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James F. Leckman

James F. Leckman

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D-Index
169
Citations
96055
World Ranking
546
National Ranking
322

Overview

James F. Leckman is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a concentration on Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. They have also contributed to Psychiatry and Mental Health, Education, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Recent publications by James F. Leckman include:

  • "Prevalence of mental disorders in school children and adolescents in China: diagnostic data from detailed clinical assessments of 17,524 individuals," 2021, published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • "Effects of the Global Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Term Risks and Mitigating Program and Policy Actions," 2020, published in The Journal of Pediatrics
  • "The prevalence of behavioral and emotional problems among Chinese school children and adolescents aged 6-16: a national survey," 2020, published in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Antibodies From Children With PANDAS Bind Specifically to Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons and Alter Their Activity," 2020, published in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Towards a definitive symptom structure of obsessive−compulsive disorder: a factor and network analysis of 87 distinct symptoms in 1366 individuals," 2021, published in Psychological Medicine

Frequent co-authors of this scientist are:

  • Eurípedes Constantino Miguel (12 collaborations)
  • Flora M. Vaccarino (11 collaborations)
  • Michael H. Bloch (9 collaborations)
  • Alexej Abyzov (8 collaborations)
  • Denis G. Sukhodolsky (8 collaborations)

James F. Leckman has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (11 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Psychological Medicine (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Neurology (3 publications)

In addition to articles, they have authored books including "Tourette Syndrome," published in 2022 by Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale: Initial Testing of a Clinician-Rated Scale of Tic Severity

    James F. Leckman;Mark A. Riddle;Maureen T. Hardin;Sharon I. Ort

  • Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: Reliability and Validity

    Lawrence Scahill;Mark A. Riddle;Maureen McSWIGGIN-HARDIN;Sharon I. Ort

  • Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

    Pia R Britto;Stephen J Lye;Kerrie Proulx;Aisha K Yousafzai

  • Best estimate of lifetime psychiatric diagnosis: a methodological study.

    James F. Leckman;Diane Sholomskas;Douglas Thompson;Arthur Belanger

  • A Multidimensional Model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    David Mataix-Cols;Maria Conceição do Rosario-Campos;James F. Leckman

  • A family study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    D L Pauls;J P Alsobrook nd;W Goodman;S Rasmussen

  • A Family Study of Schizoaffective, Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Unipolar, and Normal Control Probands

    Elliot S. Gershon;Joel Hamovit;Juliet J. Guroff;Eleanor Dibble

  • Sequence variants in SLITRK1 are associated with Tourette's syndrome.

    Jesse F. Abelson;Kenneth Y. Kwan;Brian J. O'Roak;Danielle Y. Baek

  • Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    James F. Leckman;Dorothy E. Grice;James Boardman;Heping Zhang

  • Tourette's syndrome.

    James F Leckman

  • Practitioner Review: Engaging fathers – recommendations for a game change in parenting interventions based on a systematic review of the global evidence

    Catherine Panter-Brick;Adrienne Burgess;Mark Eggerman;Fiona McAllister

  • Haloperidol Addition in Fluvoxamine-Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Study in Patients With and Without Tics

    Christopher J. McDougle;Wayne K. Goodman;James F. Leckman;Nicole C. Lee

  • Meta-analysis of the symptom structure of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Michael H. Bloch;Angeli Landeros-Weisenberger;Maria C. Rosario;Christopher Pittenger

  • Course of Tic Severity in Tourette Syndrome: The First Two Decades

    James F. Leckman;Heping Zhang;Amy Vitale;Fatima Lahnin

  • Premonitory Urges in Tourette's Syndrome

    James F. Leckman;David E. Walker;Donald J. Cohen

  • Mortality in children, adolescents, and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a nationwide cohort study.

    Søren Dalsgaard;Søren Dinesen Østergaard;Søren Dinesen Østergaard;James F Leckman;Preben Bo Mortensen;Preben Bo Mortensen

  • A systematic review : antipsychotic augmentation with treatment refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder

    M H Bloch;A Landeros-Weisenberger;B Kelmendi;V Coric

  • Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Evidence supporting a genetic relationship.

    David L. Pauls;Kenneth E. Towbin;James F. Leckman;Gwendolyn E. P. Zahner

  • The inheritance of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome and associated behaviors. Evidence for autosomal dominant transmission.

    David L. Pauls;James F. Leckman

  • Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Parents and Children: Results From the Yale Family Study

    Myrna M. Weissman;James F. Leckman;Kathleen R. Merikangas;G. Davis Gammon

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald J. Cohen
Donald J. Cohen Yale University
David L. Pauls
David L. Pauls Harvard University
Robert A. King
Robert A. King Yale University
Mark A. Riddle
Mark A. Riddle Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael H. Bloch
Michael H. Bloch Yale University
Bradley S. Peterson
Bradley S. Peterson University of Southern California
Lawrence Scahill
Lawrence Scahill Emory University
Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman Reichman University
Paul J. Lombroso
Paul J. Lombroso Yale University
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo

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