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David Kessler is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, focusing notably on mental health and clinical psychology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, the subfields they have extensively contributed to are:

  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • General Health Professions

The primary research topics covered by David Kessler involve:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health, Psychology, and Well-being
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment

The scientist has published in various well-known journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • British Journal of General Practice
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • BJPsych Advances

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Maintenance or Discontinuation of Antidepressants in Primary Care," 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Evidence-based consensus guidelines for the management of catatonia: Recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology," 2023, Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • "How much change is enough? Evidence from a longitudinal study on depression in UK primary care," 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • "Gone Too Soon: priorities for action to prevent premature mortality associated with mental illness and mental distress," 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Role of age, gender and marital status in prognosis for adults with depression: An individual patient data meta-analysis," 2021, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

David Kessler has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Nicola Wiles
  • Glyn Lewis
  • Simon Gilbody
  • Tony Kendrick
  • Katrina Turner

Best Publications

  • Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Network Meta-analysis.

    Eirini Karyotaki;Eirini Karyotaki;Eirini Karyotaki;Orestis Efthimiou;Orestis Efthimiou;Clara Miguel;Clara Miguel;Frederic Maas Genannt Bermpohl

  • Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Compared With Maintenance Antidepressant Treatment in the Prevention of Depressive Relapse or Recurrence (PREVENT): A Randomised Controlled Trial

    Willem Kuyken;Willem Kuyken;Rachel Hayes;Barbara Barrett;Richard Byng

  • Therapist-delivered internet psychotherapy for depression in primary care: a randomised controlled trial

    David Kessler;Glyn Lewis;Surinder Kaur;Nicola Wiles

  • Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) as treatment for depression in primary care (REEACT trial): large scale pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Simon Gilbody;Elizabeth Littlewood;Catherine Hewitt;Gwen Brierley

  • "Medication career" or "Moral career"? The two sides of managing antidepressants: a meta-ethnography of patients' experience of antidepressants

    Alice Malpass;Alison Shaw;Debbie Sharp;Fiona Walter

  • No effect of n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (EPA and DHA) supplementation on depressed mood and cognitive function: a randomised controlled trial.

    Peter J. Rogers;Katherine M. Appleton;David Kessler;Tim J. Peters

  • Pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions for management of obsessive-compulsive disorder in adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Petros Skapinakis;Petros Skapinakis;Deborah M Caldwell;William Hollingworth;Peter Bryden

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for primary care based patients with treatment resistant depression: Results of the CoBalT randomised controlled trial

    Nicola Wiles;Laura Thomas;Anna Abel;Nicola Ridgway

  • Effects of n–3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids on depressed mood: systematic review of published trials

    Katherine M Appleton;Robert C Hayward;David Gunnell;Tim J Peters

  • Detection of depression and anxiety in primary care: follow up study

    David Kessler;Olive Bennewith;Glyn Lewis;Deborah Sharp

  • Clinical effectiveness of collaborative care for depression in UK primary care (CADET): cluster randomised controlled trial

    David A Richards;Jacqueline J Hill;Linda Gask;Karina Lovell

  • Primary-care patients' expectations and experiences of online cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: a qualitative study.

    Angela Beattie;Alison Shaw;Surinder Kaur;David Kessler

  • Qualitative meta-synthesis of user experience of computerised therapy for depression and anxiety

    Sarah E. Knowles;Gill Toms;Caroline Sanders;Penny Bee

  • Measurement of the anomalous precession frequency of the muon in the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment

    T. Albahri;A. Anastasi;A. Anisenkov;A. Anisenkov;K. Badgley

  • Influences on antidepressant prescribing trends in the UK: 1995–2011

    Becky Mars;Jon E Heron;David S Kessler;Neil M Davies

  • Cost-effectiveness of therapist-delivered online cognitive–behavioural therapy for depression: randomised controlled trial

    Sandra Hollinghurst;Tim J. Peters;Surinder Kaur;Nicola Wiles

  • Maintenance or Discontinuation of Antidepressants in Primary Care

    Gemma Lewis;Louise Marston;Larisa Duffy;Nick Freemantle

  • Prevalence of treatment-resistant depression in primary care: cross-sectional data.

    Laura J Thomas;David S Kessler;John Campbell;Jill Morrison

  • Psychological therapies for treatment‐resistant depression in adults

    Sharea Ijaz;Philippa Davies;Catherine J Williams;David Kessler

  • Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for treatment-resistant depression in primary care: the CoBalT randomised controlled trial

    Nicola Wiles;Laura Thomas;Anna Abel;Maria Barnes

  • Long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for treatment-resistant depression in primary care: follow-up of the CoBalT randomised controlled trial

    Nicola J Wiles;Laura J Thomas;Nicholas L Turner;Kirsty M Garfield

  • Clinical Review. Personality disorder.

    Linda Gask;Mark Evans;David Kessler

  • No effect of n-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (EPA and DHA) supplementation on depressed mood and cognitive function: a randomised controlled trial - reply by Rogers et al

    Peter J. Rogers;Katherine M. Appleton;David Kessler;Tim J. Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Willem Kuyken
Willem Kuyken University of Oxford
Katrina M Turner
Katrina M Turner University of Bristol
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Edward R. Watkins
Edward R. Watkins University of Exeter
Paul M. Salkovskis
Paul M. Salkovskis University of Oxford
Michael Barkham
Michael Barkham University of Sheffield
Stephen Pilling
Stephen Pilling University College London
Tony Kendrick
Tony Kendrick University of Southampton
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge

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