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Igor Galynker is affiliated with Mount Sinai Beth Israel in the United States and has an extensive publication record in psychology and medicine with a specialized focus on clinical psychology and psychiatry.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to suicide and self-harm studies, mental health treatment and access, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, posttraumatic stress disorder research, traumatic brain injury research, and resilience and mental health.

The scientist has published frequently in several academic journals, notably:

  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Psychiatry Research
  • European Psychiatry

Among recent papers authored with various collaborators are:

  • The suicide crisis syndrome: A network analysis. (2020) Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • How do distal and proximal risk factors combine to predict suicidal ideation and behaviors? A prospective study of the narrative crisis model of suicide (2020) Journal of Affective Disorders
  • The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompt Engineering Techniques (2024) arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The revised suicide crisis inventory (SCI-2): Validation and assessment of prospective suicidal outcomes at one month follow-up (2021) Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Assessment of near-term risk for suicide attempts using the suicide crisis inventory (2020) Journal of Affective Disorders

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Megan L. Rogers
  • Sarah Bloch-Elkouby
  • Lisa J. Cohen
  • Jenelle Richards
  • Shira Barzilay

Igor Galynker's main fields of study encompass:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Subfields of research where they are active include:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The nature of research conducted reflects an interdisciplinary approach integrating psychological assessment tools, theoretical models of suicide risk, and mental health intervention strategies. The publication venues and frequent topics indicate a focus on both fundamental clinical insights and applied mental health research.

Best Publications

  • Effective medical treatment of opiate addiction

    L. L. Judd;M. G. Marston;C. Attkisson;W. Berrettini

  • Chemical consequences of conformation in macrocyclic compounds

    W.Clark Still;Igor Galynker

  • Hypofrontality and negative symptoms in major depressive disorder.

    Igor I. Galynker;Jun Cai;Fukiat Ongseng;Howard Finestone

  • Psychiatric symptoms in caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder: A review

    Annie Steele;Nancy Maruyama;Igor Galynker

  • Heterosexual male perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse: a preliminary neuropsychiatric model.

    Lisa J. Cohen;Konstantin Nikiforov;Sniezyna Gans;Olga Poznansky

  • Neuropsychological functioning in opiate-dependent subjects receiving and following methadone maintenance treatment.

    James Prosser;Lisa J. Cohen;Matthew Steinfeld;Daniel Eisenberg

  • Clinical features of pedophilia and implications for treatment.

    Lisa J. Cohen;Igor I. Galynker

  • Predictors of relapse in bipolar disorder: A review.

    Susan Altman;Sophia Haeri;Lisa J Cohen;Aleksey Ten

  • Prediction of suicidal behavior in high risk psychiatric patients using an assessment of acute suicidal state: The suicide crisis inventory

    Igor Galynker M.D.;Zimri S. Yaseen;Abigail Cohen;Ori Benhamou

  • Methylphenidate treatment of negative symptoms in patients with dementia.

    I Galynker;C Ieronimo;C Miner;J Rosenblum

  • Suicide Crisis Syndrome: A review of supporting evidence for a new suicide-specific diagnosis.

    Allison Schuck;Raffaella Calati;Shira Barzilay;Sarah Bloch-Elkouby

  • Panic as an independent risk factor for suicide attempt in depressive illness: Findings from the national epidemiological survey on alcohol and related conditions (NESARC).

    Curren Katz;Zimri S. Yaseen;Ramin Mojtabai;Lisa J. Cohen

  • Are there differential relationships between different types of childhood maltreatment and different types of adult personality pathology

    Lisa Janet Cohen;Thachell Tanis;Reetuparna Bhattacharjee;Christina Nesci

  • Hypersexuality and couple relationships in bipolar disorder: A review

    Irina Kopeykina;Hae-Joon Kim;Tasnia Khatun;Jennifer Boland

  • Impulsive personality traits in male pedophiles versus healthy controls: is pedophilia an impulsive-aggressive disorder?

    Lisa J. Cohen;Sniezyna Watras Gans;Pamela G. McGeoch;Olga Poznansky

  • Psychiatric comorbidity associated with synthetic cannabinoid use compared to cannabis.

    Anahita Bassir Nia;Benjamin Medrano;Charles Perkel;Igor Galynker

  • Methadone withdrawal psychosis.

    I Levinson;I I Galynker;R N Rosenthal

  • Parental affectionless control and suicidality

    Simona Goschin;Jessica Briggs;Sally Blanco-Lutzen;Lisa J. Cohen

  • Relationship between drug company funding and outcomes of clinical psychiatric research

    Robert E. Kelly;Lisa J. Cohen;Randye J. Semple;Philip Bialer

  • Personality impairment in male pedophiles.

    Lisa J Cohen;Pamela G McGeoch;Sniezyna Watras-Gans;Sara Acker

Frequent Co-Authors

Megan L. Rogers
Megan L. Rogers Texas State University
Edythe D. London
Edythe D. London University of California, Los Angeles
Todd E. Feinberg
Todd E. Feinberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Joy Hirsch
Joy Hirsch Yale University
Katherine N. DuHamel
Katherine N. DuHamel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Michael Pascal Hengartner
Michael Pascal Hengartner Zurich University of Applied Sciences
John A. Matochik
John A. Matochik National Institutes of Health
Stuart W G Derbyshire
Stuart W G Derbyshire National University of Singapore
Raffaella Calati
Raffaella Calati University of Milano-Bicocca

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