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Neal D. Ryan is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans principally across the fields of psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics, including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, bipolar disorder and treatment, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, suicide and self-harm studies, functional brain connectivity studies, and broader mental health research topics.

Neal D. Ryan has published extensively, with notable contributions appearing in a range of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Some recent papers exemplify the scope and depth of Neal D. Ryan's research. These include:

  • Classifying social determinants of health from unstructured electronic health records using deep learning-based natural language processing, 2022, Journal of Biomedical Informatics
  • Parents still matter! Parental warmth predicts adolescent brain function and anxiety and depressive symptoms 2 years later, 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • Natural language processing and machine learning of electronic health records for prediction of first-time suicide attempts, 2021, JAMIA Open
  • Associations between brain structure and sleep patterns across adolescent development, 2021, SLEEP
  • Association of Neural Reward Circuitry Function With Response to Psychotherapy in Youths With Anxiety Disorders, 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry

The collaborative nature of Neal D. Ryan's research is reflected in frequent co-authorship with several scholars. Those most often collaborating include:

  • Erika E. Forbes
  • Jennifer S. Silk
  • Boris Birmaher
  • Tina R. Goldstein
  • Mary Kay Gill

Best Publications

  • Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL): Initial Reliability and Validity Data

    Joan Kaufman;Boris Birmaher;David Brent;Uma Rao;Uma Rao

  • Childhood and adolescent depression: a review of the past 10 years. Part I.

    Boris Birmaher;Neal D. Ryan;Douglas E. Williamson;David A. Brent

  • Developmental traumatology part II: brain development ∗

    Michael D De Bellis;Matcheri S Keshavan;Duncan B Clark;B.J Casey

  • Depressed Adolescents Grown Up

    Myrna M. Weissman;Susan Wolk;Risë B. Goldstein;Donna Moreau

  • Developmental traumatology part I: biological stress systems

    Michael D De Bellis;Andrew S Baum;Boris Birmaher;Matcheri S Keshavan

  • Efficacy of paroxetine in the treatment of adolescent major depression: a randomized, controlled trial.

    Martin B. Keller;Neal D. Ryan;Michael Strober;Rachel G. Klein

  • Clinical Course of Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

    Boris Birmaher;David Axelson;Michael Strober;Mary Kay Gill

  • Switching to Another SSRI or to Venlafaxine With or Without Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents With SSRI-Resistant Depression: The TORDIA Randomized Controlled Trial

    David Brent;Graham Emslie;Greg Clarke;Karen Dineen Wagner

  • The Clinical Picture of Major Depression in Children and Adolescents

    Neal D. Ryan;Joaquim Puig-Antich;Paul Ambrosini;Harris Rabinovich

  • Amygdala Response to Fearful Faces in Anxious and Depressed Children

    Kathleen M. Thomas;Wayne C. Drevets;Wayne C. Drevets;Ronald E. Dahl;Neal D. Ryan

  • Altered Striatal Activation Predicting Real-World Positive Affect in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder

    Erika E. Forbes;Ahmad R. Hariri;B.A. Samantha L. Martin;Jennifer S. Silk

  • Unipolar depression in adolescents: clinical outcome in adulthood.

    Uma Rao;Neal D. Ryan;Boris Birmaher;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Phenomenology of children and adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders

    David A. Axelson;Boris Birmaher;Michael Strober;Mary Kay Gill

  • Amygdala response to facial expressions in children and adults

    Kathleen M. Thomas;Wayne C. Drevets;Paul J. Whalen;Clayton H. Eccard

  • Four-year longitudinal course of children and adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders: the Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY) study.

    Boris Birmaher;David Axelson;Benjamin Goldstein;Michael Strober

  • Children With Prepubertal-Onset Major Depressive Disorder and Anxiety Grown Up

    Myrna M. Weissman;Susan Wolk;Priya Wickramaratne;Risë B. Goldstein

  • Anhedonia Predicts Poorer Recovery among Youth with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Dana L. McMakin;Thomas M. Olino;Giovanna Porta;Laura J. Dietz

  • A pilot study of amygdala volumes in pediatric generalized anxiety disorder

    Michael D De Bellis;B.J Casey;Ronald E Dahl;Boris Birmaher

  • Healthy Adolescents' Neural Response to Reward: Associations With Puberty, Positive Affect, and Depressive Symptoms

    Erika E. Forbes;Neal D. Ryan;Mary Louise Phillips;Stephen B. Manuck

  • Four-Year Longitudinal Course of Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: The Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY) Study

    Boris Birmaher;David Axelson;Benjamin Goldstein;Michael Strober

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
David Axelson
David Axelson The Ohio State University
Martin B. Keller
Martin B. Keller Brown University
Michael Strober
Michael Strober University of California, Los Angeles
Mary Kay Gill
Mary Kay Gill University of Pittsburgh
Tina R. Goldstein
Tina R. Goldstein University of Pittsburgh
Erika E. Forbes
Erika E. Forbes University of Pittsburgh
Shirley Yen
Shirley Yen Harvard Medical School
Jennifer S. Silk
Jennifer S. Silk University of Pittsburgh

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