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Sidney H. Kennedy

Sidney H. Kennedy

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Medicine
Canada
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
125
Citations
61463
World Ranking
3082
National Ranking
129

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Sidney H. Kennedy is affiliated with the University Health Network in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their research output spans over 206 publications in medicine, 158 in neuroscience, and 144 in psychology. Within these broader fields, Kennedy's work focuses on several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, pharmacology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics in Kennedy's research include:

  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Kennedy has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, indicating active engagement with well-regarded scientific communities. These venues include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry

Among recent publications involving or connected with Sidney H. Kennedy are:

  • Treatment-resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions (2023, World Psychiatry)
  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2023 Update on Clinical Guidelines for Management of Major Depressive Disorder in Adults: Réseau canadien pour les traitements de l'humeur et de l'anxiété (CANMAT) 2023: Mise à jour des lignes directrices cliniques pour la prise en charge du trouble dépressif majeur chez les adultes (2024, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry)
  • Machine learning in the prediction of depression treatment outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, Psychological Medicine)
  • Probabilistic Mapping of Deep Brain Stimulation: Insights from 15 Years of Therapy (2020, Annals of Neurology)
  • Neuron-derived extracellular vesicles enriched from plasma show altered size and miRNA cargo as a function of antidepressant drug response (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)

Sidney H. Kennedy has collaborated frequently with several researchers, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their research activities. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Benício N. Frey
  • Raymond W. Lam
  • Roumen Milev
  • Susan Rotzinger
  • Jane A. Foster

Recognition of Kennedy's scientific contributions includes election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019 for the Academy of Science. This distinction indicates standing within the scientific community in Canada.

Best Publications

  • Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression.

    Helen S. Mayberg;Helen S. Mayberg;Andres M. Lozano;Valerie Voon;Heather E. McNeely

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Sagar V Parikh;Ayal Schaffer

  • Modulation of cortical-limbic pathways in major depression: treatment-specific effects of cognitive behavior therapy.

    Kimberly Goldapple;Zindel Segal;Carol Garson;Mark Lau

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder Section 3. Pharmacological Treatments

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Raymond W. Lam;Roger S. McIntyre;S. Valérie Tourjman

  • Effectiveness of theta burst versus high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with depression (THREE-D): a randomised non-inferiority trial

    Daniel M Blumberger;Daniel M Blumberger;Fidel Vila-Rodriguez;Kevin E Thorpe;Kevin E Thorpe;Kfir Feffer

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2013.

    Lakshmi N. Yatham;Sidney H. Kennedy;Sagar V. Parikh;Ayal Schaffer

  • Limbic-frontal circuitry in major depression: a path modeling metanalysis.

    David A. Seminowicz;Helen S. Mayberg;Anthony R. McIntosh;K. Goldapple

  • Changes in regional brain glucose metabolism measured with positron emission tomography after paroxetine treatment of major depression.

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Kenneth R. Evans;Stephanie Krüger;Helen S. Mayberg

  • Bulimia nervosa in a Canadian community sample: prevalence and comparison of subgroups.

    Garfinkel Pe;Lin E;Goering P;Spegg C

  • Cognitive reactivity to sad mood provocation and the prediction of depressive relapse.

    Zindel V. Segal;Sidney Kennedy;Michael Gemar;Karyn Hood

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2009.

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Ayal Schaffer;Sagar V Parikh

  • Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: follow-up after 3 to 6 years.

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Peter Giacobbe;Sakina J. Rizvi;Franca M. Placenza

  • Sexual dysfunction before antidepressant therapy in major depression

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Sidney H. Kennedy;Susan E. Dickens;Beata S. Eisfeld;R.Michael Bagby;R.Michael Bagby

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) clinical guidelines for the management of major depressive disorder in adults. III. Pharmacotherapy.

    Raymond W Lam;Sidney H Kennedy;Sophie Grigoriadis;Roger S McIntyre

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) Clinical guidelines for the management of major depressive disorder in adults

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Raymond W. Lam;Sagar V. Parikh;Scott B. Patten

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder: Section 2. Psychological Treatments

    Sagar V. Parikh;Sagar V. Parikh;Lena C. Quilty;Paula Ravitz;Michael Rosenbluth

  • Comparisons of men with full or partial eating disorders, men without eating disorders, and women with eating disorders in the community.

    D. Blake Woodside;Paul E. Garfinkel;Elizabeth Lin;Paula Goering

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: consensus and controversies.

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Claire O'Donovan;Sagar Parikh

  • Placebo-controlled trial of agomelatine in the treatment of major depressive disorder

    S.H. Kennedy;R. Emsley

  • The role of physical activity in the development and maintenance of eating disorders.

    Caroline Davis;S. H. Kennedy;E. Ravelski;M. Dionne

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger S. McIntyre
Roger S. McIntyre University of Toronto
Raymond W. Lam
Raymond W. Lam University of British Columbia
Peter Giacobbe
Peter Giacobbe University of Toronto
Sagar V. Parikh
Sagar V. Parikh University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Glenda MacQueen
Glenda MacQueen University of Calgary
Roumen Milev
Roumen Milev Queen's University
Arun V. Ravindran
Arun V. Ravindran University of Toronto
Zafiris J. Daskalakis
Zafiris J. Daskalakis University of California - San Diego School of Medicine
Robert D. Levitan
Robert D. Levitan Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Catherine Lebel
Catherine Lebel University of Calgary

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