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Overview

Colleen Loo is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily resides at the intersection of medicine and neuroscience, focusing extensively on psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include the treatment of major depression, electroconvulsive therapy studies, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, functional brain connectivity studies, tryptophan and brain disorders, and bipolar disorder and its treatment.

Recent publications by Colleen Loo illustrate their research focus and collaborative nature. Notable papers include:

  • Intravenous arketamine for treatment-resistant depression: open-label pilot study (2020), European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation in depressive episodes (2020), Depression and Anxiety
  • An investigation of working memory deficits in depression using the n-back task: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021), Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), Brain Stimulation
  • Ketamine for the treatment of major depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023), EClinicalMedicine

Frequent coauthors include Donel Martin, Stevan Nikolin, Shanthi Sarma, Vanessa Dong, and Adriano H. Moffa.

The most common venues for Colleen Loo's publications comprise:

  • Brain Stimulation
  • Journal of Ect
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Biological Psychiatry

Their contributions span over 180 publications related to medicine and 116 in neuroscience. Within subfields, 81 publications address psychiatry and mental health, 60 relate to pharmacology, 58 to neurology, 46 to cognitive neuroscience, and 21 to experimental and cognitive psychology.

Best Publications

  • Efficacy and safety of transcranial magnetic stimulation in the acute treatment of major depression: A multisite randomized controlled trial.

    John P. O’Reardon;H. Brent Solvason;Philip G. Janicak;Shirlene Sampson

  • Safety of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Evidence Based Update 2016.

    Marom Bikson;Pnina Grossman;Chris Thomas;Adantchede Louis Zannou

  • Low intensity transcranial electric stimulation: Safety, ethical, legal regulatory and application guidelines

    A. Antal;Ivan Alekseichuk;M. Bikson;J. Brockmöller

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation for depression: 3-week, randomised, sham-controlled trial.

    Colleen K. Loo;Angelo Alonzo;Donel Martin;Philip B. Mitchell

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation for acute major depressive episodes: meta-analysis of individual patient data.

    André R. Brunoni;Adriano H. Moffa;Felipe Fregni;Ulrich Palm

  • Side-effects associated with ketamine use in depression: a systematic review

    Brooke Short;Brooke Short;Joanna Fong;Veronica Galvez;Veronica Galvez;William Shelker

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation in the treatment of major depression: a meta-analysis.

    U G Kalu;C E Sexton;C K Loo;K P Ebmeier

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in controlled treatment studies: are some "sham" forms active?

    Colleen K Loo;Janet L Taylor;Janet L Taylor;Simon C Gandevia;Simon C Gandevia;Benjamin N McDarmont

  • A review of the efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatment for depression, and current and future strategies to optimize efficacy

    Colleen K. Loo;Philip B. Mitchell

  • A double-blind, sham-controlled trial of transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of depression.

    Colleen K. Loo;Perminder Sachdev;Donel Martin;Melissa Pigot

  • Double-Blind Controlled Investigation of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Resistant Major Depression

    Colleen Loo;Philip Mitchell;Perminder Sachdev;Benjamin McDarmont

  • Regulatory considerations for the clinical and research use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): Review and recommendations from an expert panel

    F. Fregni;M. A. Nitsche;C. K. Loo;A. R. Brunoni

  • Use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to enhance cognitive training: effect of timing of stimulation.

    Donel M. Martin;Rose Liu;Angelo Alonzo;Melissa Green

  • A review of the safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as a clinical treatment for depression

    Colleen K. Loo;Colleen K. Loo;Colleen K. Loo;Tara F. McFarquhar;Tara F. McFarquhar;Philip B. Mitchell;Philip B. Mitchell

  • Effects of Low-Dose and Very Low-Dose Ketamine among Patients with Major Depression: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Ying Xu;Maree Hackett;Gregory Carter;Colleen Loo

  • Can transcranial direct current stimulation enhance outcomes from cognitive training? A randomized controlled trial in healthy participants.

    Donel M. Martin;Rose Liu;Angelo Alonzo;Angelo Alonzo;Melissa Green

  • Daily transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) leads to greater increases in cortical excitability than second daily transcranial direct current stimulation.

    Angelo Alonzo;Joseph Brassil;Janet L. Taylor;Donel Martin

  • Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Response to Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) at Varying Current Intensities

    Taariq Chew;Taariq Chew;Kerrie-Anne Ho;Kerrie-Anne Ho;Colleen K. Loo;Colleen K. Loo;Colleen K. Loo

  • Placebo-controlled pilot trial testing dose titration and intravenous, intramuscular and subcutaneous routes for ketamine in depression

    C. K. Loo;V. Gálvez;V. Gálvez;E. O'Keefe;P. B. Mitchell;P. B. Mitchell

  • Intravenous arketamine for treatment-resistant depression: open-label pilot study

    Gustavo C Leal;Igor D Bandeira;Fernanda S Correia-Melo;Manuela Telles

Frequent Co-Authors

Donel Martin
Donel Martin University of New South Wales
Philip B. Mitchell
Philip B. Mitchell University of New South Wales
Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic
Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic University of New South Wales
Perminder S. Sachdev
Perminder S. Sachdev University of New South Wales
Janet L. Taylor
Janet L. Taylor Edith Cowan University
Tjeerd W. Boonstra
Tjeerd W. Boonstra Maastricht University
Andre R. Brunoni
Andre R. Brunoni Universidade de São Paulo
Gin S Malhi
Gin S Malhi University of Sydney
Cynthia Shannon Weickert
Cynthia Shannon Weickert University of New South Wales
Shawn M. McClintock
Shawn M. McClintock The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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