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Overview

Murray B. Stein is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans several fields, with a notable focus on psychology and medicine.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Their work in subfields emphasizes clinical psychology, genetics, experimental and cognitive psychology, epidemiology, and emergency medicine.

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Genetics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Emergency Medicine

Murray B. Stein's primary research topics cover a range of areas, particularly related to traumatic brain injury and mental health conditions.

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation

The researcher has contributed to numerous publications in leading venues such as:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Neurotrauma
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators with whom Murray B. Stein has co-authored include:

  • Joel Gelernter
  • John H. Krystal
  • James Blair
  • Raquel E. Gur
  • Elisabeth B. Binder

Among the recent papers associated with this researcher are:

  • Traumatic brain injury: progress and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research, 2022, The Lancet Neurology
  • Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in >1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Functional Outcomes Over the First Year After Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Prospective, Longitudinal TRACK-TBI Study, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • Reproducible Genetic Risk Loci for Anxiety: Results From ∼200,000 Participants in the Million Veteran Program, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2021, Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Psychometric analysis and refinement of the Connor-davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC): Validation of a 10-item measure of resilience.

    Laura Campbell-Sills;Murray B. Stein

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research

    Andrew I R Maas;David K Menon;P David Adelson;Nada Andelic

  • Relationship of resilience to personality, coping, and psychiatric symptoms in young adults.

    Laura Campbell-Sills;Sharon L. Cohan;Sharon L. Cohan;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Megha Arora;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • An insular view of anxiety.

    Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein

  • Full and partial posttraumatic stress disorder: findings from a community survey

    Murray B. Stein;John R. Walker;Andrea L. Hazen;David R. Forde

  • Quality of Life in Individuals With Anxiety Disorders

    Mauro V. Mendlowicz;Murray B. Stein

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Hippocampal volume in women victimized by childhood sexual abuse.

    Murray B. Stein;C. Koverola;C. Hanna;M. G. Torchia

  • Social anxiety disorder.

    Murray B Stein;Murray B Stein;Dan J Stein

  • Social fears and social phobia in a community sample of adolescents and young adults: prevalence, risk factors and co-morbidity.

    Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Murray B. Stein;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Social fears and social phobia in the USA: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    Ayelet Meron Ruscio;Timothy A. Brown;Wai Tat Chiu;Jitender Sareen

  • Anxiety Disorders and Risk for Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts A Population-Based Longitudinal Study of Adults

    Jitender Sareen;Brian J. Cox;Tracie O. Afifi;Ron de Graaf

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Ursano
Robert J. Ursano Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Alan N. Simmons
Alan N. Simmons University of California, San Diego
Peter Roy-Byrne
Peter Roy-Byrne University of Washington
Ariel J. Lang
Ariel J. Lang University of California, San Diego
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Steven G. Heeringa
Steven G. Heeringa University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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