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Keith R. Laws is affiliated with the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a significant number of publications in Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Keith R. Laws has contributed to journals such as Comprehensive Psychiatry, Journal of Psychiatric Research, PLoS ONE, SSRN Electronic Journal, and BMC Psychology. The list of recent papers includes:

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2021, Comprehensive Psychiatry)
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety in children and young people on the autism spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, BMC Psychology)
  • The use of social robots with children and young people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Facing the "new normal": How adjusting to the easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions exposes mental health inequalities (2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research)
  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical implications (2022, Comprehensive Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors in their research are:

  • Naomi Fineberg
  • Luca Pellegrini
  • Lynne M. Drummond
  • David Wellsted
  • Jemma Reid

Best Publications

  • Cognitive-behavioural therapy for the symptoms of schizophrenia : systematic review and meta-analysis with examination of potential bias

    S. Jauhar;P. J. McKenna;J. Radua;E. Fung

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy for major psychiatric disorder: does it really work? A meta-analytical review of well-controlled trials.

    D. Lynch;K. R. Laws;P. J. McKenna

  • Hypofrontality in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis of functional imaging studies

    K. Hill;L. Mann;K. R. Laws;C. M. E. Stephenson

  • Sex differences in cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease.

    Keith R Laws;Karen Irvine;Tim M Gale

  • Greater cognitive deterioration in women than men with Alzheimer's disease: a meta analysis.

    Karen Irvine;Keith R. Laws;Tim M. Gale;Tejinder K. Kondel

  • The use of ketamine as an antidepressant: : A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Caoimhe M. Coyle;Keith R. Laws

  • Physical activity and mental health in a student population

    Philip Tyson;Kelly Wilson;Diane Crone;Richard Brailsford

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

    Jemma E. Reid;Jemma E. Reid;Keith R. Laws;Lynne Drummond;Matteo Vismara

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for schizophrenia - outcomes for functioning, distress and quality of life: a meta-analysis

    Keith R. Laws;Nicole Darlington;Tejinder K. Kondel;Peter J. McKenna

  • Self-reported interoceptive deficits in eating disorders: A meta-analysis of studies using the eating disorder inventory

    Paul M. Jenkinson;Lauren Taylor;Keith R. Laws

  • A Meta-analytic Review of Wisconsin Card Sort Studies in Schizophrenia: General Intellectual Deficit in Disguise?

    Keith R. Laws

  • Sex differences in Alzheimer's disease.

    Keith R. Laws;Karen Irvine;Karen Irvine;Tim M. Gale;Tim M. Gale

  • Is executive impairment associated with schizophrenic syndromes? A meta-analysis

    C.R.M. Dibben;C. Rice;K.R. Laws;P. J. McKenna

  • Are women better than men at multi-tasking?

    Gijsbert Stoet;Daryl B O’Connor;Mark Conner;Keith R Laws

  • Semantic priming in schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    E. Pomarol-Clotet;T. M. S. S. Oh;K. R. Laws;P. J. McKenna

  • A normal' category-specific advantage for naming living things.

    Keith R Laws;Christine Neve

  • Gender affects naming latencies for living and nonliving things: implications for familiarity.

    Keith R. Laws

  • The neuropsychology of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder : a new analysis

    Naomi A Fineberg;Grace A Day;Nica de Koenigswarter;Samar Reghunandanan

  • 'Normal' semantic-phonemic fluency discrepancy in Alzheimer's disease? A meta-analytic study.

    Keith R. Laws;Amy Duncan;Tim M. Gale

  • Testing for a deficit in single-case studies: Effects of departures from normality

    John R. Crawford;Paul H. Garthwaite;Adelchi Azzalini;David C. Howell

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. McKenna
Peter J. McKenna Fidmag Sisters Hospitallers
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
John Robertson Crawford
John Robertson Crawford University of Aberdeen
Giuseppe Sartori
Giuseppe Sartori University of Padua
Samuel R. Chamberlain
Samuel R. Chamberlain University of Southampton
Rosaleen A. McCarthy
Rosaleen A. McCarthy University of Cambridge
Lia Kvavilashvili
Lia Kvavilashvili University of Hertfordshire
Allan H. Young
Allan H. Young King's College London
Mark Conner
Mark Conner University of Leeds
James C. Coyne
James C. Coyne University of Groningen

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