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James B. Kirkbride is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, health, social psychology, and general health professions.

The scientist's main topics of work include schizophrenia research and treatment, health disparities and outcomes, mental health treatment and access, bipolar disorder and treatment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, migration, health and trauma, as well as genetic associations and epidemiology.

Recent significant publications by James B. Kirkbride include:

  • The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations, 2024, World Psychiatry

Other notable recent papers in related research areas include:

  • Age at onset of mental disorders worldwide: large-scale meta-analysis of 192 epidemiological studies, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Mental health in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The association between income inequality and adult mental health at the subnational level-a systematic review, 2021, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Social disadvantage, linguistic distance, ethnic minority status and first-episode psychosis: results from the EU-GEI case-control study, 2020, Psychological Medicine

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Peter B. Jones
  • Hannah E. Jongsma
  • Charlotte Gayer-Anderson
  • Eva Velthorst
  • Diego Quattrone

The scientist has contributed extensively to various publication venues, with a notable number of publications in:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BJPsych Open

James B. Kirkbride has also authored book publications with Cambridge University Press, including the title Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry (2024).

Best Publications

  • Age at onset of mental disorders worldwide: large-scale meta-analysis of 192 epidemiological studies.

    Marco Solmi;Marco Solmi;Joaquim Radua;Joaquim Radua;Miriam Olivola;Enrico Croce

  • The contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across Europe (EU-GEI): a multicentre case-control study

    Marta Di Forti;Marta Di Forti;Marta Di Forti;Diego Quattrone;Diego Quattrone;Diego Quattrone;Tom P. Freeman;Giada Tripoli

  • Heterogeneity in incidence rates of schizophrenia and other psychotic syndromes: Findings from the 3-center ÆSOP study

    James B Kirkbride;Paul Fearon;Craig Morgan;Paola Dazzan

  • Incidence of schizophrenia and other psychoses in ethnic minority groups: results from the MRC AESOP study

    Paul Fearon;James B. Kirkbride;Craig Morgan;Paola Dazzan

  • Incidence of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses in England, 1950–2009: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses

    James B. Kirkbride;Antonia Errazuriz;Tim J. Croudace;Craig Morgan

  • Air Pollution (Particulate Matter) Exposure and Associations with Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, Psychosis and Suicide Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Isobel Braithwaite;Shuo Zhang;James B. Kirkbride;David P. J. Osborn;David P. J. Osborn

  • Shareholding Versus Stakeholding: A Critical Review of Corporate Governance

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  • Psychosis and Place

    Dana March;Stephani L. Hatch;Craig Morgan;James B. Kirkbride

  • WPA guidance on mental health and mental health care in migrants

    D. Bhugra;S. Gupta;K. Bhui;T. Craig

  • Substance use in a population-based clinic sample of people with first-episode psychosis

    Jennifer H. Barnett;Ursula Werners;Sandra M. Secher;Katherine E. Hill

  • Parental separation, loss and psychosis in different ethnic groups: a case-control study

    Craig Morgan;James Kirkbride;Julian Leff;Tom Craig

  • Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions in Schizophrenia: Contemporary Challenges for Integrated, Large-scale Investigations

    Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Bart P. Rutten;Inez Myin-Germeys;Philippe Delespaul

  • Treated Incidence of Psychotic Disorders in the Multinational EU-GEI Study.

    Hannah Jongsma;Charlotte Gayer-Anderson;Antonio Lasalvia;Diego Quattrone

  • Refugee migration and risk of schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses: cohort study of 1.3 million people in Sweden.

    Anna-Clara Hollander;Henrik Dal;Glyn Lewis;Cecilia Magnusson

  • Raised incidence rates of all psychoses among migrant groups: findings from the East London first episode psychosis study.

    Jeremy W. Coid;James B. Kirkbride;Dave Barker;Fiona Cowden

  • International incidence of psychotic disorders, 2002-17: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Hannah E Jongsma;Hannah E Jongsma;Caitlin Turner;James B Kirkbride;Peter B Jones

  • Social Deprivation, Inequality, and the Neighborhood-Level Incidence of Psychotic Syndromes in East London

    James B. Kirkbride;Peter B. Jones;Simone Ullrich;Jeremy W. Coid

  • Cumulative social disadvantage, ethnicity and first-episode psychosis: a case-control study

    Craig Morgan;James B. Kirkbride;Gerard Hutchinson;Tom K.J. Craig

  • Neighbourhood-level effects on psychoses: re-examining the role of context.

    James B. Kirkbride;Craig Morgan;Paul Fearon;Paola Dazzan

  • Psychoses, ethnicity and socio-economic status

    J. B. Kirkbride;D. Barker;F. Cowden;R. Stamps

  • Mortality in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses: A 10-Year Follow-up of the ӔSOP First-Episode Cohort

    Ulrich Reininghaus;Rina Dutta;Paola Dazzan;Gillian A. Doody

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig Morgan
Craig Morgan King's College London
Eva Velthorst
Eva Velthorst Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Marta Di Forti
Marta Di Forti King's College London
Bart P. F. Rutten
Bart P. F. Rutten Maastricht University Medical Centre
Julio Bobes
Julio Bobes University of Oviedo
Julio Sanjuan
Julio Sanjuan University of Valencia
Jesus Perez
Jesus Perez University of Cambridge
Celso Arango
Celso Arango Complutense University of Madrid
Miguel Bernardo
Miguel Bernardo University of Barcelona
Pierre-Michel Llorca
Pierre-Michel Llorca University of Clermont Auvergne

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