Publications

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2026

35. Macedo, I., Kroon, E., Colyer-Patel, K., Freichel, R., Romein, C., Pasion, R., Barbosa, F., & Cousijn, J. (In Press). Understanding the interplay between alcohol use, cannabis use, and mental health across the lifespan: A network analysis. In press at Addiction.
36. Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Clelland, H. T., Kovacs, M., Holzmeister, F., van Ravenzwaaij, D., … Freichel, R., … Nosek, B. A. (In Press). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. In press at Nature.
37. Finnemann, A., Freichel, R., van der Maas, H., Borsboom, D., & Wiers, R. (2026). Accumulation of psychological problems in UK cities: A quantile regression approach. Cities, 170, 106630.

2025

32. Basereh, M., Abikenari, M. A., Sadeghzadeh, S., Dunn, T., Freichel, R., Siddarth, P., Ghahremani, D., Lavretsky, H., & Buch, V. P. (2025). ConvNeXt-Driven Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Benchmark Study on Expert-Annotated AlzaSet MRI Dataset Across Anatomical Planes. Diagnostics, 15(23), 2997.
33. Stender, E. M., Freichel, R., Doose, A., Hellerhoff, I., Breier, C. M., Lewitzka, U., Schacht, K., Geisler, D., King, J. A., Rössner, V., & Ehrlich, S. (2025). The association of eating disorder specific and unspecific symptoms with suicidal ideation in patients with anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 25(4), 100633.
34. Freichel, R. (2025). Network-informed interventions for psychopathology: Psychotherapy research. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1–1.
35. Abikenari, M., Awad, M. H., Korouri, S., Mohseni, K., Abikenari, D., Freichel, R., Mukadam, Y., Tanzim, U., Habib, A., & Kerwan, A. (2025). Reframing clinical AI evaluation in the era of generative models: Toward multi-dimensional, stakeholder-informed, and safety-centric frameworks for real-world healthcare deployment. Premier Journal of Science. 2025;11:100089.
36. Szpak, V., Suzuki, J., Wiers, R. W., & Freichel, R. (2025). A network perspective on heroin use: Associations between craving, withdrawal symptoms, dependence, loss of control, and psychosocial consequences. Addictive Behaviors, 169, 108400.
37. French, N., Freichel, R., Kahveci, S., Werntz, A., Howell, J., Lindgren, K., O’Shea, B., Boker, S., & Teachman, B. (2025). Anxiety symptom severity and implicit and explicit self-as-anxious associations in a large online sample of U.S. adults: Trends from 2011 to 2022. Clinical Psychological Science.
38. Bozhar, H., de Rooij, S. R., Lok, A., Vrijkotte, T., Lakerveld, J., Wiers, R., Freichel, R., & Larsen, H. (2025). Understanding affective symptoms and substance use in older adolescents in an urban context: A network approach. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.
39. Freichel, R., Epskamp, S., de Jong, P. J., Cousijn, J., Franken, I., Salum, G. A., Pan, P. M., Veer, I. M., & Wiers, R. W. (2025). Investigating risk factor and consequence accounts of executive functioning impairments in psychopathology: An 8-year study of at-risk individuals in Brazil. Psychological Medicine, 55, e192.
40. Hoffart, A., Skjerdingstad, N., Freichel, R., Johnson, S. U., Epskamp, S., & Ebrahimi, O. V. (2025). Mapping the dynamics of generalized anxiety symptoms and actionable transdiagnostic mechanisms: A panel study. Depression and Anxiety, 2025(1), 1885004.
41. Wiers, R. W., Urban Mental Health Researchers, Bozhar, H., Bruining, H., Dalege, J., De Mooij, B., …, Krugers, H. (2025). Debate: Urban versus rural environments–which is better for mental health? The one good thing about a small town…. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 30(2), 189–191.
42. Du, X., Skjerdingstad, N., Freichel, R., Ebrahimi, O. V., Hoekstra, R. H. A., & Epskamp, S. (2025). Moving from exploratory to confirmatory network analysis: An evaluation of SEM fit indices and cutoff values in network psychometrics. Psychological Methods, 10.1037/met0000760. Advance online publication.
43. Freichel, R., Nock, M. K., & O’Shea, B. A. (2025). A network outcome analysis of psychological risk factors driving suicide risk in emergency department patients. Nature Mental Health, 3(3), 346–353.
44. Van den Ende, M., Freichel, R., Van der Maas, H., Wiers, R., & Epskamp, S. (2025). Societal spirits in the silver streak: Unraveling complexity in drinking habits of the mature adult population. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 49(1), 217–225.

2024

19. Freichel, R., Herzog, P., Billings, J., Bloomfield, M., McNally, R. J., & Greene, T. (2024). Unveiling temporal dynamics of PTSD and its functional impairments: A longitudinal Study in UK healthcare workers. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 106, 102896.
20. Ebrahimi, O. V., Freichel, R., Johnson, S. U., Hoffart, A., Solbakken, O. A., & Bauer, D. J. (2024). Depressive symptom change patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic and their impact on psychiatric treatment seeking: A 24-Month observational Study of the adult population Depression and Anxiety, 2024(1), 1272738.
21. Freichel, R., Lenartowicz, A., Douw, L., Kruschwitz, J. D., Banaschewski, T., Barker, G. J., Bokde, A. L. W., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Grigis, A., Garavan, H., Heinz, A., Brühl, R., Martinot, J.-L., Paillère Martinot, M.-L., Artiges, E., Nees, F., Papadopoulos Orfanos, D., Paus, T., Poustka, L., Holz, N., Baeuchl, C., Smolka, M. N., Vaidya, N., Whelan, R., Frouin, V., Schumann, G., IMAGEN Consortium, Walter, H., & Blanken, T. F. (2024). Unraveling robust brain-behavior links of depressive symptoms through granular network models for understanding heterogeneity. Journal of Affective Disorders, 359, 140-144.
22. Vera, J.D.*, Freichel, R.*, Loo, S.K., & Lenartowicz, A. (2024). A network approach to understanding the role of executive functioning and alpha oscillations in inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms of ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders, 28(10), 1357-1367.
23. Freichel, R., Zink, N., Vera, J. D., Truong, H., Michelini, G., Loo, S. K., & Lenartowicz, A. (2024). Alpha event-related decreases during encoding in adults with ADHD – An investigation of sustained attention and working memory processes. Behavioural Brain Research, 469, 115003.
24. Sua, S., Cousijn, J., Molenaar, D., Freichel, R., Larsen, H., & Wiers, R. W. (2024). From everyday life to measurable problematic smartphone use: The development and validation of the Smartphone Use Problems Identification Questionnaire (SUPIQ). Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 13(2), 506–524.
25. Liu, C., Rotaru, K., Ren, L., Chamberlain, S. R., Christensen, E., Brierley, M.-E., Richardson, K., Lee, R. S. C., Segrave, R., Grant, J. E., Kayayan, E., Hughes, S., Fontenelle, L. F., Lowe, A., Suo, C., Freichel, R., Wiers, R. W., Yücel, M., & Albertella, L. (2024). Examining the unique relationships between problematic use of the internet and impulsive and compulsive tendencies: Network approach. BJPsych Open, 10(3), e104.
26. Freichel, R., Christensen, E., Mrkonja, L., de Jong, P. J., Cousijn, J., Franken, I. H., Yücel, M., Lee, R., Veer, I., Albertella, L., & Wiers, R. (2024). Attentional biases and their association with substance-use-related problems and addictive behaviors: The utility of a gamified value-modulated attentional capture task. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 19, 100534. / preregistration

2023

11. Hoffart, A., Skjerdingstad, N., Freichel, R., Mansueto, A. C., Johnson, S. U., Epskamp, S., & Ebrahimi, O. V. (2023). Depressive symptoms and their mechanisms: An investigation of long-term patterns of interaction through a panel-network approach. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(5), 903-916.
12. Freichel, R., Pfirrmann, J., de Jong, P. J., Cousijn, J., Franken, I. H., Oldehinkel, A., Veer, I., & Wiers, R. (2023). Executive functioning and the interplay of internalizing and externalizing symptoms – Understanding developmental dynamics through panel network approaches. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Open (JAACAP Open), 2(1), 66–77.
13. Freichel, R.*, Kahveci, S.*, O’Shea, B. (2023). How do explicit, implicit, and sociodemographic measures relate to concurrent suicidal ideation? A comparative machine learning approach. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 54(1), 49–60. / open materials
14. Freichel, R. (2023). Symptom network analysis tools for applied researchers with cross-sectional and panel data – A brief overview and multiverse analysis. Psychological Reports, 128(6), 4740-4759. / open materials
15. Freichel, R., Skjerdingstad, N., Mansueto, A. C., Epskamp, S., Hoffart, A., Johnson, S. U., Ebrahimi, O. V. (2023). Use of substances to cope predicts PTSD symptom persistence: Investigating patterns of interactions between complex PTSD symptoms and its maintaining mechanisms. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 17(1), 216–224. / open materials / preregistration
16. Freichel, R., Wiers, R., O’Shea, B., McNally, R. J., & de Beurs, D. (2023). Between the group and the individual: The need for within-person panel study approaches in suicide research. Psychiatry Research, 330, 115549.
17. Freichel, R.*, Mrkonja, L.*, de Jong, P. J., Cousijn, J., Franken, I., Ruiter, T. A., Le Pelley, M., Albertella, L., Watson, P., Veer, I., & Wiers, R. (2023). Value-modulated attentional capture in reward and punishment contexts, attentional control, and their relationship with psychopathology. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14(4), 20438087231204166. / preregistration
18. Freichel, R.*, Pfirrmann, J.*, Cousijn, J., de Jong, P., Franken, I., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Grigis, A., Garavan, H., Heinz, A., Martinot, J.-L., Martinot, M.-L. P., Artiges, E., Nees, F., Orfanos, D. P., Poustka, L., Hohmann, S., …, Wiers, R, IMAGEN Consortium (2023). Drinking motives, personality traits, life stressors—Identifying pathways to harmful alcohol use in adolescence using a panel network approach. Addiction, 118(10), 1908–1919.
19. Freichel, R., Kroon, E., Kuhns, L., Filbey, F., Veer, I. M., Wiers, R., Cousijn, J. (2023). Cannabis use disorder symptoms in weekly cannabis users: A network comparison between daily cigarette users and nondaily cigarette users. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, 9(3), e847-e858. / preregistration
20. Freichel, R., O’Shea, B. A. (2023). Suicidality and mood: the impact of trends, seasons, day of the week, and time of day on explicit and implicit cognitions among an online community sample. Translational Psychiatry, 13(1), 157. / open materials

2022

1. Ruggeri, K., Panin, A., …, Freichel, R., …, Toscano, F. (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(10), 1386-1397.