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Jean-Michel Azorin

Jean-Michel Azorin

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Psychology
France
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
64
Citations
15311
World Ranking
2978
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Michel Azorin is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, supported by additional work in Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Biological Psychiatry.

Their scientific contributions cover major topics related to mood disorders and neuropsychiatric treatments, including:

  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Azorin has authored numerous papers that contribute to understanding mood disorders and their clinical implications. Significant recent publications include:

  • "Association between anhedonia and suicidal events in patients with mood disorders: A 3-year prospective study," 2020, published in Depression and Anxiety
  • "Symptom networks in acute depression across bipolar and major depressive disorders: A network analysis on a large, international, observational study," 2020, published in European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Allostatic load, emotional hyper-reactivity, and functioning in individuals with bipolar disorder," 2020, published in Bipolar Disorders
  • "Deconstructing major depressive episodes across unipolar and bipolar depression by severity and duration: a cross-diagnostic cluster analysis on a large, international, observational study," 2020, published in Translational Psychiatry
  • "The Impact of Bipolar Disorder on Couple Functioning: Implications for Care and Treatment. A Systematic Review," 2021, published in Medicina

The scientist frequently publishes in several specialized journals, which include:

  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • CNS Spectrums
  • Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology

Jean-Michel Azorin collaborates regularly with a network of coauthors, among whom the most frequent are:

  • Bruno Étain
  • V. Aubin
  • Marion Leboyer
  • Frank Bellivier
  • Raoul Belzeaux

Best Publications

  • The International Society for bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders

    Isabella Pacchiarotti;David J. Bond;Ross J. Baldessarini;Willem A. Nolen

  • Systematic clinical methodology for validating bipolar-II disorder : data in mid-stream from a French national multi-site study (EPIDEP)

    Elie G Hantouche;Hagop S Akiskal;Sylvie Lancrenon;Jean-François Allilaire

  • Lithium plus valproate combination therapy versus monotherapy for relapse prevention in bipolar I disorder (BALANCE): a randomised open-label trial.

    Balance investigators;Geddes;G M Goodwin

  • Prevalence and Characteristics of Undiagnosed Bipolar Disorders in Patients With a Major Depressive Episode: The BRIDGE Study

    Jules Angst;Jean Michel Azorin;Charles L. Bowden;Giulio Perugi

  • Rates and correlates of employment in people with schizophrenia in the UK, France and Germany

    Steven Marwaha;Sonia Johnson;Paul Bebbington;Mai Stafford

  • International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force on Suicide: meta-analyses and meta-regression of correlates of suicide attempts and suicide deaths in bipolar disorder.

    Ayal Schaffer;Erkki T. Isometsä;Leonardo Tondo;Doris H Moreno

  • Gender, temperament, and the clinical picture in dysphoric mixed mania: findings from a French national study (EPIMAN)

    Hagop S Akiskal;Elie G Hantouche;Marc L Bourgeois;Jean-Michel Azorin

  • A 12-week, double-blind comparison of olanzapine vs haloperidol in the treatment of acute mania.

    Mauricio Tohen;Mauricio Tohen;Joseph F. Goldberg;Ana Maria Gonzalez-Pinto Arrillaga;Jean M. Azorin

  • Responder and nonresponder patients exhibit different peripheral transcriptional signatures during major depressive episode.

    Raoul Belzeaux;Aurélie Bergon;Valérie Jeanjean;Béatrice Loriod

  • Depression in schizophrenia: recognition and management in the USA

    Samuel G Siris;Donald Addington;Jean-Michel Azorin;Ian R.H Falloon

  • Burden on caregivers of people with schizophrenia: comparison between Germany and Britain

    Christiane Roick;Dirk Heider;Paul E Bebbington;Matthias C Angermeyer

  • Validating antidepressant-associated hypomania (bipolar III): a systematic comparison with spontaneous hypomania (bipolar II).

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Elie-Georges Hantouche;Jean François Allilaire;Daniel Sechter

  • A double-blind comparative study of clozapine and risperidone in the management of severe chronic schizophrenia.

    Jean-Michel Azorin;René Spiegel;Gary Remington;Jean-Marie Vanelle

  • Epidemiology, neurobiology and pharmacological interventions related to suicide deaths and suicide attempts in bipolar disorder: Part I of a report of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force on Suicide in Bipolar Disorder.

    Ayal Schaffer;Erkki T Isometsä;Leonardo Tondo;Doris H Moreno

  • A differential role for interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α in schizophrenia?

    J Naudin;C Capo;B Giusano;J.L Mège

  • Mixed features in patients with a major depressive episode: the BRIDGE-II-MIX study

    Giulio Perugi;Jules Angst;Jean Michel Azorin;Charles L. Bowden

  • The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for the Biological Treatment of Bipolar Disorders: Acute and long-term treatment of mixed states in bipolar disorder

    Heinz Grunze;Eduard Vieta;Guy M. Goodwin;Charles Bowden

  • Trait-related decision-making impairment in the three phases of bipolar disorder

    Marc Adida;Fabrice Jollant;Luke Clark;Nathalie Besnier

  • Relationship of suicide rates to economic variables in Europe: 2000-2011

    Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis;Wolfram Kawohl;Pavlos N. Theodorakis;Ad J.F.M. Kerkhof

  • Antipsychotic and anxiolytic properties of risperidone, haloperidol, and methotrimeprazine in schizophrenic patients.

    Olivier Blin;Jean Michel Azorin;Philippe Bouhours

  • Valproate for the treatment of acute bipolar depression: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Lance Smith;Victoria Cornelius;J M Azorin;G Perugi

Frequent Co-Authors

Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Jules Angst
Jules Angst University of Zurich
Giulio Perugi
Giulio Perugi University of Pisa
Allan H. Young
Allan H. Young King's College London
Marion Leboyer
Marion Leboyer Paris-Est Créteil University
Hagop S. Akiskal
Hagop S. Akiskal University of California, San Diego
Christine Passerieux
Christine Passerieux Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Jan Scott
Jan Scott Newcastle University
Philip Gorwood
Philip Gorwood Université Paris Cité
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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