Psychological Medicine

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychological Medicine is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns: a review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies and natural experiments484
Health-protective behaviour, social media usage and conspiracy belief during the COVID-19 public health emergency463
Posttraumatic stress symptoms and attitude toward crisis mental health services among clinically stable patients with COVID-19 in China433
Emotional distress in young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence of risk and resilience from a longitudinal cohort study431
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: the Oxford coronavirus explanations, attitudes, and narratives survey (Oceans) II430
Longitudinal changes in mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study341
Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, mistrust, and compliance with government guidelines in England320
Increases in depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic308
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is associated with beliefs on the origin of the novel coronavirus in the UK and Turkey228
PTSD as the second tsunami of the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic165
Trust in government regarding COVID-19 and its associations with preventive health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the pandemic: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study154
Coronavirus conspiracy suspicions, general vaccine attitudes, trust and coronavirus information source as predictors of vaccine hesitancy among UK residents during the COVID-19 pandemic148
A repeated cross-sectional survey assessing university students' stress, depression, anxiety, and suicidality in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland146
Comparative meta-analyses of brain structural and functional abnormalities during cognitive control in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder130
Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation on cognitive functioning in brain disorders: a meta-analysis130
Psychological distress among health professional students during the COVID-19 outbreak123
The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-related stressors among adults in the UK105
Autonomic dysfunction in posttraumatic stress disorder indexed by heart rate variability: a meta-analysis103
Evaluating the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: perceived risk of COVID-19 infection and childhood trauma predict adult depressive symptoms in urban South Africa97
Immediate and delayed psychological effects of province-wide lockdown and personal quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak in China95
Psychological distress in patients with serious mental illness during the COVID-19 outbreak and one-month mass quarantine in Italy95
Mental health characteristics associated with dysfunctional coronavirus anxiety82
Dimensions over categories: a meta-analysis of taxometric research81
Refuting the myth of a ‘tsunami’ of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous80
Injection fears and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy80
COVID-19 psychological impact in 3109 healthcare workers in Spain: The PSIMCOV group79
Mental health impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Spanish healthcare workers77
Investigating the effect of national government physical distancing measures on depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic through meta-analysis and meta-regression74
Genetic architecture of schizophrenia: a review of major advancements72
Social relationships and depression during the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analysis of the COVID-19 Social Study68
Causal inference with observational data: the need for triangulation of evidence68
Social isolation, rather than loneliness, is associated with cognitive decline in older adults: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study68
Understanding different trajectories of mental health across the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic64
Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis64
Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy for adolescent self-harm and suicidal ideation: a systematic review and meta-analysis63
Genetic contributions to autism spectrum disorder63
The genetic basis of major depression63
Genetics of substance use disorders: a review60
Continuum beliefs and mental illness stigma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlation and intervention studies59
Changes in telepsychiatry regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic: 17 countries and regions' approaches to an evolving healthcare landscape56
ADHD and depression: investigating a causal explanation56
Alterations in neural circuits underlying emotion regulation following child maltreatment: a mechanism underlying trauma-related psychopathology54
Looking beyond depression: a meta-analysis of the effect of behavioral activation on depression, anxiety, and activation54
Knowing me, knowing you: theory of mind in AI53
Urgent need to develop evidence-based self-help interventions for mental health of healthcare workers in COVID-19 pandemic52
A systematic review on mediators between adversity and psychosis: potential targets for treatment51
Childhood adversity and psychosis: a systematic review of bio-psycho-social mediators and moderators50
Impact of guidance on intervention adherence in computerised interventions for mental health problems: a meta-analysis50
Social disadvantage, linguistic distance, ethnic minority status and first-episode psychosis: results from the EU-GEI case–control study48
How much change is enough? Evidence from a longitudinal study on depression in UK primary care47
Non-suicidal self-injury among first-year college students and its association with mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative46
Mental health services for infectious disease outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review44
Preventing depression using a smartphone app: a randomized controlled trial44
Anxiety in asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis44
The psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on medical staff in Guangdong, China: a cross-sectional study43
Local dynamic spontaneous brain activity changes in first-episode, treatment-naïve patients with major depressive disorder and their associated gene expression profiles43
Academic achievement and schizophrenia: a systematic meta-analysis43
Cognitive remediation for inpatients with psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis43
Two decades of digital interventions for anxiety disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of treatment effectiveness43
Does the unified protocol really change neuroticism? Results from a randomized trial42
Understanding urbanicity: how interdisciplinary methods help to unravel the effects of the city on mental health42
The evidence for cognitive behavioural therapy in any condition, population or context: a meta-review of systematic reviews and panoramic meta-analysis42
Agreeing to disagree: reports of the popularity of Covid-19 conspiracy theories are greatly exaggerated41
Genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder40
Online psychological interventions to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and general distress in those with chronic health conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controll39
Genetic correlation, pleiotropy, and causal associations between substance use and psychiatric disorder38
Posttraumatic stress disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder in UK police officers38
How does the COVID-19 pandemic impact on population mental health? A network analysis of COVID influences on depression, anxiety and traumatic stress in the UK population38
Impulsivity, decision-making and risk-taking behaviour in bipolar disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis38
Somatic symptom disorder: a scoping review on the empirical evidence of a new diagnosis38
Enhanced cognitive-behavior therapy and family-based treatment for adolescents with an eating disorder: a non-randomized effectiveness trial38
The effectiveness of psychological interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder in children, adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis38
Towards a definitive symptom structure of obsessive−compulsive disorder: a factor and network analysis of 87 distinct symptoms in 1366 individuals38
What is a mental disorder? An exemplar-focused approach38
Machine learning in the prediction of depression treatment outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis37
Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts: associations with sleep duration, insomnia, and inflammation37
Role of the gut microbiome in three major psychiatric disorders37
Maternal mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown in China, Italy, and the Netherlands: a cross-validation study36
Deep learning-based classification of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression following trauma utilizing visual and auditory markers of arousal and mood36
Brain imaging in catatonia: systematic review and directions for future research35
Looking inside the ‘black box’ of vaccine hesitancy: unlocking the effect of psychological attitudes and beliefs on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and implications for public health communication35
Prevalence and risk factors of psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the ELSA-Brasil COVID-19 mental health cohort35
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research35
Evaluation of bi-directional causal association between depression and cardiovascular diseases: a Mendelian randomization study35
Can metacognitive interventions improve insight in schizophrenia spectrum disorders? A systematic review and meta-analysis35
Daily use of high-potency cannabis is associated with more positive symptoms in first-episode psychosis patients: the EU-GEI case–control study35
Genetic contributions to bipolar disorder: current status and future directions34
Effectiveness of cognitive remediation in depression: a meta-analysis34
Meta-analysis of structural evidence for the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) model34
Overgeneral and specific autobiographical memory predict the course of depression: an updated meta-analysis34
Are adult stressful life events associated with psychotic relapse? A systematic review of 23 studies34
Mental health disorders and alcohol misuse among UK military veterans and the general population: a comparison study33
Progressive brain structural abnormality in depression assessed with MR imaging by using causal network analysis33
Post-acute psychological effects of classical serotonergic psychedelics: a systematic review and meta-analysis32
Clinical research challenges posed by difficult-to-treat depression32
Perceived ethnic discrimination as a risk factor for psychotic symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis31
Schema therapy for violent PD offenders: a randomized clinical trial31
Should euthanasia and assisted suicide for psychiatric disorders be permitted? A systematic review of reasons31
Secular trends in the incidence of eating disorders in China from 1990 to 2017: a joinpoint and age–period–cohort analysis31
Affect fluctuations examined with ecological momentary assessment in patients with current or remitted depression and anxiety disorders31
Psychological distress from early adulthood to early old age: evidence from the 1946, 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts30
Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs in the German-speaking general population: endorsement rates and links to reasoning biases and paranoia30
Meta-analysis of neurocognitive deficits in unaffected relatives of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): comparison with healthy controls and patients with OCD30
Genetic contributions to suicidal thoughts and behaviors29
Suicide rates among people with serious mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis29
Stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic are associated with elevated depression and anxiety in younger, but not older adults: results from a nationwide community sample of adults from Germany28
Preventive interventions in offspring of parents with mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials28
The problems with delay discounting: a critical review of current practices and clinical applications28
Computing schizophrenia: ethical challenges for machine learning in psychiatry28
Measures of adult psychological resilience following early-life adversity: how congruent are different measures?28
Conspiracy beliefs prospectively predict health behavior and well-being during a pandemic28
Efficacy of a transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral intervention for eating disorder psychopathology delivered through a smartphone app: a randomized controlled trial28
Alexithymia in autism: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with social-communication difficulties, anxiety and depression symptoms28
Depressed mood and anxiety as risk factors for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis27
Using Mendelian randomization analysis to better understand the relationship between mental health and substance use: a systematic review27
Psychotic experiences in the general population, a review; definition, risk factors, outcomes and interventions27
Compressed sensorimotor-to-transmodal hierarchical organization in schizophrenia27
Pregnancy during the pandemic: the impact of COVID-19-related stress on risk for prenatal depression27
Digital mental health in China: a systematic review26
The predictive power of expressed emotion and its components in relapse of schizophrenia: a meta-analysis and meta-regression26
American psychiatry in the new millennium: a critical appraisal26
The contribution of depressive ‘disorder characteristics’ to determinations of prognosis for adults with depression: an individual patient data meta-analysis26
Causal relationships between blood lipids and depression phenotypes: a Mendelian randomisation analysis26
Tackling the mental health burden of frontline healthcare staff in the COVID-19 pandemic: China's experiences26
Autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes: a systematic literature review resulting in 145 cases26
Genetic contributions to anxiety disorders: where we are and where we are heading25
Efficacy of bio- and neurofeedback for depression: a meta-analysis25
Jumping to conclusions, general intelligence, and psychosis liability: findings from the multi-centre EU-GEI case-control study25
Targeting binge eating in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder using inhibitory control training and implementation intentions: a feasibility trial25
Depression with atypical neurovegetative symptoms shares genetic predisposition with immuno-metabolic traits and alcohol consumption25
A randomized trial shows dose-frequency and genotype may determine the therapeutic efficacy of intranasal oxytocin25
Sub-regional anterior cingulate cortex functional connectivity revealed default network subsystem dysfunction in patients with major depressive disorder25
Mental health burden of frontline health professionals treating imported patients with COVID-19 in China during the pandemic24
Translating the promise of 5HT4 receptor agonists for the treatment of depression24
Harnessing distress to boost growth in frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic: the protective role of resilience, emotion regulation and social support24
Reliability of the NIH toolbox cognitive battery in children and adolescents: a 3-year longitudinal examination24
Mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in U.S. military veterans: a population-based, prospective cohort study24
Efficacy of internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for severe health anxiety: results from a randomized, controlled trial24
The epidemiology of non-suicidal self-injury: lifetime prevalence, sociodemographic and clinical correlates, and treatment use in a nationally representative sample of adults in England24
Effective incentives for increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake24
Trajectories of suicide attempts from early adolescence to emerging adulthood: prospective 11-year follow-up of a Canadian cohort24
The network structure of core depressive symptom-domains in major depressive disorder following antidepressant treatment: a randomized clinical trial23
Meta-analyzing the prevalence and prognostic effect of antipsychotic exposure in clinical high-risk (CHR): when things are not what they seem23
The silent danger of social distancing23
Long-term outcomes of psychological treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis23
Metabolic syndrome in antipsychotic-naïve patients with first-episode psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis23
Changes in mental health and help-seeking among young Australian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study23
Antipsychotic medication for women with schizophrenia spectrum disorders23
Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale Screen Version: initial screening for suicide risk in a psychiatric emergency department23
A network analysis of post-traumatic stress and psychosis symptoms23
Prevalence of muscle dysmorphia in adolescents: findings from the EveryBODY study22
Early adult mental health, functional and neuropsychological outcomes of young people who have reported psychotic experiences: a 10-year longitudinal study22
Sleep disturbance mediates the link between childhood trauma and clinical outcome in severe mental disorders22
Pandemic trajectories of depressive and anxiety symptoms and their predictors: five-wave study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland22
Characteristics of disrupted topological organization in white matter functional connectome in schizophrenia22
Migration and dementia: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies in Europe22
PTSD and complex PTSD in sentenced male prisoners in the UK: prevalence, trauma antecedents, and psychiatric comorbidities21
The role of lifetime stressors in adult fibromyalgia: systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies21
Childhood trauma is associated with reduced frontal gray matter volume: a large transdiagnostic structural MRI study21
Meta-analysis of virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder21
A meta-analysis of the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and depression in adolescence and young adulthood21
Adolescent social networks matter for suicidal trajectories: disparities across race/ethnicity, sex, sexual identity, and socioeconomic status21
Multimodal meta-analysis of structural gray matter, neurocognitive and social cognitive fMRI findings in schizophrenia patients21
Serotonin and early life stress interact to shape brain architecture and anxious avoidant behavior – a TPH2 imaging genetics approach21
Restrictive eating across a spectrum from healthy to unhealthy: behavioral and neural mechanisms21
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns on the consumption of anxiolytics, hypnotics and antidepressants according to age groups: a French nationwide study21
Executive functions in youths with autism spectrum disorder and their unaffected siblings21
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with cognitive training in adolescent boys with ADHD: a double-blind, randomised, sham-controlled trial21
Variations by ethnicity in referral and treatment pathways for IAPT service users in South London21
Sexual symptoms in post-traumatic stress disorder following childhood sexual abuse: a network analysis20
Cannabis use and posttraumatic stress disorder: prospective evidence from a longitudinal study of veterans20
Acceptability of cognitive remediation for schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials20
Attempted suicide rates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: interrupted time series analysis of a nationally representative sample20
Differentiated nomological networks of internalizing, externalizing, and the general factor of psychopathology (‘p factor’) in emerging adolescence in the ABCD study20
Prospective associations between vitamin D and depression in middle-aged adults: findings from the UK Biobank cohort20
Mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies: neuropsychiatric supportive symptoms and cognitive profile20
Mood sensitivity to estradiol predicts depressive symptoms in the menopause transition20
Demographic and clinical variables associated with response to clozapine in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis20
Differences in psychiatric care utilization between refugees, non-refugee migrants and Swedish-born youth20
Shared and specific patterns of dynamic functional connectivity variability of striato-cortical circuitry in unmedicated bipolar and major depressive disorders20
The impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on mental health in general population in different areas in China20
Patterns of care and dropout rates from outpatient mental healthcare in low-, middle- and high-income countries from the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative19
Context and contact: a comparison of patient and family engagement with early intervention services for psychosis in India and Canada19
A randomized trial of aerobic exercise for major depression: examining neural indicators of reward and cognitive control as predictors and treatment targets19
Relationships between childhood trauma and perceived stress in the general population: a network perspective19
Within-person increase in pathological worry predicts future depletion of unique executive functioning domains19
Autistic traits in psychotic disorders: prevalence, familial risk, and impact on social functioning19
Prevalence of harm in mindfulness-based stress reduction19
Migration history and risk of psychosis: results from the multinational EU-GEI study19
Differentiating the abnormalities of social and monetary reward processing associated with depressive symptoms18
A lack of perceived benefits and a gap in knowledge distinguish the vaccine hesitant from vaccine accepting during the COVID-19 pandemic18
Migrant status and risk of compulsory admission at first diagnosis of psychotic disorder: a population-based cohort study in Sweden18
Group transdiagnostic cognitive-behavior therapy for anxiety disorders: a pragmatic randomized clinical trial18
Predictors of suicide attempt in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: an exploratory study with machine learning analysis18
Neurodevelopmental disorders among Spanish school-age children: prevalence and sociodemographic correlates18
Genetic liability to schizophrenia is associated with exposure to traumatic events in childhood18
Social and occupational recovery in early psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions18
Psychological treatment of perinatal depression: a meta-analysis18
Study quality and efficacy of psychological interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials18
LSD, madness and healing: Mystical experiences as possible link between psychosis model and therapy model18
Health-protective behaviour, social media usage and conspiracy belief during the COVID-19 public health emergency – CORRIGENDUM18
A mechanistic model for individualised treatment of anxiety disorders based on predictive neural biomarkers18
Psychiatric comorbidity as predictor and moderator of binge-eating disorder treatment outcomes: an analysis of aggregated randomized controlled trials18
Prevalence of the dissociative subtype of post-traumatic stress disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis18
Association between genetic and socioenvironmental risk for schizophrenia during upbringing in a UK longitudinal cohort17
Trajectories of functioning in a population-based sample of veterans: contributions of moral injury, PTSD, and depression17
The economic cost of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder: a population-based study17
Changes in peripheral blood compounds following psychopharmacological treatment in drug-naïve first-episode patients with either schizophrenia or major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis17
Changes in visual memory in mild cognitive impairment: a longitudinal study with CANTAB17
Psychological and demographic characteristics of 368 patients with dissociative seizures: data from the CODES cohort17
Self-compassion and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activity during sad self-face recognition in depressed adolescents17
The long-term course of cognition in bipolar disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of patient-control differences in test-score changes17
Psychosocial working conditions and the risk of diagnosed depression: a Swedish register-based study17
Risk-thresholds for the association between frequency of cannabis use and the development of psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis17
Unit cohesion during deployment and post-deployment mental health: is cohesion an individual- or unit-level buffer for combat-exposed soldiers?17
Interventions for mental health, cognition, and psychological wellbeing in long COVID: a systematic review of registered trials17
Why was early therapeutic research on psychedelic drugs abandoned?17
Effect of managed transition on mental health outcomes for young people at the child–adult mental health service boundary: a randomised clinical trial17
Insights into attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder from recent genetic studies17
Transdiagnostic group cognitive behavioural therapy for emotional disorders in primary care: the results of the PsicAP randomized controlled trial17
Prospective relationships of adolescents’ screen-based sedentary behaviour with depressive symptoms: the Millennium Cohort Study17
The death-implicit association test and suicide attempts: a systematic review and meta-analysis of discriminative and prospective utility17
It is not enough to sing its praises: the very foundations of precision psychiatry may be scientifically unsound and require examination16
Psychosocial factors that distinguish between men and women who have suicidal thoughts and attempt suicide: findings from a national probability sample of adults16
Altered brain structural and functional connectivity in schizotypy16
Mentalization-based treatment for psychotic disorder: a rater-blinded, multi-center, randomized controlled trial16
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and amygdala function during cognitive reappraisal predicts weight restoration and emotion regulation impairment in anorexia nervosa16
Altered neural activities during response inhibition in adults with addiction: a voxel-wise meta-analysis16
Genetics of eating disorders in the genome-wide era16
Global imperative to combat stigma associated with the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic16
Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation boosts mood recovery after effort exertion16
Recurrence rates in stable bipolar disorder patients after drug discontinuation v. drug maintenance: a systematic review and meta-analysis16
A randomized controlled trial of cognitive remediation and long-acting injectable risperidone after a first episode of schizophrenia: improving cognition and work/school functioning15
Non-presentation at hospital following a suicide attempt: a national survey15
Socio-economic functioning in patients with bipolar disorder and their unaffected siblings – results from a nation-wide population-based longitudinal study15
Adjunctive bright light treatment with gradual advance in unipolar major depressive disorder with evening chronotype – A randomized controlled trial15
General v. specific vulnerabilities: polygenic risk scores and higher-order psychopathology dimensions in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study15
Risk for midlife psychosis in women: critical gaps and opportunities in exploring perimenopause and ovarian hormones as mechanisms of risk15
A meta-analysis of theory of mind and ‘mentalization’ in borderline personality disorder: a true neuro-social-cognitive or meta-social-cognitive impairment?15
Twenty-year effects of antipsychotics in schizophrenia and affective psychotic disorders15
Transdiagnostic dimensions in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms15
Longitudinal changes in within-salience network functional connectivity mediate the relationship between childhood abuse and neglect, and mental health during adolescence15
Reappraisal-related neural predictors of treatment response to cognitive behavior therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder15
Comparing psychotic experiences in low-and-middle-income-countries and high-income-countries with a focus on measurement invariance15
Toward measuring effective treatment coverage: critical bottlenecks in quality- and user-adjusted coverage for major depressive disorder15
Modulation of the functional connectome in major depressive disorder by ketamine therapy15
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement remediates anhedonia in chronic opioid use by enhancing neurophysiological responses during savoring of natural rewards15
Generational differences in loneliness and its psychological and sociodemographic predictors: an exploratory and confirmatory machine learning study15
How do ethnicity and deprivation impact on life expectancy at birth in people with serious mental illness? Observational study in the UK15
EEG Power spectra and subcortical pathology in chronic disorders of consciousness15
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