About this site

Jana Hermans is a PhD candidate in neuropsychiatry at the Erasmus MC in the Netherlands. She is a scientific journalism enthusiast and writes about recent developments in the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, and more. She also shares book reviews and opinion pieces on this website. To stay up to date with her articles, subscribe to this page!

My own research as a PhD candidate is supported by the HorizonEurope Research and Innovation Program (HappyMums, grant agreement No 101057390).

List of publications:

Koc, D., Hermans, A. P. C., Xu, B., Muetzel, R. L., El Marroun, H., & Tiemeier, H. (2025). Perinatal maternal depressive symptoms and brain connectivity among 9-to 15-year-old offspring. JAMA network open, 8(7), e2523978-e2523978. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.23978

Hermans, A. P. C., Schutter, D. J. L. G., Bethlehem, R. A. I. (2024). Functional network characteristics in anxiety-and mania-based subgroups of bipolar I disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 344, 111868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2024.111868