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Overview

Scott W. Woods is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of medicine and psychology, with significant contributions to psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical and experimental psychology.

The scientist's work extensively addresses schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health and psychiatry, mental health research topics, and functional brain connectivity studies. Additional topics include bipolar disorder and treatment, mental health treatment and access, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Woods include Diana O. Perkins, Elaine F. Walker, Barbara A. Cornblatt, Jean Addington, and Daniel H. Mathalon, reflecting a broad network within psychiatry and mental health research communities.

Key venues for publication include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Scott W. Woods include:

  • "Brain-phenotype models fail for individuals who defy sample stereotypes," 2022, Nature
  • "North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS 3): Methods and baseline description," 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • "Prevalence of Individuals at Clinical High-Risk of Psychosis in the General Population and Clinical Samples: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," 2021, Brain Sciences
  • "Accelerated cortical thinning precedes and predicts conversion to psychosis: The NAPLS3 longitudinal study of youth at clinical high-risk," 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Reducing the Duration of Untreated Psychosis (DUP) in a US Community: A Quasi-Experimental Trial," 2021, Schizophrenia Bulletin Open

Best Publications

  • Prodromal Assessment With the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes and the Scale of Prodromal Symptoms: Predictive Validity, Interrater Reliability, and Training to Reliability

    Tandy J. Miller;Thomas H. McGlashan;Joanna L. Rosen;Kristen Cadenhead

  • Chlorpromazine equivalent doses for the newer atypical antipsychotics

    Scott W. Woods

  • 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

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy, imipramine, or their combination for panic disorder: A randomized controlled trial.

    David H. Barlow;Jack M. Gorman;M. Katherine Shear;Scott W. Woods

  • Multicenter collaborative panic disorder severity scale.

    M. Katherine Shear;Timothy A. Brown;David H. Barlow;Roy Money

  • Prospective Diagnosis of the Initial Prodrome for Schizophrenia Based on the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes: Preliminary Evidence of Interrater Reliability and Predictive Validity

    Tandy J. Miller;Thomas H. McGlashan;Joanna Lifshey Rosen;Lubna Somjee

  • Symptom assessment in schizophrenic prodromal states.

    Tandy J. Miller;Thomas H. McGlashan;Scott W. Woods;Kelly Stein

  • The Psychosis-Risk Syndrome: Handbook for Diagnosis and Follow-Up

    Thomas H. McGlashan;Barbara Walsh;Scott Woods

  • Randomized, double-blind trial of olanzapine versus placebo in patients prodromally symptomatic for psychosis.

    Thomas H. McGlashan;Robert B. Zipursky;Diana Perkins;Jean Addington

  • Serotonin function in anxiety. II. Effects of the serotonin agonist MCPP in panic disorder patients and healthy subjects.

    D. S. Charney;S. W. Woods;W. K. Goodman;G. R. Heninger

  • 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

  • Fear-potentiated startle in humans: effects of anticipatory anxiety on the acoustic blink reflex.

    Christian Grillon;Rezvan Ameli;Scott W. Woods;Kathleen Merikangas

  • 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

  • Heterogeneity of Psychosis Risk Within Individuals at Clinical High Risk: A Meta-analytical Stratification

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Marco Cappucciati;Marco Cappucciati;Stefan Borgwardt;Scott W. Woods

  • Therapists, therapist variables, and cognitive-behavioral therapy outcome in a multicenter trial for panic disorder.

    Jonathan D. Huppert;Lynn F. Bufka;David H. Barlow;Jack M. Gorman

  • Dose Equivalents for Second-Generation Antipsychotics: The Minimum Effective Dose Method

    Stefan Leucht;Myrto Samara;Stephan Heres;Maxine X. Patel

  • Association of Thalamic Dysconnectivity and Conversion to Psychosis in Youth and Young Adults at Elevated Clinical Risk

    Alan Anticevic;Kristen Haut;John D. Murray;Grega Repovs

  • Co-morbidity and familial aggregation of alcoholism and anxiety disorders

    K. R. Merikangas;D. E. Stevens;B. Fenton;M. Stolar

  • Neurobiological mechanisms of panic anxiety: biochemical and behavioral correlates of yohimbine-induced panic attacks.

    Dennis S. Charney;Scott W. Woods;Wayne K. Goodman;George R. Heninger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Addington
Jean Addington University of Calgary
Thomas H. McGlashan
Thomas H. McGlashan Yale University
Ming T. Tsuang
Ming T. Tsuang University of California, San Diego
Tyrone D. Cannon
Tyrone D. Cannon Yale University
Larry J. Seidman
Larry J. Seidman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Elaine F. Walker
Elaine F. Walker Emory University
Diana O. Perkins
Diana O. Perkins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barbara A. Cornblatt
Barbara A. Cornblatt Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles

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