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Thilo Deckersbach

Thilo Deckersbach

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Psychology

D-Index
76
Citations
17962
World Ranking
1737
National Ranking
1024

Overview

Thilo Deckersbach is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and neurology.

The scientist's work involves several main topics including functional brain connectivity studies, bipolar disorder and treatment, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, mental health research topics, treatment of major depression, neurological disorders and treatments, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Thilo Deckersbach has published extensively, with frequent contributions to journals such as Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorders, Brain Stimulation, Behaviour Research and Therapy, and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "An electroencephalographic signature predicts antidepressant response in major depression", 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Closed-loop enhancement and neural decoding of cognitive control in humans", 2021, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • "Cortical Connectivity Moderators of Antidepressant vs Placebo Treatment Response in Major Depressive Disorder", 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression", 2023, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Transcranial focused ultrasound of the amygdala modulates fear network activation and connectivity", 2024, Brain Stimulation

Thilo Deckersbach frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Darin D. Dougherty, Andrew A. Nierenberg, Louisa G. Sylvia, Tina Chou, and Alik S. Widge. These partnerships have contributed to a large volume of published work and ongoing research activity.

Best Publications

  • Behavior Therapy for Children With Tourette Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    John Piacentini;Douglas W. Woods;Lawrence Scahill;Sabine Wilhelm

  • A Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Darin D. Dougherty;Ali R. Rezai;Linda L. Carpenter;Robert H. Howland

  • Strategic processing and episodic memory impairment in obsessive compulsive disorder.

    Cary R. Savage;Thilo Deckersbach;Sabine Wilhelm;Scott L. Rauch

  • Self-Injurious Skin Picking: Clinical Characteristics and Comorbidity

    Sabine Wilhelm;Nancy J. Keuthen;Thilo Deckersbach;Iris M. Engelhard

  • Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: a Three-Dimensional Model of Neurobiology with Implications for Etiology and Treatment.

    Jennifer J. Thomas;Elizabeth A. Lawson;Nadia Micali;Nadia Micali;Madhusmita Misra

  • Randomized Trial of Behavior Therapy for Adults With Tourette Syndrome

    Sabine Wilhelm;Alan L. Peterson;John Piacentini;Douglas W. Woods

  • Habit Reversal Versus Supportive Psychotherapy for Tourette’s Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Sabine Wilhelm;Thilo Deckersbach;Barbara J. Coffey;Antje Bohne

  • Identifying Predictors, Moderators, and Mediators of Antidepressant Response in Major Depressive Disorder: Neuroimaging Approaches

    Mary L. Phillips;Henry W. Chase;Yvette I. Sheline;Amit Etkin

  • The effects of transdermal nicotine on cognition in nonsmokers with schizophrenia and nonpsychiatric controls

    Ruth S Barr;Melissa A Culhane;Lindsay E Jubelt;Rana S Mufti

  • Managing Tourette Syndrome: A Behavioral Intervention for Children and Adults Therapist Guide

    Douglas W Woods;John Piacentini;Susanna Chang;Thilo Deckersbach

  • An electroencephalographic signature predicts antidepressant response in major depression

    Wei Wu;Yu Zhang;Yu Zhang;Jing Jiang;Jing Jiang;Molly V. Lucas;Molly V. Lucas

  • Habit reversal versus supportive psychotherapy in Tourette's disorder: a randomized controlled trial and predictors of treatment response.

    Thilo Deckersbach;Scott Rauch;Ulrike Buhlmann;Sabine Wilhelm

  • RESEARCH: Cognitive rehabilitation for bipolar disorder: An open trial for employed patients with residual depressive symptoms.

    Thilo Deckersbach;Andrew A. Nierenberg;Ronald Kessler;Hannah G. Lund

  • Prefrontal regions supporting spontaneous and directed application of verbal learning strategies: evidence from PET.

    Cary R. Savage;Thilo Deckersbach;Stephan Heckers;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Characteristics of memory dysfunction in body dysmorphic disorder.

    Thilo Deckersbach;Cary R. Savage;Katharine A. Phillips;Sabine Wilhelm

  • A double-blind placebo-controlled trial of bupropion sustained-release for smoking cessation in schizophrenia.

    A. Eden Evins;Corinne Cather;Thilo Deckersbach;Oliver Freudenreich

  • REPETITIVE SKIN PICKING IN A STUDENT POPULATION AND COMPARISON WITH A SAMPLE OF SELF-INJURIOUS SKIN-PICKERS

    Nancy J. Keuthen;Thilo Deckersbach;Sabine Wilhelm;Edward Hale

  • Prevalence of Symptoms of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Its Correlates: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

    Antje Bohne;Nancy J. Keuthen;Sabine Wilhelm;Thilo Deckersbach

  • The relationship between semantic organization and memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Thilo Deckersbach;Michael W. Otto;Cary R. Savage;Lee Baer

  • Actual and perceived memory deficits in individuals with compulsive hoarding.

    Tamara L. Hartl;Randy O. Frost;George J. Allen;Thilo Deckersbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Louisa G. Sylvia
Louisa G. Sylvia Harvard University
Melvin G. McInnis
Melvin G. McInnis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sabine Wilhelm
Sabine Wilhelm Harvard University
Terence A. Ketter
Terence A. Ketter Stanford University
Mauricio Tohen
Mauricio Tohen University of New Mexico
Michael E. Thase
Michael E. Thase University of Pennsylvania
Susan L. McElroy
Susan L. McElroy University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Edward S. Friedman
Edward S. Friedman University of Pittsburgh
Cary R. Savage
Cary R. Savage University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Myrna M. Weissman
Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University

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