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Rael D. Strous

Rael D. Strous

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
50
Citations
8453
World Ranking
2811
National Ranking
13

Overview

Rael D. Strous is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of health professions, psychology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including general health professions, health, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and pharmacology.

The topics addressed in their research reflect a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on religion, spirituality, and psychology; ethics in medical practice; COVID-19 and mental health; mental health treatment and access; vaccine coverage and hesitancy; cannabis and cannabinoid research; and disaster response and management.

Rael D. Strous has authored and coauthored a range of peer-reviewed papers. Some recent publications include:

  • "How are psychotic symptoms and treatment factors affected by religion? A cross-sectional study about religious coping among ultra-Orthodox Jews" (2020) in Psychiatry Research
  • "Placebo-To be or not to be? Are there really alternatives to placebo-controlled trials?" (2020) in European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Psychiatry and COVID-19: putting our best foot forward" (2020) in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Anxiety Reactions and Coping Modalities with the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing a Population of Religious Patients with Mental Illness and their Health Caregivers" (2021) in Journal of Religion and Health
  • "Ethics of sharing medical knowledge with the community: is the physician responsible for medical outreach during a pandemic?" (2020) in Journal of Medical Ethics

Their frequent coauthors include D. Serfaty, Azgad Gold, Ateret Biran-Ovadia, Tamar Lugasi, and Aaron D. Cherniak.

Rael D. Strous's work has appeared in several notable venues, with multiple publications in the Journal of Medical Ethics and The Lancet Psychiatry, alongside contributions to the Journal of Religion and Health, Psychiatry Research, and European Neuropsychopharmacology.

Best Publications

  • A Highly Significant Association between a COMT Haplotype and Schizophrenia

    Sagiv Shifman;Michal Bronstein;Meira Sternfeld;Anne Pisanté-Shalom

  • Dehydroepiandrosterone augmentation in the management of negative, depressive, and anxiety symptoms in schizophrenia.

    Rael D. Strous;Rachel Maayan;Raya Lapidus;Rafael Stryjer

  • Schizophrenia, autoimmunity and immune system dysregulation: a comprehensive model updated and revisited.

    Rael D. Strous;Yehuda Shoenfeld

  • A peripheral marker for schizophrenia: Increased levels of D3 dopamine receptor mRNA in blood lymphocytes

    Tal Ilani;Dorit Ben-Shachar;Rael D. Strous;Marina Mazor

  • Impaired precision, but normal retention, of auditory sensory (echoic) memory information in schizophrenia

    Daniel C. Javitt;Rael D. Strous;Sandra Grochowski;Walter Ritter

  • COMT: a common susceptibility gene in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

    Sagiv Shifman;Michal Bronstein;Meira Sternfeld;Anne Pisanté

  • Elevation of the cortisol/dehydroepiandrosterone ratio in schizophrenia patients.

    Michael Ritsner;Rachel Maayan;Anatoly Gibel;Rael D Strous

  • Aggressive behavior in schizophrenia is associated with the low enzyme activity COMT polymorphism: a replication study.

    Rael D. Strous;Karen A. Nolan;Raya Lapidus;Libna Diaz

  • Auditory sensory ("echoic") memory dysfunction in schizophrenia

    Rael D. Strous;Nelson Cowan;Walter Ritter;Daniel C. Javitt

  • The relevance of neurosteroids to clinical psychiatry: From the laboratory to the bedside

    Rael D. Strous;Rachel Maayan;Abraham Weizman

  • Neuropsychological correlates of hippocampal volumes in patients experiencing a first episode of schizophrenia.

    Philip R. Szeszko;Rael D. Strous;Robert S. Goldman;Manzar Ashtari

  • Combined analysis of 635 patients confirms an age-related association of the serotonin 2A receptor gene with tardive dyskinesia and specificity for the non-orofacial subtype

    Bernard Lerer;Ronnen H. Segman;Ene Choo Tan;Vincenzo S. Basile

  • Dopaminergic regulation of immune cells via D3 dopamine receptor: a pathway mediated by activated T cells

    Tal Ilani;Rael D. Strous;Sara Fuchs

  • Amantadine as augmentation therapy in the management of treatment-resistant depression

    Rafael Stryjer;Rael D Strous;Ginette Shaked;Faina Bar

  • Reduced language lateralization in first-episode schizophrenia: an fMRI index of functional asymmetry.

    Maya Bleich-Cohen;Talma Hendler;Talma Hendler;Moshe Kotler;Rael D. Strous

  • To smell the immune system: Olfaction, autoimmunity and brain involvement

    Rael D. Strous;Yehuda Shoenfeld;Yehuda Shoenfeld

  • Increased circulatory dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulphate in first-episode schizophrenia: relationship to gender, aggression and symptomatology.

    Rael D. Strous;Rachel Maayan;Raya Lapidus;Leonid Goredetsky

  • Premorbid Functioning in Schizophrenia: Relation to Baseline Symptoms, Treatment Response, and Medication Side Effects

    Rael D. Strous;Jose Ma. J. Alvir;Delbert Robinson;Gilad Gal

  • Eponyms and the Nazi era: time to remember and time for change.

    Rael D. Strous;Morris C. Edelman

  • Combination of "atypical" antipsychotic medication in the management of treatment-resistant schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

    Vladimir Lerner;Igor Libov;Moshe Kotler;Moshe Kotler;Rael D Strous

  • Analysis of neurosteroid levels in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Rael D. Strous;Baruch Spivak;Rony Yoran-Hegesh;Rachel Maayan

  • Analysis of clinical symptomatology, extrapyramidal symptoms and neurocognitive dysfunction following dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) administration in olanzapine treated schizophrenia patients: A randomized, double-blind placebo controlled trial

    Rael D. Strous;Rafael Stryjer;Rachel Maayan;Gilad Gal

Frequent Co-Authors

Moshe Kotler
Moshe Kotler Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Robert M. Bilder
Robert M. Bilder University of California, Los Angeles
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Manzar Ashtari
Manzar Ashtari University of Pennsylvania
Sara Fuchs
Sara Fuchs Weizmann Institute of Science
Deborah S. Hasin
Deborah S. Hasin Columbia University
Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science
Ariel Darvasi
Ariel Darvasi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fabio Macciardi
Fabio Macciardi University of California, Irvine
James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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