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Iris Sommer

Professor of Psychiatry
Verified email at umcg.nl
Cited by 26890

The treatment of hallucinations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders

IEC Sommer, CW Slotema, ZJ Daskalakis… - Schizophrenia …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
This article reviews the treatment of hallucinations in schizophrenia. The first treatment option
for hallucinations in schizophrenia is antipsychotic medication, which can induce a rapid …

Neuroinflammation in schizophrenia: meta-analysis of in vivo microglial imaging studies

…, FE Turkheimer, P Dazzan, IEC Sommer… - Psychological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundConverging lines of evidence implicate an important role for the immune system
in schizophrenia. Microglia are the resident immune cells of the central nervous system and …

[HTML][HTML] Physical exercise improves quality of life, depressive symptoms, and cognition across chronic brain disorders: a transdiagnostic systematic review and meta …

…, MIE Slot, EHM Lee, P Scheltens, IEC Sommer - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
We performed a meta-analysis to synthesize evidence on the efficacy and safety of physical
exercise as an add-on therapeutic intervention for quality of life (QoL), depressive symptoms …

Should we expand the toolbox of psychiatric treatment methods to include Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)? A meta-analysis of the efficacy of …

…, J Dirk Blom, HW Hoek, IEC Sommer - Journal of Clinical …, 2010 - psychiatrist.com
Objective: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a safe treatment method
with few side effects. However, efficacy for various psychiatric disorders is currently not clear. …

[HTML][HTML] Cortical brain abnormalities in 4474 individuals with schizophrenia and 5098 control subjects via the enhancing neuro imaging genetics through meta …

…, L Wang, EG Jönsson, S Koops, IEC Sommer… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background The profile of cortical neuroanatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia is not
fully understood, despite hundreds of published structural brain imaging studies. This study …

Do women really have more bilateral language representation than men? A meta-analysis of functional imaging studies

IEC Sommer, A Aleman, A Bouma, RS Kahn - Brain, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Sex differences in cognition are consistently reported, men excelling in most visuospatial tasks
and women in certain verbal tasks. It has been hypothesized that these sex differences in …

The same or different? A phenomenological comparison of auditory verbal hallucinations in healthy and psychotic individuals

…, JD Blom, RS Kahn, IEC Sommer - The Journal of clinical …, 2011 - psychiatrist.com
Objective: Whereas auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are most characteristic of schizophrenia,
their presence has frequently been described in a continuum, ranging from severely …

Auditory verbal hallucinations predominantly activate the right inferior frontal area

IEC Sommer, KMJ Diederen, JD Blom, A Willems… - Brain, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The pathophysiology of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) is largely unknown. Several
functional imaging studies have measured cerebral activation during these hallucinations, but …

Healthy individuals with auditory verbal hallucinations; who are they? Psychiatric assessments of a selected sample of 103 subjects

IEC Sommer, K Daalman, T Rietkerk… - Schizophrenia …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Iris EC Sommer , Iris EC Sommer 1 … Iris EC Sommer, Kirstin Daalman, Thomas Rietkerk,
Kelly M. Diederen, Steven Bakker, Jaap Wijkstra, Marco PM Boks, Healthy Individuals With …

[HTML][HTML] Cannabis with high cannabidiol content is associated with fewer psychotic experiences

CD Schubart, IEC Sommer, WA van Gastel… - Schizophrenia …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Cannabis is associated with psychotic outcomes in numerous studies, an effect
that is commonly attributed to Δ 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ 9-THC). An increasing number …