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Overview

Robert W. Simpson is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields primarily focused on medicine, health professions, and psychology. Within these domains, they have contributed notably to subfields including clinical psychology, general health professions, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, and emergency medicine.

The main research topics covered by Robert W. Simpson include:

  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Simpson are:

  • "Rehabilitation After Critical Illness in People With COVID-19 Infection," 2020, published in American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • "Mindfulness-based interventions for people with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-aggregation of qualitative research studies," 2021, published in Disability and Rehabilitation
  • "A systematic review and meta-analysis exploring the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions on quality of life in people with multiple sclerosis," 2022, published in Journal of Neurology

Frequent co-authors of Robert W. Simpson include:

  • Lawrence R. Robinson
  • Marina B. Wasilewski
  • Sander L. Hitzig
  • Mark Bayley
  • Amanda L. Mayo

Simpson has published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Disability and Rehabilitation
  • International Journal of Integrated Care
  • Journal of Neurology
  • American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The scope of Robert W. Simpson's work covers clinical and practical aspects of rehabilitation, particularly concerning critical illness and neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis. The research includes systematic reviews and meta-analyses focused on the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in improving quality of life.

Overall, Robert W. Simpson's research contributions intersect medicine, psychology, and health professions, focusing on rehabilitation, cognitive disorders, and mental health impacts related to COVID-19 and other neurological disorders.

Best Publications

  • Approximating edges of source bodies from magnetic or gravity anomalies

    Richard J. Blakely;Robert W. Simpson

  • Seismicity Remotely Triggered by the Magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, Earthquake

    D. P. Hill;P.A. Reasenberg;A. Michael;W.J. Arabaz

  • Response of Regional Seismicity to the Static Stress Change Produced by the Loma Prieta Earthquake

    Paul A. Reasenberg;Robert W. Simpson

  • Implications for prediction and hazard assessment from the 2004 Parkfield earthquake

    W. H. Bakun;B. Aagaard;B. Dost;W. L. Ellsworth

  • A new isostatic residual gravity map of the conterminous United States with a discussion on the significance of isostatic residual anomalies

    R. W. Simpson;R. C. Jachens;R. J. Blakely;R. W. Saltus

  • Changes in static stress on southern California faults after the 1992 Landers earthquake

    Ruth A. Harris;Robert W. Simpson

  • Suppression of large earthquakes by stress shadows: A comparison of Coulomb and rate-and-state failure

    Ruth A. Harris;Robert W. Simpson

  • Stress sensitivity of fault seismicity: A comparison between limited‐offset oblique and major strike‐slip faults

    Tom Parsons;Ross S. Stein;Robert W. Simpson;Paul A. Reasenberg

  • Fault plane solutions for the 1984 Morgan Hill, California, Earthquake Sequence: Evidence for the state of stress on the Calaveras Fault

    David H. Oppenheimer;Paul A. Reasenberg;Robert W. Simpson

  • A physically-based earthquake recurrence model for estimation of long-term earthquake probabilities

    William L. Ellsworth;Mark V. Matthews;Robert M. Nadeau;Stuart P. Nishenko

  • Quantifying Anderson's fault types

    Robert W. Simpson

  • In the shadow of 1857‐the effect of the Great Ft. Tejon Earthquake on subsequent earthquakes in southern California

    Ruth A. Harris;Robert W. Simpson

  • Influence of static stress changes on earthquake locations in southern California

    R. A. Harris;R. W. Simpson;P. A. Reasenberg

  • Pore fluid pressure, apparent friction, and Coulomb failure

    N. M. Beeler;R. W. Simpson;S. H. Hickman;D. A. Lockner

  • Paleomagnetic evidence for tectonic rotation of the Oregon Coast Range

    Robert W. Simpson;Allan Cox

  • The Cape Mendocino, California, Earthquakes of April 1992: Subduction at the Triple Junction

    D. Oppenheimer;J. Eaton;A. Jayko;M. Lisowski

  • Surface strain accumulation and the seismic moment tensor

    James C. Savage;Robert W. Simpson

  • Northward migration of the Cascadia forearc in the northwestern U.S. and implications for subduction deformation

    Ray E. Wells;Robert W. Simpson

  • Ground-motion modeling of Hayward fault scenario earthquakes, part II: Simulation of long-period and broadband ground motions

    Brad T. Aagaard;Robert W. Graves;Arthur Rodgers;Thomas M. Brocher

  • Anatomy of a metamorphic core complex: Seismic refraction/wide‐angle reflection profiling in southeastern California and western Arizona

    Jill McCarthy;Steven P. Larkin;Gary S. Fuis;Robert W. Simpson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Blakely
Richard J. Blakely United States Geological Survey
James C. Savage
James C. Savage United States Geological Survey
Keith A. Howard
Keith A. Howard United States Geological Survey
Tom Parsons
Tom Parsons United States Geological Survey
Ross S. Stein
Ross S. Stein United States Geological Survey
Ray E. Wells
Ray E. Wells United States Geological Survey
John Langbein
John Langbein United States Geological Survey
M. J. S. Johnston
M. J. S. Johnston United States Geological Survey
John Boatwright
John Boatwright United States Geological Survey
William L. Ellsworth
William L. Ellsworth Stanford University

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