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8957
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology
  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Brendan A. Maher was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and contributed to several research areas predominantly within health sciences. Their work included topics such as adolescent sexual and reproductive health, gender roles and identity studies, intimate partner and family violence, and multiple aspects of cardiovascular and surgical outcomes.

Their research spanned multiple subfields of study, including general health professions, surgery, gender studies, health, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. This interdisciplinary focus reflected a broad engagement with health-related topics from clinical outcomes to social and gendered dimensions of health.

Maher authored multiple articles published in well-known venues. These included:

  • Men building better relationships: A scoping review, 2021, Health Promotion Journal of Australia
  • The epidemiology of Medical Emergency Team calls for orthopedic patients in a teaching hospital: A retrospective cohort study, 2020, Resuscitation
  • Malaria fighter: this researcher paved the way for a game-changing vaccine, 2023, Nature
  • All-nighter: staying up to fight malaria, 2021, Nature
  • How genetics unmasked the Golden State Killer - and the uncomfortable ethical aftermath, 2023, Nature

The frequent publication venues for Maher included Nature, the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Resuscitation, and BMC Psychology.

Coauthors who frequently collaborated with Maher comprised Donia Javidi, John L. Oliffe, Mary T. Kelly, Gabriela Gonzalez Montaner, and Zac E. Seidler, reflecting a varied network across related fields of study.

Core topics addressed in Maher's research involved:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations

Maher was recognized with the Joseph Zubin Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology in 1998 and was also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as of 1970.

Best Publications

  • Progress in experimental personality research

    Winifred B. Maher;Brendan A. Maher

  • Delusional thinking and perceptual disorder.

    Brendan A. Maher

  • Research-doctorate programs in the United States: continuity and change

    Marvin L. Goldberger;Brendan A. Maher;Pamela Ebert Flattau

  • Anomalous experience and delusional thinking: The logic of explanations.

    Brendan A. Maher

  • Semantic priming in thought disordered schizophrenic patients

    Theo C. Manschreck;Brendan A. Maher;James J. Milavetz;Donna Ames

  • The language of schizophrenia: a review and interpretation

    Brendan Maher

  • Semantic and phonological priming in schizophrenia

    Manfred Spitzer;Ingo Weisker;Magdalena Winter;Sabine Maier

  • Disturbed voluntary motor activity in schizophrenic disorder

    Theo C. Manschreck;Brendan A. Maher;Mary E. Rucklos;Donald R. Vereen

  • Formal thought disorder, the type-token ratio and disturbed voluntary motor movement in schizophrenia.

    Theo C. Manschreck;Brendan A. Maher;Deborah N. Ader

  • Contextual constraint and the recall of verbal material in schizophrenia: the effect of thought disorder.

    Brendan A. Maher;Theo C. Manschreck;Mary E. Rucklos

  • Indirect semantic priming in schizophrenic patients

    Manfred Spitzer;Ursula Braun;Sabine Maier;Leo Hermle

  • Episodic chasing in pathological gamblers using the Iowa gambling task

    Jakob Linnet;Steffen Rojskjaer;Jorgen Nygaard;Brendan Arnold Maher

  • A reader's, writer's, and reviewer's guide to assessing research reports in clinical psychology.

    Brendan A. Maher

  • The predictability of thought disordered speech in schizophrenic patients.

    Theo C. Manschreck;Brendan A. Maher;Mary E. Rucklos;Mitzi T. White

  • The relationship between delusions and hallucinations

    Brendan A. Maher

  • Is amenorrhea a critical criterion for anorexia nervosa

    Fary M. Cachelin;Brendan A. Maher

  • Artifact in the "essence of hypnosis": an evaluation of trance logic

    Richard F. Johnson;Brendan A. Maher;Theodore X. Barber

  • Frontal brain volume and context effects in short-term recall in schizophrenia

    Brendan A. Maher;Theo C. Manschreck;Bryan T. Woods;Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd

  • Delusions: Contemporary Etiological Hypotheses

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  • A longitudinal study of the genetics of personality.

    Robert H. Dworkin;Barbara W. Burke;Brendan A. Maher;Irving I. Gottesman

  • Deficient motor synchrony in schizophrenia.

    Theo C. Manschreck;Brendan A. Maher;Mary E. Rucklos;Donald R. Veneer Jr.

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd
Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd University of Utah
Irving I. Gottesman
Irving I. Gottesman University of Minnesota
Mark F. Lenzenweger
Mark F. Lenzenweger Binghamton University
Ann E. Pulver
Ann E. Pulver Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Theodore Xenophon Barber
Theodore Xenophon Barber Harvard University
Jill M. Hooley
Jill M. Hooley Harvard University
Niels G. Waller
Niels G. Waller University of Minnesota
Patricia J. Deldin
Patricia J. Deldin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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