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Zindel V. Segal

Zindel V. Segal

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Psychology

D-Index
89
Citations
63299
World Ranking
974
National Ranking
44

Overview

Zindel V. Segal is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their research concentrates primarily on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Applied Psychology.

Their scholarly focus encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Zindel V. Segal has published research in multiple recognized venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychiatry Research

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Outcomes of Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Patients With Residual Depressive Symptoms," 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Continuation of Antidepressants vs Sequential Psychological Interventions to Prevent Relapse in Depression," 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "On the nature of objective and perceived cognitive impairments in depressive symptoms and real-world functioning in young adults," 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • "Dysfunctional Cortical Gradient Topography in Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder," 2022, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • "Cost-Utility Analysis of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Versus Antidepressant Pharmacotherapy for Prevention of Depressive Relapse in a Canadian Context," 2020, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Zindel V. Segal has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Norman A. S. Farb
  • Sona Dimidjian
  • Arne Beck
  • Robert Gallop
  • Willem Kuyken

Best Publications

  • Mindfulness : A proposed operational definition

    Scott R. Bishop;Mark Lau;Shauna Shapiro;Linda E Carlson

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse

    Zindel V. Segal;J. Mark G. Williams;John D. Teasdale

  • Prevention of relapse/recurrence in major depression by mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

    J D Teasdale;Z V Segal;J M Williams;V A Ridgeway

  • The toronto mindfulness scale: Development and validation

    Mark A. Lau;Scott R. Bishop;Zindel V. Segal;Tom Buis

  • Interpersonal process in cognitive therapy

    Jeremy D. Safran;Zindel V. Segal

  • Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference

    Norman A. S. Farb;Zindel V. Segal;Helen Mayberg;Jim Bean

  • Metacognitive awareness and prevention of relapse in depression: Empirical evidence

    John D. Teasdale;Richard G. Moore;Hazel Hayhurst;Marie Pope

  • How does cognitive therapy prevent depressive relapse and why should attentional control (mindfulness) training help

    John D. Teasdale;Zindel Segal;J.Mark G. Williams

  • Modulation of cortical-limbic pathways in major depression: treatment-specific effects of cognitive behavior therapy.

    Kimberly Goldapple;Zindel Segal;Carol Garson;Mark Lau

  • Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression

    Zindel V. Segal;J. Mark G. Williams;John D Teasdale;Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression

    Rick E. Ingram;Jeanne Miranda;Zindel V. Segal

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression

    Z V Segal;Williams Jmg.;J D Teasdale

  • Initial psychometric properties of the experiences questionnaire: validation of a self-report measure of decentering.

    David M. Fresco;Michael T. Moore;Manfred H.M. van Dulmen;Zindel V. Segal

  • Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis From Randomized Trials

    Willem Kuyken;Fiona C. Warren;Rod S. Taylor;Ben Whalley

  • Appraisal of the self-schema construct in cognitive models of depression.

    Zindel V. Segal

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces overgeneral autobiographical memory in formerly depressed patients.

    J. M. G. Williams;J. D. Teasdale;Z. V. Segal;J. Soulsby

  • Limbic-frontal circuitry in major depression: a path modeling metanalysis.

    David A. Seminowicz;Helen S. Mayberg;Anthony R. McIntosh;K. Goldapple

  • Minding One’s Emotions: Mindfulness Training Alters the Neural Expression of Sadness

    Norman A. S. Farb;Adam K. Anderson;Helen Mayberg;Jim Bean

  • Inside the Mindful Mind How Mindfulness Enhances Emotion Regulation Through Improvements in Executive Control

    Rimma Teper;Zindel V. Segal;Michael Inzlicht

  • Cognitive reactivity and vulnerability: empirical evaluation of construct activation and cognitive diatheses in unipolar depression.

    Christine D. Scher;Rick E. Ingram;Zindel V. Segal

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse

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Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Teasdale
John D. Teasdale MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Sona Dimidjian
Sona Dimidjian University of Colorado Boulder
Norman A. S. Farb
Norman A. S. Farb University of Toronto
Adam K. Anderson
Adam K. Anderson Cornell University
Arun V. Ravindran
Arun V. Ravindran University of Toronto
Robert D. Levitan
Robert D. Levitan Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
J. Mark G. Williams
J. Mark G. Williams University of Oxford
Robert J. DeRubeis
Robert J. DeRubeis University of Pennsylvania
Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Helen S. Mayberg
Helen S. Mayberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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