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Overview

Roman Kotov is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States, with a research focus centered on psychology and medicine. Their work primarily addresses topics within clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health, integrating multiple subfields to explore mental health disorders and their classification.

Their research spans over 173 publications in psychology and 106 in medicine, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding mental health. Kotov's scholarly contributions concentrate on areas such as mental health research topics, schizophrenia research and treatment, personality disorders and psychopathology, functional brain connectivity studies, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Kotov has published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • World Psychiatry
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Recent prominent papers authored by Roman Kotov include:

  • "The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Quantitative Nosology Based on Consensus of Evidence" (2021, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology)
  • "Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): I. Psychosis superspectrum" (2020, World Psychiatry)
  • "The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research" (2022, Psychological Medicine)

While some of their coauthors are noted for collaborative work on related topics, notable frequent collaborators include Benjamin J. Luft, Evelyn J. Bromet, Sean Clouston, Katherine Jonas, and Camilo J. Ruggero.

The subfields within which Kotov's studies are situated emphasize clinical and cognitive psychological processes as well as psychiatric applications. This includes work addressing experimental and cognitive psychology facets, underpinning various mental health and neuroscience investigations.

Key research topics associated with Roman Kotov are:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Kotov's work contributes to ongoing efforts to refine psychiatric nosology, including the development and validation of hierarchical models for psychopathology classification, as seen in studies concerning the HiTOP framework. Their scholarly output supports integration of clinical and neuroscientific perspectives to enhance understanding of psychiatric disorders.

Best Publications

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Linking "big" personality traits to anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders: a meta-analysis.

    Roman Kotov;Wakiza Gamez;Frank Schmidt;David Watson

  • Personality and depression: explanatory models and review of the evidence.

    Daniel N. Klein;Roman Kotov;Sara J. Bufferd

  • Development and validation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS).

    David Watson;Michael W. O'Hara;Leonard J. Simms;Roman Kotov

  • Neuroticism and common mental disorders : Meaning and utility of a complex relationship

    Johan Ormel;Bertus F Jeronimus;Roman Kotov;Harriëtte Riese

  • Development of a measure of experiential avoidance: The Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire.

    Wakiza Gámez;Michael Chmielewski;Roman Kotov;Camilo Ruggero

  • The brief experiential avoidance questionnaire: development and initial validation.

    Wakiza Gámez;Michael Chmielewski;Roman Kotov;Camilo Ruggero

  • Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

    Robert F. Krueger;Roman Kotov;David Watson;Miriam K. Forbes

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Quantitative Nosology Based on Consensus of Evidence.

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;David C. Cicero

  • Development and validation of new anxiety and bipolar symptom scales for an expanded version of the IDAS (the IDAS-II).

    David Watson;Michael W. O’Hara;Kristin Naragon-Gainey;Erin Koffel

  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research

    Christopher C. Conway;Miriam K. Forbes;Kelsie T. Forbush;Eiko I. Fried

  • DSM–IV personality disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Yueqin Huang;Roman Kotov;Giovanni de Girolamo;Antonio Preti

  • New dimensions in the quantitative classification of mental illness.

    Roman Kotov;Camilo J. Ruggero;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

  • Neuroticism's prospective association with mental disorders halves after adjustment for baseline symptoms and psychiatric history, but the adjusted association hardly decays with time: a meta-analysis on 59 longitudinal/prospective studies with 443 313 participants

    Bertus Jeronimus;R Kotov;Harriette Riese;Johan Ormel

  • Diagnostic Shifts During the Decade Following First Admission for Psychosis

    Evelyn J. Bromet;Roman Kotov;Laura J. Fochtmann;Gabrielle A. Carlson

  • Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field

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  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

  • Blunted neural response to rewards prospectively predicts depression in adolescent girls

    Jennifer N. Bress;Dan Foti;Roman Kotov;Daniel N. Klein

  • Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum

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  • Integrating the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) into clinical practice

    Camilo J. Ruggero;Roman Kotov;Christopher J. Hopwood;Michael First

  • Cannabis use and the course of schizophrenia: 10-year follow-up after first hospitalization

    Daniel J. Foti;Roman Kotov;Lin T. Guey;Evelyn J. Bromet

  • A paradigm shift in psychiatric classification: the Hierarchical Taxonomy Of Psychopathology (HiTOP).

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Evelyn J. Bromet
Evelyn J. Bromet Stony Brook University
Camilo J. Ruggero
Camilo J. Ruggero University of North Texas
David Watson
David Watson University of Notre Dame
Michael J. Zvolensky
Michael J. Zvolensky University of Houston
Daniel N. Klein
Daniel N. Klein Stony Brook University
Greg Hajcak
Greg Hajcak Santa Clara University
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Norman B. Schmidt
Norman B. Schmidt Florida State University
Gabrielle A. Carlson
Gabrielle A. Carlson Stony Brook University
Robert H. Pietrzak
Robert H. Pietrzak Yale University

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