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Samuel Gershon is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research work spans several fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on psychiatry and mental health, genetics, clinical psychology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's recent publications cover topics related to bipolar disorder and treatment, electroconvulsive therapy studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, prenatal screening and diagnostics, as well as genomics and rare diseases.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Make lithium great again!", 2020, Bipolar Disorders
  • "Clinical research diagnostic criteria for bipolar illness (CRDC-BP): rationale and validity", 2022, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • "High Concordance of Copy Number Variants Detected by Chromosomal Microarray and Exome Sequencing in Clinical Diagnostics", 2025, Clinical Genetics

Frequent co-authors of Samuel Gershon include:

  • Gin S. Malhi
  • Erica Bell
  • Philip Boyce
  • Philip Hazell
  • Greg Murray

Their publications have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • Bipolar Disorders
  • International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Clinical Genetics

Best Publications

  • Age‐associated memory impairment: Proposed diagnostic criteria and measures of clinical change — report of a national institute of mental health work group

    Thomas Crook;Raymond T. Bartus;Steven H. Ferris;Peter J. Whitehouse

  • Tritiated imipramine binding sites are decreased in the frontal cortex of suicides

    Michael Stanley;Joanne Virgilio;Samuel Gershon

  • The phenomenology of experimentally induced amphetamine psychosis--preliminary observations.

    Burton M. Angrist;Samuel Gershon

  • Differential effects of amphetamine and neuroleptics on negative vs. positive symptoms in schizophrenia.

    B. Angrist;J. Rotrosen;S. Gershon

  • Dopamine and depression.

    A. S. Brown;S. Gershon

  • Amphetamine psychosis: Behavioral and biochemical aspects

    Btjrton Angrist;Gregory Sathananthan;Sherwin Wilk;Samuel Gershon

  • Parachlorophenylalanine reversal of tranylcypromine effects in depressed patients.

    Baron Shopsin;Eitan Friedman;Samuel Gershon

  • Increased cerebrospinal fluid glutamine levels in depressed patients.

    Joseph Levine;Joseph Levine;Kanagasabai Panchalingam;Avraham Rapoport;Samuel Gershon

  • The role of dopamine in mood disorders.

    David J. Diehl;Samuel Gershon

  • Controlled evaluation of lithium and chlorpromazine in the treatment of manic states: An interim report *

    Gordon Johnson;Samuel Gershon;Leon J. Hekimian

  • Psychoactive drugs in mania. A controlled comparison of lithium carbonate, chlorpromazine, and haloperidol

    Baron Shopsin;Samuel Gershon;Hyacinth Thompson;Patrick Collins

  • Responses to apomorphine, amphetamine, and neuroleptics in schizophrenic subjects.

    B. Angrist;J. Rotrosen;S. Gershon

  • Lithium and leukocytosis

    Baron Shopsin;Richard Friedmann;Samuel Gershon

  • The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with schizoaffective disorder--bipolar subtype.

    Ranita Basu;Jaspreet S Brar;KN Roy Chengappa;Vineeth John

  • Lifetime prevalence of substance or alcohol abuse and dependence among subjects with bipolar I and II disorders in a voluntary registry.

    Kn Roy Chengappa;Joseph Levine;Samuel Gershon;David J Kupfer

  • Use of synthesis inhibitors in defining a role for biogenic amines during imipramine treatment in depressed patients.

    Shopsin B;Gershon S;Goldstein M;Friedman E

  • Carbamazepine versus lithium in mania: a double-blind study.

    Lerer B;Moore N;Meyendorff E;Cho

  • Computed tomography evaluations of brain-behavior relationships in senile d dementia of the Alzheimer's type

    Mony J. de Leon;Steven H. Ferris;Ajax E. George;Barry Reisberg

  • Comparative Effects of Lithium and Chlorpromazine in the Treatment of Acute Manic States

    Gordon Johnson;Samuel Gershon;Eugene I. Burdock;Arthur Floyd

  • Handbook of medical psychiatry

    Jair C. Soares;Samuel Gershon

Frequent Co-Authors

Gin S Malhi
Gin S Malhi University of Sydney
Steven H. Ferris
Steven H. Ferris New York University
Jair C. Soares
Jair C. Soares The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Vikram K. Yeragani
Vikram K. Yeragani Wayne State University
Barry Reisberg
Barry Reisberg New York University
Robert Pohl
Robert Pohl Wayne State University
David R. Rosenberg
David R. Rosenberg Wayne State University
Jay W. Pettegrew
Jay W. Pettegrew University of Pittsburgh
David J. Kupfer
David J. Kupfer University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Richard Balon
Richard Balon Wayne State University

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