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Paul Moran is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the fields of psychology and medicine. Their research output is concentrated in clinical psychology, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, psychiatry and mental health, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including suicide and self-harm studies, personality disorders and psychopathology, COVID-19 and mental health, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, schizophrenia research and treatment, as well as health disparities and outcomes.

Paul Moran's frequent co-authors include David Gunnell, Lucy Biddle, Becky Mars, Navneet Kapur, and Helen Bould, reflecting collaborations across multiple studies in mental health and related fields.

The venues where Moran most frequently publishes their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BJPsych Open
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Some of the recent papers associated with Paul Moran are:

  • "Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts" (2020), published in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: update of living systematic review" (2021), published in F1000Research
  • "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: a living systematic review" (2020), published in F1000Research
  • "Is social media screen time really associated with poor adolescent mental health? A time use diary study" (2020), published in Journal of Affective Disorders

Best Publications

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    David Gunnell;Louis Appleby;Ella Arensman;Keith Hawton

  • The natural history of self-harm from adolescence to young adulthood: a population-based cohort study

    Paul A Moran;Carolyn Coffey;Helena Romaniuk;Craig A. Olsson

  • The prognosis of common mental disorders in adolescents: a 14-year prospective cohort study

    George C Patton;George C Patton;Carolyn Coffey;Helena Romaniuk;Helena Romaniuk;Andrew Mackinnon

  • Therapeutic Interventions for Suicide Attempts and Self-Harm in Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Dennis Ougrin;Troy Tranah;Daniel Stahl;Paul Moran

  • Predictors of future suicide attempt among adolescents with suicidal thoughts or non-suicidal self-harm: a population-based birth cohort study

    Becky Mars;Becky Mars;Jon Heron;E David Klonsky;Paul Moran;Paul Moran

  • Standardised Assessment of Personality - Abbreviated Scale (SAPAS): preliminary validation of a brief screen for personality disorder.

    Paul Moran;Morven Leese;Tennyson Lee;Paul Walters

  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts.

    Alex S F Kwong;Rebecca M Pearson;Mark J Adams;Kate Northstone

  • Help-seeking behaviour and adolescent self-harm: A systematic review

    Sarah L. Rowe;Rebecca S. French;Claire Henderson;Dennis Ougrin

  • The role of callous and unemotional traits in the diagnosis of conduct disorder

    Richard Rowe;Barbara Maughan;Paul A Moran;Tamsin Ford

  • Prevalence of violent victimisation in severe mental illness.

    Elizabeth Walsh;Paul A Moran;Paul A Moran;Charles Scott;Kwame McKenzie

  • Life expectancy at birth and all-cause mortality among people with personality disorder.

    Marcella Lei Yee Fok;Richard D. Hayes;Chin Kuo Chang;Robert Stewart

  • Psychopathy among prisoners in England and Wales

    Jeremy W. Coid;Min Yang;Simone Ullrich;Amanda D.L. Roberts

  • Prenatal screening and diagnosis of neural tube defects

    Martin Cameron;Paul Moran

  • The Challenge of Transforming the Diagnostic System of Personality Disorders.

    Sabine C. Herpertz;Steven K. Huprich;Martin Bohus;Andrew Chanen

  • The prevalence of personality disorder among UK primary care attenders

    P Moran;R Jenkins;A Tylee;RA Blizard

  • The application of mHealth to mental health: opportunities and challenges

    Lisa Marzano;Andrew Bardill;Bob Fields;Kate Herd

  • Impact of comorbid personality disorder on violence in psychosis: Report from the UK700 trial

    Paul Moran;Elizabeth Walsh;Peter Tyrer;Tom Burns

  • The epidemiology of antisocial personality disorder.

    P. Moran

  • What distinguishes adolescents with suicidal thoughts from those who have attempted suicide? A population-based birth cohort study.

    Becky Mars;Jon Heron;E. David Klonsky;Paul Moran;Paul Moran

  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: update of living systematic review

    Ann John;Emily Eyles;Emily Eyles;Roger T Webb;Roger T Webb;Chukwudi Okolie

  • Morbid risk of schizophrenia in first-degree relatives of white and African-Caribbean patients with psychosis.

    G. Hutchinson;N. Takei;T. A. Fahy;D. Bhugra

  • The Correlates of Comorbid Antisocial Personality Disorder in Schizophrenia

    Paul A Moran;Paul A Moran;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Violence and psychiatric morbidity in a national household population--a report from the British Household Survey

    Jeremy Coid;Min Yang;Amanda Roberts;Simone Ullrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike J. Crawford
Mike J. Crawford Imperial College London
Louise M. Howard
Louise M. Howard King's College London
Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer Imperial College London
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford University of Cambridge
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Craig A. Olsson
Craig A. Olsson Deakin University
Dinesh Bhugra
Dinesh Bhugra King's College London
Anthony Bateman
Anthony Bateman University College London
Mary McMurran
Mary McMurran University of Nottingham

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