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Overview

Sabine Wilhelm is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in the field of psychology, with a significant focus on clinical psychology. Their research contributions span 215 publications primarily centered on topics such as body image and dysmorphia studies, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

The scientist's work frequently explores areas including:

  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Tattoo and Body Piercing Complications
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Wilhelm has published extensively in well-recognized venues such as:

  • Behavior Therapy
  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy

Collaboration is notable in their career with frequent co-authors including Jennifer L. Greenberg, Hilary Weingarden, Susanne S. Hoeppner, Joseph McGuire, and Ívar Snorrason.

Some recent publications by Sabine Wilhelm include:

  • Digital Biomarkers of Social Anxiety Severity: Digital Phenotyping Using Passive Smartphone Sensors (2020), Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: Feasibility, acceptability, and proof-of-concept for children and adolescents (2020), International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Treatment utilization and treatment barriers in individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (2020), BMC Psychiatry
  • Body dysmorphic disorder and self-esteem: a meta-analysis (2021), BMC Psychiatry
  • A Rag GTPase dimer code defines the regulation of mTORC1 by amino acids (2022), Nature Cell Biology

Wilhelm has also contributed to book literature with a publication titled The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2023), released by Springer International Publishing.

Their research integrates elements of clinical and experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and cultural studies. The subfields with the most notable representation in their work include clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • The emotional counting stroop paradigm: a functional magnetic resonance imaging probe of the anterior cingulate affective division

    Paul J Whalen;George Bush;George Bush;Richard J McNally;Sabine Wilhelm

  • Behavior Therapy for Children With Tourette Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    John Piacentini;Douglas W. Woods;Lawrence Scahill;Sabine Wilhelm

  • Psychometric validation of the obsessive belief questionnaire and interpretation of intrusions inventory - Part 2: Factor analyses and testing of a brief version

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • A critical evaluation of obsessive-compulsive disorder subtypes: symptoms versus mechanisms.

    Dean McKay;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;John E. Calamari;Michael Kyrios

  • Psychometric validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory: Part I

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • Hoarding disorder: a new diagnosis for DSM-V?

    David Mataix-Cols;Randy O. Frost;Alberto Pertusa;Lee Anna Clark

  • The prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder: a population-based survey

    Winfried Rief;Ulrike Buhlmann;Sabine Wilhelm;Ada Borkenhagen

  • Updates on the prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder: A population-based survey

    Ulrike Buhlmann;Heide Glaesmer;Ricarda Mewes;Jeanne M. Fama

  • Extensive immunoglobulin production sensitizes myeloma cells for proteasome inhibition.

    Silke Meister;Ulrich Schubert;Kirsten Neubert;Kai Herrmann

  • Augmentation of behavior therapy with D-cycloserine for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Sabine Wilhelm;Ulrike Buhlmann;David F. Tolin;Suzanne A. Meunier

  • Efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Dean McKay;Debbie Sookman;Fugen Neziroglu;Sabine Wilhelm

  • Strategic processing and episodic memory impairment in obsessive compulsive disorder.

    Cary R. Savage;Thilo Deckersbach;Sabine Wilhelm;Scott L. Rauch

  • Should an obsessive–compulsive spectrum grouping of disorders be included in DSM‐V?

    Katharine A. Phillips;Dan J. Stein M.D.;Scott L Rauch;Eric Hollander

  • Self-Injurious Skin Picking: Clinical Characteristics and Comorbidity

    Sabine Wilhelm;Nancy J. Keuthen;Thilo Deckersbach;Iris M. Engelhard

  • Randomized Trial of Behavior Therapy for Adults With Tourette Syndrome

    Sabine Wilhelm;Alan L. Peterson;John Piacentini;Douglas W. Woods

  • Prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder in a community sample of women.

    Michael W. Otto;Sabine Wilhelm;Lee S. Cohen;Bernard L. Harlow

  • Habit Reversal Versus Supportive Psychotherapy for Tourette’s Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Sabine Wilhelm;Thilo Deckersbach;Barbara J. Coffey;Antje Bohne

  • Deficits in conditioned fear extinction in obsessive-compulsive disorder and neurobiological changes in the fear circuit.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Sharon C. Furtak;Jennifer L. Greenberg;Aparna Keshaviah

  • Body dysmorphic disorder: some key issues for DSM-V.

    Katharine A. Phillips;Sabine Wilhelm;Lorrin M. Koran;Elizabeth R. Didie

  • Barriers to treatment and service utilization in an internet sample of individuals with obsessive–compulsive symptoms

    Luana Marques;Nicole J. LeBlanc;Nicole J. LeBlanc;Hilary M. Weingarden;Hilary M. Weingarden;Kiara R. Timpano

  • Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders

    S. Wilhelm

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrike Buhlmann
Ulrike Buhlmann University of Münster
Alan L. Peterson
Alan L. Peterson The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Thilo Deckersbach
Thilo Deckersbach Harvard University
John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
John T. Walkup
John T. Walkup Lurie Children's Hospital
Douglas W. Woods
Douglas W. Woods Marquette University
Eric A. Storch
Eric A. Storch Baylor College of Medicine
Katharine A. Phillips
Katharine A. Phillips Cornell University
Lee Baer
Lee Baer Harvard University
Gail Steketee
Gail Steketee Boston University

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