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Citations
23004
World Ranking
7070
National Ranking
3814

Overview

Robert Heinssen is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and focuses on research within medicine and psychology. Their work spans topics mainly related to schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health research, and autism spectrum disorder research.

The scientist's primary fields of study include medicine and psychology, with significant contributions in subfields such as psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in their research portfolio are:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Heinssen include:

  • Kristin S. Cadenhead
  • Barbara A. Cornblatt
  • Diana O. Perkins
  • Larry J. Seidman
  • Ming T. Tsuang

Heinssen has published across several venues, with the most frequent being UNC Libraries. Other venues include Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, JAMA Psychiatry, and Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Notable recent papers by Robert Heinssen include:

  • A National Learning Health Experiment in Early Psychosis Research and Care, 2022, Psychiatric Services
  • National Institute of Mental Health Support for Cognitive Treatment Development in Schizophrenia: A Narrative Review, 2024, Schizophrenia Bulletin

Other relevant research publications connected to their field but authored by others include works focused on cardiometabolic risk in first-episode schizophrenia and collaborative approaches toward clinical high-risk states.

Best Publications

  • Research domain criteria (RDoC): toward a new classification framework for research on mental disorders

    Thomas R Insel;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Marjorie A. Garvey;Robert K. Heinssen

  • Prediction of psychosis in youth at high clinical risk: a multisite longitudinal study in North America.

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Kristin Cadenhead;Barbara Cornblatt;Scott W. Woods

  • Determinants of Medication Compliance in Schizophrenia: Empirical and Clinical Findings

    Wayne S. Fenton;Crystal R. Blyler;Robert K. Heinssen

  • Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: An NIMH Workshop on Definitions, Assessment, and Research Opportunities

    Michael F. Green;David L. Penn;Richard Bentall;William T. Carpenter;William T. Carpenter

  • Assessing computer anxiety: Development and validation of the Computer Anxiety Rating Scale

    Robert K. Heinssen;Carol R. Glass;Luanne A. Knight

  • Developing constructs for psychopathology research: research domain criteria.

    Charles A. Sanislow;Daniel S. Pine;Kevin J. Quinn;Michael J. Kozak

  • Comprehensive Versus Usual Community Care for First-Episode Psychosis: 2-Year Outcomes From the NIMH RAISE Early Treatment Program

    John M. Kane;Delbert G. Robinson;Nina R. Schooler;Kim T. Mueser

  • Progressive Reduction in Cortical Thickness as Psychosis Develops: A Multisite Longitudinal Neuroimaging Study of Youth at Elevated Clinical Risk

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Yoonho Chung;George He;Daqiang Sun

  • An Individualized Risk Calculator for Research in Prodromal Psychosis

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Changhong Yu;Jean Addington;Carrie E. Bearden

  • At clinical high risk for psychosis: Outcome for nonconverters

    Jean Addington;Barbara A. Cornblatt;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Validity of the Prodromal Risk Syndrome for First Psychosis: Findings From the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study

    Scott W. Woods;Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Neuropsychology of the Prodrome to Psychosis in the NAPLS Consortium: Relationship to Family History and Conversion to Psychosis

    Larry J. Seidman;Anthony J. Giuliano;Eric C. Meyer;Jean Addington

  • Cardiometabolic Risk in Patients With First-Episode Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Baseline Results From the RAISE-ETP Study

    Christoph U. Correll;Delbert G. Robinson;Nina R. Schooler;Nina R. Schooler;Mary F. Brunette

  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study: A Collaborative Multisite Approach to Prodromal Schizophrenia Research

    Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon;Barbara Cornblatt;Barbara Cornblatt

  • Negative symptoms in individuals at clinical high risk of psychosis

    Danijela Piskulic;Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Risk Factors for Psychosis: Impaired Social and Role Functioning

    Barbara A. Cornblatt;Ricardo E. Carrión;Jean Addington;Larry Seidman;Larry Seidman

  • Psychosocial Skills Training for Schizophrenia: Lessons From the Laboratory

    Robert K. Heinssen;Robert P. Liberman;Alex Kopelowicz

  • Towards a Psychosis Risk Blood Diagnostic for Persons Experiencing High-Risk Symptoms: Preliminary Results From the NAPLS Project

    Diana O. Perkins;Clark D. Jeffries;Jean Addington;Carrie E. Bearden

  • Cortisol Levels and Risk for Psychosis: Initial Findings from the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study

    Elaine F. Walker;Hanan D. Trotman;Brad D. Pearce;Jean Addington

  • Identifying cognitive mechanisms targeted for treatment development in schizophrenia: an overview of the first meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia Initiative.

    Cameron S. Carter;M Deanna;Robert W. Buchanan;Ed Bullmore

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana O. Perkins
Diana O. Perkins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scott W. Woods
Scott W. Woods Yale University
Elaine F. Walker
Elaine F. Walker Emory University
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Bruce N. Cuthbert
Bruce N. Cuthbert National Institutes of Health
David L. Penn
David L. Penn University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
Steven M. Silverstein
Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center
Keith H. Nuechterlein
Keith H. Nuechterlein University of California, Los Angeles

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