Franke B, van Schouwenburg MR, Cools R, Human cognitive flexibility depends on dopamine D2 receptor signalling, Psychopharmacology (2011) pubmed

  22. Raemaekers M, van der Schaaf ME, van Ee R, van Wezel RJ, Widespread fMRI activity differences between perceptual states in visual rivalry are correlated with differences in observer biases. pubmed