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Overview

Charles F. Reynolds is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and psychology. Their work primarily focuses on the treatment of major depression, grief and bereavement, mental health research topics, tryptophan and brain disorders, dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, and health disparities and outcomes.

The main fields of study for Reynolds include Medicine with 135 publications and Psychology with 122 publications. Within these broader fields, notable subfields of study include Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Pharmacology.

Reynolds frequently publishes in several key venues, reflecting a concentration in geriatric psychiatry and mental health. These include:

  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (44 publications)
  • International Psychogeriatrics (8 publications)
  • JAMA Psychiatry (6 publications)
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (5 publications)
  • Biological Psychiatry (5 publications)

Their recent papers demonstrate a consistent focus on mental health issues affecting older adults as well as broader mental health challenges. Some of these publications are:

  • Mental health care for older adults: recent advances and new directions in clinical practice and research (2022, World Psychiatry)
  • The handbook of mental health and aging (2020, Applied Neuropsychology Adult)

Other relevant papers by Reynolds's co-authors and associated research topics include:

  • Older Adults and the Mental Health Effects of COVID-19 (2020, JAMA)
  • COVID-19, Mental Health and Aging: A Need for New Knowledge to Bridge Science and Service (2020, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)
  • Effect of Long-term Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Risk of Depression or Clinically Relevant Depressive Symptoms and on Change in Mood Scores (2020, JAMA)

The scientist collaborates frequently with co-authors including Jordan F. Karp, Eric J. Lenze, Benoit H. Mulsant, Daniel M. Blumberger, and Helen Lavretsky, with collaboration counts ranging from 28 to 50 papers each. These partnerships likely contribute to the breadth and depth of the research produced.

Best Publications

  • The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research.

    Daniel J. Buysse;Charles F. Reynolds;Timothy H. Monk;Susan R. Berman

  • Rating chronic medical illness burden in geropsychiatric practice and research: Application of the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale

    Mark D. Miller;Cynthia F. Paradis;Patricia R. Houck;Sati Mazumdar

  • Inventory of Complicated Grief: A scale to measure maladaptive symptoms of loss

    Holly G. Prigerson;Paul K. Maciejewski;Charles F. Reynolds;Andrew J. Bierhals

  • Treatment of complicated grief: a randomized controlled trial

    Katherine Shear;Ellen Frank;Patricia R. Houck;Charles F. Reynolds

  • Complicated grief and related bereavement issues for DSM‐5

    M. Katherine Shear;Naomi Simon;Melanie Wall;Sidney Zisook

  • Late-life depression and risk of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based cohort studies

    Breno S. Diniz;Meryl A. Butters;Steven M. Albert;Mary Amanda Dew

  • Reducing Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed Older Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Martha L. Bruce;Thomas R. Ten Have;Charles F. Reynolds;Ira I. Katz

  • Quantification of subjective sleep quality in healthy elderly men and women using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

    Daniel J. Buysse;Charles F. Reynolds;Timothy H. Monk;Carolyn C. Hoch

  • Traumatic grief as a risk factor for mental and physical morbidity.

    Holly G. Prigerson;Andrew J. Bierhals;Stanislav V. Kasl;Charles F. Reynolds

  • Complicated grief and bereavement-related depression as distinct disorders : preliminary empirical validation in elderly bereaved spouses

    Holly G. Prigerson;Ellen Frank;Stanislav V. Kasl;Charles F. Reynolds

  • Sleep and mental disorders: A meta-analysis of polysomnographic research.

    Chiara Baglioni;Svetoslava Nanovska;Wolfram Regen;Kai Spiegelhalder

  • Confronting depression and suicide in physicians: a consensus statement.

    Miriam Davis;Thomas Detre;Daniel E. Ford

  • Treatment of major depression with psychotherapy or psychotherapy-pharmacotherapy combinations.

    Michael E. Thase;Joel B. Greenhouse;Ellen Frank;Charles F. Reynolds

  • The association of late-life depression and anxiety with physical disability: a review of the literature and prospectus for future research.

    Eric J. Lenze;Joan C. Rogers;Lynn M. Martire;Benoit H. Mulsant

  • The nature and determinants of neuropsychological functioning in late-life depression.

    Meryl A. Butters;Ellen M. Whyte;Robert D. Nebes;Amy E. Begley

  • Consensus Statement on the Upcoming Crisis in Geriatric Mental Health: Research Agenda for the Next 2 Decades

    Dilip V. Jeste;George S. Alexopoulos;Stephen J. Bartels;Jeffrey L. Cummings

  • Healthy older adults' sleep predicts all-cause mortality at 4 to 19 years of follow-up.

    Mary Amanda Dew;Carolyn C. Hoch;Daniel J. Buysse;Timothy H. Monk

  • The Pittsburgh Sleep Diary

    Timothy H. Monk;Charles F. Reynolds;David J. Kupfer;Daniel J. Buysse

  • Sleep research in affective illness: state of the art circa 1987.

    Charles F. Reynolds;David J. Kupfer

  • Serotonin in aging, late-life depression, and alzheimer's disease : The emerging role of functional imaging

    Carolyn Cidis Meltzer;Gwenn Smith;Steven T. Dekosky;Bruce G. Pollock

Frequent Co-Authors

Benoit H. Mulsant
Benoit H. Mulsant Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
David J. Kupfer
David J. Kupfer University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Patricia R. Houck
Patricia R. Houck University of Pittsburgh
Mary Amanda Dew
Mary Amanda Dew University of Pittsburgh
Meryl A. Butters
Meryl A. Butters University of Pittsburgh
Bruce G. Pollock
Bruce G. Pollock University of Toronto
Ellen Frank
Ellen Frank University of Pittsburgh
Daniel J. Buysse
Daniel J. Buysse University of Pittsburgh
Howard J. Aizenstein
Howard J. Aizenstein University of Pittsburgh
M. Katherine Shear
M. Katherine Shear Columbia University

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