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Overview

Neil A. Rector is affiliated with Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Canada and specializes primarily in the field of psychology. Their research encompasses clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, public health, environmental and occupational health, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main areas of study in their work include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other notable topics covered are obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, eating disorders and behaviors, mindfulness and compassion interventions, autism spectrum disorder research, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Frequent publication venues for their research consist of:

  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Neil A. Rector include:

  • Pregnancy and Delivery Outcomes Following Benzodiazepine Exposure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2020) - The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • A Brief Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Intervention as a Population-Level Strategy for Anxiety and Depression (2021) - International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
  • Technology supported mindfulness for obsessive compulsive disorder: Self-reported mindfulness and EEG correlates of mind wandering (2020) - Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Longitudinal changes in intolerance of uncertainty and worry severity during CBT for generalized anxiety disorder (2022) - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Social anxiety and negative interpretations of positive social events: What role does intolerance of uncertainty play? (2022) - Journal of Clinical Psychology

Neil A. Rector has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Lance L. Hawley
  • Judith M. Laposa
  • Margaret A. Richter
  • Karen Rowa
  • Randi E. McCabe

Their body of work contributes to multiple disciplines within psychology, with the majority of publications focusing on clinical psychology. This reflects sustained interest and expertise in the clinical aspects of mental health conditions and therapeutic interventions, particularly related to anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Best Publications

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces overgeneral autobiographical memory in formerly depressed patients.

    J. M. G. Williams;J. D. Teasdale;Z. V. Segal;J. Soulsby

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for schizophrenia: an empirical review.

    Neil A Rector;Aaron T Beck

  • Schizophrenia: Cognitive Theory, Research, and Therapy

    Aaron T. Beck;Neil A. Rector;Neal Stolar;Paul Grant

  • Maternal Anxiety During Pregnancy and the Association With Adverse Perinatal Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Sophie Grigoriadis;Lisa Graves;Miki Peer;Lana Mamisashvili

  • The Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A Cognitive Perspective

    Neil A Rector;Aaron T Beck;Neal Stolar

  • Ruminative coping and post-event processing in social anxiety

    Nancy L. Kocovski;Norman S. Endler;Neil A. Rector;Gordon L. Flett

  • Cognitive Approaches to Schizophrenia: Theory and Therapy

    Aaron T. Beck;Neil A. Rector

  • Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Group Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: An Open Trial

    Nancy L. Kocovski;Jan E. Fleming;Neil A. Rector

  • Self-Criticism and Dependency in Depressed Patients Treated with Cognitive Therapy or Pharmacotherapy

    Neil A. Rector;R. Michael Bagby;Zindel V. Segal;Russell T. Joffe

  • Quality of life in OCD: differential impact of obsessions, compulsions, and depression comorbidity.

    Mario Masellis;Neil A Rector;Margaret A Richter

  • Anxiety sensitivity within the anxiety disorders: Disorder-specific sensitivities and depression comorbidity

    Neil A. Rector;Kate Szacun-Shimizu;Michelle Leybman

  • Relationship between the five-factor model of personality and unipolar, bipolar and schizophrenic patients

    R Michael Bagby;Kirstin D. Bindseil;Deborah R Schuller;Neil A Rector

  • A cognitive model of hallucinations

    Aaron T. Beck;Neil A. Rector

  • Childhood adversities associated with major depression and/or anxiety disorders in a community sample of Ontario: issues of co-morbidity and specificity.

    Robert D. Levitan;Neil A. Rector;Tess Sheldon;Paula Goering

  • Cognitive therapy for schizophrenia: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.

    Neil A Rector;Mary V Seeman;Zindel V Segal

  • Variation in symptom severity over the menstrual cycle of Schizophrenics

    John D. Hallonquist;Mary V. Seeman;Marisa Lang;Neil A. Rector

  • Cognitive therapy of schizophrenia: a new therapy for the new millennium.

    Aaron T. Beck;Neil A. Rector

  • The Stability of the Response Styles Questionnaire Rumination Scale in a Sample of Patients With Major Depression

    R. Michael Bagby;Neil A. Rector;Jason R. Bacchiochi;Carolina McBride

  • Dysfunctional belief-based obsessive-compulsive disorder subgroups.

    John E. Calamari;Robyn J. Cohen;Neil A. Rector;Kate Szacun-Shimizu

  • The stress buffering effects of self-esteem

    Neil A. Rector;Derek Roger

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Schizophrenia: An Empirical Review Neil A. Rector, PhD and Aaron T. Beck, MD (2001). Reprinted from the J Nerv Ment Dis 189c278–287

    Neil A. Rector;Aaron T. Beck

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Riskind
John H. Riskind George Mason University
R. Michael Bagby
R. Michael Bagby University of Toronto
Stephanie E. Cassin
Stephanie E. Cassin Toronto Metropolitan University
Aaron T. Beck
Aaron T. Beck University of Pennsylvania
Zindel V. Segal
Zindel V. Segal University of Toronto
Margaret C. McKinnon
Margaret C. McKinnon McMaster University
Robert D. Levitan
Robert D. Levitan Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Randi E. McCabe
Randi E. McCabe McMaster University
Lena C. Quilty
Lena C. Quilty Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Arun V. Ravindran
Arun V. Ravindran University of Toronto

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