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Isobel Heyman is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has an extensive research portfolio in the intersecting fields of medicine and psychology. Their work primarily focuses on clinical psychology, speech and hearing, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's research centers around multiple topics, including adolescent and pediatric healthcare, long-term effects of COVID-19, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, COVID-19 and mental health, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Heyman has contributed to research published in various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among recent papers featured in notable journals are:

  • "Physical and mental health 3 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection (long COVID) among adolescents in England (CLoCk): a national matched cohort study," 2022, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • "Long COVID (post-COVID-19 condition) in children: a modified Delphi process," 2022, Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • "COVID-19 related increase in childhood tics and tic-like attacks," 2021, Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • "Therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents in England (ORBIT): a multicentre, parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial," 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Natural course of health and well-being in non-hospitalised children and young people after testing for SARS-CoV-2: a prospective follow-up study over 12 months," 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Heyman collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Roz Shafran, Sophie Bennett, Emma Dalrymple, Terence Stephenson, and Tamsin Ford. Collaborative efforts span through multiple domains of pediatric healthcare and clinical psychology.

This compositional and collaborative activity places Isobel Heyman at the intersection of clinical and developmental research, with a particular emphasis on pediatric and adolescent populations impacted by neurological and psychological conditions as well as the long-term outcomes of COVID-19.

Best Publications

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Progressive increase of frontostriatal brain activation from childhood to adulthood during event-related tasks of cognitive control.

    Katya Rubia;Anna B. Smith;James Woolley;Chiara Nosarti

  • Prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the British nationwide survey of child mental health.

    Isobel Heyman;E. Fombonne;H. Simmons;T. Ford

  • A population survey of mental health problems in children with epilepsy

    Sharon Davies;Isobel Heyman;Robert Goodman

  • Even-numbered rhombomeres control the apoptotic elimination of neural crest cells from odd-numbered rhombomeres in the chick hindbrain

    A. Graham;I. Heyman;A. Lumsden

  • Long-term outcomes of obsessive–compulsive disorder: follow-up of 142 children and adolescents

    Nadia Micali;Isobel Heyman;M. Perez;K. Hilton

  • Disorder-specific dysfunction in right inferior prefrontal cortex during two inhibition tasks in boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder compared to boys with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Katya Rubia;Ana Cubillo;Anna B. Smith;James Woolley

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder

    I Heyman;D Mataix-Cols;N A Fineberg

  • D-Cycloserine Augmentation of Exposure-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data.

    David Mataix-Cols;Lorena Fernández de la Cruz;Benedetta Monzani;David Rosenfield

  • Structure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in pediatric OCD

    David Mataix-Cols;Eriko Nakatani;Nadia Micali;Isobel Heyman

  • De Novo Coding Variants Are Strongly Associated with Tourette Disorder.

    A. J. Willsey;T. V. Fernandez;D. Yu;R. A. King

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents

    Georgina Krebs;Isobel Heyman

  • Brain activation in paediatric obsessive compulsive disorder during tasks of inhibitory control.

    James Woolley;Isobel Heyman;Mick Brammer;Ian Frampton

  • Changes in gray matter volume and white matter microstructure in adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Mojtaba Zarei;David Mataix-Cols;Isobel Heyman;Morgan Hough

  • Cognitive behavior therapy for comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: a randomized controlled trial.

    Ailsa J. Russell;Amita Jassi;Miguel A. Fullana;Hilary Mack

  • The quality of life of young people with Tourette syndrome.

    D. Cutler;T. Murphy;J. Gilmour;I. Heyman

  • Perceptions of treatment for tics among young people with Tourette syndrome and their parents: a mixed methods study

    José Cuenca;Cris Glazebrook;Tim Kendall;Tammy Hedderly

  • Psychological interventions for mental health disorders in children with chronic physical illness: a systematic review

    Sophie Bennett;Roz Shafran;Anna Coughtrey;Susan Walker

  • Clinical effectiveness and patient perspectives of different treatment strategies for tics in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome: a systematic review and qualitative analysis

    Chris Hollis;Mary Pennant;Jose Cuenca;Cris Glazebrook

  • Practitioner Review: Unguided and guided self-help interventions for common mental health disorders in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Sophie D. Bennett;Pim Cuijpers;David Daniel Ebert;Mhairi McKenzie Smith

  • Incidence of anti-brain antibodies in children with obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Russell C Dale;Isobel Heyman;Gavin Giovannoni;Andre W J Church

  • Psychopathology in children with epilepsy before and after temporal lobe resection

    A McLellan;S Davies;I Heyman;B Harding

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder in children and adolescents

    Reenee Barton;Isobel Heyman

Frequent Co-Authors

David Mataix-Cols
David Mataix-Cols Karolinska Institute
Roz Shafran
Roz Shafran University College London
David Veale
David Veale King's College London
Georgina M. Jackson
Georgina M. Jackson University of Nottingham
Rona Moss-Morris
Rona Moss-Morris King's College London
Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford University of Cambridge
Veit Roessner
Veit Roessner TU Dresden
Andrea Dietrich
Andrea Dietrich University of Groningen
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

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