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Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy

Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy

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Psychology

D-Index
52
Citations
11070
World Ranking
4983
National Ranking
2734

Overview

Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, focusing extensively on mental health and trauma-related topics.

The primary fields of study for this researcher include Psychology and Medicine, with notable work in several subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Applied Psychology.

The main research topics addressed by Galatzer-Levy cover Mental Health Research Topics, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Traumatic Brain Injury Research.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Traumatic Stress, and JAMA Psychiatry.

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Galatzer-Levy are Vijay Yadav, Katharina Schultebraucks, Anzar Abbas, Vidya Koesmahargyo, and Birgit Kleim.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on machine learning applications, stress disorders, and resilience in the context of trauma:

  • Modern views of machine learning for precision psychiatry, 2022, published in Patterns
  • A validated predictive algorithm of post-traumatic stress course following emergency department admission after a traumatic stressor, 2020, published in Nature Medicine
  • Deep learning-based classification of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression following trauma utilizing visual and auditory markers of arousal and mood, 2020, published in Psychological Medicine
  • Resilience to potential trauma and adversity through regulatory flexibility, 2023, published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Resilience and Disaster: Flexible Adaptation in the Face of Uncertain Threat, 2023, published in Annual Review of Psychology

Best Publications

  • Identification of a common neurobiological substrate for mental illness.

    Madeleine Goodkind;Simon B. Eickhoff;Desmond J. Oathes;Desmond J. Oathes;Ying Jiang;Ying Jiang

  • 636,120 Ways to Have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder:

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Richard A. Bryant

  • Trajectories of resilience and dysfunction following potential trauma: A review and statistical evaluation.

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Sandy H. Huang;George A. Bonanno

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • Trajectories of resilience, depression, and anxiety following spinal cord injury.

    George A. Bonanno;Paul Kennedy;Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Peter Lude

  • Coping Flexibility, Potentially Traumatic Life Events, and Resilience: A Prospective Study of College Student Adjustment

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Charles L. Burton;George A. Bonanno

  • Quantitative forecasting of PTSD from early trauma responses: A Machine Learning application

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Karen-Inge Karstoft;Alexander Statnikov;Arieh Y. Shalev

  • Trajectory of post-traumatic stress following traumatic injury: 6-year follow-up

    Richard A Bryant;Angela Nickerson;Mark Creamer;Meaghan O'Donnell

  • Patterns of lifetime PTSD comorbidity: a latent class analysis.

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Angela Nickerson;Brett T. Litz;Charles R. Marmar

  • Beyond normality in the study of bereavement: Heterogeneity in depression outcomes following loss in older adults

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;George A. Bonanno

  • The impact of killing and injuring others on mental health symptoms among police officers.

    Irina Komarovskaya;Shira Maguen;Shannon E. McCaslin;Thomas J. Metzler

  • Positive and Negative Emotion Prospectively Predict Trajectories of Resilience and Distress Among High-Exposure Police Officers

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Adam D. Brown;Clare Henn-Haase;Thomas J. Metzler

  • Amygdala Reactivity and Anterior Cingulate Habituation Predict Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Maintenance After Acute Civilian Trauma.

    Jennifer S. Stevens;Ye Ji Kim;Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Renuka Reddy

  • Early PTSD Symptom Trajectories: Persistence, Recovery, and Response to Treatment: Results from the Jerusalem Trauma Outreach and Prevention Study (J-TOPS)

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Yael Ankri;Sara Freedman;Yossi Israeli-Shalev

  • Bridging a translational gap: using machine learning to improve the prediction of PTSD

    Karen-Inge Karstoft;Isaac R Galatzer-Levy;Alexander Statnikov;Zhiguo Li

  • Modern views of machine learning for precision psychiatry

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  • Utilization of machine learning for prediction of post-traumatic stress: a re-examination of cortisol in the prediction and pathways to non-remitting PTSD

    I R Galatzer-Levy;S Ma;A Statnikov;R Yehuda

  • Peritraumatic and Trait Dissociation Differentiate Police Officers with Resilient versus Symptomatic Trajectories of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Anita Madan;Thomas C. Neylan;Clare Henn-Haase

  • Prediction of Sex-Specific Suicide Risk Using Machine Learning and Single-Payer Health Care Registry Data From Denmark.

    Jaimie L. Gradus;Jaimie L. Gradus;Anthony J. Rosellini;Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó;Amy E. Street;Amy E. Street

  • Optimism and Death: Predicting the Course and Consequences of Depression Trajectories in Response to Heart Attack

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;George A. Bonanno

  • Heterogeneity in threat extinction learning: substantive and methodological considerations for identifying individual difference in response to stress

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;George A. Bonanno;David E. A. Bush;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Cortisol response to an experimental stress paradigm prospectively predicts long-term distress and resilience trajectories in response to active police service

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Maria M. Steenkamp;Adam D. Brown;Meng Qian

Frequent Co-Authors

George A. Bonanno
George A. Bonanno Columbia University
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Barbara O. Rothbaum
Barbara O. Rothbaum Emory University
Tanja Jovanovic
Tanja Jovanovic Wayne State University
Birgit Kleim
Birgit Kleim University of Zurich
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Urte Scholz
Urte Scholz University of Zurich
Thomas C. Neylan
Thomas C. Neylan University of California, San Francisco
Anthony J. Rosellini
Anthony J. Rosellini Boston University
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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