A5025220855- Mental Health Research Topics
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
University of Pennsylvania
2021-2024
Long Island University
2024
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2024
University of Maryland, Baltimore
2024
Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
2024
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2014-2019
Amsterdam Public Health
2014-2018
University of Washington
2017
Columbia University
2017
Massachusetts General Hospital
2017
Aims The standardised mean difference (SMD) is one of the most used effect sizes to indicate effects treatments. It indicates between a treatment and comparison group after has ended, in terms standard deviations. Some meta-analyses, including several highly cited influential ones, use pre-post SMD, indicating baseline post-test within (treatment group). Methods In this paper, we argue that these SMDs should be avoided meta-analyses describe arguments why can result biased outcomes. Results...
A recent individual patient data meta‐analysis showed that antidepressant medication is slightly more efficacious than cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in reducing overall depression severity patients with a DSM‐defined depressive disorder. We used an update of dataset, based on seventeen randomized clinical trials, to examine the comparative efficacy vs. CBT detail by focusing symptoms as assessed 17‐item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression. Five (i.e., “depressed mood” , “feelings...
Introduction There are many proven treatments (psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy or their combination) for the treatment of depression. Although there is growing evidence effectiveness combination (psychotherapy + pharmacotherapy) over alone, psychotherapy alone plus pill placebo, depression, little known about which specific groups patients may respond best to combined versus monotherapy. Conventional meta-analyses techniques have limitations when tasked with examining whether individual...
Introduction Despite important advances in psychological and pharmacological treatments of persistent depressive disorders the past decades, their responses remain typically slow poor, differential among different modalities or combinations are not well understood. Cognitive-Behavioural Analysis System Psychotherapy (CBASP) is only psychotherapy that has been specifically designed for chronic depression examined an increasing number trials against medications, alone combination. When several...
Several efficacious psychological and pharmacological treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are available; however, the comparative effectiveness of these represents a major gap in literature. The proposed study will compare two leading PTSD – Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy pharmacotherapy with paroxetine or venlafaxine extended release as well combination PE medication. In randomized clinical trial, veterans (N = 450) recruited across six Veterans Affairs Medical Centers...