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Overview

Vaughan Bell is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in interdisciplinary research spanning medicine and psychology. Their work primarily focuses on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional subfields of interest include cognitive neuroscience and philosophy.

Their research covers a range of main topics, notably:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychosomatic disorders and their treatments
  • Mental health and psychiatry
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Traumatic brain injury research
  • Mental health research topics
  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes

Vaughan Bell's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on mental health challenges and psychological conditions. Notable papers include:

  • "Mental health of clinical staff working in high-risk epidemic and pandemic health emergencies a rapid review of the evidence and living meta-analysis" (2020), published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • "Derationalizing Delusions" (2020), published in Clinical Psychological Science
  • "Effectiveness of a Mobile App Intervention for Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial" (2020), published in JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • "Trauma-informed care for adult survivors of developmental trauma with psychotic and dissociative symptoms: a systematic review of intervention studies" (2020), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study" (2021), published in Psychological Science

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Arabixiv (OSF Preprints), Royal Society Open Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and The Lancet Psychiatry. These platforms reflect a focus on rapid dissemination and multidisciplinary engagement.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research. Vaughan Bell has coauthored multiple papers with colleagues including Nichola Raihani, Joseph M Barnby, Dorothy Wade, Grace Revill, and Graham Blackman, working across a variety of studies and methodologies.

Best Publications

  • The Cardiff Anomalous Perceptions Scale (CAPS): a new validated measure of anomalous perceptual experience

    Vaughan Bell;Peter W Halligan;Hadyn D Ellis

  • Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions

    Frank Larøi;Tanya Marie Luhrmann;Vaughan Bell;William A. Christian

  • Explaining delusions: a cognitive perspective

    Vaughan Bell;Peter Halligan;Hadyn Douglas Ellis

  • Dissociation in hysteria and hypnosis: evidence from cognitive neuroscience

    Vaughan Bell;David A Oakley;Peter W Halligan;Quinton Deeley

  • Effects of recurrence on the cognitive performance of patients with bipolar I disorder: implications for relapse prevention and treatment adherence.

    Carlos López-Jaramillo;Juan Lopera-Vásquez;Aurora Gallo;Jorge Ospina-Duque

  • Online information, extreme communities and internet therapy: Is the internet good for our mental health?

    Vaughan Bell

  • The debate over digital technology and young people.

    Vaughan Bell;Dorothy V M Bishop;Andrew K Przybylski

  • Hereditary Prosopagnosia: the First Case Series

    Martina Grueter;Thomas Grueter;Vaughan Bell;Juergen Horst

  • An evolutionary perspective on paranoia

    Nichola J Raihani;Vaughan Bell

  • Does sex influence the diagnostic evaluation of autism spectrum disorder in adults

    C. Ellie Wilson;C. Ellie Wilson;C. Ellie Wilson;Clodagh M. Murphy;Grainne McAlonan;Dene M. Robertson

  • Characteristics of the Colombian armed conflict and the mental health of civilians living in active conflict zones.

    Vaughan Bell;Fernanda Méndez;Carmen Martínez;Pedro Pablo Palma

  • Beyond Trauma: A Multiple Pathways Approach to Auditory Hallucinations in Clinical and Nonclinical Populations.

    Tanya Marie Luhrmann;Ben Alderson-Day;Vaughan Bell;Josef J Bless

  • The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

    Sam Wilkinson;Vaughan Bell;Vaughan Bell

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

    Angela Woods;Nev Jones;Marco Bernini;Felicity Callard

  • Effectiveness of a Mobile App Intervention for Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Tayla McCloud;Rebecca Jones;Gemma Lewis;Vaughan Bell

  • The Cognitive Impact of Sexual Abuse and PTSD in Children: A Neuropsychological Study

    Mauricio Barrera;Liliana Calderón;Vaughan Bell

  • Diagnosing delusions: a review of inter-rater reliability.

    Vaughan Bell;Peter W. Halligan;Hadyn D. Ellis

  • Poststroke psychosis: a systematic review

    Helle Stangeland;Vasiliki Orgeta;Vaughan Bell

  • Visual mental imagery in congenital prosopagnosia.

    Thomas Grüter;Martina Grüter;Vaughan Bell;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • The network structure of paranoia in the general population

    Vaughan Bell;Vaughan Bell;Ciarán O'Driscoll;Ciarán O'Driscoll

  • Modelling psychiatric and cultural possession phenomena with suggestion and fMRI.

    Quinton Deeley;Quinton Deeley;David A. Oakley;Eamonn Walsh;Vaughan Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter W. Halligan
Peter W. Halligan Cardiff University
Quinton Deeley
Quinton Deeley King's College London
Mitul A. Mehta
Mitul A. Mehta King's College London
Frank Larøi
Frank Larøi University of Oslo
Hadyn D. Ellis
Hadyn D. Ellis Cardiff University
Emmanuelle Peters
Emmanuelle Peters King's College London
Andrea Raballo
Andrea Raballo University of Perugia
Charles Fernyhough
Charles Fernyhough Durham University
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles

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