Marieke Tollenaar
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. M.S. Tollenaar
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3454
- m.s.tollenaar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5060-2729
The research of Marieke Tollenaar involves the study of (neuro)biological processes that play a role in mental health, including stress hormones, epigenetics, and the immune system. She specifically focuses on the long-term consequences of early life stress and childhood maltreatment.
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The research of Marieke Tollenaar involves the study of (neuro)biological processes that play a role in mental health, including stress hormones, epigenetics, and the immune system. She specifically focuses on the long-term consequences of early life stress and childhood maltreatment.
Research
The research of Tollenaar focuses on (neuro)biological processes that play a role in mental health, and the impact of early life stress (e.g. childhood maltreatment), trauma, and acute stress on these processes. To this end, she studies the role of stress hormones, dysregulations in the immune system and epigenetic changes in the development of stress-related disorders or symptoms. In addition, she studies the role of dysregulations in emotion regulation and empathy in response to stress or trauma, and the possible consequences of these dysregulations for the intergenerational transmission of stress and childhood maltreatment.
Teaching
- Coordination and lecturing the elective ‘Psychological and Neurobiological Consequences of Childhood Abuse and Neglect’, which is also part of the Dutch interdisciplinary minor ‘Kindermishandeling en Verwaarlozing: een levensloopperspectief’.
- Supervision of (Research) Master theses and research internships.
- Supervision and internal coordination of bachelor projects within Clinical Psychology.
- Instructor for the course ‘Experimental Clinical Psychology’ in the master Clinical Psychology.
- Organisator PrAIa Hackathon Easing Teaching.
Short CV
Tollenaars background is in Biological Psychology (graduated cum laude in 2003), after which she pursued a PhD at the department of Clinical Psychology at Leiden University on the impact of stress on memory (graduated in 2009). After a postdoc on the long-term effects of prenatal stress at the department of Developmental Psychology of the Radboud University, she returned to Leiden University in 2011 to work as an assistant professor in Clinical Psychology. After her studies she was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley for a semester, and in recent years she spent several months both at McGill University and the University of Toronto to strengthen research collaborations.
In addition to teaching and research she is involved with the PrAIa initiative in Leiden, in which the practical applications of AI within academia are being explored. Furthermore, she expanded her clinical experience with cognitive behavioral therapy in the last few years , after which she has started with coaching work. She is also regularly consulted as an expert in the field of stress and childhood maltreatment in law cases, or for external research questions and popular science magazines.
PhD candidates
- Mirjam Wever (2017 - graduated from Leiden University on 11 January 2024).
- Lisanne van Houtum (2017 - graduated from Leiden University on 19 September 2023).
- Nicole Creasey (2021 - graduated from the University of Amsterdam on 1 November 2023).
- Lisa van den Berg (2011 - graduated from Leiden University on 30 June 2021).
- Leonie Visser ( 2012 - graduated from the University of Amsterdam on 8 December 2017; cum laude).
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Klinische Psychologie
- Nimphy C.A. Kullberg M.-L.J. Pittner K. Buisman R. van den Berg l. Alink L. Bakermans-Kranenburg M. Elzinga B.M. Tollenaar M. (2024), The Role of Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation in the Intergenerational Transmission of Childhood Abuse: A Family Study, Child Maltreatment : 1-13.
- Buisman R.S.M. Compier-de Block L.H.C.G. Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. Pittnerf K. Van den Berg L.J.M. Tollenaar M.S. Elzinga B.M. Voorthuis A. Linting M. Alink L.R.A. (2024), The role of emotion recognition in the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment: A multigenerational family study, Child Abuse & Neglect 149: 1-13 (106699).
- Wever M.C.M., Van Houtum L.A.E.M., Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Spruit I.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Looking into troubled waters: Childhood emotional maltreatment modulates neural responses to prolonged gazing into one’s own, but not others’ eyes, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 23: 1598–1609.
- Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Schie C.C. van, Wever M.C.M., Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Tailby C., Grenyer B.F.S., Will G.J., Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Aberrant neural network activation during reliving of autobiographical memories in adolescent depression, Cortex 168: 14-26.
- Creasey N., Beijers R., O'Donnell K.J., de Weerth C. & Tollenaar M.S. (2023), Maternal sensitivity and child internalizing and externalizing behavior: a mediating role for glucocorticoid receptor gene ( NR3C1) methylation?, Development and Psychopathology : 1-12.
- Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wever M.C.M., Schie C.C. van, Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Sticky criticism? : Affective and neural responses to parental criticism and praise in adolescents with depression, Psychological Medicine : 1-10.
- Kullberg M.L.J., Buisman R.S.M., Schie C.C. van, Pittner K., Tollenaar M.S., Berg L.J.M. van den, Alink L.R.A., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Linking internalizing and externalizing problems to warmth and negativity in observed dyadic parent-offspring communication, Family Relations : 1-23.
- Voorendonk E.M., Sanches S.A., Tollenaar M.S., Hoogendoorn E.A., Jongh A. de & Minnen A. van (2023), Adding physical activity to intensive trauma-focused treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder: results of a randomized controlled trial, Frontiers in Psychology 14: 1-11 (1215250).
- Tollenaar M.S.M. Pittner K.K. Buisman R.S.M.R. Knipping K.K. Garssen J.J. Nimphy C.A.C. van den Berg L.J.M.L. Bolijn J.E.A. Alink L. R.A.L. Elzinga B.M.B. Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J.M. IJzendoorn M.H.M. (2022), Salivary immune markers are not associated with self-reported childhood maltreatment or psychopathology in adults, Psychoneuroendocrinology 144: 1-7 (105867).
- van Houtum L.A.E.M., Will G.J., Wever M.C.M., Janssen L.H.C., Schie C.C. van, Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2022), Adolescents’ affective and neural responses to parental praise and criticism , Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 54: 1-12 (101099).
- Wever M.C.M., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2022), Neural and affective responses to prolonged eye contact with one's own adolescent child and unfamiliar others, NeuroImage 260: 1-12 (119463).
- Wever M.C.M, Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Janssen L.H.C., Spruit I.M., Tollenaar M.S., Aan het Rot M. & Elzinga B.M. (2022), Eyes on you: ensuring empathic accuracy or signalling empathy?, International Journal of Psychology : 1-10.
- Chui-De C., Hoi Lam H. & Tollenaar M.S. (2022), Relational self-evaluations in dissociation: implicit self-rejection?, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 14(1): 99-106.
- Bolhuis E., Belsky J., Frankenhuis W.E., Shalev I., Hastings W.J., Tollenaar M.S., O'Donnell K.J., McGill M.G., Pokhvisneva I., Lin D.T.S., MacIsaac J.L., Kobor M.S., Weerth C. de & Beijers R. (2022), Attachment insecurity and the biological embedding of reproductive strategies: investigating the role of cellular aging, Biological Psychology 175: 108446.
- Voorendonk E.M., Sanches S.A., Tollenaar M.S., Jongh A. de & Minnen A. van (2022), Augmenting PTSD treatment with physical activity: study protocol of the APPART study (Augmentation for PTSD with Physical Activity in a Randomized Trial), European Journal of Psychotraumatology 13(1): 2016219.
- Beijers R., Thije I. ten, Bolhuis E., O'Donnell K.J., Tollenaar M.S., Shalev I., Hastings W.J., MacIsaac J.L., Lin D.T.S., Meaney M., Kobor M.S., Belsky J. & Weerth C. de (2022), Cumulative risk exposure and child cellular aging in a Dutch low-risk community sample, Psychophysiology : e14205.
- Bonapersona V., Born F.J., Bakvis P., Branje S., Elzinga B., Evers A.W.M., Eysden M. van, Fernandez G., Habets P.C., Hartman C.A., Hermans E.J., Meeus W., Middendorp H. van, Nelemans S., Oei N.Y., Oldehinkel A.J., Roelofs K., Rooij S.R. de, Smeets T., Tollenaar M.S., Joels M. & Vinkers C.H. (2022), The STRESS-NL database: a resource for human acute stress studies across the Netherlands, Psychoneuroendocrinology 141: 105735.
- Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wever M.C.M, Janssen L.H.C., Schie C.C. van, Will G.J., Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2021), Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 16(4): 406-417.
- McGill M.G., Pokhvisneva I., Clappison A.S., McEwen L.M., Beijers R., Tollenaar M.S., Pham H., Kee M.Z.L., Garg E, De Mendonça Filho E.J., Karnani N., Silveira P.P., Kobor M.S., De Weerth C., Meaney M.J. & O'Donnell K.J. (2021), Maternal prenatal anxiety and the fetal origins of epigenetic aging, Biological Psychiatry 91(3): 303-312.
- Charpentier C.J., Faulkner P., Pool E.R., Ly V., Tollenaar M.S., Kluen L.M., Fransen A., Yamamori Y., Lally N., Mkrtchian A., Valton V., Huys Q.J.M., Sarigiannidis I., Morrow K.A., Krenz V., Kalbe F., Cremer A., Zerbes G., Kausche F.M., Wanke N., Giarrizzo A., Pulcu E., Murphy S., Kaltenboeck A., Browning M., Paul L., Cools R., Roelofs K., Pessoa L., Harmer C.J., Chase H.W., Grillon C., Schwabe L., Roiser J.P., Robinson O.J. & O’Doherty J.P. (2021), How representative are neuroimaging samples?: Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 16(10): 1057-1070.
- Tollenaar M.S., Beijers R., Garg E., Thao Nguyen T.T. , Lin D.T.S., MacIsaac J.L., Shalev I. Kobor M.S., Meaney M.J., O’Donnel l.K.J. & Weerth C. de (2021), Internalizing symptoms associate with the pace of epigenetic aging in childhood, Biological Psychology 159: 108021.
- Chen L.M., Tollenaar M.S., Dass S.H.A., Bouvette-Turcot A.A., Pokhvisneva I., Gaudreau H., Parent C., Diorio J., McEwen L.M., MacIsaac J.L., Kobor M.S., Beijers R., Weerth C. de, Silveira P.P., Karama S., Meaney M.J. & O'Donnell K.J. (2021), Maternal antenatal depression and child mental health: moderation by genomic risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Development and Psychopathology 32(5): 1810-1821.
- Buisman R.S.M., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J., Pittner K., IJzendoorn M.H. van, Berg L.J.M. van den, Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M. & Alink L.R.A. (2021), Child maltreatment and parent-offspring interaction: a multigenerational extended family design, Journal of Family Psychology 35(6): 735-744.
- Wever M.C.M., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Janssen L.H.C., Will G.J., Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2021), Neural signatures of parental empathic responses to imagined suffering of their adolescent child, NeuroImage 232(117886): 1-13.
- Buisman R.S.M., Pittner K., Tollenaar M.S., Lindenberg J., Berg L.J.M. van den, Compier H.C.G., Ginkel J.R. van, Alink L.R.A., Bakermans M.J., Elzinga B.M. & IJzendoorn M.H. van (2020), Correction: Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment using a multi-informant multi-generation family design , PLoS ONE 15(4): e0232792.
- Chiu C.D., Ng H.C., Kwok W.K. & Tollenaar M.S. (2020), Feeling Empathically Toward Other People and the Self: The Role of Perspective Shifting in Emotion Sharing and Self-Reassurance, Clinical Psychological Science 8(1): 169-183.
- McEwen L.M., O'Donnell K.J., McGill M.G., Edgar R.D., Jones M.J., MacIsaac J.L., Lin D.T.S., Ramadori K., Morin A., Gladish N., Garg E., Unternaehrer E., Pokhvisneva I., Karnani N., Kee M.Z.L., Klengel T., Adler N.E., Barr R.G., Letourneau N., Giesbrecht G.F., Reynolds J.N., Czamara D., Armstrong J.M., Essex M.J., Weerth C. de, Beijers R., Tollenaar M.S., Bradley B., Jovanovic T., Ressler K.J., Steiner M., Entringer S., Wadhwa P.D., Buss C., Bush N.R., Binder E.B., Boyce W.T., Meaney M.J., Horvath S. & Kobor M.S. (2020), The PedBE clock accurately estimates DNA methylation age in pediatric buccal cells, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(38): 23329-23335.
- Buisman R.S.M., Pittner K., Tollenaar M.S., Lindenberg J., Berg L.J.M. van den, Compier-de Block L.H.C.G., Ginkel J.R. van, Alink L.R.A., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J., Elzinga B.M. & IJzendoorn M.H. van (2020), Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment using a multi-informant multi-generation family design, PLoS ONE 15(3): e0225839.
- Pittner K., Buisman R.S.M., Berg L.J.M. van den, Compier-de Block L.H.C.G., Tollenaar M.S., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J., IJzendoorn M.H. van, Elzinga B.M. & Alink L.R.A. (2020), Not the root of the problem: hair cortisol and cortisone do not mediate the effect of child maltreatment on Body Mass Index, Frontiers in Psychiatry 11: 387.
- Tollenaar M.S. Overgaauw S. (2020), Empathy and mentalizing abilities in relation to psychosocial stress in healthy adult men and women, Heliyon 6(8): e04488.
- Pittner K., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J., Alink L.R.A., Buisman R.S.M., Berg L.J.M. van den, Block L.H.C.G.C.C., Voorthuis A, Elzinga B.M., Lindenberg J., Tollenaar M.S., Linting M., Diego V.P. & IJzendoorn M.H. van (2020), Estimating the heritability of experiencing child maltreatment in an extended family design, Child Maltreatment 25(3): 289-299.
- Buisman R.S.M., Pittner K., Tollenaar M.S., Lindenberg J., Berg L.J.M. van den, Compier-de Block L.H.C.G., Ginkel J.R. van, Alink L.R.A., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J., Elzinga B.M. & IJzendoorn M.H. van (2020), Correction: Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment using a multi-informant multi-generation family design, PLoS ONE 15(4): e0232792.
- Buisman R.S.M., Pittner K., Tollenaar M.S., Lindenberg J., Berg L.J.M. van den, Compier-de Block L.H.C.G., Ginkel J.R. van, Alink L.R.A., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J., Elzinga B.M. & IJzendoorn M.H. van (2020), Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment using a multi-informant multi-generation family design, PLoS ONE 15(3): e0225839.
- Buisman RSM Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ Pittner K Compier-de Block LHCG van den Berg LJM van IJzendoorn MH Tollenaar MS Elzinga BM Lindenberg J Alink LRA (2019), Parents' experiences of childhood abuse and neglect are differentially associated with behavioral and autonomic responses to their offspring, Developmental Psychobiology 61(6): 888-902.
- Buisman R.S.M., Bakermans‐Kranenburg M.J., Pittner K., Compier H.C.G., Van den Berg L.J.M., Van IJzendoorn M.H., Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M., Lindenberg J. & Alink L.R.A. (2019), Parents’ experiences of childhood abuse and neglect are differentially associated with behavioral and autonomic responses to their offspring, Developmental Psychobiology 61(6): 888-902.
- Van den Berg L.J.M., Tollenaar M.S., Compier-de Block L.H.C.G., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2019), An intergenerational family study on the impact of experienced and perpetrated child maltreatment on neural face processing, Psychoneuroendocrinology 103: 266-275.
- Visser L.N.C., Tollenaar M.S., Van Doornen L.J.P., De Haes H.C.J.M. & Smets E.M.A. (2019), Does silence speak louder than words? The impact of oncologists’ emotion-oriented communication on analogue patients’ information recall and emotional stress, Patient Education and Counseling 102(1): 43-52.
- Chiu C.D., Tollenaar M.S., Yang C.T., Elzinga B.M., Zhang T.Y. & Ho H.L. (2019), The loss of the self in memory: Self-referential memory, childhood relational trauma, and dissociation, Clinical Psychological Science 7(2): 265-282.
- Aktar E., Qu J., Lawrence P.J., Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M. & Bögels S.M. (2019), Fetal and Infant Outcomes in the Offspring of Parents With Perinatal Mental Disorders: Earliest Influences, Frontiers in Psychiatry 10: e391.
- Pittner K., Van IJzendoorn M.H., Alink L.R.A., Buisman R.S.M., Compier-de Block L., Van den Berg L.J.M., Elzinga B.M., Lindenberg J., Tollenaar M.S., Diego V.P. & Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. (2019), The genetic and environmental etiology of child maltreatment in a parent-based extended family design, Development and Psychopathology 31(1): 157-172.
- Chiu C.D., Ho H.L., Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M. & Zhang T. (2019), Early relational trauma and self representations: Misattributing externally derived representations as internally generated, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 11(1): 64-72.
- Visser L.N.C., Schepers S., Tollenaar M.S., De Haes H.C.J.M. & Smets E.M.A. (2018), Patients' and oncologists' views on how oncologists may best address patients' emotions during consultations: An interview study, Patient Education and Counseling 101(7): 1223-1231.
- Pittner K., Bakermans-Kranenburg M., Alink L.R.A., Buisman R., Van den Berg L., Compier-de Block L., Voorthuis A., Elzinga B., Lindenberg J., Tollenaar M., Linting M., Diego V. & Van IJzendoorn M.H. (2018), The role of genetic and environmental factors in the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment: An extended family design. 16th WAIMH (World Association for Infant Mental Health) Conference 26 May 2018 - 30 May 2018. Rome: 16th WAIMH (World Association for Infant Mental Health) Conference.
- Berg L.J.M. van den, Tollenaar M.S., Pittner K., Compier H.C.G., Buisman R.S.M., IJzendoorn M.H. van & Elzinga B.M. (2018), Pass it on? The neural responses to rejection in the context of a family study on maltreatment, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 13(6): 616-627.
- Tollenaar M.S., Molendijk M.L., Penninx B.W., Milaneschi Y. & Antypa N. (2017), The association of childhood maltreatment with depression and anxiety is not moderated by the oxytocin receptor gene, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 267(6): 517–526.
- Van den Berg L.J.M., Tollenaar M.S., Spinhoven P., Penninx B.W.J.H. & Elzinga B.M. (2017), A new perspective on PTSD symptoms after traumatic vs stressful life events and the role of gender, European Journal of Psychotraumatology 8(1): e1380470.
- Visser L.N.C., Tollenaar M.S., De Haes H.C.J.M. & Smets E.M.A. (2017), The value of physicians' affect-oriented communication for patients' recall of information, Patient Education and Counseling 100(11): 2116-2120.
- Visser L.N., Tollenaar M.S., Bosch J.A., Van Doornen L.J., De Haes H.C. & Smets E.M. (2017), Are psychophysiological arousal and self-reported emotional stress during an oncological consultation related to memory of medical information? An experimental study, Stress 20(1): 103-111.
- Compier H.C.G., Alink L.R.A., Linting M., Van den Berg L.J.M., Elzinga B.M., Voorthuis A., Tollenaar M.S. & Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. (2017), Parent-child agreement on parent-to-child maltreatment, Journal of Family Violence 32(2): 207-217.
- Tollenaar M.S., Ruissen M.I., Elzinga B.M. & De Bruijn E.R.A. (2017), Does oxytocin lead to emotional interference during a working memory paradigm?, Psychopharmacology 2017(234): 3467-3474.
- Verkuil B., Brosschot J.F., Tollenaar M.S., Lane R.D. & Thayer J.F. (2016), Prolonged non-metabolic heart rate variability reduction as a physiological marker of psychological stress in daily life, Annals of Behavioral Medicine 50(5): 704-714.
- Hamstra D.A., De Kloet E.R., Tollenaar M., Verkuil B., Manai M., Putman P. & Van der Does W. (2016), Mineralocorticoid receptor haplotype moderates the effects of oral contraceptives and menstrual cycle on emotional information processing, Journal of Psychopharmacology 30(10): 1054-1061.
- Chiu C.D., Paesen L., Dziobek I. & Tollenaar M.S. (2016), Weakened cognitive empathy in individuals with dissociation proneness, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 35(5): 425.
- Visser L.N., Tollenaar M.S., Bosch J.A., Doornen L.J. van, Haes H.C.de & Smets E.M.A. (2016), Analogue patients’ self-reported engagement and psychophysiological arousal in a video-vignettes design: Patients versus disease-naïve individuals, Patient Education and Counseling 99(10): 1724-1732.
- Verkuil B., Brosschot J.F., Tollenaar M.S., Lane R.D. & Thayer J.F. (2016), Prolonged non-metabolic heart rate variability reduction as a physiological marker of psychological stress in daily life, 78(3): A13.
- Mossink J.C., Verkuil B., Burger A.M., Tollenaar M.S. & Brosschot J.F. (2015), Ambulatory assessed implicit affect is associated with salivary cortisol, Frontiers in Psychology 6: e111.
- Hamstra D.A., De Kloet E.R., Tollenaar M., Verkuil B., Manai M., Putman P. & Van der Does W. (2015), Mineralocorticoid receptor haplotype moderates the influence of female hormones and oral contraceptives on cognition, Biological Psychiatry, vol. 77, 9 Supplement. 70th Annual Scientific Meeting Society of Biologic Psychiatry 14 May 2015 - 16 May 2015. Biological Psychiatry.
- Tollenaar M.S., Chatzimanoli M., Wee N.J.A. van der & Putman P. (2013), Enhanced orienting of attention in response to emotional gaze cues after oxytocin administration in healthy young men, Psychoneuroendocrinology 38(9): 1797-1802.
- Tollenaar M.S., Beijers R., Jansen J., Riksen-Walraven J.M.A. & Weerth C. (2012), Solitary sleeping in young infants is associated with heightened cortisol reactivity to a bathing session but not to a vaccination, Psychoneuroendocrinology 37(2): 167-177.
- Witteman C.L. & Tollenaar M.S. (2012), Remembering and diagnosing clients: Does experience matter?, Memory 20(3): 266-276.
- Tollenaar M.S., Beijers R., Jansen J., Riksen-Walraven J.M.A. & Weerth C. (2011), Maternal prenatal stress and cortisol reactivity to stressors in human infants, Stress 14(1): 53-65.
- Peer J.M. van, Rotteveel M., Spinhoven P., Tollenaar M.S. & Roelofs K. (2010), Affect-congruent approach and withdrawal movements of happy and angry faces facilitate affective categorisation, Cognition and Emotion 24: 863-875.
- Oei N.Y.L., Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M. & Spinhoven P. (2010), Propranolol reduces emotional distraction in working memory: A partial mediating role of propranolol-induced cortisol increases?, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 93: 388-395.
- Tollenaar M.S., Jansen J., Beijers R., Riksen-Walraven J.M.A. & Weerth C. (2010), Cortisol in the first year of life: Normative values and intra-individual variability, Early Human Development 86(1): 13-18.
- Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M., Spinhoven P. & Everaerd W. (2009), Autobiographical memory after acute stress in healthy young men, Memory 17: 301-310.
- Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M., Spinhoven P. & Everaerd W. (2009), Psychophysiological responding to emotional memories in healthy young men after cortisol and propranolol administration, 203: 793-803.
- Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M., Spinhoven P. & Everaerd W. (2009), Immediate and prolonged effects of cortisol, but not propranolol, on memory retrieval in healthy young men, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 91: 23-31.
- Tollenaar M.S. (13 May 2009), Fading memories : the impact of stress hormones on the retrieval of emotional memories (Dissertatie. Clinical, Health and Neuropsychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Spinhoven P. & Everaerd W.T.A.M., Elzinga B.M.
- Oei N.Y.L., Tollenaar M.S., Spinhoven P. & Elzinga B.M. (2009), Hydrocortisone reduces emotional distracter interference in working memory, Psychoneuroendocrinology 34: 1284-1293.
- Elzinga B.M., Roelofs K., Tollenaar M.S., Bakvis P., Pelt J. van & Spinhoven P. (2008), Diminished cortisol responses to psychosocial stress associated with lifetime adverse events. A study among healthy young subjects, Psychoneuroendocrinology 33: 227-237.
- Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M., Spinhoven P. & Everaerd W. (2008), Long-term outcomes of memory retrieval under stress, Behavioral Neuroscience 122: 697-703.
- Tollenaar M.S., Elzinga B.M., Spinhoven P. & Everaerd W. (2008), The effects of cortisol on long-term memory retrieval during and after acute psychosocial stress, Acta Psychologica 127: 542-552.
- Nieuwkerk P.T., Tollenaar M.S., Oort F.J. & Sprangers M.A. (2007), Are retrospective measures of change in quality of life more valid than prospective measures?, Medical Care 45(3): 199-205.
- Stins J.F., Tollenaar M.S., Slaats-Willemse D.S., Buitelaar J.K., Swaab H., Verhulst F.C., Polderman T.C. & Boomsma D.I. (2005), Sustained attention and executive functioning performance in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section C, Child neuropsychology 11(3): 285-294.