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2026
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Switzerland
2023

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Psychology

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120
Citations
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258
National Ranking
3

Medicine

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120
Citations
55125
World Ranking
3741
National Ranking
44

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2015 - Joseph Zubin Award, American Psychopathological Association

Overview

Jules Angst is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and psychology, with key subfields in psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, pharmacology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and speech and hearing.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Stuttering Research and Treatment

Among Jules Angst's recent publications are:

  • "Extended overview of the longitudinal pain-depression association: A comparison of six cohorts treated for specific chronic pain conditions," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Cannabis use during adolescence and the occurrence of depression, suicidality and anxiety disorder across adulthood: Findings from a longitudinal cohort study over 30 years," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Bipolar disorders in ICD-11: current status and strengths," 2020, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • "Symptom networks in acute depression across bipolar and major depressive disorders: A network analysis on a large, international, observational study," 2020, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Bipolar disorder cohort studies: Crucial, but underfunded," 2021, European Neuropsychopharmacology

Jules Angst frequently publishes in several academic venues including:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Translational Psychiatry

The scientist collaborates often with other researchers such as:

  • Eduard Vieta
  • Sergey Mosolov
  • Charles L. Bowden
  • Allan H. Young
  • Giulio Perugi

Jules Angst received the Joseph Zubin Award from the American Psychopathological Association in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Kathleen R. Merikangas;Hagop S. Akiskal;Jules Angst;Paul E. Greenberg

  • Re-evaluating the prevalence of and diagnostic composition within the broad clinical spectrum of bipolar disorders.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Marc L. Bourgeois;Jules Angst;Robert Post

  • Mortality of patients with mood disorders: follow-up over 34–38 years

    F. Angst;H. H. Stassen;Paula J Clayton;J. Angst

  • Toward a re-definition of subthreshold bipolarity: epidemiology and proposed criteria for bipolar-II, minor bipolar disorders and hypomania.

    Jules Angst;Alex Gamma;Franco Benazzi;Vladeta Ajdacic

  • The emerging epidemiology of hypomania and bipolar II disorder.

    Jules Angst

  • Prevalence, course, and comorbidity of insomnia and depression in young adults.

    Daniel J. Buysse;Jules Angst;Alex Gamma;Vladeta Ajdacic

  • The HCL-32: towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients

    Jules Angst;Rolf Adolfsson;Franco Benazzi;Alex Gamma

  • The association between short sleep duration and obesity in young adults: a 13-year prospective study.

    Gregor Hasler;Gregor Hasler;Daniel J Buysse;Richard Klaghofer;Alex Gamma

  • Cost of depression in Europe.

    Patrik Sobocki;Bengt Jönsson;Jules Angst;Clas Rehnberg

  • Gender differences in depression. Epidemiological findings from the European DEPRES I and II studies.

    J. Angst;A. Gamma;M. Gastpar;J.-P. Lépine

  • World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders, Part 1: Update 2013 on the Acute and Continuation Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders

    Michael Bauer;Andrea Pfennig;Emanuel Severus;Peter C. Whybrow

  • Migraine and Psychopathology: Results of the Zurich Cohort Study of Young Adults

    Kathleen R. Merikangas;Jules Angst;Hansruedi Isler

  • The Zurich Study. XII. Sex differences in depression. Evidence from longitudinal epidemiological data.

    C. Ernst;J. Angst

  • Longitudinal trajectories of depression and anxiety in a prospective community study: the Zurich Cohort Study.

    Kathleen Ries Merikangas;Heping Zhang;Shelli Avenevoli;Suddhasatta Acharyya

  • Positron Emission Tomography and Fluorodeoxyglucose Studies of Metabolic Hyperfrontality and Psychopathology in the Psilocybin Model of Psychosis

    FX Vollenweider;Klaus Leenders;C Scharfetter;P Maguire

  • 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

  • World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders in Primary Care.

    Michael Bauer;Tom Bschor;Andrea Pfennig;Peter C. Whybrow

  • Prevalence and burden of bipolar disorders in European countries

    Stefano Pini;Valéria de Queiroz;Daniel Pagnin;Lukas Pezawas

  • Historical perspectives and natural history of bipolar disorder.

    Jules Angst;Robert Sellaro

  • Suicide risk in patients with major depressive disorder.

    Jules Angst;Felix Angst;H. H. Stassen

  • The Association Between Short Sleep Duration and Obesity in Young Adults: a 13-Year Prospective Study SLEEP, SLEEP RESTRICTION, AND PERFORMANCE

    Gregor Hasler;Daniel J. Buysse;Richard Klaghofer;Alex Gamma

Frequent Co-Authors

Wulf Rössler
Wulf Rössler University of Zurich
Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross University of Zurich
Kathleen R. Merikangas
Kathleen R. Merikangas National Institutes of Health
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Michael Pascal Hengartner
Michael Pascal Hengartner Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Giulio Perugi
Giulio Perugi University of Pisa
Allan H. Young
Allan H. Young King's College London
Charles L. Bowden
Charles L. Bowden The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Jean-Michel Azorin
Jean-Michel Azorin Aix-Marseille University
Gregor Hasler
Gregor Hasler University of Fribourg

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