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Susan E. Swedo is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with a strong focus on Clinical Psychology, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Immunology.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Inflammasome and immune disorders, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Noise Effects and Management, Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics, and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Madeleine W. Cunningham, Eric A. Storch, Kathy Alvarez, Sean Reim, and David Baguley.

Publications by Susan E. Swedo have appeared in several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Susan E. Swedo include:

  • Consensus Definition of Misophonia: A Delphi Study, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • A Consensus Definition of Misophonia: Using a Delphi Process to Reach Expert Agreement, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Other relevant papers co-authored with colleagues include:

  • Antibodies From Children With PANDAS Bind Specifically to Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons and Alter Their Activity, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Autoantibody Biomarkers for Basal Ganglia Encephalitis in Sydenham Chorea and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated With Streptococcal Infections, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: An Empirical Approach to Defining Treatment Response and Remission in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated With Streptococcal Infections: Clinical Description of the First 50 Cases

    S E Swedo;H L Leonard;M Garvey;B Mittleman

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents Clinical Phenomenology of 70 Consecutive Cases

    Susan E. Swedo;Judith L. Rapoport;Henrietta L. Leonard;Marge Lenane

  • Cerebral glucose metabolism in childhood-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Susan E. Swedo;Mark B. Schapiro;Cheryl L. Grady;Deborah L. Cheslow

  • Therapeutic plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin for obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic disorders in childhood.

    Susan J Perlmutter;Susan F Leitman;Marjorie A Garvey;Susan Hamburger

  • A double-blind comparison of clomipramine and desipramine in the treatment of trichotillomania (hair pulling)

    Susan E. Swedo;Henrietta L. Leonard;Judith L. Rapoport;Marge C. Lenane

  • Mimicry and autoantibody-mediated neuronal cell signaling in Sydenham chorea.

    Christine A Kirvan;Susan E Swedo;Janet S Heuser;Madeleine W Cunningham

  • High prevalence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with Sydenham's chorea.

    Susan E. Swedo;Judith L. Rapoport;Deborah L. Cheslow;Henrietta L. Leonard

  • Cerebral glucose metabolism in childhood-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. Revisualization during pharmacotherapy.

    Susan E. Swedo;Pietro Pietrini;Henrietta L. Leonard;Mark B. Schapiro

  • Identification of children with pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections by a marker associated with rheumatic fever.

    Susan E. Swedo;Henrietta L. Leonard;Barbara B. Mittleman;Albert J. Allen

  • A 2- to 7-Year Follow-up Study of 54 Obsessive-Compulsive Children and Adolescents

    Henrietta L. Leonard;Susan E. Swedo;Marge C. Lenane;David C. Rettew

  • Tics and Tourette's disorder: a 2- to 7-year follow-up of 54 obsessive-compulsive children.

    Henrietta L. Leonard;Marge C. Lenane;Susan E. Swedo;David C. Rettew

  • Case study: a new infection-triggered, autoimmune subtype of pediatric OCD and Tourette's syndrome.

    Albert J. Allen;Henrietta L. Leonard;Susan E. Swedo

  • Treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder with clomipramine and desipramine in children and adolescents : a double-blind crossover comparison

    H. L. Leonard;S. E. Swedo;J. L. Rapoport;E. V. Koby

  • From Research Subgroup to Clinical Syndrome: Modifying the PANDAS Criteria to Describe PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric

    E. Swedo;James F. Leckman;Noel R. Rose

  • Neuroanatomical abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder detected with quantitative X-ray computed tomography.

    Jay S. Luxenberg;Susan E. Swedo;Martine F. Flament;Robert P. Friedland

  • Childhood obsessive compulsive disorder.

    Judith L. Rapoport;Susan E. Swedo;Henrietta L. Leonard

  • Sydenham's chorea: physical and psychological symptoms of St Vitus dance.

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  • MRI assessment of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder or tics associated with streptococcal infection.

    Jay N. Giedd;Judith L. Rapoport;Marjorie A. Garvey;Susan Perlmutter

  • Clinical evaluation of youth with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS): recommendations from the 2013 PANS Consensus Conference.

    Kiki Chang;Jennifer Frankovich;Michael Cooperstock;Madeleine W. Cunningham

  • Psychiatric disorders in first degree relatives of children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder.

    Marge C. Lenane;Susan E. Swedo;Henrietta Leonard;David L. Pauls

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith L. Rapoport
Judith L. Rapoport National Institutes of Health
Audrey Thurm
Audrey Thurm National Institutes of Health
Jay N. Giedd
Jay N. Giedd University of California, San Diego
Madeleine W. Cunningham
Madeleine W. Cunningham University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
James F. Leckman
James F. Leckman Yale University
Mark B. Schapiro
Mark B. Schapiro Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Rhoshel K. Lenroot
Rhoshel K. Lenroot University of New South Wales
Stanley I. Rapoport
Stanley I. Rapoport National Institutes of Health
B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Cheryl L. Grady
Cheryl L. Grady University of Toronto

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