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Sidney Zisook is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and health professions, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology and general health professions.

The main fields of study for Sidney Zisook include:

  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

The subfields of study encompass:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Pharmacology

Zisook's research covers a range of topics, chiefly:

  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Frequently appearing publication venues for Sidney Zisook's work are:

  • Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
  • Academic Medicine
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Depression and Anxiety
  • General Hospital Psychiatry

Sidney Zisook has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Judy E. Davidson
  • Kelly C. Lee
  • Gordon Y. Ye
  • Naomi M. Simon
  • Gary R. Johnson

Among the recent papers associated with Sidney Zisook's field are:

  • Single-Dose Psilocybin for a Treatment-Resistant Episode of Major Depression, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Nurse Suicide in the United States (2005-2016) With Recommendations for Action, 2020, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
  • Treatment efficacy and effectiveness in adults with major depressive disorder and childhood trauma history: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Preventing Clinician Suicide: A Call to Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, 2021, Academic Medicine
  • Sustainability and Outcomes of a Suicide Prevention Program for Nurses, 2020, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Best Publications

  • Complicated grief and related bereavement issues for DSM‐5

    M. Katherine Shear;Naomi Simon;Melanie Wall;Sidney Zisook

  • Difference in treatment outcome in outpatients with anxious versus nonanxious depression: a STAR*D report.

    Maurizio Fava;A. John Rush;Jonathan E. Alpert;G. K. Balasubramani

  • Consensus criteria for traumatic grief: A preliminary empirical test

    Holly G. Prigerson;M. K. Shear;S. C. Jacobs;C. F. Reynolds

  • Is it possible to be schizophrenic yet neuropsychologically normal

    Barton W. Palmer;Robert K. Heaton;Jane S. Paulsen;Julie Kuck

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Late Life

    Arnold J. Friedhoff;James Ballenger;Alan S. Bellack;William T. Carpenter

  • Effect of Age at Onset on the Course of Major Depressive Disorder

    Sidney Zisook;Ira Lesser;Jonathan W. Stewart;Stephen R. Wisniewski

  • The Generalized Pattern of Neuropsychological Deficits in Outpatients With Chronic Schizophrenia With Heterogeneous Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Results

    David L. Braff;Robert K. Heaton;Julie Kuck;Munro Cullum

  • Grief and bereavement: what psychiatrists need to know

    Sidney Zisook;Katherine Shear

  • Psychiatric disorders in patients with fibromyalgia: A multicenter investigation.

    Steven A. Epstein;Gary G. Kay;Daniel J. Clauw;Robert K. Heaton

  • Neuropsychological Deficits in Schizophrenics: Relationship to Age, Chronicity, and Dementia

    Robert Heaton;Jane S. Paulsen;Lou Ann McAdams;Julie Kuck

  • A preliminary assessment of sensorimotor gating in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder

    N.R. Swerdlow;C.H. Benbow;S. Zisook;M.A. Geyer

  • Suicide risk in schizophrenia: learning from the past to change the future

    Maurizio Pompili;Maurizio Pompili;Xavier F Amador;Paolo Girardi;Jill Harkavy-Friedman

  • The nature of learning and memory impairments in schizophrenia.

    Jane S. Paulsen;Robert K. Heaton;Joseph R. Sadek;William Perry

  • Depression through the first year after the death of a spouse.

    Sidney Zisook;Stephen R. Shuchter

  • Optimizing Treatment of Complicated Grief: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    M. Katherine Shear;Charles F. Reynolds;Naomi M. Simon;Sidney Zisook;Sidney Zisook

  • Magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities in lenticular nuclei and cerebral cortex in schizophrenia.

    Terry L. Jernigan;Sidney Zisook;Robert K. Heaton;John T. Moranville

  • L-methylfolate as adjunctive therapy for SSRI-resistant major depression: results of two randomized, double-blind, parallel-sequential trials.

    George I. Papakostas;Richard C. Shelton;John M. Zajecka;Bijan Etemad

  • PTSD following bereavement.

    Sidney Zisook;Yulia Chentsova-Dutton;Stephen R. Shuchter

  • Saccadic system functioning among schizophrenia patients and their first-degree biological relatives.

    Brett A. Clementz;Jennifer E. McDowell;Sidney Zisook

  • Diagnosis and treatment of depression in late life.

    Sidney Zisook;Nancy S. Downs

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles F. Reynolds
Charles F. Reynolds University of Pittsburgh
Naomi M. Simon
Naomi M. Simon New York University
M. Katherine Shear
M. Katherine Shear Columbia University
Maurizio Fava
Maurizio Fava Harvard University
Madhukar H. Trivedi
Madhukar H. Trivedi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Stephen R. Wisniewski
Stephen R. Wisniewski University of Pittsburgh
Thomas L. Patterson
Thomas L. Patterson University of California, San Diego
Dilip V. Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste University of California, San Diego
David L. Braff
David L. Braff University of California, San Diego
Robert K. Heaton
Robert K. Heaton University of California, San Diego

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