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Overview

David Silbersweig is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields such as Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Clinical Psychology, and Genetics.

The scientist's published work covers multiple main topics including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, as well as broader Mental Health and Psychiatry areas.

Recent publications by David Silbersweig include the following:

  • The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and functionally linked neurocircuitry modulate emotion processing and HPA axis dysfunction in posttraumatic stress disorder, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • The Amplification of Symptoms in the Medically Ill, 2022, Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Regional microglial activation in the substantia nigra is linked with fatigue in MS, 2020, Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Duties toward Patients with Psychiatric Illness, 2020, The Hastings Center Report

Collaborative efforts are a notable part of their research activity, with frequent co-authorship alongside colleagues such as Kirk R. Daffner, Scott M. McGinnis, Seth A. Gale, Shan H. Siddiqi, and Jordan Grafman.

David Silbersweig's work has appeared repeatedly in various scholarly venues, including:

  • Journal of Neuropsychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Among book contributions, they are credited with publications under American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks, notably the "Textbook of Medical Psychiatry" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • 'Vascular depression' hypothesis.

    George S. Alexopoulos;Barnett S. Meyers;Robert C. Young;Scott Campbell

  • Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness.

    David Ronald Vago;David A. Silbersweig

  • A functional neuroanatomy of hallucinations in schizophrenia

    D. A. Silbersweig;D. A. Silbersweig;E. Stern;E. Stern;C. Frith;C. Cahill

  • FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF UPPER EXTREMITY MOVEMENTS IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS

    K. M. Stephan;G. R. Fink;R. E. Passingham;D. Silbersweig

  • Failure of frontolimbic inhibitory function in the context of negative emotion in borderline personality disorder.

    David Silbersweig;John F. Clarkin;Martin Goldstein;Otto F. Kernberg

  • Clinically Defined Vascular Depression

    George S. Alexopoulos;Barnett S. Meyers;Robert C. Young;Tatsu Kakuma

  • Lack of ventral striatal response to positive stimuli in depressed versus normal subjects

    Jane Epstein;Hong Pan;James H Kocsis;Yihong Yang

  • Relation between cerebral activity and force in the motor areas of the human brain.

    C. Dettmers;G. R. Fink;R. N. Lemon;K. M. Stephan

  • Regional brain activity in chronic schizophrenic patients during the performance of a verbal fluency task.

    C. D. Frith;K. J. Friston;S. Herold;D. Silbersweig

  • Migraine and its psychiatric comorbidities

    Mia Tova Minen;Olivia Begasse De Dhaem;Ashley Kroon Van Diest;Scott Powers

  • Linguistic threat activates the human amygdala.

    N. Isenberg;D. Silbersweig;A. Engelien;S. Emmerich

  • Abnormal monitoring of inner speech: a physiological basis for auditory hallucinations.

    P. K. Mcguire;D. A. Silbersweig;I. Wright;R. M. Murray

  • A functional neuroanatomy of tics in Tourette syndrome.

    Emily Stern;David A. Silbersweig;Kit-Yun Chee;Andrew Holmes

  • Functional anatomy of inner speech and auditory verbal imagery

    Philip McGuire;D.A. Silbersweig;Robin Murray;Anthony David

  • Functional neuroanatomy of verbal self-monitoring

    Philip McGuire;D.A. Silbersweig;C.D. Frith

  • Increased anterior cingulate and caudate activity in bipolar mania.

    Hilary P Blumberg;Emily Stern;Diana Martinez;Sally Ricketts

  • Differential time courses and specificity of amygdala activity in posttraumatic stress disorder subjects and normal control subjects

    Xenia Protopopescu;Xenia Protopopescu;Hong Pan;Oliver Tuescher;Marylene Cloitre

  • Rostral and orbital prefrontal cortex dysfunction in the manic state of bipolar disorder.

    Hilary P. Blumberg;Emily Stern;Sally Ricketts;Diana Martinez

  • The neural correlates of inner speech and auditory verbal imagery in schizophrenia: relationship to auditory verbal hallucinations.

    Philip McGuire;D.A. Silbersweig;I. Wright;Robin Murray

  • Detection of Thirty-Second Cognitive Activations in Single Subjects with Positron Emission Tomography: A New Low-Dose H215O Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Three-Dimensional Imaging Technique

    David A. Silbersweig;David A. Silbersweig;Emily Stern;Emily Stern;Christopher D. Frith;Connie Cahill

Frequent Co-Authors

Emily Stern
Emily Stern Brigham and Women's Hospital
Yihong Yang
Yihong Yang National Institute on Drug Abuse
Hong Gu
Hong Gu National Institute on Drug Abuse
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Joseph E. LeDoux
Joseph E. LeDoux New York University
David Eidelberg
David Eidelberg Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Hilary P. Blumberg
Hilary P. Blumberg Yale University
Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
Marylene Cloitre
Marylene Cloitre New York University
Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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