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David Mataix-Cols

David Mataix-Cols

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Psychology
Sweden
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
114
Citations
44418
World Ranking
343
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

David Mataix-Cols is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has a research focus primarily within the field of Psychology. Their work prominently spans several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics with notable emphasis on obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorder research, and eating disorders and behaviors. Their interests also include body image and dysmorphia studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, digital mental health interventions, and the intersection of anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment approaches, and cognitive processes.

David Mataix-Cols has published frequently in venues such as UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Child Psychiatry & Human Development, European Neuropsychopharmacology, and JAMA Network Open.

Their recent papers illustrate the breadth of their research focus:

  • Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure across the lifespan (2020), Human Brain Mapping
  • Brief Online Cognitive Behavioural Intervention for Dysfunctional Worry Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomised Controlled Trial (2020), Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Structural brain correlates in major depression, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder: A voxel-based morphometry meta-analysis (2021), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Much more than just shyness: the impact of social anxiety disorder on educational performance across the lifespan (2020), Psychological Medicine
  • An overview of the first 5 years of the ENIGMA obsessive-compulsive disorder working group: The power of worldwide collaboration (2020), Human Brain Mapping

Frequent collaborators in David Mataix-Cols's work include Christian Rück, Lorena Fernández de la Cruz, Paul Lichtenstein, Henrik Larsson, and James J. Crowley.

Best Publications

  • A Multidimensional Model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    David Mataix-Cols;Maria Conceição do Rosario-Campos;James F. Leckman

  • Distinct Neural Correlates of Washing, Checking, and Hoarding Symptom Dimensions in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

    David Mataix-Cols;Sarah Wooderson;Natalia Lawrence;Michael J. Brammer

  • Use of factor-analyzed symptom dimensions to predict outcome with serotonin reuptake inhibitors and placebo in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    David Mataix-Cols;Scott L. Rauch;Peter A. Manzo;Michael A. Jenike

  • Voxel-wise meta-analysis of grey matter changes in obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Joaquim Radua;David Mataix-Cols

  • Meta-analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Inhibition and Attention in Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Exploring Task-Specific, Stimulant Medication, and Age Effects

    Heledd Hart;Joaquim Radua;Tomohiro Nakao;David Mataix-Cols

  • Ten simple rules for neuroimaging meta-analysis.

    Veronika I. Müller;Edna C. Cieslik;Angela R. Laird;Peter T. Fox

  • A new meta-analytic method for neuroimaging studies that combines reported peak coordinates and statistical parametric maps

    Joaquim Radua;David Mataix-Cols;M. L. Phillips;M. L. Phillips;W. El-Hage

  • Gray matter volume abnormalities in ADHD: Voxel-based meta-analysis exploring the effects of age and stimulant medication

    Tomohiro Nakao;Joaquim Radua;Katya Rubia;David Mataix-Cols

  • Obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions as predictors of compliance with and response to behaviour therapy: results from a controlled trial.

    David Mataix-Cols;Isaac M. Marks;John H. Greist;Kenneth A. Kobak

  • Hoarding disorder: a new diagnosis for DSM-V?

    David Mataix-Cols;Randy O. Frost;Alberto Pertusa;Lee Anna Clark

  • Common and distinct patterns of grey-matter volume alteration in major depression and bipolar disorder: evidence from voxel-based meta-analysis

    T Wise;J Radua;J Radua;E Via;N Cardoner

  • Meta-analytical Comparison of Voxel-Based Morphometry Studies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder vs Other Anxiety Disorders

    Joaquim Radua;Odile A. van den Heuvel;Simon Surguladze;David Mataix-Cols

  • The major symptom dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder are mediated by partially distinct neural systems.

    Odile A. van den Heuvel;Peter L. Remijnse;David Mataix-Cols;Hugo Vrenken

  • Structural and Functional Brain Abnormalities in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Comparative Meta-analysis.

    Luke J. Norman;Christina Carlisi;Steve Lukito;Heledd Hart

  • Association of Stress-Related Disorders With Subsequent Autoimmune Disease.

    Huan Song;Huan Song;Fang Fang;Gunnar Tomasson;Filip K. Arnberg;Filip K. Arnberg

  • OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A REVIEW OF THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA AND POSSIBLE SUBTYPES AND DIMENSIONAL SPECIFIERS FOR DSM-V

    James F. Leckman;Damiaan Denys M.D.;H. Blair Simpson;David Mataix-Cols

  • Obsessions and compulsions in the community: prevalence, interference, help-seeking, developmental stability, and co-occurring psychiatric conditions.

    Miguel A. Fullana;David Mataix-Cols;Avshalom Caspi;B.A. Honalee Harrington

  • Refining the diagnostic boundaries of compulsive hoarding: A critical review

    Alberto Pertusa;Randy O. Frost;Miguel A. Fullana;Miguel A. Fullana;Jack Samuels

  • Decision making and set shifting impairments are associated with distinct symptom dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Natalia S. Lawrence;Sarah Wooderson;David Mataix-Cols;Rhodri David

  • Anisotropic kernels for coordinate-based meta-analyses of neuroimaging studies.

    Joaquim Radua;Katya Rubia;Erick Jorge Canales-Rodríguez;Edith Pomarol-Clotet

  • Compulsive Hoarding: OCD Symptom, Distinct Clinical Syndrome, or Both?

    Alberto Pertusa;Miguel A Fullana;Satwant Singh;Pino Alonso

  • Symptom stability in adult obsessive-compulsive disorder: Data from a naturalistic two-year follow-up study

    David Mataix-Cols;Scott L. Rauch;Lee Baer;Jane L. Eisen

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Rück
Christian Rück Karolinska Institute
Eva Serlachius
Eva Serlachius Karolinska Institute
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Isobel Heyman
Isobel Heyman University College London
María del Pino Alonso Ortega
María del Pino Alonso Ortega Bellvitge University Hospital
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Xavier Caseras
Xavier Caseras Cardiff University
Brian M. D’Onofrio
Brian M. D’Onofrio Indiana University
Miquel A. Fullana
Miquel A. Fullana Clínic Barcelona
Luisa Lázaro
Luisa Lázaro University of Barcelona

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