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Overview

Shitij Kapur is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focus spans several areas within medicine, particularly overlapping surgery, cognitive neuroscience, immunology and allergy, physiology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their work covers multiple subfields including:

  • Surgery
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Physiology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Within these domains, Kapur's research addresses topics such as:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
  • Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Selected recent publications illustrate the breadth of their work:

  • CSACI guidelines for the ethical, evidence-based and patient-oriented clinical practice of oral immunotherapy in IgE-mediated food allergy, 2020, Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology
  • Dopamine and Glutamate in Antipsychotic-Responsive Compared With Antipsychotic-Nonresponsive Psychosis: A Multicenter Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study (STRATA), 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Real-world practice and outcomes in pilonidal surgery: Pilonidal Sinus Treatment Studying The Options (PITSTOP) cohort, 2024, British journal of surgery
  • Adenosine A2A receptor in schizophrenia: an in vivo brain PET imaging study, 2021, Psychopharmacology
  • Partnering for rotavirus vaccine introduction in India: A retrospective analysis, 2021, Vaccine

Kapur has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Philippe Bégin
  • H. Kim
  • Caroline Favron-Godbout
  • Julia Upton
  • Timothy K. Vander Leek

Their work is published across a variety of journals such as:

  • Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • British journal of surgery
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Vaccine

Overall, Shitij Kapur's contributions span a multidisciplinary medical research portfolio with a particular focus on surgery and neuroimaging, along with clinical immunology related to allergies and respiratory diseases.

Best Publications

  • Psychosis as a state of aberrant salience: A framework linking biology, phenomenology, and pharmacology in schizophrenia.

    Shitij Kapur

  • The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: Version III—The Final Common Pathway

    Oliver D. Howes;Shitij Kapur

  • Grand challenges in global mental health

    Pamela Y. Collins;Vikram Patel;Vikram Patel;Sarah S. Joestl;Dana March;Dana March

  • Hemispheric encoding/retrieval asymmetry in episodic memory: positron emission tomography findings

    Endel Tulving;Shitij Kapur;Fergus I. M. Craik;Morris Moscovitch

  • Does Fast Dissociation From the Dopamine D2 Receptor Explain the Action of Atypical Antipsychotics?: A New Hypothesis

    Shitij Kapur;Philip Seeman

  • Relationship Between Dopamine D2 Occupancy, Clinical Response, and Side Effects: A Double-Blind PET Study of First-Episode Schizophrenia

    Shitij Kapur;Robert Zipursky;Corey Jones;Gary Remington

  • Why has it taken so long for biological psychiatry to develop clinical tests and what to do about it

    S Kapur;A G Phillips;T R Insel

  • The nature of dopamine dysfunction in schizophrenia and what this means for treatment

    Oliver D. Howes;Joseph Kambeitz;Euitae Kim;Daniel Stahl

  • Serotonin-dopamine interaction and its relevance to schizophrenia

    Shitij Kapur;Gary Remington

  • Age-Related Differences in Neural Activity during Memory Encoding and Retrieval: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

    Roberto Cabeza;Cheryl L. Grady;Lars Nyberg;Anthony R. McIntosh

  • The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry

    David Taylor;Carol Paton;Shitij Kapur;South London

  • Clinical and theoretical implications of 5-HT2 and D2 receptor occupancy of clozapine, risperidone, and olanzapine in schizophrenia.

    Shitij Kapur;Robert B. Zipursky;Gary Remington

  • In Search of the Self: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

    Fergus I. M. Craik;Tara M. Moroz;Morris Moscovitch;Donald T. Stuss

  • Half a century of antipsychotics and still a central role for dopamine D2 receptors.

    Shitij Kapur;David Mamo;David Mamo

  • Opposite effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol on human brain function and psychopathology.

    Sagnik Bhattacharyya;Paul D Morrison;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Rocio Martin-Santos

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of encoding in episodic memory: levels of processing effect

    Shitij Kapur;Fergus I. M. Craik;Endel Tulving;Alan A. Wilson

  • The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, Tenth Edition

    David Taylor;Carol Paton;Shitij Kapur

  • CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls

    Hreinn Stefansson;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Stacy Steinberg;Brynja Magnusdottir

  • Antipsychotic Dosing in Preclinical Models Is Often Unrepresentative of the Clinical Condition: A Suggested Solution Based on in Vivo Occupancy

    Shitij Kapur;Susan C. VanderSpek;Barbara A. Brownlee;José N. Nobrega

  • The nature of dopamine dysfunction in schizophrenia and what this means for treatment

    J Kambeitz;O Howes;E Kim;D Stahl

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Remington
Gary Remington Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Sylvain Houle
Sylvain Houle University of Toronto
Robert B. Zipursky
Robert B. Zipursky University of Toronto
Alan A. Wilson
Alan A. Wilson Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Oliver D. Howes
Oliver D. Howes King's College London
José N. Nobrega
José N. Nobrega Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Philip Seeman
Philip Seeman University of Toronto
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Paul J. Fletcher
Paul J. Fletcher Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Alice Egerton
Alice Egerton King's College London

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