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Martin Debbané is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and medicine. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and philosophy.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, personality disorders and psychopathology, functional brain connectivity studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, psychotherapy techniques and applications, and broader mental health and psychiatry themes.

Martin Debbané has co-authored numerous papers, collaborating most often with Nader Perroud, Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero, Mélodie Derome, Paco Prada, and Susana Al-Halabí.

The venues in which they publish most regularly include:

  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Among significant recent papers are:

  • "Risk and Protective Factors in Adolescent Suicidal Behaviour: A Network Analysis," 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Youth screening depression: Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in a representative sample of adolescents," 2023, Psychiatry Research
  • "Cortical and subcortical neuroanatomical signatures of schizotypy in 3004 individuals assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study," 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Mentalization and Psychosis: A Rationale for the Use of Mentalization Theory to Understand and Treat Non-affective Psychotic Disorder," 2020, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
  • "Designing a range of mentalizing interventions for young people using a clinical staging approach to borderline pathology," 2020, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation

In addition to journal articles, Martin Debbané has published work with Cambridge University Press, including the book titled Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) (2023).

Best Publications

  • Psychiatric disorders from childhood to adulthood in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: results from the International Consortium on Brain and Behavior in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome.

    Maude Schneider;Martin Debbané;Anne S. Bassett;Eva W.C. Chow

  • Degrees of separation: A quantitative neuroimaging meta-analysis investigating self-specificity and shared neural activation between self- and other-reflection

    Ryan James Murray;Marie Schaer;Martin Debbané

  • Psychiatric disorders and intellectual functioning throughout development in velocardiofacial (22q11.2 deletion) syndrome.

    Tamar Green;Doron Gothelf;Bronwyn Glaser;Martin Debbane

  • Developing Psychosis and Its Risk States Through the Lens of Schizotypy

    Martin Debbané;Stéphan Eliez;Deborah Myriam Badoud;Philippe Conus

  • Sex differences in thickness, and folding developments throughout the cortex

    A Kadir Mutlu;Maude Schneider;Martin Debbané;Deborah Myriam Badoud

  • Are Hallucinations Due to an Imbalance Between Excitatory and Inhibitory Influences on the Brain

    Renaud Jardri;Kenneth Hugdahl;Matthew Hughes;Jérôme Brunelin

  • The French Version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validity Data for Adolescents and Adults and Its Association with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

    Deborah Myriam Badoud;Patrick Luyten;Patrick Luyten;Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero;Stéphan Eliez

  • Psychotic symptoms in children and adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: Neuropsychological and behavioral implications

    Martin Debbané;Bronwyn Glaser;Melissa K. David;Carl Feinstein

  • Functional connectivity mapping of regions associated with self- and other-processing

    Ryan J. Murray;Martin Debbané;Martin Debbané;Peter T. Fox;Danilo Bzdok;Danilo Bzdok

  • Schizotypy From a Developmental Perspective

    Martin Debbané;Neus Barrantes-Vidal

  • Attachment, Neurobiology, and Mentalizing along the Psychosis Continuum

    Martin Debbané;Martin Debbané;George Salaminios;Patrick Luyten;Patrick Luyten;Deborah Badoud

  • The structure of schizotypal personality traits: a cross-national study

    E. Fonseca-Pedrero;Martin Debbané;Martin Debbané;J. Ortuño-Sierra;R. C. K. Chan

  • Schizotypal traits and psychotic-like experiences during adolescence : an update

    Eduardo Fonseca Pedrero;Martin Debbané;Martin Debbané

  • Deviant dynamics of EEG resting state pattern in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome adolescents: A vulnerability marker of schizophrenia?

    Miralena I. Tomescu;Tonia A. Rihs;Robert Becker;Juliane Britz

  • Risk Factors and the Evolution of Psychosis in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Longitudinal 2-Site Study

    Doron Gothelf;Doron Gothelf;Maude Schneider;Tamar Green;Tamar Green;Martin Debbané

  • Deviant trajectories of cortical maturation in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS): a cross-sectional and longitudinal study.

    Marie Schaer;Martin Debbané;Meritxell Bach Cuadra;Marie-Christine Ottet

  • From Phenomenology to Neurophysiological Understanding of Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents

    Renaud Jardri;Agna A. Bartels-Velthuis;Martin Debbané;Martin Debbané;Jack A. Jenner

  • Revisiting the Basic Symptom Concept: Toward Translating Risk Symptoms for Psychosis into Neurobiological Targets.

    Frauke Schultze-Lutter;Martin Debbané;Martin Debbané;Anastasia Theodoridou;Stephen J. Wood

  • Hippocampal volume reduction in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

    Martin Debbané;Marie Schaer;Riaz Farhoumand;Bronwyn Glaser

  • Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)

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  • Impaired activation of face processing networks revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.

    Frédéric Andersson;Bronwyn Glaser;Mona Spiridon;Martin Debbané

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie Schaer
Marie Schaer University of Geneva
Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero
Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero University of La Rioja
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva
Raymond C.K. Chan
Raymond C.K. Chan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
Frank Larøi
Frank Larøi University of Oslo
Nader Perroud
Nader Perroud University of Geneva
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Melissa J. Green
Melissa J. Green University of New South Wales
Neus Barrantes-Vidal
Neus Barrantes-Vidal Autonomous University of Barcelona

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