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Overview

Douglas W. Woods is affiliated with Marquette University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The subfields of their work include psychiatry and mental health, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's main topics of research focus on obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorder research, eating disorders and behaviors, sexuality, behavior and technology, behavioral and psychological studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and body image and dysmorphia studies.

Douglas W. Woods has contributed to multiple journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Recent published papers authored or coauthored by Douglas W. Woods include:

  • Acceptance-enhanced behavior therapy for trichotillomania in adults: A randomized clinical trial (2022) in Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Identifying subtypes of trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) and excoriation (skin picking) disorder using mixture modeling in a multicenter sample (2020) in Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Rapid Onset Functional Tic-Like Behaviors in Young Females During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) in Movement Disorders
  • An organization- and category-level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD-11 and DSM-5 (2021) in World Psychiatry
  • Synaptic processes and immune-related pathways implicated in Tourette syndrome (2021) in Translational Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors working with Douglas W. Woods include:

  • Emily J. Ricketts
  • John Piacentini
  • Jordan T. Stiede
  • Joseph McGuire
  • John T. Walkup

Best Publications

  • Behavior Therapy for Children With Tourette Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    John Piacentini;Douglas W. Woods;Lawrence Scahill;Sabine Wilhelm

  • Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale (PUTS): initial psychometric results and examination of the premonitory urge phenomenon in youths with Tic disorders.

    Douglas W Woods;John Piacentini;Michael B Himle;Susanna Chang

  • A Controlled Evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Plus Habit Reversal for Trichotillomania

    Douglas W. Woods;Chad T. Wetterneck;Christopher A. Flessner

  • Practice guideline recommendations summary: Treatment of tics in people with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorders.

    Tamara Pringsheim;Michael S. Okun;Kirsten Müller-Vahl;Davide Martino

  • Interrogating the Genetic Determinants of Tourette’s Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders Through Genome-Wide Association Studies

    Dongmei Yu;Jae Hoon Sul;Fotis Tsetsos;Muhammad S Nawaz

  • Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

    Mary M. Robertson;Valsamma Eapen;Valsamma Eapen;Harvey S. Singer;Davide Martino

  • A comparison of thought suppression to an acceptance-based technique in the management of personal intrusive thoughts: a controlled evaluation.

    Brook A. Marcks;Douglas W. Woods

  • Randomized Trial of Behavior Therapy for Adults With Tourette Syndrome

    Sabine Wilhelm;Alan L. Peterson;John Piacentini;Douglas W. Woods

  • The Trichotillomania Impact Project (TIP): exploring phenomenology, functional impairment, and treatment utilization.

    Douglas W Woods;Christopher A Flessner;Martin E Franklin;Nancy J Keuthen

  • Managing Tourette Syndrome: A Behavioral Intervention for Children and Adults Therapist Guide

    Douglas W Woods;John Piacentini;Susanna Chang;Thilo Deckersbach

  • The influence of contextual factors on tic expression in Tourette's syndrome: a review.

    Christine A. Conelea;Douglas W. Woods

  • Tourette syndrome deep brain stimulation: A review and updated recommendations

    Lauren E. Schrock;Jonathan W. Mink;Douglas W. Woods;Mauro Porta

  • Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder), skin picking disorder, and stereotypic movement disorder: toward DSM-V

    Dan J. Stein;E M D J D Jon Grant;Martin E. Franklin;Nancy Keuthen

  • The classification of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders in the ICD-11

    D. J. Stein;C. S. Kogan;M. Atmaca;N. A. Fineberg;N. A. Fineberg;N. A. Fineberg

  • Exploring the Impact of Chronic Tic Disorders on Youth: Results from the Tourette Syndrome Impact Survey

    Christine A. Conelea;Douglas W. Woods;Samuel H. Zinner;Samuel H. Zinner;Cathy Budman

  • A preliminary investigation of acceptance and commitment therapy and habit reversal as a treatment for trichotillomania

    Michael P. Twohig;Douglas W. Woods

  • Phenomenological characteristics, social problems, and the economic impact associated with chronic skin picking.

    Christopher A. Flessner;Douglas W. Woods

  • The relationship between experiential avoidance and the severity of trichotillomania in a nonreferred sample.

    Andrea M. Begotka;Douglas W. Woods;Chad T. Wetterneck

  • Comprehensive systematic review summary: Treatment of tics in people with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorders

    Tamara Pringsheim;Yolanda Holler-Managan;Michael S. Okun;Joseph Jankovic

  • Brief review of habit reversal training for Tourette syndrome.

    Michael B. Himle;Douglas W. Woods;John C. Piacentini;John T. Walkup

  • Impulse control disorders and "behavioural addictions" in the ICD-11

    Jon Edgar Grant;Murad Atmaca;Naomi A Fineberg;Leonardo F. Fontenelle

  • APPLYING BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS TO CLINICAL PROBLEMS: REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF HABIT REVERSAL

    Raymond G. Miltenberger;R. Wayne Fuqua;Douglas W. Woods

Frequent Co-Authors

John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
Michael P. Twohig
Michael P. Twohig Utah State University
Martin E. Franklin
Martin E. Franklin University of Pennsylvania
John T. Walkup
John T. Walkup Lurie Children's Hospital
Christopher A. Flessner
Christopher A. Flessner Brown University
Nancy J. Keuthen
Nancy J. Keuthen Harvard University
Christine A. Conelea
Christine A. Conelea University of Minnesota
Alan L. Peterson
Alan L. Peterson The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Sabine Wilhelm
Sabine Wilhelm Harvard University
Raymond G. Miltenberger
Raymond G. Miltenberger University of South Florida

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