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Overview

Hagop S. Akiskal was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focused on psychiatry and mental health, with a specialization in bipolar disorder and its treatment.

The scientist contributed to the field through publications in venues such as Psychopharmacology Bulletin and UNC Libraries. Their scholarly work included:

  • The Emergence of the Bipolar Spectrum: Validation along Clinical-Epidemiologic and Familial-Genetic Lines, 2025, Psychopharmacology Bulletin
  • The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Task Force Report on Antidepressant Use in Bipolar Disorders, 2020, UNC Libraries

Their research topics covered bipolar disorder and treatment, which was reflected in the papers authored and coauthored during their career.

Frequent coauthors who collaborated with Akiskal included:

  • MD MD
  • Isabella Pacchiarotti
  • David J. Bond
  • Ross J. Baldessarini
  • Willem A. Nolen

Akiskal's investigative efforts aimed at understanding the clinical-epidemiologic and familial-genetic aspects of bipolar spectrum disorders, as well as contributing to consensus reports on the treatment of bipolar disorders.

Best Publications

  • Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Kathleen R. Merikangas;Hagop S. Akiskal;Jules Angst;Paul E. Greenberg

  • The long-term natural history of the weekly symptomatic status of bipolar I disorder.

    Lewis L. Judd;Hagop S. Akiskal;Pamela J. Schettler;Jean Endicott

  • A prospective investigation of the natural history of the long-term weekly symptomatic status of bipolar II disorder.

    Lewis L. Judd;Hagop S. Akiskal;Pamela J. Schettler;William Coryell

  • Re-evaluating the prevalence of and diagnostic composition within the broad clinical spectrum of bipolar disorders.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Marc L. Bourgeois;Jules Angst;Robert Post

  • Prevalence and Effects of Mood Disorders on Work Performance in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Workers

    Ronald C Kessler;Hagop S Akiskal;Minnie Ames;Howard Birnbaum

  • A prospective 12-year study of subsyndromal and syndromal depressive symptoms in unipolar major depressive disorders.

    Lewis L. Judd;Hagop S. Akiskal;Jack D. Maser;Pamela J. Zeller

  • The evolving bipolar spectrum. Prototypes I, II, III, and IV.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Olavo Pinto

  • The prevalence and disability of bipolar spectrum disorders in the US population: re-analysis of the ECA database taking into account subthreshold cases

    Lewis L. Judd;Hagop S. Akiskal

  • Overview of recent research in depression. Integration of ten conceptual models into a comprehensive clinical frame.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;William T. McKinney

  • Switching from 'unipolar' to bipolar II. An 11-year prospective study of clinical and temperamental predictors in 559 patients.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Jack D. Maser;Pamela J. Zeller;Jean Endicott

  • Criteria for the "soft" bipolar spectrum: treatment implications.

    H S Akiskal;G Mallya

  • The Relationship of Personality to Affective Disorders: A Critical Review

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Robert M. A. Hirschfeld;Boghos I. Yerevanian;Boghos I. Yerevanian

  • Major depressive disorder: A prospective study of residual subthreshold depressive symptoms as predictor of rapid relapse

    Lewis L Judd;Hagop S Akiskal;Jack D Maser;Pamela J Zeller

  • TEMPS-A: progress towards validation of a self-rated clinical version of the Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego Autoquestionnaire.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Kareen K. Akiskal;Radwan F. Haykal;J. Sloan Manning

  • Psychosocial Disability During the Long-term Course of Unipolar Major Depressive Disorder

    Lewis L. Judd;Hagop S. Akiskal;Pamela J. Zeller;Martin Paulus

  • The prevalent clinical spectrum of bipolar disorders: beyond DSM-IV.

    Hagop S. Akiskal

  • The International Society for bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders

    Isabella Pacchiarotti;David J. Bond;Ross J. Baldessarini;Willem A. Nolen

  • Cyclothymic disorder: validating criteria for inclusion in the bipolar affective group.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Armen H. Djenderedjian;Renate H. Rosenthal;Munir K. Khani

  • Dysthymic disorder: Psychopathology of proposed chronic depressive subtypes.

    Hagop S. Akiskal

  • Subaffective disorders: dysthymic, cyclothymic and bipolar II disorders in the "borderline" realm.

    Hagop Souren Akiskal

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Perugi
Giulio Perugi University of Pisa
Icro Maremmani
Icro Maremmani University of Pisa
Franco Benazzi
Franco Benazzi National Health Service
William Coryell
William Coryell University of Iowa
Cristina Toni
Cristina Toni University of Pisa
Martin B. Keller
Martin B. Keller Brown University
Maurizio Pompili
Maurizio Pompili Sapienza University of Rome
Xenia Gonda
Xenia Gonda Semmelweis University
Ole Bernt Fasmer
Ole Bernt Fasmer University of Bergen
John R. Kelsoe
John R. Kelsoe University of California, San Diego

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