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Overview

Peter Watson is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine. Their work predominantly focuses on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research encompasses various main topics, including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Peter Watson's publication record includes contributions to notable journals such as:

  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • BMJ Open
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Current Psychology
  • BMC Medical Education

Recent papers include:

  • Taking care of our future doctors: a service evaluation of a medical student mental health service, 2020, BMC Medical Education
  • Imaginator: A Proof-of-Concept Feasibility Trial of a Brief Imagery-Based Psychological Intervention for Young People Who Self-Harm, 2020, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Profiles of autism characteristics in thirteen genetic syndromes: a machine learning approach, 2023, Molecular Autism
  • The impact of mindfulness training in early adolescence on affective executive control, and on later mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomised controlled trial, 2022, Evidence-Based Mental Health
  • The psychometric properties of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ) in a clinical sample of adults with recurrent depression, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders

Frequent collaborators include Tim Dalgleish, Hojjatollah Farahani, Caitlin Hitchcock, Fionnuala C. Murphy, and Polly V. Peers.

Best Publications

  • The differential assessment of children's attention: The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch), normative sample and ADHD performance.

    Tom Manly;Vicki Anderson;Ian Nimmo-Smith;Anna Turner

  • The nature and staging of attention dysfunction in early (minimal and mild) Alzheimer’s disease: relationship to episodic and semantic memory impairment

    Richard J Perry;Peter Watson;John R Hodges;John R Hodges

  • Measuring autistic traits in the general population: a systematic review of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) in a nonclinical population sample of 6,900 typical adult males and females

    Emily Ruzich;Carrie Allison;Paula Smith;Peter Watson

  • Social reasoning, emotion and empathy in frontotemporal dementia.

    Sinclair Lough;Christopher M. Kipps;Cate Treise;Peter Watson

  • SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE IN MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND MILD ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

    Anna-Lynne R. Adlam;Sasha Bozeat;Robert Arnold;Peter Watson

  • Population-based study of the prevalence and presentation of dementia in adults with Down's syndrome.

    Anthony J. Holland;Johnny Hon;Felicia A. Huppert;Fran Stevens

  • The use of a wearable camera, SenseCam, as a pictorial diary to improve autobiographical memory in a patient with limbic encephalitis: A preliminary report

    Emma Berry;Narinder Kapur;Lyndsay Williams;Steve Hodges

  • Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department: a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial

    Lalitha Iyadurai;Simon E. Blackwell;Simon E. Blackwell;Richard Meiser-Stedman;Peter C. Watson

  • Positive Imagery-Based Cognitive Bias Modification as a Web-Based Treatment Tool for Depressed Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Simon E. Blackwell;Michael Browning;Andrew Mathews;Arnaud Pictet

  • Category specific semantic loss in dementia of Alzheimer's type. Functional-anatomical correlations from cross-sectional analyses.

    P Garrard;K Patterson;P C Watson;J R Hodges

  • Primary progressive aphasia: A tale of two syndromes and the rest

    S.A. Sajjadi;K. Patterson;R.J. Arnold;P.C. Watson

  • Executive dysfunction and its association with personality and behaviour changes in the development of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome and mild to moderate learning disabilities.

    Sarah L. Ball;Anthony J. Holland;Peter Treppner;Peter C. Watson

  • Prospective memory functioning in people with and without brain injury

    Yvonne C.T. Groot;Barbara A. Wilson;Jonathan Evans;Peter Watson

  • Personality and behaviour changes mark the early stages of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down's syndrome: findings from a prospective population-based study

    Sarah L. Ball;Anthony J. Holland;Johnny Hon;Felicia A. Huppert

  • The capacity of people with a ‘mental disability’ to make a health care decision

    J. G. Wong;I. C. H. Clare;A. J. Holland;P. C. Watson

  • Focal posterior cingulate atrophy in incipient Alzheimer's disease.

    George Pengas;John R. Hodges;Peter Watson;Peter J. Nestor

  • Decision-making difficulties experienced by adults with autism spectrum conditions:

    Lydia Luke;Isabel C.H. Clare;Howard Ring;Marcus Redley

  • The modified CAMDEX informant interview is a valid and reliable tool for use in the diagnosis of dementia in adults with Down's syndrome.

    S. L. Ball;A. J. Holland;F. A. Huppert;P. Treppner

  • Unique and interactive effects of depression, age, socioeconomic advantage, and gender on cognitive performance of normal healthy older people

    Patrick Rabbitt;Christopher Donlan;Peter Watson;Lynn McInnes

  • Reducing intrusive traumatic memories after emergency caesarean section: A proof-of-principle randomized controlled study

    Antje Horsch;Yvan Vial;Céline Favrod;Mathilde Morisod Harari

  • Coffee in the cornflakes: time-of-day as a modulator of executive response control.

    Tom Manly;Geraint H. Lewis;Ian H. Robertson;Peter C. Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Anthony J. Holland
Anthony J. Holland University of Cambridge
Howard Ring
Howard Ring University of Cambridge
Isabel C. H. Clare
Isabel C. H. Clare University of Cambridge
Barbara A. Wilson
Barbara A. Wilson St George's, University of London
Aliza Werner-Seidler
Aliza Werner-Seidler University of New South Wales
Emily A. Holmes
Emily A. Holmes Uppsala University
Richard Meiser-Stedman
Richard Meiser-Stedman University of East Anglia
Felicia A. Huppert
Felicia A. Huppert University of Sydney
Jonathan Evans
Jonathan Evans University of Glasgow

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