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Peter H. Silverstone

Peter H. Silverstone

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
7189
World Ranking
7293
National Ranking
490

Overview

Peter H. Silverstone is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has established a research profile primarily within the field of Psychology. Their work spans multiple facets of Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Health, and Emergency Medical Services.

The main research topics explored by Silverstone include resilience and mental health, child abuse and trauma, mental health treatment and access, posttraumatic stress disorder research, disaster response and management, intimate partner and family violence, and migration, health, and trauma.

Silverstone has published extensively, contributing to various journals and research venues. Frequent outlets for their research include:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • European Psychiatry
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Silverstone include:

  • Long-Term Mental Health Effects of a Devastating Wildfire Are Amplified by Socio-Demographic and Clinical Antecedents in Elementary and High School Staff (2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • Effects of childhood adversity on the volumes of the amygdala subnuclei and hippocampal subfields in individuals with major depressive disorder (2021, Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience)
  • Social-Ecological Factors Associated With Higher Levels of Resilience in Children and Youth After Disaster: The Importance of Caregiver and Peer Support (2021, Frontiers in Public Health)
  • Mental Health Symptoms Unexpectedly Increased in Students Aged 11-19 Years During the 3.5 Years After the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire: Findings From 9,376 Survey Responses (2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • Examining the Effectiveness, Acceptability, and Feasibility of Virtually Delivered Trauma-Focused Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence Interventions: A Rapid Evidence Assessment (2022, Trauma Violence & Abuse)

Silverstone frequently collaborates with several researchers, with multiple co-authored publications. Key co-authors include:

  • Andrew J. Greenshaw
  • Vincent I. O. Agyapong
  • Hannah Pazderka
  • Pierre Chue
  • Caroline McDonald-Harker

Best Publications

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: consensus and controversies.

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Claire O'Donovan;Sagar Parikh

  • Males and females differ in brain activation during cognitive tasks.

    Emily C. Bell;Morgan C. Willson;Alan H. Wilman;Sanjay Dave

  • Low self-esteem and psychiatric patients: Part I – The relationship between low self-esteem and psychiatric diagnosis

    Peter H Silverstone;Mahnaz Salsali

  • Once-daily venlafaxine extended release (XR) compared with fluoxetine in outpatients with Depression and Anxiety

    Peter H. Silverstone;Arun Ravindran

  • Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in medical inpatients.

    Peter H. Silverstone

  • ADHD-200 Global Competition: diagnosing ADHD using personal characteristic data can outperform resting state fMRI measurements.

    Matthew R. G. Brown;Gagan S. Sidhu;Russell Greiner;Nasimeh Asgarian

  • Chronic lithium and sodium valproate both decrease the concentration of myo-inositol and increase the concentration of inositol monophosphates in rat brain

    T. O’Donnell;S. Rotzinger;T.T. Nakashima;C.C. Hanstock

  • A review of the possible relevance of inositol and the phosphatidylinositol second messenger system (PI-cycle) to psychiatric disorders--focus on magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies.

    Hyeonjin Kim;Brent M. McGrath;Peter H. Silverstone

  • Efficacy of venlafaxine extended release in patients with major depressive disorder and comorbid generalized anxiety disorder.

    Peter H. Silverstone;Eliseo Salinas

  • Chronic treatment with lithium, but not sodium valproate, increases cortical N-acetyl-aspartate concentrations in euthymic bipolar patients.

    Peter H Silverstone;Ren H Wu;Tina O'Donnell;Michele Ulrich

  • Low self-esteem in different psychiatric conditions

    Peter H. Silverstone

  • Bipolar disorder and myo-inositol: a review of the magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings

    Peter H Silverstone;Brent M McGrath;Hyeonjin Kim

  • Poor efficacy of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in the diagnosis of major depressive disorder in both medical and psychiatric patients.

    Peter H. Silverstone

  • The Non-Antiemetic Uses of Serotonin 5-HT3 Receptor Antagonists Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutic Applications

    Andrew J. Greenshaw;Peter H. Silverstone

  • Venlafaxine in treatment-resistant major depression: a Canadian multicenter, open-label trial.

    de Montigny C;Silverstone Ph;Debonnel G;Blier P

  • Involvement of CYP3A4 and CYP2D6 in the metabolism of haloperidol.

    Jian Fang;Glen B. Baker;Peter H. Silverstone;Ronald T. Coutts

  • Depression increases mortality and morbidity in acute life-threatening medical illness

    Peter H. Silverstone

  • Chronic treatment with both lithium and sodium valproate may normalize phosphoinositol cycle activity in bipolar patients.

    Peter H. Silverstone;Ren H. Wu;Tina O'Donnell;Michele Ulrich

  • Treatment of mania, mixed state, and rapid cycling.

    Vivek Kusumakar;Lakshmi N. Yatham;David R S Haslam;Sagar V. Parikh

  • Defining anxious depression: going beyond comorbidity.

    Peter H Silverstone;Erica von Studnitz

  • Depression and outcome in acute myocardial infarction.

    Peter Silverstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Arun V. Ravindran
Arun V. Ravindran University of Toronto
Florin Dolcos
Florin Dolcos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roumen Milev
Roumen Milev Queen's University
Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Rutger C. M. E. Engels Erasmus University Rotterdam
T. Cameron Wild
T. Cameron Wild University of Alberta
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Martin Alda
Martin Alda Dalhousie University

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