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Edward S. Friedman is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health. Additional areas of study include Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of mental health and psychiatric conditions, with particular emphasis on bipolar disorder and treatment. Other notable topics include treatment of major depression, schizophrenia research and treatment, electroconvulsive therapy studies, functional brain connectivity studies, anxiety and depression, psychometrics, cognitive processes, and family support in illness.

Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Affective Disorders, NeuroImage Clinical, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, and Psychiatry Research.

Their recent papers encompass the following works:

  • Response to SSRI intervention and amygdala activity during self-referential processing in major depressive disorder, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • Childhood trauma and treatment outcomes during mood-stabilising treatment with lithium or quetiapine among outpatients with bipolar disorder, 2022, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Cardiometabolic risk markers during mood-stabilizing treatment: Correlation with drug-specific effects, depressive symptoms and treatment response, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Lithium plus antipsychotics or anticonvulsants for bipolar disorder: Comparing clinical response and metabolic changes, 2022, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Familial severe psychiatric history in bipolar disorder and correlation with disease severity and treatment response, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders

Collaborations are frequent with several researchers in the field, including Michael E. Thase, James H. Kocsis, Andrew A. Nierenberg, Ole Köhler-Forsberg, and Louisa G. Sylvia.

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness of Adjunctive Antidepressant Treatment for Bipolar Depression

    Gary S. Sachs;Andrew A. Nierenberg;Joseph R. Calabrese;Lauren B. Marangell

  • Cognitive therapy versus medication in augmentation and switch strategies as second-step treatments: a STAR*D report.

    Michael E. Thase;Edward S. Friedman;Melanie M. Biggs;Stephen R. Wisniewski

  • Relapse after cognitive behavior therapy of depression: potential implications for longer courses of treatment.

    Michael E. Thase;Anne D. Simons;Janice McGeary;John F. Cahalane

  • Toward clinically useful neuroimaging in depression treatment: prognostic utility of subgenual cingulate activity for determining depression outcome in cognitive therapy across studies, scanners, and patient characteristics

    Greg J. Siegle;Wesley K. Thompson;Amanda Collier;Susan R. Berman

  • Association study of 21 circadian genes with bipolar I disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia

    Hader A Mansour;Michael E Talkowski;Joel Wood;Kodavali V Chowdari

  • Presenting characteristics of depressed outpatients as a function of recurrence: preliminary findings from the STAR*D clinical trial

    Steven D. Hollon;Richard C. Shelton;Stephen Wisniewski;Diane Warden

  • Remission Prognosis for Cognitive Therapy for Recurrent Depression Using the Pupil: Utility and Neural Correlates

    Greg J. Siegle;Stuart R. Steinhauer;Edward S. Friedman;Wesley S. Thompson

  • The Prevention of Recurrent Episodes of Depression with Venlafaxine for Two Years (PREVENT) Study: Outcomes from the 2-year and combined maintenance phases.

    Martin B. Keller;Madhukar H. Trivedi;Michael E. Thase;Richard C. Shelton

  • Management of treatment-resistant depression: psychotherapeutic perspectives.

    Michael E. Thase;Edward S. Friedman;Robert H. Howland

  • Medical burden in bipolar disorder: findings from the Clinical and Health Outcomes Initiative in Comparative Effectiveness for Bipolar Disorder study (Bipolar CHOICE)

    Louisa G. Sylvia;Richard C. Shelton;David E. Kemp;Emily E. Bernstein

  • Effect of concurrent anxiety on response to sertraline and imipramine in patients with chronic depression.

    James M. Russell;Lorrin M. Koran;John Rush;Robert M.A. Hirschfeld

  • Association of exercise with quality of life and mood symptoms in a comparative effectiveness study of bipolar disorder.

    Louisa G. Sylvia;Edward S. Friedman;James H. Kocsis;Emily E. Bernstein

  • Preventing Depressive Relapse and Recurrence in Higher Risk Cognitive Therapy Responders: A Randomized Trial of Continuation Phase Cognitive Therapy, Fluoxetine, or Matched Pill Placebo

    Robin B. Jarrett;Abu Minhajuddin;Howard Gershenfeld;Edward S. Friedman

  • Transition to mania during treatment of bipolar depression.

    Roy H Perlis;Michael J Ostacher;Joseph F Goldberg;David J Miklowitz

  • Cognitive reactivity, dysfunctional attitudes, and depressive relapse and recurrence in cognitive therapy responders.

    Robin B. Jarrett;Abu Minhajuddin;Patricia D. Borman;Lauren Dunlap

  • Treating antidepressant nonresponders with augmentation strategies: an overview.

    M E Thase;R H Howland;E S Friedman

  • Lithium treatment moderate-dose use study (LiTMUS) for bipolar disorder: a randomized comparative effectiveness trial of optimized personalized treatment with and without lithium.

    Andrew A. Nierenberg;Edward S. Friedman;Charles L. Bowden;Louisa G. Sylvia

  • General medical burden in bipolar disorder: Findings from the LiTMUS comparative effectiveness trial

    David E Kemp;L. G. Sylvia;Joseph R Calabrese;A. A. Nierenberg

  • Acceptability of second-step treatments to depressed outpatients: A STAR*D report

    Stephen R. Wisniewski;Maurizio Fava;Madhukar H. Trivedi;Michael E. Thase

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical activity and response to cognitive behavior therapy in unmedicated, hospitalized depressed patients.

    M E Thase;S Dubé;K Bowler;R H Howland

  • Poor quality of life and functioning in bipolar disorder.

    Louisa G. Sylvia;Rebecca E. Montana;Thilo Deckersbach;Michael E. Thase

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Thase
Michael E. Thase University of Pennsylvania
Terence A. Ketter
Terence A. Ketter Stanford University
Louisa G. Sylvia
Louisa G. Sylvia Harvard University
Thilo Deckersbach
Thilo Deckersbach Harvard University
Susan L. McElroy
Susan L. McElroy University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Melvin G. McInnis
Melvin G. McInnis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mauricio Tohen
Mauricio Tohen University of New Mexico
Ellen Frank
Ellen Frank University of Pittsburgh
Boadie W. Dunlop
Boadie W. Dunlop Emory University
Andrea Fagiolini
Andrea Fagiolini University of Siena

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