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Overview

Wayne K. Goodman is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a significant focus on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology among other subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in their work include obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, neurological disorders and treatments, autism spectrum disorder research, functional brain connectivity studies, body image and dysmorphia studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and eating disorders and behaviors.

They have contributed notably to several recent papers, including:

  • A randomized proof-of-mechanism trial applying the 'fast-fail' approach to evaluating κ-opioid antagonism as a treatment for anhedonia, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Harmonizing the Neurobiology and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression Informed by Intracranial Recordings, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Efficacy of deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Systematic Review, 2021, Current Psychiatry Reports

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wayne K. Goodman include Eric A. Storch, Sameer A. Sheth, Nicole R. Provenza, Andrew G. Guzick, and Kelly R. Bijanki.

Their research has been regularly published in several prominent scientific venues, among which are:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Neurosurgery
  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Best Publications

  • The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: I. Development, Use, and Reliability

    Wayne K. Goodman;Lawrence H. Price;Steven A. Rasmussen;Carolyn Mazure

  • The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: II. Validity

    Wayne K. Goodman;Lawrence H. Price;Steven A. Rasmussen;Carolyn Mazure

  • Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: Reliability and Validity

    Lawrence Scahill;Mark A. Riddle;Maureen McSWIGGIN-HARDIN;Sharon I. Ort

  • Definition, evaluation, and classification of renal osteodystrophy: A position statement from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO)

    S. Moe;T. Drüeke;J. Cunningham;W. Goodman

  • A family study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    D L Pauls;J P Alsobrook nd;W Goodman;S Rasmussen

  • Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    James F. Leckman;Dorothy E. Grice;James Boardman;Heping Zhang

  • Deep brain stimulation of the ventral internal capsule/ventral striatum for obsessive-compulsive disorder: worldwide experience.

    B D Greenberg;Lutgardis Gabriëls;D A Malone;A R Rezai

  • Three-Year Outcomes in Deep Brain Stimulation for Highly Resistant Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

    Benjamin D Greenberg;Donald A Malone;Gerhard M Friehs;Ali R Rezai

  • Haloperidol Addition in Fluvoxamine-Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Study in Patients With and Without Tics

    Christopher J. McDougle;Wayne K. Goodman;James F. Leckman;Nicole C. Lee

  • A severity rating scale for body dysmorphic disorder: development, reliability, and validity of a modified version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.

    Katharine A. Phillips;Eric Hollander;Steven A. Rasmussen;Bonnie R. Aronowitz

  • Family accommodation in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Lisa Calvocoressi;Barbara Lewis;Mary Harris;Sally J. Trufan

  • DSM-IV field trial: Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    E B Foa;M J Kozak;W K Goodman;E Hollander

  • Serotonin function in anxiety. II. Effects of the serotonin agonist MCPP in panic disorder patients and healthy subjects.

    D. S. Charney;S. W. Woods;W. K. Goodman;G. R. Heninger

  • Efficacy of Fluvoxamine in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Double-blind Comparison With Placebo

    Wayne K. Goodman;Lawrence H. Price;Steven A. Rasmussen;Pedro L. Delgado

  • Family-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: comparison of intensive and weekly approaches.

    Eric A. Storch;Gary R. Geffken;Lisa J. Merlo;Giselle Mann

  • Family accommodation in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Eric A Storch;Gary R Geffken;Lisa J Merlo;Marni L Jacob

  • OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A REVIEW OF THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA AND POSSIBLE SUBTYPES AND DIMENSIONAL SPECIFIERS FOR DSM-V

    James F. Leckman;Damiaan Denys M.D.;H. Blair Simpson;David Mataix-Cols

  • A Case-Controlled Study of Repetitive Thoughts and Behavior in Adults With Autistic Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Christopher J. McDougle;Laura E. Kresch;Wayne K. Goodman;Susan T. Naylor

  • A Multicenter Investigation of Fixed-Dose Fluoxetine in the Treatment of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

    Gary D. Tollefson;Alvin H. Rampey;Janet H. Potvin;Michael A. Jenike

  • "Just right" perceptions associated with compulsive behavior in Tourette's syndrome.

    James F. Leckman;David E. Walker;Wayne K. Goodman;David L. Pauls

  • Specificity of Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Comparison of Fluvoxamine and Desipramine

    Wayne K. Goodman;Lawrence H. Price;Pedro L. Delgado;Joseph Palumbo

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric A. Storch
Eric A. Storch Baylor College of Medicine
Tanya K. Murphy
Tanya K. Murphy University of South Florida
Lawrence H. Price
Lawrence H. Price Brown University
Gary R. Geffken
Gary R. Geffken University of Florida
Dennis S. Charney
Dennis S. Charney Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Christopher J. McDougle
Christopher J. McDougle Harvard University
Steven A. Rasmussen
Steven A. Rasmussen Brown University
George R. Heninger
George R. Heninger Yale University
James F. Leckman
James F. Leckman Yale University
Michael S. Okun
Michael S. Okun University of Florida

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