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Simon McCarthy-Jones

Simon McCarthy-Jones

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Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
6848
World Ranking
7586
National Ranking
17

Overview

Simon McCarthy-Jones is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and focuses their research in the field of Neuroscience. Their work encompasses several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, and Health.

The primary research topics covered by McCarthy-Jones include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Hallucinations in medical conditions
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence

Their work has been published in a range of journals, with frequent publications occurring in:

  • Psychiatry Research
  • NeuroRegulation
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • The International Journal of Human Rights
  • Sexual Abuse

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by McCarthy-Jones include:

  • "A Review of Multimodal Hallucinations: Categorization, Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, and Clinical Recommendations" (2020), published in Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • "The right to freedom of thought: an interdisciplinary analysis of the UN special rapporteur's report on freedom of thought" (2023), published in The International Journal of Human Rights
  • "The role of inner speech on the association between childhood adversity and 'hearing voices'" (2020), published in Psychiatry Research
  • "Perspectives, Treatment Goals, and Approaches of Prevention-Specialist Mental Health Professionals in Working With Clients Attracted to Children" (2024), published in Sexual Abuse
  • "A Feasibility Study of LORETA Z-Score Neurofeedback Training in Adults with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorder Experiencing Treatment-Resistant Auditory Verbal Hallucinations" (2022), published in NeuroRegulation

McCarthy-Jones collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Joel Walmsley
  • Azadeh Nematy
  • Susan Flynn
  • Michael P. Keane
  • Marcella Montagnese

Best Publications

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care

    Louise C. Johns;Kristiina Kompus;Melissa Connell;Clara Humpston

  • Emerging Perspectives From the Hearing Voices Movement: Implications for Research and Practice

    Dirk Corstens;Eleanor Longden;Simon McCarthy-Jones;Rachel Waddingham

  • The Characteristic Features of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Clinical and Nonclinical Groups: State-of-the-Art Overview and Future Directions

    Frank Laroi;Iris E. Sommer;Jan Dirk Blom;Charles Fernyhough

  • A New Phenomenological Survey of Auditory Hallucinations: Evidence for Subtypes and Implications for Theory and Practice

    Simon McCarthy-Jones;Thomas Trauer;Thomas Trauer;Thomas Trauer;Andrew James Mackinnon;Eliza Sims

  • Psychological Therapies for Auditory Hallucinations (Voices): Current Status and Key Directions for Future Research

    Neil Thomas;Mark Hayward;Mark Hayward;Emmanuelle Peters;Emmanuelle Peters;Mark van der Gaag

  • Hearing Voices: The Histories, Causes and Meanings of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

    Simon McCarthy-Jones

  • The varieties of inner speech: links between quality of inner speech and psychopathological variables in a sample of young adults

    Simon McCarthy-Jones;Charles Fernyhough

  • Hearing voices in the resting brain: A review of intrinsic functional connectivity research on auditory verbal hallucinations

    Ben Alderson-Day;Simon McCarthy-Jones;Charles Fernyhough

  • Studying Hallucinations Within the NIMH RDoC Framework

    Judith M. Ford;Judith M. Ford;Sarah E. Morris;Ralph E. Hoffman;Iris Sommer

  • Occurrence and co-occurrence of hallucinations by modality in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders

    Simon McCarthy-Jones;David Smailes;Aiden Corvin;Michael Gill

  • Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain's Resting-State Networks : Findings and Methodological Observations

    Ben Alderson-Day;Kelly Diederen;Charles Fernyhough;Judith M. Ford

  • Auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder: common phenomenology, common cause, common interventions?

    Simon McCarthy-Jones;Eleanor Longden

  • Better Than Mermaids and Stray Dogs? Subtyping Auditory Verbal Hallucinations and Its Implications for Research and Practice

    Simon McCarthy-Jones;Neil Thomas;Clara Strauss;Guy Dodgson

  • What is psychosis? A meta-synthesis of inductive qualitative studies exploring the experience of psychosis

    Simon McCarthy-Jones;Michael Marriott;Rebecca Knowles;Georgina Rowse

  • Grandiose delusions: a review and theoretical integration of cognitive and affective perspectives.

    Rebecca Knowles;Simon McCarthy-Jones;Georgina Rowse

  • Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain

    Jane R Garrison;Charles Fernyhough;Simon McCarthy-Jones;Simon McCarthy-Jones;Mark Haggard

  • The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech

    Ben Alderson-Day;Susanne Weis;Simon McCarthy-Jones;Peter Moseley

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

    Angela Woods;Nev Jones;Marco Bernini;Felicity Callard

  • Investigating the Lived Experience of Recovery in People Who Hear Voices

    Adèle de Jager;Paul Rhodes;Vanessa Beavan;Douglas Holmes

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Fernyhough
Charles Fernyhough Durham University
Neil Thomas
Neil Thomas Swinburne University of Technology
Mark Hayward
Mark Hayward University of Sussex
Frank Larøi
Frank Larøi University of Oslo
Clara Strauss
Clara Strauss University of Sussex
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Flavie Waters
Flavie Waters University of Western Australia
Andrea Raballo
Andrea Raballo University of Perugia
Marek Kubicki
Marek Kubicki Brigham and Women's Hospital
Michael Gill
Michael Gill Trinity College Dublin

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