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Sophie Fitzsimmons

@sofitz

PhD candidate @AmsterdamUMC | rTMS, neuroimaging , and obsessive-compulsive disorder 🧠 | Also music dabbler 🎵, quiz quizzer❓, and doctor 🩺

 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined January 2013
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Huge thanks to all the co-authors, interns, research assistants, therapists and patients that made this research possible!
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We found that three different rTMS stimulation locations 🧲🧲🧲 combined with exposure and response prevention had similar clinical effects, but different location-specific effects on brain activity 🧠🧠🧠 that were related to treatment outcome.
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Very excited to announce that the primary outcomes paper of our TIPICCO rTMS for OCD trial is now online at Biological Psychiatry! 🧠 ⚡ biologicalpsychiatryjournal.…
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation–Induced Plasticity Improving Cognitive Control in Obsessive-Com...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation–Induced Plasticity Improving Cognitive Control in Obsessive-Com...

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is an emerging treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The neurobiological mechanisms of rTMS in OCD have been incompletely characteri...

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It was great to present the initial results from the TIPICCO trial of rTMS for OCD at #SOBP2023 today! Thanks to everyone who helped make this research happen 🧠 🧲 ⚡️ @SOBP
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The first four oral speakers are known! Helene Voetterl, @KerstensSilke , @sofitz and @annelies_bronck will present their interesting #neuroscience research at #BeNeBrainStimulationSymposium the 9th of november. uhasselt.be/Brain-stimulatio… @Fac_Revalidatie @Hersenstim
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Thanks to all my co-authors (@Brainclinics and others) for this great effort!
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We also show that, as well as OCD symptom severity, rTMS can improve depression symptoms and general symptom severity in OCD.
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Efficacious combinations were: 🧠 Low frequency rTMS to the pre-supplementary motor area 🧠 High frequency rTMS to the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex 🧠 Low frequency rTMS to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
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Very happy to announce that our network meta-analysis on rTMS for OCD has been published in Journal of Affective Disorders! Here, we show that three specific combinations of stimulation frequency and stimulation location are efficacious treatments for OCD.
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@Brainclinics2 Feb 2022
Just published, new meta-analysis on rTMS in OCD by @sofitz and colleagues. Three specific and efficacious rTMS protocols for OCD: pre-SMA, right-DLPFC and bilateral DLPFC. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.0…
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150 jaar NVvP op 17 november! Neem interactief deel aan het online programma met oa Odile van den Heuvel en Sophie Fitzsimmons (@sofitz) over het belang van neurowetenschappen en Birit Broekman en Noralie Schonewille over psychiatrie en zwangerschap. youtu.be/jMjxOiD3-z8
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Linda Douw@LindaDouw2 Feb 2021
New preprint out on cross-scale markers of integration - from cell morphology/electrophysiology to fMRI/MEG network centrality - and memory! With @sofitz @JeroenJGGeurts Christiaan de Kock, Natalia Goriounova and many others. 1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Neuronal morphology and physiology, functional brain networks and memory in temporal lobe epilepsy

Neuronal morphology and physiology, functional brain networks and memory in temporal lobe epilepsy

Temporal lobe epilepsy patients are heterogeneous regarding cognitive functioning, with predominant risk of memory deficits. Despite major advances within cellular neuroscience, neuroimaging, and...

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Clare Gerada@ClareGerada27 Jan 2021
My tips for surviving leadership bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n195
Clare Gerada: Tips for surviving leadership

Clare Gerada: Tips for surviving leadership

My New Year’s resolution was to declutter paper and create order among my bookshelves and cupboards. As I did so I came across a sheet of paper given to me in 2010, when I became the Royal College of...

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Ben Coates@bencoates124 Nov 2020
I’m not saying Dutch people are sometimes a bit lacking in wit and imagination, but there was a big national competition to name the new zeesluis (sea lock) in IJmuiden, and after months of debate the winner was.... “Zeesluis IJmuiden” 😂
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In case you missed it: Contract tracing apps used to reduce the spread of #Covid-19 are unlikely to be effective without proper uptake and support from concurrent control measures, finds a new study led by Dr @izzybraithwaite ( @UCLPsychiatry and @UCL_IHI: bit.ly/2Eud2E0
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Yesterday, PNN, @PostdocNL and @DeJongeAkademie sent a pressing letter to @ivanengelshoven, asking for funds to help researchers who are dealing with research delays due to COVID-19. Read the English version of the letter here: hetpnn.nl/wp-content/uploads…
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Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre7 May 2020
OUR NEW PAPER. Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 MILLION adult NHS patients. Largest study of its kind ever, anywhere. The power of UK / NHS data, realised. opensafely.org/outputs/2020/… medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY

Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY

Nature - OpenSAFELY, a new health analytics platform that includes data from over 17 million adult NHS patients in England, is used to examine factors associated with COVID-19-related death.

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NEW blog: "Keeping yourself and others safe: Leadership in the age of COVID-19" @jimmcmanusph shares his own hard-learned experience and some helpful pointers for supporting yourself and others: centreformentalhealth.org.uk… #COVID19 #MentalHealth
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Linda Douw@LindaDouw31 Oct 2019
Proud of our department @AnatNeu_Ams and specifically @JeroenJGGeurts @HannekeHulst @StefProuskas in the roundtable discussion! – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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@koninklijkhuis31 Oct 2019
Koningin Máxima bezoekt het @amsterdamumc. In het Imaging Center wordt gesproken over inzet van scanapparatuur bij het opsporen van ziektes. In het Translationeel Hersenlaboratorium bekijkt Koningin Máxima demonstraties van hersenonderzoek. koninklijkhuis.nl/actueel/ni…
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Replying to @MindsinMusic
I'm a non-London 'F3' doc & choral singer planning on applying to psychiatry training this autumn... would that count??
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