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Paul E. Holtzheimer

Paul E. Holtzheimer

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Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
14391
World Ranking
5030
National Ranking
2256

Overview

Paul E. Holtzheimer is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, neuroscience, and psychology through their research.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these broader fields, their work focuses on several subfields such as:

  • Neurology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Pharmacology

Holtzheimer's research topics cover a range of specialized themes, including:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research

The scientist has published extensively in several prominent journals. Most frequent publication venues include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Brain Stimulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research

Key recent papers authored by or involving them are:

  • A Meta-analysis of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Depression (2025), published in Psychopharmacology Bulletin
  • Mental Health and Behavior of College Students During the Early Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study (2020), Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Mental Health and Behavior of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Mobile Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Part II (2021), Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a crisis of access (2022), Nature Medicine
  • Efficacy and safety of a 4-week course of repeated subcutaneous ketamine injections for treatment-resistant depression (KADS study): randomised double-blind active-controlled trial (2023), The British Journal of Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Patricio Riva-Posse
  • Matthew J. Girgenti
  • John H. Krystal
  • Helen S. Mayberg
  • Lauren M. Sippel

Best Publications

  • A whole brain fMRI atlas generated via spatially constrained spectral clustering

    R. Cameron Craddock;G.Andrew James;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Xiaoping P. Hu

  • Daily left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for major depressive disorder: a sham-controlled randomized trial

    Mark S. George;Sarah H. Lisanby;David Avery;William M. McDonald

  • Subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant unipolar and bipolar depression.

    Paul E. Holtzheimer;Mary E. Kelley;Robert E. Gross;Megan M. Filkowski

  • Subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: a multisite, randomised, sham-controlled trial

    Paul E. Holtzheimer;Mustafa M. Husain;Mustafa M. Husain;Sarah H. Lisanby;Stephan F. Taylor

  • Toward a Neuroimaging Treatment Selection Biomarker for Major Depressive Disorder

    Callie L. McGrath;Mary E. Kelley;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Boadie W. Dunlop

  • Disease state prediction from resting state functional connectivity

    R. Cameron Craddock;R. Cameron Craddock;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Xiaoping P. Hu;Helen S. Mayberg

  • Stuck in a rut: rethinking depression and its treatment

    Paul E. Holtzheimer;Helen S. Mayberg

  • Defining Critical White Matter Pathways Mediating Successful Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Patricio Riva-Posse;Ki Sueng Choi;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Cameron C. McIntyre

  • A connectomic approach for subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation surgery: prospective targeting in treatment-resistant depression

    P. Riva-Posse;K. S. Choi;P. E. Holtzheimer;A. L. Crowell

  • A Controlled Study of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Medication-Resistant Major Depression

    David H. Avery;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Walid Fawaz;Walid Fawaz;Joan Russo

  • Deep brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders.

    Paul E. Holtzheimer;Helen S. Mayberg

  • Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression

    Paul E Holtzheimer;Clement Hamani

  • A tractography analysis of two deep brain stimulation white matter targets for depression.

    David A. Gutman;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Timothy E.J. Behrens;Heidi Johansen-Berg

  • More lateral and anterior prefrontal coil location is associated with better repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation antidepressant response.

    Tal Herbsman;David Avery;Dave Ramsey;Paul Holtzheimer

  • Accelerated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment‐resistant depression

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  • Scientific and ethical issues related to deep brain stimulation for disorders of mood, behavior, and thought.

    Peter Rabins;Brian S Appleby;Jason Brandt;Mahlon R DeLong

  • Long-Term Outcomes of Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Andrea L Crowell;Patricio Riva-Posse;Paul E Holtzheimer;Steven J Garlow

  • Pretreatment Brain States Identify Likely Nonresponse to Standard Treatments for Depression

    Callie L. McGrath;Mary E. Kelley;Boadie W. Dunlop;Paul E. Holtzheimer;Paul E. Holtzheimer

  • Advances in the treatment of depression

    Paul E. Holtzheimer;Charles B. Nemeroff

  • Prefrontal rTMS for treating depression: Location and intensity results from the OPT-TMS multi-site clinical trial

    Kevin A. Johnson;Kevin A. Johnson;Mirza Baig;Dave Ramsey;Sarah H. Lisanby;Sarah H. Lisanby

  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Paul E. Holtzheimer;Helen S. Mayberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen S. Mayberg
Helen S. Mayberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sarah H. Lisanby
Sarah H. Lisanby Arizona State University
Mark S. George
Mark S. George Medical University of South Carolina
Andrew T. Campbell
Andrew T. Campbell Dartmouth College
R. Cameron Craddock
R. Cameron Craddock Facebook (United States)
Xiaoping Hu
Xiaoping Hu University of California, Riverside
Boadie W. Dunlop
Boadie W. Dunlop Emory University
Robert M. Roth
Robert M. Roth Dartmouth College
Shawn M. McClintock
Shawn M. McClintock The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John F. Neumaier
John F. Neumaier University of Washington

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