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Overview

Boris Birmaher is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Speech and Hearing, and Social Psychology. The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

The body of scholarly work includes publications in a variety of notable venues. Frequent publication outlets consist of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Translational Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, The Lancet Psychiatry, and JAMA Network Open.

Recent papers by Boris Birmaher include:

  • Polygenic Scores and Onset of Major Mood or Psychotic Disorders Among Offspring of Affected Parents (2023) in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Emotional regulation neural circuitry abnormalities in adult bipolar disorder: dissociating effects of long-term depression history from relationships with present symptoms (2020) in Translational Psychiatry
  • Association between relative age at school and persistence of ADHD in prospective studies: an individual participant data meta-analysis (2023) in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Polygenic Scores and Mood Disorder Onsets in the Context of Family History and Early Psychopathology (2025) in JAMA Network Open
  • Predictors of Hospitalization in a Cohort of Children with Elevated Symptoms of Mania (2020) in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

Birmaher has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Danella Hafeman
  • Gabrielle Carlson
  • President-Elect Warren
  • Yuen Lam Dora Ng
  • Cathryn A. Galanter

Best Publications

  • Childhood and adolescent depression: a review of the past 10 years. Part I.

    Boris Birmaher;Neal D. Ryan;Douglas E. Williamson;David A. Brent

  • The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Scale Construction and Psychometric Characteristics

    Boris Birmaher;Suneeta Khetarpal;David Brent;Marlane Cully

  • Psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): a replication study.

    Boris Birmaher;David A. Brent;Laurel Chiappetta;Jeffrey Bridge

  • Clinical Response and Risk for Reported Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts in Pediatric Antidepressant Treatment: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

    Jeffrey A. Bridge;Satish Iyengar;Cheryl B. Salary;Rémy P. Barbe

  • Developmental traumatology part I: biological stress systems

    Michael D De Bellis;Andrew S Baum;Boris Birmaher;Matcheri S Keshavan

  • Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Depressive Disorders

    Boris Birmaher;David Brent;William Bernet;Oscar Bukstein

  • A clinical psychotherapy trial for adolescent depression comparing cognitive, family, and supportive therapy.

    David A. Brent;Diane Holder;David Kolko;Boris Birmaher

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2013.

    Lakshmi N. Yatham;Sidney H. Kennedy;Sagar V. Parikh;Ayal Schaffer

  • Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder: a review of the past 10 years, part II.

    Jeffrey D. Burke;Rolf Loeber;Boris Birmaher

  • Efficacy of paroxetine in the treatment of adolescent major depression: a randomized, controlled trial.

    Martin B. Keller;Neal D. Ryan;Michael Strober;Rachel G. Klein

  • Clinical Course of Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

    Boris Birmaher;David Axelson;Michael Strober;Mary Kay Gill

  • Amygdala Response to Fearful Faces in Anxious and Depressed Children

    Kathleen M. Thomas;Wayne C. Drevets;Wayne C. Drevets;Ronald E. Dahl;Neal D. Ryan

  • Altered Striatal Activation Predicting Real-World Positive Affect in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder

    Erika E. Forbes;Ahmad R. Hariri;B.A. Samantha L. Martin;Jennifer S. Silk

  • Unipolar depression in adolescents: clinical outcome in adulthood.

    Uma Rao;Neal D. Ryan;Boris Birmaher;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Phenomenology of children and adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders

    David A. Axelson;Boris Birmaher;Michael Strober;Mary Kay Gill

  • Recurrent Abdominal Pain, Anxiety, and Depression in Primary Care

    John V Campo;Jeff Bridge;Mary Ehmann;Sarah Altman

  • Four-year longitudinal course of children and adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders: the Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY) study.

    Boris Birmaher;David Axelson;Benjamin Goldstein;Michael Strober

  • Predictors of treatment efficacy in a clinical trial of three psychosocial treatments for adolescent depression.

    David A. Brent;David J. Kolko;Boris Birmaher;Marianne Baugher

  • Clinical outcome after short-term psychotherapy for adolescents with major depressive disorder.

    Boris Birmaher;David A. Brent;David Kolko;Marianne Baugher

  • Anhedonia Predicts Poorer Recovery among Youth with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Dana L. McMakin;Thomas M. Olino;Giovanna Porta;Laura J. Dietz

  • Familial pathways to early-onset suicide attempt: risk for suicidal behavior in offspring of mood-disordered suicide attempters.

    David A. Brent;Maria Oquendo;Boris Birmaher;Laurence Greenhill

Frequent Co-Authors

David Axelson
David Axelson The Ohio State University
Neal D. Ryan
Neal D. Ryan University of Pittsburgh
David A. Brent
David A. Brent University of Pittsburgh
Tina R. Goldstein
Tina R. Goldstein University of Pittsburgh
Mary Kay Gill
Mary Kay Gill University of Pittsburgh
Martin B. Keller
Martin B. Keller Brown University
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Michael Strober
Michael Strober University of California, Los Angeles
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Dara Sakolsky
Dara Sakolsky University of Pittsburgh

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