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Overview

Nancy J. Keuthen is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychological and neuroscientific aspects of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders and related areas.

Their body of work encompasses several key topics, including:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders

Keuthen's publications cover a variety of subfields such as clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, developmental and educational psychology, and dermatology. The majority of their scholarly output lies within clinical psychology.

They have been frequently published in certain venues, which include:

  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
  • Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Keuthen consist of:

  • Identifying subtypes of trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) and excoriation (skin picking) disorder using mixture modeling in a multicenter sample, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • The Generic BFRB Scale-8 (GBS-8): a transdiagnostic scale to measure the severity of body-focused repetitive behaviours, 2022, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
  • Reward processing in trichotillomania and skin picking disorder, 2021, Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Clinical Characteristics of Youth with Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder) and Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder, 2022, Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Prevalence and Correlates of Hair Pulling Disorder and Skin Picking Disorder in an Acute Psychiatric Sample, 2023, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Jon E. Grant
  • Darin D. Dougherty
  • John Piacentini
  • Tara S. Peris
  • Emily J. Ricketts

The main fields of study within their research profile cover psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with the largest emphasis on psychology. Their work integrates psychological theories and clinical applications related to body-focused repetitive behaviors and related psychiatric conditions.

Best Publications

  • Organizational strategies mediate nonverbal memory impairment in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Cary R Savage;Lee Baer;Nancy J Keuthen;Halle D Brown

  • The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Hairpulling Scale: 1. Development and Factor Analyses

    Nancy J. Keuthen;Richard L. O’Sullivan;Joseph N. Ricciardi;David Shera

  • Cerebral structural abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder. A quantitative morphometric magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Michael A. Jenike;Hans C. Breiter;Lee Baer;David N. Kennedy

  • Self-Injurious Skin Picking: Clinical Characteristics and Comorbidity

    Sabine Wilhelm;Nancy J. Keuthen;Thilo Deckersbach;Iris M. Engelhard

  • The Trichotillomania Impact Project (TIP): exploring phenomenology, functional impairment, and treatment utilization.

    Douglas W Woods;Christopher A Flessner;Martin E Franklin;Nancy J Keuthen

  • Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder), skin picking disorder, and stereotypic movement disorder: toward DSM-V

    Dan J. Stein;E M D J D Jon Grant;Martin E. Franklin;Nancy Keuthen

  • The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Hairpulling Scale: 2. Reliability and Validity

    R L O'Sullivan;N J Keuthen;C F Hayday;J N Ricciardi

  • REPETITIVE SKIN PICKING IN A STUDENT POPULATION AND COMPARISON WITH A SAMPLE OF SELF-INJURIOUS SKIN-PICKERS

    Nancy J. Keuthen;Thilo Deckersbach;Sabine Wilhelm;Edward Hale

  • Prevalence of Symptoms of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Its Correlates: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

    Antje Bohne;Nancy J. Keuthen;Sabine Wilhelm;Thilo Deckersbach

  • Skin Picking Disorder

    Jon E. Grant;Brian L. Odlaug;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Nancy J. Keuthen

  • Reduced basal ganglia volumes in trichotillomania measured via morphometric magnetic resonance imaging.

    Richard L. O'Sullivan;Scott L. Rauch;Hans C. Breiter;Igor D. Grachev

  • The prevalence of pathologic skin picking in US adults.

    Nancy J. Keuthen;Lorrin M. Koran;Elias Aboujaoude;Michael D. Large

  • Prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder in a German college student sample.

    Antje Bohne;Sabine Wilhelm;Nancy J Keuthen;Irmela Florin

  • Skin picking in German students. Prevalence, phenomenology, and associated characteristics.

    Antje Bohne;Sabine Wilhelm;Nancy J. Keuthen;L. E. E. Baer

  • The child and adolescent trichotillomania impact project: descriptive psychopathology, comorbidity, functional impairment, and treatment utilization.

    Martin E. Franklin;Christopher A. Flessner;Douglas W. Woods;Nancy J. Keuthen

  • Styles of pulling in trichotillomania: exploring differences in symptom severity, phenomenology, and functional impact.

    Christopher A. Flessner;Christine A. Conelea;Douglas W. Woods;Martin E. Franklin

  • The Skin Picking Scale: scale construction and psychometric analyses.

    Nancy J Keuthen;Sabine Wilhelm;Thilo Deckersbach;Iris M Engelhard

  • DBT-enhanced cognitive-behavioral treatment for trichotillomania: A randomized controlled trial.

    Nancy J. Keuthen;Barbara O. Rothbaum;Jeanne Fama;Erin Altenburger

  • Affective regulation in trichotillomania: Evidence from a large-scale internet survey.

    Anna Shusterman;Lauren Feld;Lee Baer;Nancy Keuthen

  • Development of Major Depressive Disorder During Smoking-Cessation Treatment

    Belinda Borrelli;Raymond Niaura;Nancy J. Keuthen;Michael G. Goldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas W. Woods
Douglas W. Woods Marquette University
Martin E. Franklin
Martin E. Franklin University of Pennsylvania
Lee Baer
Lee Baer Harvard University
Christopher A. Flessner
Christopher A. Flessner Brown University
Sabine Wilhelm
Sabine Wilhelm Harvard University
Cary R. Savage
Cary R. Savage University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Thilo Deckersbach
Thilo Deckersbach Harvard University
John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
Samuel R. Chamberlain
Samuel R. Chamberlain University of Southampton
Belinda Borrelli
Belinda Borrelli Boston University

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