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Verinder Sharma is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a primary focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their research spans several subfields, including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Pharmacology. The main topics of their work cover Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Pregnancy and Medication Impact, and Schizophrenia Research and Treatment.

Sharma has published a substantial number of papers in important venues related to mental health and psychiatry. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health
  • Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • The Primary Care Companion For CNS Disorders

Among their recent papers are:

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) recommendations for the management of patients with bipolar disorder with mixed presentations, 2021, Bipolar Disorders
  • Treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: Canadian expert consensus on definition and assessment, 2021, Depression and Anxiety
  • Clinical utility of combinatorial pharmacogenomic testing in depression: A Canadian patient- and rater-blinded, randomized, controlled trial, 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • Clinical and demographic factors associated with delayed diagnosis of bipolar disorder: Data from Health Outcomes and Patient Evaluations in Bipolar Disorder (HOPE-BD) study, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Insomnia evaluation and treatment during peripartum: a joint position paper from the European Insomnia Network task force "Sleep and Women," the Italian Marcè Society and international experts task force for perinatal mental health, 2022, Archives of Women's Mental Health

Sharma has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Dwight Mazmanian
  • Laura Palagini
  • Martin Alda
  • Claire O'Donovan
  • Philip Boyce

Best Publications

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Sagar V Parikh;Ayal Schaffer

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2013.

    Lakshmi N. Yatham;Sidney H. Kennedy;Sagar V. Parikh;Ayal Schaffer

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2009.

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Ayal Schaffer;Sagar V Parikh

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: consensus and controversies.

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Claire O'Donovan;Sagar Parikh

  • Structural magnetic resonance imaging in bipolar disorder: an international collaborative mega-analysis of individual adult patient data.

    Brian Hallahan;John Newell;Jair C. Soares;Paolo Brambilla;Paolo Brambilla

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2007

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Claire O'Donovan;Sagar V Parikh

  • A closer look at treatment resistant depression: is it due to a bipolar diathesis?

    Verinder Sharma;Mustaq Khan;Angela Smith

  • A Systematic Review of the Association Between Psychiatric Disturbances and Endometriosis.

    Carley J. Pope;Verinder Sharma;Sapna Sharma;Dwight Mazmanian

  • Sleep loss and postpartum psychosis.

    Verinder Sharma;Dwight Mazmanian

  • A prospective study of thoughts of self-harm and suicidal ideation during the postpartum period in women with mood disorders

    Carley J. Pope;Bin Xie;Verinder Sharma;M. Karen Campbell

  • Missed bipolarity and psychiatric comorbidity in women with postpartum depression

    Verinder Sharma;Mustaq Khan;Cynthia Corpse;Priya Sharma

  • Effects of the menstrual cycle on bipolar disorder.

    Missy L Teatero;Dwight Mazmanian;Verinder Sharma

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Sagar V Parikh;Ayal Schaffer

  • Treatment of mania, mixed state, and rapid cycling.

    Vivek Kusumakar;Lakshmi N. Yatham;David R S Haslam;Sagar V. Parikh

  • Bipolar depression: treatment options.

    Lakshmi N. Yatham;Vivek Kusumakar;Sagar V. Parikh;David R S Haslam

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) recommendations for the management of patients with bipolar disorder with mixed presentations.

    Lakshmi N. Yatham;Trisha Chakrabarty;David J. Bond;Ayal Schaffer

  • Olanzapine in the prevention of postpartum psychosis and mood episodes in bipolar disorder.

    Verinder Sharma;Angela Smith;Dwight Mazmanian

  • Treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: Canadian expert consensus on definition and assessment.

    Yuri E. Rybak;Ka S. P. Lai;Rajamannar Ramasubbu;Fidel Vila‐Rodriguez

  • An MRI study of subgenual prefrontal cortex in patients with familial and non-familial bipolar I disorder.

    Verinder Sharma;Ravi Menon;Thomas J. Carr;Maria Densmore

  • A closer look at inpatient suicide

    Verinder Sharma;Emmanuel Persad;Emmanuel Persad;Karen Kueneman

  • Breastfeeding and postpartum depression: Assessing the influence of breastfeeding intention and other risk factors.

    Carley J. Pope;Dwight Mazmanian;Michel Bédard;Verinder Sharma

  • Optimal duration of risperidone or olanzapine adjunctive therapy to mood stabilizer following remission of a manic episode: A CANMAT randomized double-blind trial

    L N Yatham;S Beaulieu;A Schaffer;M Kauer-Sant'Anna

  • Seasonality of manic depressive illness in Canada

    Diane K Whitney;Verinder Sharma;Karen Kueneman

  • Preferred terms for users of mental health services among service providers and recipients.

    Verinder Sharma;Diane Whitney;Shahé S. Kazarian;Rahul Manchanda

  • Psychosocial interventions as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy in bipolar disorder.

    Sagar V. Parikh;Vivek Kusumakar;David R.S. Haslam;Raymond Matte

  • Quality of life in bipolar disorder: towards a dynamic understanding.

    E. Morton;G. Murray;E. E. Michalak;R. W. Lam

  • Clinical and demographic factors associated with delayed diagnosis of bipolar disorder: Data from Health Outcomes and Patient Evaluations in Bipolar Disorder (HOPE-BD) study.

    Kamyar Keramatian;Jairo V Pinto;Ayal Schaffer;Verinder Sharma

  • Revising Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, criteria for the bipolar disorders: Phase I of the AREDOC project.

    Gordon Parker;Gabriela Tavella;Glenda Macqueen;Michael Berk;Michael Berk

  • Continuation and Prophylactic Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

    Verinder Sharma;Lakshmi N. Yatham;David R.S. Haslam;Peter H. Silverstone

  • Remission and recurrence in bipolar disorder: The data from health outcomes and patient evaluations in bipolar disorder (HOPE-BD) study.

    Jairo Vinícius Pinto;Gayatri Saraf;Jan Kozicky;Serge Beaulieu

Frequent Co-Authors

Dwight Mazmanian
Dwight Mazmanian Lakehead University
Sagar V. Parikh
Sagar V. Parikh University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martin Alda
Martin Alda Dalhousie University
Vijaya Manicavasagar
Vijaya Manicavasagar University of New South Wales
Roumen Milev
Roumen Milev Queen's University
Arun V. Ravindran
Arun V. Ravindran University of Toronto
Greg Murray
Greg Murray Swinburne University of Technology
Gordon Parker
Gordon Parker University of New South Wales
Peter H. Silverstone
Peter H. Silverstone University of Alberta
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona

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