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Overview

Peter Gallagher is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and specializes in multiple fields related to medicine and psychology. Their research focuses on psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, physiology, and neurology. The main topics of their work include bipolar disorder and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, electroconvulsive therapy studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, dementia and cognitive impairment research, and salivary gland disorders and functions.

Gallagher has contributed significantly to several frequent publication venues, which include:

  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface

Their recent papers reflect a range of topics within their research scope:

  • Randomised controlled cognition trials in remitted patients with mood disorders published between 2015 and 2021: A systematic review by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition Task Force, 2022, Bipolar Disorders
  • Improvement of Severe Fatigue Following Nuclease Therapy in Patients With Primary Sjögren's Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial, 2020, Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Deep learning-based automated speech detection as a marker of social functioning in late-life depression, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Processing speed and sustained attention in bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, Bipolar Disorders
  • Neuropsychological Impairments and Their Cognitive Architecture in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) with Lewy Bodies and MCI-Alzheimer's Disease, 2021, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Gallagher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Bethany Little
  • Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak
  • Allan H. Young
  • Lars Vedel Kessing
  • Richard Porter

The Scientist's dominant fields of study show a concentration on medicine with 43 publications and psychology with 19 publications. They have made notable contributions in psychiatry and mental health with 27 publications, followed by experimental and cognitive psychology with 13, and cognitive neuroscience with 10.

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of cognitive deficits in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder

    Lucy J. Robinson;Jill M. Thompson;Peter Gallagher;Utpal Goswami

  • Neurocognitive impairment in drug-free patients with major depressive disorder

    Richard J Porter;Peter Gallagher;Jill M Thompson;Allan H Young

  • Neuropsychological testing of cognitive impairment in euthymic bipolar disorder: an individual patient data meta-analysis

    C. Bourne;C. Bourne;Ö. Aydemir;V. Balanzá-Martínez;E. Bora

  • Neurocognitive impairment in euthymic patients with bipolar affective disorder.

    Jill M. Thompson;Peter Gallagher;John H. Hughes;Stuart Watson

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in patients with bipolar disorder

    Stuart Watson;Peter Gallagher;James C. Ritchie;I. Nicol Ferrier

  • Improvements in Neurocognitive Function and Mood Following Adjunctive Treatment with Mifepristone (RU-486) in Bipolar Disorder

    Allan H Young;Peter Gallagher;Stuart Watson;Dolores Del-Estal

  • Neuropsychological impairment in major depression: its nature, origin and clinical significance

    Richard J. Porter;Cecilia Bourke;Peter Gallagher

  • Elevation of the cortisol-dehydroepiandrosterone ratio in drug-free depressed patients.

    Allan H. Young;Peter Gallagher;Richard J. Porter

  • Efficacy of ECT: a meta-analysis.

    Philip G Janicak;John M. Davis;Robert D. Gibbons;Stephen Ericksen

  • Fluid balance during and after an ironman triathlon.

    Dale Speedy;Timothy Noakes;Nicholas Kimber;Ian Rogers

  • Neuropsychological dysfunction, soft neurological signs and social disability in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder

    Utpal Goswami;Aditya Sharma;Udayan Khastigir;Ian Nicol Ferrier

  • Methodological recommendations for cognition trials in bipolar disorder by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition Task Force.

    K W Miskowiak;K E Burdick;A Martinez-Aran;C M Bonnin

  • Corticosteroid-serotonin interactions in depression: a review of the human evidence

    Richard J. Porter;Peter Gallagher;Stuart Watson;Allan H. Young

  • Assessing and addressing cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder: the International Society for Bipolar Disorders targeting cognition task force recommendations for clinicians

    K W Miskowiak;K W Miskowiak;K E Burdick;A Martinez-Aran;C M Bonnin

  • Cannabinoids in bipolar affective disorder: a review and discussion of their therapeutic potential:

    C. H. Ashton;P. B. Moore;P. Gallagher;A. H. Young

  • Plasma cortisol-dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) ratios in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

    Peter Gallagher;Stuart Watson;Margaret S. Smith;Allan H. Young

  • Prevalence of cognitive impairment in major depression and bipolar disorder.

    Katie M Douglas;Peter Gallagher;Lucy J Robinson;Janet D Carter

  • A comparison of neurocognitive impairment in younger and older adults with major depression.

    A. J. Thomas;P. Gallagher;L. J. Robinson;R. J. Porter

  • Assessing cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in saliva: effects of collection method.

    Peter Gallagher;Melville M. Leitch;Anna E. Massey;R. Hamish McAllister-Williams

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in patients with chronic depression.

    S Watson;P Gallagher;D Del-Estal;A Hearn

  • Metabolic disease and cardiovascular risk in people treated with antipsychotics in the community.

    Paul Mackin;David Bishop;Helen Watkinson;Peter Gallagher

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan H. Young
Allan H. Young King's College London
Richard J Porter
Richard J Porter University of Otago
Alan J. Thomas
Alan J. Thomas Newcastle University
Kamilla W. Miskowiak
Kamilla W. Miskowiak Copenhagen University Hospital
Lars Vedel Kessing
Lars Vedel Kessing University of Copenhagen
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Katherine E. Burdick
Katherine E. Burdick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Anabel Martínez-Arán
Anabel Martínez-Arán University of Barcelona
Christopher R. Bowie
Christopher R. Bowie Queen's University
Ian M. Anderson
Ian M. Anderson University of Manchester

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