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Michael Pascal Hengartner is affiliated with Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and psychology, with a focus on treatment and mental health topics. The scientist has contributed substantially to the study of depression, especially concerning antidepressant efficacy and withdrawal effects.

The primary fields of study for Hengartner include:

  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Their subfields of study highlight a broad engagement with:

  • Pharmacology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Main research topics encompass:

  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Frequent publication venues for Hengartner's work include:

  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
  • Systematic Reviews
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Significant publications by Hengartner comprise:

  • Estimates of the minimal important difference to evaluate the clinical significance of antidepressants in the acute treatment of moderate-to-severe depression, 2021, BMJ evidence-based medicine
  • How effective are antidepressants for depression over the long term? A critical review of relapse prevention trials and the issue of withdrawal confounding, 2020, Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
  • Protracted withdrawal syndrome after stopping antidepressants: a descriptive quantitative analysis of consumer narratives from a large internet forum, 2020, Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology

Other notable papers related to the broader field Hengartner works in include:

  • The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry (by Joanna Moncrieff)
  • Estimating Risk of Antidepressant Withdrawal from a Review of Published Data, 2022, CNS Drugs (by Mark Horowitz)

Hengartner frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Martin Plöderl
  • Simone Amendola
  • Mark Horowitz
  • Joanna Moncrieff
  • Janus Christian Jakobsen

Best Publications

  • The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence

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  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

  • A prospective population-based cohort study of the prevalence, incidence and impact of obsessive-compulsive symptomatology

    Naomi A Fineberg;Michael P Hengartner;Carmel E Bergbaum;Tim M Gale

  • Why Psychiatric Research Must Abandon Traditional Diagnostic Classification and Adopt a Fully Dimensional Scope: Two Solutions to a Persistent Problem

    Michael Pascal Hengartner;Sandrine N. Lehmann

  • Sub-clinical psychosis symptoms in young adults are risk factors for subsequent common mental disorders

    Wulf Rössler;Wulf Rössler;Michael Pascal Hengartner;Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross;Helene Haker

  • Childhood adversity in association with personality disorder dimensions: New findings in an old debate

    Michael Pascal Hengartner;V. Ajdacic-Gross;S. Rodgers;M. Müller

  • The epidemiology of common mental disorders from age 20 to 50: results from the prospective Zurich cohort Study

    Jules Angst;D. Paksarian;L. Cui;K. R. Merikangas

  • Lifetime comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and sub-threshold obsessive-compulsive symptomatology in the community: impact, prevalence, socio-demographic and clinical characteristics.

    Naomi A Fineberg;Michael P Hengartner;Carmel Bergbaum;Tim Gale

  • Mental Health and Functioning of Female Sex Workers in Chittagong, Bangladesh

    Michael Pascal Hengartner;Nazrul Islam;Helene Haker;Wulf Rössler;Wulf Rössler

  • Statistically Significant Antidepressant-Placebo Differences on Subjective Symptom-Rating Scales Do Not Prove That the Drugs Work: Effect Size and Method Bias Matter!

    Michael P. Hengartner;Martin Plöderl

  • Estimates of the minimal important difference to evaluate the clinical significance of antidepressants in the acute treatment of moderate-to-severe depression

    Michael Pascal Hengartner;Martin Plöderl

  • Predictors of burnout: results from a prospective community study

    Wulf Rössler;Michael Pascal Hengartner;Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross;Jules Angst

  • Big Five personality traits may inform public health policy and preventive medicine: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a prospective longitudinal epidemiologic study in a Swiss community.

    Michael Pascal Hengartner;Wolfram Kawohl;Helene Haker;Wulf Rössler;Wulf Rössler

  • The more information, the more negative stigma towards schizophrenia: Brazilian general population and psychiatrists compared

    Alexandre Andrade Loch;Michael Pascal Hengartner;Francisco Bevilacqua Guarniero;Fabio Lorea Lawson

  • Association between childhood maltreatment and normal adult personality traits : exploration of an understudied field

    Michael Pascal Hengartner;Lisa J. Cohen;Stephanie Rodgers;Mario Müller

  • Linking substance use with symptoms of subclinical psychosis in a community cohort over 30 years

    Wulf Rössler;Wulf Rössler;Michael Pascal Hengartner;Jules Angst;Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross

  • Relationship between personality and psychopathology in a longitudinal community study : a test of the predisposition model

    Michael Pascal Hengartner;Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross;Christine Wyss;Jules Angst

  • Symptom-based subtypes of depression and their psychosocial correlates: A person-centered approach focusing on the influence of sex

    Stephanie Rodgers;Martin Grosse Holtforth;Mario Müller;Michael P. Hengartner

  • Birth experiences in adult women with a history of childhood sexual abuse.

    Brigitte Leeners;Gisela Görres;Emina Block;Michael Pascal Hengartner

  • Methodological Flaws, Conflicts of Interest, and Scientific Fallacies: Implications for the Evaluation of Antidepressants' Efficacy and Harm.

    Michael Pascal Hengartner

  • Mortality of 403 patients with mood disorders 48 to 52 years after their psychiatric hospitalisation.

    Jules Angst;Michael Pascal Hengartner;Alex Gamma;Detlev von Zerssen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jules Angst
Jules Angst University of Zurich
Dimitri van der Linden
Dimitri van der Linden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Martin Grosse Holtforth
Martin Grosse Holtforth University of Bern
John Read
John Read University of East London
Filip De Fruyt
Filip De Fruyt Ghent University
Susanne Walitza
Susanne Walitza University of Zurich
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen University of Southern Denmark
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch Harvard University
Bo Bach
Bo Bach University of Copenhagen

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