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Martha L. Bruce is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and psychology. Their research spans areas including general health professions, health, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics such as health disparities and outcomes, digital mental health interventions, aging and gerontology research, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, emergency and acute care studies, healthcare policy and management, and the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Courtney J. Stevens, Namkee G. Choi, Paul Barr, Renèe Pepin, and Mark T. Hegel. Their most common publication venues are the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, PEDIATRICS, Patient Education and Counseling, JAMA Network Open, and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Martha L. Bruce include:

  • One Year Impact on Social Connectedness for Homebound Older Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial of Tele-delivered Behavioral Activation Versus Tele-delivered Friendly Visits, 2021, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Improving Social Connectedness for Homebound Older Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial of Tele-Delivered Behavioral Activation Versus Tele-Delivered Friendly Visits, 2020, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Effect of Telehealth Treatment by Lay Counselors vs by Clinicians on Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults Who Are Homebound, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Social Disconnection in Late Life Suicide: An NIMH Workshop on State of the Research in Identifying Mechanisms, Treatment Targets, and Interventions, 2021, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Coordination of services for people with serious mental illness and general medical conditions: Perspectives from rural northeastern United States., 2020, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

Best Publications

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Late Life: Consensus Statement Update

    Barry D. Lebowitz;Jane L. Pearson;Lon S. Schneider;Charles F. Reynolds

  • Reducing Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed Older Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Martha L. Bruce;Thomas R. Ten Have;Charles F. Reynolds;Ira I. Katz

  • The prevalence and correlates of untreated serious mental illness.

    R C Kessler;P A Berglund;M L Bruce;J R Koch

  • Perceived Stigma as a Predictor of Treatment Discontinuation in Young and Older Outpatients With Depression

    Jo Anne Sirey;Martha L. Bruce;George S. Alexopoulos;Deborah A. Perlick

  • Stigma as a barrier to recovery: Perceived stigma and patient-rated severity of illness as predictors of antidepressant drug adherence.

    Jo Anne Sirey;Martha L. Bruce;George S. Alexopoulos;Deborah A. Perlick

  • Affective disorders in five United States communities.

    Myrna M. Weissman;Philip J. Leaf;Gary L. Tischler;Dan G. Blazer

  • High Occurrence of Mood and Anxiety Disorders Among Older Adults: The National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Amy L. Byers;Kristine Yaffe;Kenneth E. Covinsky;Michael B. Friedman

  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging.

    M L Bruce;T E Seeman;S S Merrill;D G Blazer

  • Poverty and Psychiatric Status: Longitudinal Evidence From the New Haven Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study

    Martha Livingston Bruce;David T. Takeuchi;Philip J. Leaf

  • Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance consensus statement on the unmet needs in diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders in late life.

    Dennis S. Charney;Charles F. Reynolds;Lydia Lewis;Barry D. Lebowitz

  • Depression and Disability in Late Life: Directions for Future Research

    Martha L. Bruce

  • Marital dissatisfaction and incidence of major depressive episode in a community sample.

    Mark A. Whisman;Martha L. Bruce

  • Major Depression in Elderly Home Health Care Patients

    Martha L. Bruce;Gail J. McAvay;Patrick J. Raue;Ellen L. Brown

  • Provisional diagnostic criteria for depression of Alzheimer disease.

    Jason T. Olin;Lon S. Schneider;Ira R. Katz;Barnett S. Meyers

  • Clinical presentation of the "depression-executive dysfunction syndrome" of late life.

    George S. Alexopoulos;Dimitris N. Kiosses;Sibel Klimstra;Balkrishna Kalayam

  • Psychosocial risk factors for depressive disorders in late life

    Martha L Bruce

  • Variation in the Impact of Social Network Characteristics on Physical Functioning in Elderly Persons: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

    Jennifer B. Unger;Gail McAvay;Martha L. Bruce;Lisa Berkman

  • The epidemiology of dysthymia in five communities: rates, risks, comorbidity, and treatment.

    Myrna M. Weissman;Philip J. Leaf;Martha L. Bruce;Louis Florio

  • Re-engineering systems for the treatment of depression in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial

    Allen J Dietrich;Thomas E Oxman;John W Williams;Herbert C Schulberg

  • Perceived Stigma and Patient-Rated Severity of Illness as Predictors of Antidepressant Drug Adherence

    Jo Anne Sirey;Martha L. Bruce;S. Alexopoulos;Deborah A. Perlick

Frequent Co-Authors

Jo Anne Sirey
Jo Anne Sirey Cornell University
George S. Alexopoulos
George S. Alexopoulos Cornell University
Charles F. Reynolds
Charles F. Reynolds University of Pittsburgh
Herbert C. Schulberg
Herbert C. Schulberg Cornell University
Benoit H. Mulsant
Benoit H. Mulsant Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Stephen J. Bartels
Stephen J. Bartels Harvard University
Namkee G. Choi
Namkee G. Choi The University of Texas at Austin
Jürgen Unützer
Jürgen Unützer University of Washington
Mark E. Kunik
Mark E. Kunik Baylor College of Medicine
Thomas G. McGuire
Thomas G. McGuire Harvard University

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