Biography
Dr Yara Toenders is a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University. Her research focusses on mental health and brain development in adolescents. In the SYNC lab she uses longitudinal data to study mood, sleep and brain structure in young people.
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
Onderzoeksinteresses: Mentaal welzijn, Hersenontwikkeling, Adolescentie, Slaap
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Researcher | Clinical Psychology
- toenders@essb.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Yara J. Toenders, Renske van der Cruijsen, Jana Runze, Suzanne van de Groep, Lara Wierenga & Eveline A. Crone (2024) - Mood variability during adolescent development and its relation to sleep and brain development - Scientific Reports, 14 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-59227-9 - [link]
- E Kroon, Y J Toenders, L N Kuhns, J Cousijn & F Filbey (2024) - Resting state functional connectivity in dependent cannabis users: The moderating role of cannabis attitudes - Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 256, 111090 - doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111090 - [link]
- L van Drunen, Y J Toenders, L M Wierenga & E A Crone (2023) - Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on structural brain development in early adolescence - Scientific Reports, 13 (1), 1-14 - doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32754-7 - [link]
- , Laura S van Velzen, Maria R Dauvermann, Lejla Colic, Luca M Villa, Hannah S Savage, Yara J Toenders, Alyssa H Zhu, Joanna K Bright, Adrián I Campos, Lauren E Salminen, Sonia Ambrogi, Rosa Ayesa-Arriola, Nerisa Banaj, Zeynep Başgöze, Jochen Bauer, Karina Blair, Robert James Blair, Katharina Brosch, Yuqi Cheng, Romain Colle, Colm G Connolly, Emmanuelle Corruble, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Kathryn R Cullen, Udo Dannlowski, Christopher G Davey, Katharina Dohm, Janice M Fullerton, Ali Saffet Gonul, Ian H Gotlib, Dominik Grotegerd, Tim Hahn, Ben J Harrison, Mengxin He, Ian B Hickie, Tiffany C Ho, Frank Iorfino, Andreas Jansen, Fabrice Jollant, Tilo Kircher, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Melissa Klug, Elisabeth J Leehr, Elizabeth T C Lippard, Katie A McLaughlin, Susanne Meinert, Adam Bryant Miller, Philip B Mitchell & Benson Mwangi (2022) - Structural brain alterations associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young people: Results from 21 international studies from the ENIGMA suicidal thoughts and behaviours consortium - Molecular Psychiatry, 27 (11), 4550-4560 - doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01734-0 - [link]
- Yara J. Toenders, Lianne Schmaal, Laura Nawijn, Laura K.M. Han, Julia Binnewies, Nic J.A. van der Wee, Marie Jose van Tol, Dick J. Veltman, Yuri Milaneschi, Femke Lamers & Brenda W.J.H. Penninx (2022) - The association between clinical and biological characteristics of depression and structural brain alterations - Journal of Affective Disorders, 312, 268-274 - doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.06.056 - [link]
- Lea Waller, Susanne Erk, Elena Pozzi, Yara J Toenders, Courtney C Haswell, Marc Büttner, Paul M Thompson, Lianne Schmaal, Rajendra A Morey, Henrik Walter & Ilya M Veer (2022) - ENIGMA HALFpipe: Interactive, reproducible, and efficient analysis for resting-state and task-based fMRI data - Human Brain Mapping, 43 (9), 2727-2742 - doi: 10.1002/hbm.25829 - [link]
- Laura S van Velzen, Yara J Toenders, Akhil Kottaram, Belinsha Youzchalveen, Vita Pilkington, Sue M Cotton, Abi Brooker, Ben McKechnie, Simon Rice & Lianne Schmaal (2022) - Risk factors for suicide attempt during outpatient care in adolescents with severe and complex depression - Crisis, 44 (3), 232-239 - doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000860 - [link]
- Shaunagh O'Sullivan, Lianne Schmaal, Simon D'Alfonso, Yara Jo Toenders, Lee Valentine, Carla McEnery, Sarah Bendall, Barnaby Nelson, John F Gleeson & Mario Alvarez-Jimenez (2022) - Characterizing use of a multicomponent digital intervention to predict treatment outcomes in first-episode psychosis: Cluster analysis - JMIR Mental Health, 9 (4) - doi: 10.2196/29211 - [link]
- Laura S van Velzen, Yara J Toenders, Aina Avila-Parcet, Richard Dinga, Jill A Rabinowitz, Adrián I Campos, Neda Jahanshad, Miguel E Rentería & Lianne Schmaal (2022) - Classification of suicidal thoughts and behaviour in children: Results from penalised logistic regression analyses in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study - British Journal of Psychiatry, 220 (4), 210-218 - doi: 10.1192/bjp.2022.7 - [link]
- Yara J Toenders, Akhil Kottaram, Richard Dinga, Christopher G Davey, , Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L W Bokde, Erin Burke Quinlan, Sylvane Desrivières, Herta Flor, Antoine Grigis, Hugh Garavan, Penny Gowland, Andreas Heinz, Rüdiger Brühl, Jean-Luc Martinot, Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Herve Lemaitre, Tomáš Paus, Luise Poustka, Sarah Hohmann, Juliane H Fröhner, Michael N Smolka, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Argyris Stringaris, Betteke van Noort, Jani Penttilä, Yvonne Grimmer, Corinna Insensee, Andreas Becker, Gunter Schumann & Lianne Schmaal (2022) - Predicting depression onset in young people based on clinical, cognitive, environmental, and neurobiological Data - Biological Psychiatry-Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7 (4), 376-384 - doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.03.005 - [link]
