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Helen L. Fisher is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily within the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, Health, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's main topics of work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Child Abuse and Trauma, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Health disparities and outcomes, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap (2023) published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on intimate partner violence and mental health: advancing mental health services, research, and policy (2022) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Population vs Individual Prediction of Poor Health From Results of Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening (2021) published in JAMA Pediatrics
  • Cortisol and development of depression in adolescence and young adulthood - a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021) published in Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Patterns of Reliability: Assessing the Reproducibility and Integrity of DNA Methylation Measurement (2020) published in Patterns

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Valeria Mondelli
  • Louise Arseneault
  • Christian Kieling
  • Brandon A. Kohrt
  • Terrie E. Moffitt

The scientist's work often appears in key publication venues such as:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Psychological Medicine

Best Publications

  • Child Abuse and Neglect in the UK Today

    Lorraine Radford;Susana Corral;Christine Bradley;Helen Fisher

  • Childhood Trauma and Children’s Emerging Psychotic Symptoms: A Genetically Sensitive Longitudinal Cohort Study

    Louise Arseneault;Mary Cannon;Helen L. Fisher;Guilherme Polanczyk

  • Environment and Schizophrenia: Environmental Factors in Schizophrenia: Childhood Trauma—A Critical Review

    Craig Morgan;Helen Fisher

  • Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study.

    Rachael A Evans;Hamish McAuley;Ewen M Harrison;Aarti Shikotra

  • Reliability and Comparability of Psychosis Patients’ Retrospective Reports of Childhood Abuse

    Helen L. Fisher;Thomas K. Craig;Paul Fearon;Kevin D. Morgan

  • The epidemiology of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder in a representative cohort of young people in England and Wales

    Stephanie J Lewis;Louise Arseneault;Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Helen L Fisher

  • Specificity of childhood psychotic symptoms for predicting schizophrenia by 38 years of age: a birth cohort study

    H.L. Fisher;A. Caspi;R. Poulton;M.H. Meier

  • Bullying victimisation and risk of self harm in early adolescence: longitudinal cohort study

    Helen L Fisher;Terrie E Moffitt;Renate M Houts;Daniel W Belsky

  • Life Events and Psychosis: A Review and Meta-analysis

    Stephanie Beards;Charlotte Gayer-Anderson;Susana Martins Borges;Michael E. Dewey

  • Lonely young adults in modern Britain: findings from an epidemiological cohort study.

    Tim Matthews;Andrea Danese;Avshalom Caspi;Helen Fisher

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    R. C. Culverhouse;N. L. Saccone;A. C. Horton;Y. Ma

  • Measuring childhood maltreatment to predict early-adult psychopathology: Comparison of prospective informant-reports and retrospective self-reports

    Joanne Barbara Newbury;Louise Arseneault;Terrie Edith Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi

  • Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer: Updated Clinical Practice Guidelines

    Vanessa R. Blair;Maybelle McLeod;Fátima Carneiro;Daniel G. Coit

  • Abnormal cortisol levels during the day and cortisol awakening response in first-episode psychosis: The role of stress and of antipsychotic treatment

    Valeria Mondelli;Paola Dazzan;Nilay Hepgul;Marta Di Forti

  • The prevalence and impact of child maltreatment and other types of victimization in the UK: findings from a population survey of caregivers, children and young people and young adults.

    Lorraine Radford;Susana Corral;Christine Bradley;Helen L Fisher

  • Stress Sensitivity, Aberrant Salience, and Threat Anticipation in Early Psychosis: An Experience Sampling Study

    Ulrich Reininghaus;Ulrich Reininghaus;Matthew J. Kempton;Lucia Valmaggia;Tom K. J. Craig

  • Determining the chronology and components of psychosis onset: The Nottingham Onset Schedule (NOS)

    Swaran P. Singh;John E. Cooper;Helen L. Fisher;C. Jane Tarrant

  • Neuropsychological decline in schizophrenia from the premorbid to the postonset period: evidence from a population-representative longitudinal study

    Madeline H. Meier;Madeline H. Meier;Madeline H. Meier;Avshalom Caspi;Abraham Reichenberg;Richard S. E. Keefe;Richard S. E. Keefe;Richard S. E. Keefe

  • The varying impact of type, timing and frequency of exposure to childhood adversity on its association with adult psychotic disorder

    Helen L. Fisher;Peter B. Jones;Paul Fearon;Thomas K. Craig

  • Gender differences in the association between childhood abuse and psychosis.

    Helen L. Fisher;Craig Morgan;Paola Dazzan;Thomas K. Craig

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin M. Murray
Robin M. Murray King's College London
Louise Arseneault
Louise Arseneault King's College London
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Andrea Danese
Andrea Danese King's College London
Paola Dazzan
Paola Dazzan King's College London
Craig Morgan
Craig Morgan King's College London
Valeria Mondelli
Valeria Mondelli King's College London
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University
Carmine M. Pariante
Carmine M. Pariante King's College London
Candice L. Odgers
Candice L. Odgers University of California, Irvine

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