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Overview

Richard J. Brown is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Psychology and Medicine, contributing extensively in areas such as Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental Health. The body of work includes studies intersecting Philosophy, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their main topics of research feature Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Mental Health and Psychiatry, Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies, and the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment. Other areas include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Urban Green Space and Health, and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health.

Richard J. Brown has contributed to a number of publications in notable academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Counselling and Psychotherapy Research
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Journal of Neurology
  • OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Outcome measurement in functional neurological disorder: a systematic review and recommendations, 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Systematic review of psychotherapy for adults with functional neurological disorder, 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Suggestibility in functional neurological disorder: a meta-analysis, 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Hypnotic suggestibility in dissociative and related disorders: A meta-analysis, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Mothers' accounts of the impact of being in nature on postnatal wellbeing: a focus group study, 2023, BMC Women s Health

Collaboration is also a strong feature of their career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Richard Kanaan
  • Myles Gutkin
  • Loyola McLean
  • Lillian Wieder
  • Devin B. Terhune

Best Publications

  • Are there two qualitatively distinct forms of dissociation? A review and some clinical implications.

    Emily A. Holmes;R J Brown;W Mansell;R P Fearon

  • Psychological Mechanisms of Medically Unexplained Symptoms: An Integrative Conceptual Model.

    Richard J. Brown

  • Symptoms and the body: Taking the inferential leap

    Omer Van den Bergh;Michael Witthöft;Sibylle Petersen;Richard J. Brown

  • The majority of patients with long-duration type 1 diabetes are insulin microsecretors and have functioning beta cells

    Richard A. Oram;Angus G. Jones;Rachel E. J. Besser;Bridget A. Knight

  • Different Types of “Dissociation” Have Different Psychological Mechanisms

    Richard J. Brown

  • Psychological and psychiatric aspects of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES): A systematic review.

    Richard J. Brown;Markus Reuber

  • Dissociation, childhood interpersonal trauma, and family functioning in patients with somatization disorder.

    Richard J. Brown;Anette Schrag;Michael R. Trimble

  • Towards an integrative theory of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)

    Richard J. Brown;Markus Reuber

  • Acceptability and effectiveness of a strategy for the communication of the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

    Lindsey Hall-Patch;Richard Brown;Allan House;Stephanie Howlett

  • Conversion Disorder: Current problems and potential solutions for DSM-5

    Jon Stone;W. Curt LaFrance;Richard Brown;David Spiegel

  • Brief body-scan meditation practice improves somatosensory perceptual decision making

    Laura Mirams;Ellen Poliakoff;Richard J. Brown;Donna M. Lloyd

  • Should conversion disorder be reclassified as a dissociative disorder in DSM-V?

    Richard J. Brown;Etzel Cardeña;Ellert Nijenhuis;Vedat Sar

  • Functional (conversion) neurological symptoms: Research since the millennium

    Alan J. Carson;Richard Brown;Anthony S. David;Roderick Duncan

  • Psychiatric outcome after temporal lobectomy: a predictive study.

    Sophie Anhoury;Richard J. Brown;E. S. Krishnamoorthy;Michael R. Trimble

  • Outcome measurement in functional neurological disorder: a systematic review and recommendations

    Susannah Pick;David Anderson;Ali Asadi-Pooya;Ali Asadi-Pooya;Selma Aybek

  • Health-related internet habits and health anxiety in university students.

    Karmpaul Singh;Richard J. Brown

  • Emotional dysregulation, alexithymia, and attachment in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.

    Richard J. Brown;Julia F. Bouska;Anna Frow;Antonia Kirkby

  • Religiosity is associated with hippocampal but not amygdala volumes in patients with refractory epilepsy

    J Wuerfel;E S Krishnamoorthy;R J Brown;L Lemieux

  • Understanding psychogenic nonepileptic seizures-Phenomenology, semiology and the Integrative Cognitive Model.

    Markus Reuber;Markus Reuber;Richard J. Brown;Richard J. Brown

  • Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

    Richard J. Brown;Tanvir U. Syed;Selim Benbadis;W. Curt LaFrance;W. Curt LaFrance

  • Online Health Research and Health Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Integration

    Richard J. Brown;Richard J. Brown;Niamh Skelly;Carolyn A. Chew-Graham

  • Research Articles Depression Rating Scales in Parkinson's Disease: Critique and Recommendations

    Anette Schrag;Paolo Barone;Richard G. Brown;William M. McDonald

  • Neuropsychology Mental Structure

    Richard Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel David
Daniel David Babeș-Bolyai University
Michael Witthöft
Michael Witthöft Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
John R. E. Fox
John R. E. Fox Cardiff University
Emily A. Holmes
Emily A. Holmes Uppsala University
Devin Blair Terhune
Devin Blair Terhune Goldsmiths University of London

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