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Overview

John E. Overall was affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research focused primarily on health professions and social sciences, with subfields including general health professions, education, gender studies, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist contributed to topics related to child and adolescent health, early childhood education and development, food security and health in diverse populations, diversity and career in medicine, as well as medical education and admissions.

Their publication record included papers in notable academic venues such as The Journal of Pediatrics and Academic Pediatrics. Among their recent papers were:

  • Gaps, Successes, and Opportunities Related to Social Drivers of Health from the Perspectives of Black Preterm Infant Caregivers: A Qualitative Study (2025, The Journal of Pediatrics)
  • And Still We Rise: Advances in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Antiracism in Academic Pediatrics (2025, Academic Pediatrics)

John E. Overall collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Kayla L. Karvonen
  • Erica Anunwah
  • Stephen Gilmore
  • Ursula Griffiths-Randolph
  • Kristine Karvonen

Best Publications

  • The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS): Recent developments in ascertainment and scaling.

    John E. Overall;Donald R. Gorham

  • Concerning least squares analysis of experimental data.

    John E. Overall;Douglas K. Spiegel

  • Nosology of Depression and Differential Response to Drugs

    John E. Overall;Leo E. Hollister;Merlin Johnson;Veronica Pennington

  • Major Psychiatric Disorders: A Four-Dimensional Model

    John E. Overall;Leo E. Hollister;Pierre Pichot

  • Phenomenological correlates of metabolic activity in 18 patients with chronic schizophrenia.

    N. D. Volkow;A. P. Wolf;P. Van Gelder;J. D. Brodie

  • Lithium in Hospitalized Aggressive Children with Conduct Disorder: A Double-Blind and Placebo-Controlled Study

    Magda Campbell;Phillip B. Adams;Arthur M. Small;Vivian Kafantaris

  • Neuroleptic-Related Dyskinesias in Autistic Children: A Prospective, Longitudinal Study

    Magda Campbell;Jorge L. Armenteros;Richard P. Malone;Phillip B. Adams

  • Recovery of brain glucose metabolism in detoxified alcoholics.

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene Jack Wang;Robert Hitzemann;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Unreliability of difference scores: A paradox for measurement of change.

    John E. Overall;J. Arthur Woodward

  • Replication and Extension of P50 Findings in Schizophrenia

    Nashaat N. Boutros;G. Zouridakis;J. Overall

  • Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on cerebral blood flow measured with PET.

    Nora D. Volkow;Nizar Mullani;Lance Gould;Stephen S. Adler

  • The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) in Geropsychiatric Research: I. Factor Structure on an Inpatient Unit

    John E. Overall;Suha A. Beller

  • Carbamazepine in Aggressive Children with Conduct Disorder: A Double-Blind and Placebo-Controlled Study

    Jeanette E. Cueva;John E. Overall;Arthur M. Small;Jorge L. Armenteros

  • The Alzheimer's disease activities of daily living international scale (ADL-IS).

    Barry Reisberg;Sanford Finkel;John Overall;Norbert Schmidt-Gollas

  • Physostigmine: Effects on cognition and affect in normal subjects

    Kenneth L. Davis;Leo E. Hollister;John Overall;Anne Johnson

  • Long-term efficacy of haloperidol in autistic children: continuous versus discontinuous drug administration.

    Richard Perry;Magda Campbell;Phillip Adams;Nona Lynch

  • The MMPI-168 for Psychiatric Screening:

    John E. Overall;Francisco Gomez-Mont

  • Estimating sample sizes for repeated measurement designs

    John E. Overall;Suzanne R. Doyle

  • Tardive and withdrawal dyskinesia in autistic children: a prospective study.

    Campbell M;Adams P;Perry R;Spencer Ek

  • Efficacy of combinations of intramuscular antipsychotics and sedative-hypnotics for control of psychotic agitation.

    Garza-Treviño Es;Hollister Le;Overall Je;Alexander Wf

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard M. Rhoades
Howard M. Rhoades The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health
Joanna S. Fowler
Joanna S. Fowler Brookhaven National Laboratory
James N. Butcher
James N. Butcher University of Minnesota
Leonard W. Poon
Leonard W. Poon University of Georgia
Ian Hindmarch
Ian Hindmarch University of Surrey
Joy M. Schmitz
Joy M. Schmitz The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
David J. Francis
David J. Francis University of Houston
Jacob Cohen
Jacob Cohen New York University

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