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Michael Hollifield is affiliated with the VA Long Beach Healthcare System in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to medicine and psychology, with specific attention to clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, complementary and alternative medicine, epidemiology, and general health professions.

Their work broadly covers topics including posttraumatic stress disorder research, acupuncture treatment studies, traumatic brain injury research, pain management and placebo effect, migration, health and trauma, long-term effects of COVID-19, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Some recent papers authored by Michael Hollifield include:

  • "Acupuncture for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder," 2024, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Distress and Resilience in Resettled Refugees of War: Implications for Screening," 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Comparison of Prolonged Exposure vs Cognitive Processing Therapy for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among US Veterans," 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • "Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Prazosin for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis," 2020, CNS Spectrums

They frequently collaborate with several coauthors, including:

  • Tanja Jovanović
  • Teresa Calloway
  • Kala Carrick
  • Seth D. Norrholm
  • Andrea Munoz

Some of the prominent venues where Michael Hollifield has frequently published are:

  • Medical Acupuncture
  • Trauma Care
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • CNS Spectrums

Best Publications

  • Measuring Trauma and Health Status in Refugees: A Critical Review

    Michael Hollifield;Teddy D. Warner;Nityamo Lian;Barry Krakow

  • Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for Chronic Nightmares in Sexual Assault Survivors With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Barry Krakow;Michael Hollifield;Lisa Johnston;Mary Koss

  • Chest pain: relationship of psychiatric illness to coronary arteriographic results.

    Wayne Katon;Margaret L. Hall;Joan Russo;Lawrence Cormier

  • A controlled study of imagery rehearsal for chronic nightmares in sexual assault survivors with PTSD: a preliminary report.

    Barry Krakow;Michael Hollifield;Ron Schrader;Mary Koss

  • Acupuncture for posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled pilot trial.

    Michael Hollifield;Nityamo Sinclair-Lian;Teddy D. Warner;Richard Hammerschlag

  • The Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15): development and validation of an instrument for anxiety, depression, and PTSD in refugees.

    Michael Hollifield;Sasha Verbillis-Kolp;Beth Farmer;Eric C. Toolson

  • An Open-Label Trial of Evidence-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Nightmares and Insomnia in Crime Victims With PTSD

    Barry Krakow;Lisa Johnston;Dominic Melendrez;Michael Hollifield

  • Nightmare frequency in sexual assault survivors with PTSD.

    Barry Krakow;Ron Schrader;Dan Tandberg;Michael Hollifield

  • Psychiatric evaluation of a monk requesting castration : A patient's fable, with morals

    Laura Weiss Roberts;Michael Hollifield;Teresita McCarty

  • Complex insomnia: Insomnia and sleep-disordered breathing in a consecutive series of crime victims with nightmares and PTSD

    Barry Krakow;Dominic Melendrez;Beth Pedersen;Lisa Johnston

  • Sleep-disordered breathing, psychiatric distress, and quality of life impairment in sexual assault survivors.

    Barry Krakow;Dominic Melendrez;Lisa Johnston;Teddy D Warner

  • Comparison of Prolonged Exposure vs Cognitive Processing Therapy for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among US Veterans A Randomized Clinical Trial

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  • Sleep disorder, depression, and suicidality in female sexual assault survivors.

    Barry Krakow;Ali Artar;Teddy D Warner;Dominic Melendrez

  • A retrospective study on improvements in nightmares and post-traumatic stress disorder following treatment for co-morbid sleep-disordered breathing

    Barry Krakow;Carmen Lowry;Anne Germain;Lane Gaddy

  • Panic Disorder and Quality of Life: Variables Predictive of Functional Impairment

    Michael Hollifield;Wayne Katon;Betty Skipper;Tim Chapman

  • Symptoms and coping in Sri Lanka 20–21 months after the 2004 tsunami

    Michael Hollifield;Chandanie Hewage;Charlotte N. Gunawardena;Piyadasa Kodituwakku

  • Sleep Dynamic Therapy for Cerro Grande Fire evacuees with posttraumatic stress symptoms: a preliminary report.

    Barry J Krakow;Dominic C Melendrez;Lisa G Johnston;James O Clark

  • The relationship of sleep quality and posttraumatic stress to potential sleep disorders in sexual assault survivors with nightmares, insomnia, and PTSD

    Barry Krakow;Anne Germain;Teddy D. Warner;Ron Schrader

  • Nightmares, insomnia, and sleep‐disordered breathing in fire evacuees seeking treatment for posttraumatic sleep disturbance

    Barry Krakow;Patricia L. Haynes;Teddy D. Warner;Erin Santana

  • Sympathetic nervous system activity in panic disorder

    Enrique C. Villacres;Michael Hollifield;Wayne J. Katon;Charles W. Wilkinson

  • Chest pain with negative cardiac diagnostic studies. Relationship to psychiatric illness.

    Lawrence E. Cormier;Wayne Katon;Joan Russo;Michael Hollifield

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary P. Koss
Mary P. Koss University of Arizona
Joseph Westermeyer
Joseph Westermeyer University of Minnesota
Anne Germain
Anne Germain University of Pittsburgh
Joan Russo
Joan Russo University of Washington
Peter P. Vitaliano
Peter P. Vitaliano University of Washington
Tore Nielsen
Tore Nielsen University of Montreal

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