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Yara Toenders

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4117-1143

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Dr Yara Toenders is a Healthy Start Fellow at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She works in the Clinical Psychology team and the SYNC lab.  Her research focusses on mental wellbeing of adolescents, from the biological to the societal level. Biological factors she studies are brain development and sleep. Societal factors include the smartphone ban and performance pressure. At the same time, she emphasises the importance of positive influences, such as having inspiring role models.

Yara previously obtained her PhD at the University of Melbourne, where she studied depression onset in young people, and the neural correlates associated with depression.

Research interests: Mental health, Brain development, Adolescence, Sleep, Screentime
Onderzoeksinteresses: Mentaal welzijn, Hersenontwikkeling, Adolescentie, Slaap, Schermtijd

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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  • Regional brain morphology and current antidepressant use: findings from 32 international cohorts from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Serrarens, C., Toenders, Y. J., Pozzi, E., Aleman, A., Alexander, N., Başgöze, Z., Belov, V., Berger, K., Brosch, K., Bülow, R., Busatto, G. F., Capitão, L. P., Connolly, C. G., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Cullen, K. R., Dannlowski, U., Davey, C. G., de Zubicaray, G. I., Dima, D. & Dohm, K. & 84 others, Enneking, V., Erwin-Grabner, T., Evermann, U., Fu, C. H. Y., Fuentes-Claramonte, P., Godlewska, B. R., Gonul, A. S., Gotlib, I. H., Goya-Maldonado, R., Grabe, H. J., Groenewold, N. A., Grotegerd, D., Gruber, O., Hahn, T., Hall, G., Harrison, B. J., Heindel, W., Hermesdorf, M., Ho, T. C., Ichikawa, N., Itai, E., Jahanshad, N., Jamalabadi, H., Jamieson, A. J., Jansen, A., Kircher, T., Klimes-Dougan, B., Krämer, B., Krug, A., Lancaster, T. M., Leehr, E. J., Li, M., Linden, D. E. J., MacMaster, F., McMahon, K. L., Medland, S. E., Mehler, D. M. A., Meinert, S., Mwangi, B., Nenadić, I., Okada, G., Okamoto, Y., Opel, N., Pfarr, J.-K., Pomarol-Clotet, E., Portella, M. J., Redlich, R., Reneman, L., Repple, J., Ringwald, K., Rodriguez-Cano, E., Rosa, P. G. P., Sacchet, M. D., Sämann, P. G., Salvador, R., Schrantee, A., Shinzato, H., Sim, K., Simulionyte, E., Soares, J. C., Stein, D. J., Stein, F., Straube, B., Strike, L. T., Thomas-Odenthal, F., Thomopoulos, S. I., Thompson, P. M., van Tol, M.-J., Usemann, P., Uyar, A., van der Wee, N., van der Werff, S., Vives-Gilabert, Y., Völzke, H., Walter, M., Whittle, S., Wittfeld, K., Wroblewski, A., Wu, M.-J., Yang, T. T., Zunta-Soares, G. B., Veltman, D. J., Schmaal, L. & van Velzen, L. S., Dec 2025, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 30, p. 5625-5636 12 p.

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  • Young people's poverty attributions: The role of demographic, socioeconomic, and psychosocial factors in the Dutch context

    Fakkel, M., Te Brinke, L. W., Toenders, Y. J., Green, K. H., Sweijen, S. W., van de Groep, S. & Crone, E. A., Dec 2025, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 247, 8 p., 113441.

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  • Association between polygenic risk for Major Depression and brain structure in a mega-analysis of 50,975 participants across 11 studies

    Shen, X., Toenders, Y. J., ENIGMA MDD working group, 23andMe Inc., Han, L. K. M., Weihs, A., Alexander, N., Andlauer, T. F. M., Brosch, K., Forstner, A. J., Grotegerd, D., Hahn, T., Hermesdorf, M., Hosten, N., Jamalabadi, H., Meinert, S., Milaneschi, Y., Sämann, P. G., Stein, F. & Stolicyn, A. & 35 others, Teutenberg, L., Thng, G., Adams, M. J., Thomas-Odenthal, F., Usemann, P., Völker, U., Wittfeld, K., Herrera-Rivero, M., Jiang, Y., Tian, C., Groenewold, N. A., Koopowitz, S.-M., Strike, L. T., Dannlowski, U., Jansen, A., Kircher, T., Nenadić, I., Sim, K., Straube, B., Völzke, H., Stein, D. J., Medland, S. E., Berger, K., Grabe, H. J., Krug, A., McMahon, K. L., de Zubicaray, G., Pozzi, E., Veltman, D. J., Thomopoulos, S. I., Jahanshad, N., Thompson, P. M., Schmaal, L., McIntosh, A. M. & Whalley, H. C., 19 Aug 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Molecular Psychiatry. 31, 2, p. 611-621 11 p.

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  • Predicting the First Onset of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Adolescents Using Multimodal Risk Factors: A 4-Year Longitudinal Study

    Nguyen, J., Dwyer, D. B., Toenders, Y. J., Tagliaferri, S. D., van Velzen, L. S., Clark, S. R., Scott, I., Hartmann, S., Wigman, J. T. W., Lin, A., Thompson, A. D., Wannan, C. M. J., Gao, C. X., Wood, S. J., Amminger, G. P., Yung, A. R., Koutsouleris, N., Hartmann, J. A., Yuen, H. P. & Davey, C. G. & 5 others, Ronald, A., McGorry, P. D., Middeldorp, C., Nelson, B. & Schmaal, L., 16 Jul 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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  • Neuroimaging insights into adolescent depression risk and development

    MacSweeney, N., Toenders, Y. J. & Tamnes, C. K., Jul 2025, In: Nature Mental Health. 3, 7, p. 772-779 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

    3 Citations (Scopus)
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