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Ian Kelleher is affiliated with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and contributes extensively to research in the fields of medicine and psychology. Their work primarily focuses on psychiatry and mental health, with significant contributions in clinical psychology and related subfields.

Kelleher has published research across several topics including:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

The scientist's publications frequently appear in notable venues such as:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • European Psychiatry

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Referral patterns for specialist child and adolescent mental health services in the Republic of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with 2019 and 2018" (2021), published in BJPsych Open
  • "Psychotic experiences in the general population, a review; definition, risk factors, outcomes and interventions" (2022), published in Psychological Medicine
  • "Incidence and Persistence of Psychotic Experiences in the General Population: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (2023), published in Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • "Trauma-informed care for adult survivors of developmental trauma with psychotic and dissociative symptoms: a systematic review of intervention studies" (2020), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Potential for prediction of psychosis and bipolar disorder in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: a longitudinal register study of all people born in Finland in 1987" (2022), published in World Psychiatry

Kelleher collaborates regularly with a group of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Mary Cannon
  • Colm Healy
  • Ulla Lång
  • Mary Clarke
  • David Cotter

Their scholarly activity encompasses a range of disciplines tied to mental health, with a focused research trajectory that spans child and adolescent development as well as severe psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of psychotic symptoms in childhood and adolescence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies.

    Ian Kelleher;Dearbhla Connor;Mary C. Clarke;Nina Devlin

  • School-based suicide prevention programmes: the SEYLE cluster-randomised, controlled trial

    Danuta Wasserman;Christina W. Hoven;Camilla Wasserman;Camilla Wasserman;Melanie Wall

  • Psychotic-like experiences in the general population: characterizing a high-risk group for psychosis.

    Ian Kelleher;Mary Cannon

  • Clinicopathological significance of psychotic experiences in non-psychotic young people: evidence from four population-based studies

    Ian Kelleher;Helen Keeley;Paul Corcoran;Fionnuala Lynch

  • Childhood trauma and psychosis in a prospective cohort study: cause, effect, and directionality

    Ian Kelleher;Helen Keeley;Paul Corcoran;Hugh Ramsay

  • Are Screening Instruments Valid for Psychotic-Like Experiences? A Validation Study of Screening Questions for Psychotic-Like Experiences Using In-Depth Clinical Interview

    Ian Kelleher;Michelle Harley;Michelle Harley;Aileen Murtagh;Mary Cannon

  • Associations between childhood trauma, bullying and psychotic symptoms among a school-based adolescent sample

    Ian Kelleher;Michelle Harley;Fionnuala Lynch;Louise Arseneault

  • Psychotic Symptoms and Population Risk for Suicide Attempt A Prospective Cohort Study

    Ian Kelleher;Paul Corcoran;Helen Keeley;Johanna T. W. Wigman

  • Association of Psychotic Experiences With Subsequent Risk of Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, and Suicide Deaths: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Longitudinal Population Studies.

    Kathryn Yates;Ulla Lång;Martin Cederlöf;Fiona Boland

  • Childhood and adolescent psychotic experiences and risk of mental disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Colm Healy;Ross Brannigan;Niamh Dooley;Helen Coughlan

  • Cannabis use and childhood trauma interact additively to increase the risk of psychotic symptoms in adolescence.

    Michelle Harley;Ian Kelleher;Mary C Clarke;Fionnuala Lynch

  • Psychotic Symptoms in Adolescence Index Risk for Suicidal Behavior: Findings From 2 Population-Based Case-Control Clinical Interview Studies

    Ian Kelleher;Fionnuala Lynch;Michelle Harley;Charlene Molloy

  • Psychotic experiences in a mental health clinic sample: implications for suicidality, multimorbidity and functioning

    Ian Kelleher;Nina Devlin;Johanna Tw Wigman;Anne Kehoe

  • Referral patterns for specialist child and adolescent mental health services in the Republic of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with 2019 and 2018.

    Fiona McNicholas;Ian Kelleher;Elma Hedderman;Fionnuala Lynch

  • Identification and Characterization of Prodromal Risk Syndromes in Young Adolescents in the Community: A Population-Based Clinical Interview Study

    Ian Kelleher;Aileen Murtagh;Charlene Molloy;Sarah Roddy

  • Structural and functional brain correlates of subclinical psychotic symptoms in 11–13 year old schoolchildren

    Sarah Jacobson;Ian Kelleher;Michelle Harley;Aileen Murtagh

  • Psychotic experiences in the general population, a review; definition, risk factors, outcomes and interventions

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  • Psychotic experiences in the population: Association with functioning and mental distress

    Ian Kelleher;Johanna T.W. Wigman;Michelle Harley;Michelle Harley;Erik O'Hanlon

  • Association of Urbanicity With Psychosis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

    Jordan E DeVylder;Ian Kelleher;Monique Lalane;Hans Oh

  • Neurocognition in the Extended Psychosis Phenotype: Performance of a Community Sample of Adolescents With Psychotic Symptoms on the MATRICS Neurocognitive Battery

    Ian Kelleher;Mary C. Clarke;Caroline Rawdon;Jennifer Murphy

  • PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCES AS A PREDICTOR OF THE NATURAL COURSE OF, SUICIDAL IDEATION: A SWEDISH COHORT STUDY

    Ian Kelleher;Martin Cederlöf;Paul Lichtenstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordan E. DeVylder
Jordan E. DeVylder Fordham University
Marco Sarchiapone
Marco Sarchiapone University of Molise
Christina W. Hoven
Christina W. Hoven Columbia University
Paul Corcoran
Paul Corcoran University College Cork
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Louise Arseneault
Louise Arseneault King's College London
Martin Debbané
Martin Debbané University of Geneva
Fiona McNicholas
Fiona McNicholas University College Dublin
Sebastian Lundström
Sebastian Lundström University of Gothenburg
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway

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