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Shoumitro Deb is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, with particular attention to public health, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, mental health, and genetics.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics related to developmental and psychiatric disorders, highlighting areas such as Down syndrome and intellectual disability research, autism spectrum disorder research, family and disability support, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, and child nutrition and feeding issues.

Selected recent papers by Shoumitro Deb include:

  • The effectiveness of parent training for children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analyses (2020, BMC Psychiatry)
  • Randomised controlled trials of antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications for people with autism spectrum disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, BJPsych Open)
  • The European guideline on the assessment and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders in adults with intellectual disabilities (2021, The European Journal of Psychiatry)
  • UK psychiatrists' experience of withdrawal of antipsychotics prescribed for challenging behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism (2020, BJPsych Open)
  • Pharmacological management of psychopathology in people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorder (2022, BJPsych Advances)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as BJPsych Open, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, the Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, and Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Collaborative research features prominently in Shoumitro Deb's career. Frequent co-authors include Bharati Limbu, Meera Roy, Marco O. Bertelli, Rohit Shankar, and Ashok Roy, with collaboration counts ranging from four to thirty joint publications.

Shoumitro Deb's contributions span multiple disciplines and focus heavily on understanding complex psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, often emphasizing evidence-based reviews and clinical guidelines for better assessment and treatment practices.

Best Publications

  • Mental disorder in adults with intellectual disability. 1: Prevalence of functional psychiatric illness among a community-based population aged between 16 and 64 years.

    S. Deb;M. Thomas;C. Bright

  • Rate of Psychiatric Illness 1 Year After Traumatic Brain Injury

    Shoumitro Deb;Ita Lyons;Charis Koutzoukis;Imad Ali

  • Intellectual developmental disorders: towards a new name, definition and framework for "mental retardation/intellectual disability" in ICD-11.

    Luis Salvador Carulla;Geoffrey M. Reed;Leila M. Vaez-Azizi;Sally-Ann Cooper

  • Risperidone, haloperidol, and placebo in the treatment of aggressive challenging behaviour in patients with intellectual disability: a randomised controlled trial

    Peter Tyrer;Patricia C. Oliver-Africano;Zed Ahmed;Nick Bouras

  • Mental disorder in adults with intellectual disability. 2: The rate of behaviour disorders among a community-based population aged between 16 and 64 years.

    S. Deb;M. Thomas;C. Bright

  • The effectiveness of antipsychotic medication in the management of behaviour problems in adults with intellectual disabilities.

    S. Deb;S. K. Sohanpal;R. Soni;L. Lenotre

  • Novel hydroxyapatite-based dental composites

    R. Labella;M. Braden;S. Deb;S. Deb

  • International guide to prescribing psychotropic medication for the management of problem behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities

    Shoumitro Deb;Henry Kwok;Marco Bertelli;Luis Salvador-Carulla

  • The effectiveness of mood stabilizers and antiepileptic medication for the management of behaviour problems in adults with intellectual disability: a systematic review.

    S. Deb;R. Chaplin;S. Sohanpal;G. Unwin

  • Dementia screening questionnaire for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

    Shoumitro Deb;Monika Hare;Lindsay Prior;Sabyasachi Bhaumik

  • Scales for the identification of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A systematic review

    Abigail Taylor;Shoumitro Deb;Gemma Unwin

  • Neuropsychiatric sequelae one year after a minor head injury

    Shoumitro Deb;Ita Lyons;Charis Koutzoukis

  • Separating neural correlates of allocentric and egocentric neglect: Distinct cortical sites and common white matter disconnections

    Magdalena Chechlacz;Pia Rotshtein;Wai-Ling Bickerton;Peter C. Hansen

  • Comparison of rating scales for the diagnosis of dementia in adults with Down's syndrome.

    S. Deb;J. Braganza

  • Chemically coupled hydroxyapatite-polyethylene composites: processing and characterisation

    M Wang;S Deb;W Bonfield

  • Neurobehavioural symptoms one year after a head injury.

    Shoumitro Deb;Ita Lyons;Charis Koutzoukis

  • Characteristics and the trajectory of psychotropic medication use in general and antipsychotics in particular among adults with an intellectual disability who exhibit aggressive behaviour

    S. Deb;G. Unwin;T. Deb

  • The effectiveness of person-centred planning for people with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review.

    V. Ratti;A. Hassiotis;J. Crabtree;S. Deb

  • Hydroxyapatite-polyethylene composites: effect of grafting and surface treatment of hydroxyapatite

    S. Deb;M. Wang;K. E. Tanner;W. Bonfield

  • Symptoms of dementia among adults with Down's syndrome: a qualitative study

    Shoumitro Deb;M. Hare;L. Prior

  • Neuroimaging in autism.

    Shoumitro Deb;Bill Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Mike J. Crawford
Mike J. Crawford Imperial College London
Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer Imperial College London
William Bonfield
William Bonfield University of Cambridge
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Julie Williams
Julie Williams Cardiff University
Nick Bouras
Nick Bouras King's College London
Min Wang
Min Wang University of Hong Kong
Pia Rotshtein
Pia Rotshtein University of Birmingham
Angela Hassiotis
Angela Hassiotis University College London

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