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David L. Dunner is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on psychiatry and mental health. Their research spans multiple subfields, including pharmacology, neurology, clinical psychology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's main areas of study include bipolar disorder and treatment, treatment of major depression, electroconvulsive therapy studies, vagus nerve stimulation research, neurological disorders and treatments, schizophrenia research and treatment, and stuttering research and treatment.

David L. Dunner has published research in several key academic venues, including:

  • Brain Stimulation
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Psychiatric Practice
  • Psychopharmacology Bulletin
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Their recent papers include:

  • "Continuation Treatment of Chronic Depression: A Comparison of Nefazodone, Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy, and Their Combination," 2025, Psychopharmacology Bulletin
  • "Vagus nerve stimulation in treatment-resistant depression: A one-year, randomized, sham-controlled trial," 2024, Brain Stimulation
  • "Refined diagnostic criteria for the bipolar disorders: phase two of the AREDOC project," 2020, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • "Differentiating mania/hypomania from happiness using a machine learning analytic approach," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Bipolar Depression: Experience From a Clinical Setting," 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Practice

Collaborative work plays a role in Dunner's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Gordon Parker
  • Gabriela Tavella
  • Martin Alda
  • Claire O'Donovan
  • Janusz Rybakowski

Best Publications

  • Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.

    Sona Dimidjian;Steven D. Hollon;Keith S. Dobson;Karen B. Schmaling

  • A comparison of nefazodone, the cognitive behavioral-analysis system of psychotherapy, and their combination for the treatment of chronic depression.

    Martin B. Keller;James P. McCullough;Daniel N. Klein;Bruce Arnow

  • Differential responses to psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy in patients with chronic forms of major depression and childhood trauma

    Charles B. Nemeroff;Christine M. Heim;Michael E. Thase;Daniel N. Klein

  • Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the prevention of relapse and recurrence in major depression.

    Keith S. Dobson;Steven D. Hollon;Sona Dimidjian;Karen B. Schmaling

  • Clinical Factors in Lithium Carbonate Prophylaxis Failure

    David L. Dunner;Ronald R. Fieve

  • Effectiveness of St John's wort in major depression: A randomized controlled trial

    Richard C. Shelton;Martin B. Keller;Allan Gelenberg;David L. Dunner

  • Brain metabolic alterations in medication-free patients with bipolar disorder

    Stephen R. Dager;Seth D. Friedman;Aimee Parow;Christina Demopulos

  • Heritable factors in the severity of affective illness.

    D. L. Dunner;Elliot S. Gershon;Frederick K. Goodwin

  • A one-year comparison of vagus nerve stimulation with treatment as usual for treatment-resistant depression.

    Mark S. George;Mark S. George;A. John Rush;Lauren B. Marangell;Harold A. Sackeim

  • TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (TMS) FOR MAJOR DEPRESSION: A MULTISITE, NATURALISTIC, OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF ACUTE TREATMENT OUTCOMES IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

    Linda L. Carpenter;Philip G. Janicak;Scott T. Aaronson;Terrence Boyadjis

  • A Controlled Study of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Medication-Resistant Major Depression

    David H. Avery;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Walid Fawaz;Walid Fawaz;Joan Russo

  • Gabapentin in bipolar disorder: A placebo-controlled trial of adjunctive therapy

    Atul C. Pande;Jerri G. Crockatt;Carol A. Janney;John L. Werth

  • Cerebrospinal fluid amine metabolites in affective illness: the probenecid technique.

    Frederick K. Goodwin;Robert M. Post;David L. Dunner;Edna K. Gordon

  • Regional cerebral cortical thinning in bipolar disorder

    In Kyoon Lyoo;Young Hoon Sung;Stephen R. Dager;Seth D. Friedman

  • Frontal lobe gray matter density decreases in bipolar I disorder.

    In Kyoon Lyoo;In Kyoon Lyoo;Minue J Kim;Andrew L Stoll;Christina M Demopulos

  • Diagnostic reliability of the history of hypomania in bipolar II patients and patients with major depression

    David L. Dunner;Liam Kai Tay;Liam Kai Tay

  • Lithium Response in Unipolar Versus Bipolar Depression

    Frederick K. Goodwin;Dennis L. Murphy;David L. Dunner;William E. Bunney

  • Does psychosocial functioning improve independent of depressive symptoms? a comparison of nefazodone, psychotherapy, and their combination

    Robert M.A Hirschfeld;David L Dunner;Gabor Keitner;Daniel N Klein

  • Prospective, long-term, multicenter study of the naturalistic outcomes of patients with treatment-resistant depression.

    David L. Dunner;A. John Rush;James M. Russell;Michael Burke

  • Multisite data reanalysis of the validity of rapid cycling as a course modifier for bipolar disorder in DSM-IV

    M S Bauer;J Calabrese;D L Dunner;R Post

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen R. Dager
Stephen R. Dager University of Washington
Martin B. Keller
Martin B. Keller Brown University
Michael E. Thase
Michael E. Thase University of Pennsylvania
Robert M. A. Hirschfeld
Robert M. A. Hirschfeld The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Alan F. Schatzberg
Alan F. Schatzberg Stanford University
Peter Roy-Byrne
Peter Roy-Byrne University of Washington
Charles B. Nemeroff
Charles B. Nemeroff The University of Texas at Austin
In Kyoon Lyoo
In Kyoon Lyoo Ewha Womans University
Madhukar H. Trivedi
Madhukar H. Trivedi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Perry F. Renshaw
Perry F. Renshaw University of Utah

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