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Thomas R. E. Barnes is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a strong emphasis on psychiatry and mental health. They have contributed extensively to the subfields of clinical psychology, philosophy, neurology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The research topics covered by Barnes include schizophrenia research and treatment, bipolar disorder and treatment, mental health and psychiatry, tryptophan and brain disorders, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, electroconvulsive therapy studies, and treatment of major depression.

Recent publications by Barnes highlight work on schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, with notable papers including:

  • Antipsychotic dose reduction and discontinuation versus maintenance treatment in people with schizophrenia and other recurrent psychotic disorders in England (the RADAR trial): an open, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Efficacy of oral versus long-acting antipsychotic treatment in patients with early-phase schizophrenia in Europe and Israel: a large-scale, open-label, randomised trial (EULAST), 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Deconstructing depression and negative symptoms of schizophrenia; differential and longitudinal immune correlates, and response to minocycline treatment, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Inflammatory subgroups of schizophrenia and their association with brain structure: A semi-supervised machine learning examination of heterogeneity, 2023, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Clozapine Optimization: A Delphi Consensus Guideline From the Treatment Response and Resistance in Psychosis Working Group, 2023, Schizophrenia Bulletin

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Barnes's work. Frequent co-authors include Carol Paton, Eileen M. Joyce, Olivia Rendora, Stephen M. Lawrie, and Nusrat Husain.

Publications are often found in specialized venues such as Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, Schizophrenia Research, BJPsych Open, The Lancet Psychiatry, and Brain Behavior and Immunity. Barnes has also contributed to academic books, with a noted publication titled Neuroscience of Social Stress published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2022.

Best Publications

  • A rating scale for drug-induced akathisia.

    Thomas R. E. Barnes

  • Cannabis use and risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes: a systematic review

    Theresa H. M. Moore;Stanley Zammit;Stanley Zammit;Anne Lingford-Hughes;Thomas R. E. Barnes

  • Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effect on Quality of Life of Second- vs First-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs in Schizophrenia: Cost Utility of the Latest Antipsychotic Drugs in Schizophrenia Study (CUtLASS 1)

    Peter B. Jones;Thomas R. E. Barnes;Linda Davies;Graham Dunn

  • Reduced dendritic spine density on cerebral cortical pyramidal neurons in schizophrenia

    L J Garey;W Y Ong;T S Patel;M Kanani

  • A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy for persistent symptoms in schizophrenia resistant to medication.

    Tom Sensky;Douglas Turkington;David Kingdon;Janine L. Scott

  • Relapse prevention in schizophrenia with new-generation antipsychotics: a systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials.

    Stefan Leucht;Thomas R.E. Barnes;Werner Kissling;Rolf R. Engel

  • Frontal-striatal cognitive deficits in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

    Christos Pantelis;Thomas R. E. Barnes;Hazel E. Nelson;Susan Tanner

  • Evidence-based guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia: recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology:

    Thomas R. E. Barnes

  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Effect of Prescription of Clozapine Versus Other Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs in Resistant Schizophrenia

    Shôn W. Lewis;Thomas R. E. Barnes;Linda Davies;Robin M. Murray

  • Comorbidity of substance misuse and mental illness in community mental health and substance misuse services

    T. Weaver;P. Madden;V. Charles;G. Stimson

  • Comparison of set-shifting ability in patients with chronic schizophrenia and frontal lobe damage.

    Christos Pantelis;Fiona Z Barber;Thomas R.E Barnes;Hazel E Nelson

  • Comorbid substance use and age at onset of schizophrenia

    Thomas R E Barnes;Stanley H Mutsatsa;Sam B Hutton;Hilary C Watt

  • Executive function in first-episode schizophrenia

    Samuel B Hutton;B K Puri;L-J Duncan;T W Robbins

  • Syndromes of chronic schizophrenia.

    Peter F. Liddle;Thomas R. E. Barnes

  • Effects of cannabis use on outcomes of psychotic disorders: systematic review.

    Stanley Zammit;Theresa H. M. Moore;Anne Lingford-Hughes;Thomas R. E. Barnes

  • Do patients with schizophrenia exhibit aberrant salience

    J. P. Roiser;K. E. Stephan;H. E. M. den Ouden;T. R. E. Barnes

  • Akathisia variants and tardive dyskinesia

    Tre Barnes;W M Braude

  • Randomised controlled trials of conventional antipsychotic versus new atypical drugs, and new atypical drugs versus clozapine, in people with schizophrenia responding poorly to, or intolerant of, current drug treatment.

    Sarah Lewis;L Davies;Pamela Jones;T R E Barnes

  • Clinical characteristics of akathisia. A systematic investigation of acute psychiatric inpatient admissions.

    Walter M. Braude;Thomas R. E. Barnes;Sheila M. Gore

  • West London first-episode study of schizophrenia - clinical correlates of duration of untreated psychosis

    Thomas Re Barnes;Samuel B Hutton;MJ Chapman;S Mutsatsa

Frequent Co-Authors

Eileen M. Joyce
Eileen M. Joyce University College London
Samuel B. Hutton
Samuel B. Hutton University of Sussex
Shôn Lewis
Shôn Lewis University of Manchester
Peter Jones
Peter Jones University of Cambridge
Christos Pantelis
Christos Pantelis University of Melbourne
Graham Dunn
Graham Dunn University of Manchester
Linda Davies
Linda Davies University of Manchester
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Mike J. Crawford
Mike J. Crawford Imperial College London
Richard Drake
Richard Drake University of Manchester

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