Publications

This is a small sample of very recent publications involving HPFT staff. A more extensive list is available from the R&D Department.

Adams, D., Hastings, R. P., Maidment, I., & Langdon, P.E. (2025) Factors supporting optimisation of psychotropic deprescribing in people with intellectual disabilities within the UK: a modified Delphi study. Front. Psychiatry 16:1652988. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1652988

Amiola, A., Temple, P., Dickerson, H., Langdon, P., Hanson, P., Thomas, T., Tharian, R., Barber, T., Menon, V. and Alexander, R., (2022). A Pilot Project to Introduce the Compassionate Approach to Living Mindfully for Prevention of Disease (Calmpod) in Weight Management in a Forensic Intellectual Disability Unit. BJPsych Open, 8(S1), p82-83.

Ayeni, A., Sharples, A., & Hewson, D. (2022). The association between social vulnerability and frailty in community dwelling older people: a systematic review. Geriatrics, 7(5), 104.

Benatti, B., Girone, N., Celebre, L., Vismara, M., Hollander, E., Fineberg, N. A., ... & Dell'Osso, B. (2022). The role of gender in a large international OCD sample: A Report from the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) Network. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 116, 152315.

Bontoft, C., Sawhney, I., Zia, A., & Adams, D. (2026). Disparities in hormone replacement therapy prescribing for women with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities : JARID, 39(2), e70192. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.70192

Bottoms, L., Prat Pons, M., Fineberg, N. A., Pellegrini, L., Fox, O., Wellsted, D., ... & Laws, K. R. (2022). Effects of exercise on obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1-11.

Bowden-Jones, H., Hook, R. W., Grant, J. E., Ioannidis, K., Corazza, O., Fineberg, N. A., ... & Chamberlain, S. R. (2022). Gambling disorder in the UK: key research priorities and the urgent need for independent research funding. The Lancet Psychiatry, 9(4), 321-329.

Brand M, Antons S, Bőthe B. Demetrovics Z, Fineberg NA, Jimenez-Murcia S, King DL, Mestre-Bach G, Moretta T, Müller A, Wegmann E, Potenza MN (2025). Current advances in behavioral addictions: From fundamental research to clinical practice. American Journal of Psychiatry, 182(2), 155-163. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240092

Broadley, L. E., Burton, A. E., & Mistry, D. K. (2022). “Sharing in people's pain is not an easy thing to do”: Cognitive Behavioural Therapists' understandings of compassion in the workplace. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 00, 1– 12.

Burkauskas, J., Fineberg, N. A., Ioannidis, K., Chamberlain, S. R., Bowden-Jones, H., Griskova-Bulanova, I., ... & Corazza, O. (2022). Online behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic and their associations with psychological factors: an international exploratory study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(14), 8823.

Chester V Cherukat M Smith N Patteril E, Sawhney I, Zia A, Alexander R (2024). Hypothyroidism in a Psychiatric Outpatient Population of People With Intellectual Disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. 38. 10.1111/jar.13321

Chester, V., Melvin, C., Bunning, K., Alexander, R., & Langdon, P. E. (2025). Autistic people within forensic psychiatric services and the criminal justice system: A systematic review. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 36(5), 711-773.

Clarke, A. T., Fineberg, N. A., Pellegrini, L., Leuzzi, R., & Laws, K. R. (2025). From lockdown to Liberation: How inflexible thinking, obsessive-compulsive and affective symptoms shape pandemic adjustment. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 187, 238–247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2025.05.003

Elshazly, M., Rebolledo, O., & Rosenbaum, S. (2022). Integration of Mental Health into Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning for the Monsoon Season in Bangladesh. Intervention, 20(1), 114. 

Fineberg, N. A., Cinosi, E., Smith, M. V., Busby, A. D., Wellsted, D., Huneke, N. T., ... & Baldwin, D. S. (2023). Feasibility, acceptability and practicality of transcranial stimulation in obsessive compulsive symptoms (FEATSOCS): A randomised controlled crossover trial. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 122, 152371.

Fineberg, N. A., Menchón, J. M., Hall, N., Dell'Osso, B., Brand, M., Potenza, M. N., ... & Zohar, J. (2022). Advances in problematic usage of the internet research–A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 152346.

Fineberg, N. A., Pellegrini, L., Burkauskas, J., Clarke, A., & Laws, K. R. (2022). Individual obsessive-compulsive traits are associated with poorer adjustment to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 148, 21-26.

Fineberg, N. A., Pellegrini, L., Clarke, A., Perera, U., Drummond, L. M., Albert, U., & Laws, K. R. (2022). Meta-analysis of cognitive behaviour therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the treatment of hypochondriasis: Implications for trial design. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 152334.

Gale, T. M., Woodward, J., Meredith-Windle, G., Balakumar, T., Littlechild, B., & Hawley, C. J. (2022). Whole Life: a feasibility study of a recovery-focussed intervention in patients with stabilised schizophrenia [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]. NIHR open research, 1(9).

Gates, B., Sawhney, I., Alexander, R., Shardlow, S., & Zia, A. (2022). Telepsychiatry for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health difficulties during Covid-19 pandemic: survey of self-reported experience and acceptability to patients, carers and psychiatrists in the UK. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, p1-7.

Hanson, P., Lange, M., Oduro-Donkor, D., Shuttlewood, E., Weickert, M.O., Randeva, H.S., Menon, V., Alexander, R.T., Basset, P., Shankar, R. and Barber, T.M., 2022. The role of mindfulness training in sustaining weight reduction: retrospective cohort analysis. BJPsych Open, 8(6), p198.

Kucukterzi-Ali, S., Ludlow, A. K., Gutierrez, R., Fineberg, N. A., & Gale, T. M. (2026). Understanding atypical eating behaviours in women with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A qualitative study. PloS one, 21(6), e0328500.

Kucukterzi‐Ali, S., Ludlow, A. K., Gutierrez, R., Fineberg, N. A., & Gale, T. M. (2026). Pathological Eating Patterns in Adults Displaying Obsessive‐Compulsive Symptoms: A Scoping Review. European Eating Disorders Review, 34(3), 780-804.

Kumar, M., Sawhney, I., Chester, V., Alexander, R., Mitchell, J., & Shankar, R. (2025). Outcome measures in intellectual disability: A review and narrative synthesis of validated instruments. The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 71(2), 239–253. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640241291517

Langdon, P. E., Thompson, P. A., Shepstone, L., Perez‐Olivas, G., Melvin, C. L., Barnoux, M., ... & Alexander, R. T. (2023). Psychiatric inpatient admissions and discharges of people with intellectual disabilities: A time series analysis of English national data. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 36(1), 196-204.

Laws, K. R., Pellegrini, L., Reid, J. E., Drummond, L. M., & Fineberg, N. A. (2022). The Inflating Impact of Waiting-List Controls on Effect Size Estimates. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 1260.

Leuzzi R., Tardivo G., Pellegrini L., Albert U., & Fineberg, N. A. (2025). Psychedelics, OCD and related disorders: Methodological issues and potential strategies for future studies. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 139, 152561.

Lofthouse K, Beeson E, Dalgleish T, Danesee A, Hodgekins J, Mahoney-Daviesh G, Smithi P, Stallard P, Wilson J, Meiser-Stedman R (2024) Voice hearing in young people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)following multiple trauma exposure.  European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2435790, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/20008066.2024.2435790

Massazza, A., Eaton, J., Elshazly, M., Charlson, F., & Augustinavicius, J. L. (2022). Opportunities for the use of brief scalable psychological interventions to support mental health and wellbeing in the context of the climate crisis. Intervention, 20(1), 128.

Meiser-Stedman, R., Allen, L., Ashford, P., Beeson, E., Byford, S., Danese, A., Farr, A., Finn, J., Goodall, B., Grainger, L., Hammond, M., Harmston, R., Humphrey, A., King, D., Lofthouse, K., Mahoney-Davies, G., Miles, S., Moore, J., Morant, N., . . . Smith, P. (2025). A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents exposed to multiple traumatic stressors: The DECRYPT trial. World Psychiatry : Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 24(3), 422–434. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21355

Melvin, C. L., Barnoux, M., Alexander, R., Roy, A., Devapriam, J., Blair, R., Tromans, S., Shepstone, L. and Langdon, P. E. (2022) A systematic review of in-patient psychiatric care for people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism: effectiveness, patient safety and experience. BJPsych Open. Cambridge University Press, 8(6), p. e187. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2022.571.

Mozuraityte, K., Stanyte, A., Fineberg, N. A., Serretti, A., Gecaite-Stonciene, J., & Burkauskas, J. (2022). Mental fatigue in individuals with psychiatric disorders: a scoping review. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1-10.

Nezgovorova, V., Reid, J., Fineberg, N. A., & Hollander, E. (2022). Optimizing first line treatments for adults with OCD. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 115.

O'Connor S, Godfrey K, Reed S, Peill J, Rohani-Shukla C, Healy M, Robbins T, Frota Lisboa Pereira de Souza A, Tyacke R, Papasyrou M, Stenbæk D, Castro-Rodrigues P, Chiera M, Lee H, Martell J, Carhart-Harris R, Pellegrini L, Fineberg NA, Nutt D, Erritzoe D. (2025) Correction: Study Protocol for 'PsilOCD: A Pharmacological Challenge Study Evaluating the Effects of the 5-HT2A Agonist Psilocybin on the Neurocognitive and Clinical Correlates of Compulsivity'. Cureus. 2025 Jan 30;17(1):c209. doi: 10.7759/cureus.c209. eCollection 2025 Jan.PMID: 39897296 

Pellegrini, L., Cinosi, E., Wellsted, D., Smith, M., Busby, A., Hall, N., Albert, U., Aslan, I., Garner, M., Chamberlain, S. R., Robbins, T. W., Baldwin, D. S., & Fineberg, N. A. (2026). Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) at different cortical targets on cognition in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): An exploratory analysis. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 41(1), 43–51. https://doi.org/10.1097/YIC.0000000000000589

Pellegrini, L., Fineberg, N. A., O’Connor, S., De Souza, A. M. F. L. P., Godfrey, K., Reed, S., Peill, J., Healy, M., Rohani-Shukla, C., Lee, H., Carhart-Harris, R., Robbins, T. W., Nutt, D., & Erritzoe, D. (2025). Single-dose (10 mg) psilocybin reduces symptoms in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A pharmacological challenge study. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 142, 152619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2025.152619

Pellegrini, L., Garg, K., Enara, A., Gottlieb, D. S., Wellsted, D., Albert, U., ... & Fineberg, N. A. (2022). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical. Comprehensive psychiatry, 118, 152339.

Pereira de Souza, A. M.,Frota Lisboa, Mpavaenda, D., Banca, P., Wellsted, D., Hopkins, J., Marzuki, A. A., Lee, M., Karafylli, E., Bardsley, O., Mazoruk, S., Skalecki, S., Boodhun, S., Mendoza-Wolfson, H., Crispin, C., Aloneftis, R., Monji-Patel, D., Cinosi, E., Pellegrini, L., Enara, A., . . . Fineberg, N. A. (2026). Habit as a therapeutic component in psychological treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A randomised controlled feasibility study. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 146, 152666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2026.152666

Rai D, Webb D, Lewis A, Cotton L, Norris JE, Alexander R, Baldwin DS, et al. (2024) Sertraline for anxiety in adults with a diagnosis of autism (STRATA): study protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled randomised controlled trial. Trials, 25 (1), 37.

Sawhney I, Patteril E, Alexander R, Sathick M, Gale TM, Zia A, Chester V (2025) Introduction and Outcomes from an Enhanced Physical Health Clinic for People with Intellectual Disabilities Prescribed Psychotropic Medication, Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, April 2025.

Sawhney, I., Patteril, E., Chester, V., Gale, T., Sathick, M., Zia, A., & Alexander, R. (2025). The introduction of cancer screening within an enhanced physical health clinic for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health difficulties. Journal of Policy & Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 22(4), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/jppi.70034

Shah, C., Anstee, L., Kimpton, B., Magon, R., Kelly, B., & Zia, A. (2025). An exploratory analysis of the physical health DIALOG outcome measure within a UK mental health and learning disability NHS trust. Mental Health Review Journal, 30(2), 90–101. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-09-2024-0061

Shah, C., Kimpton, B., Oguzman, E., Zia, A., Prabhakaran, N., Magon, R., … Gale, T. (2025). An exploratory statistical analysis of patient reported outcome and experience measures (DIALOG) within a UK Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Trust. International Journal of Healthcare Management, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2025.2505893

Sun, J. J., Perera, B., Henley, W., Angus-Leppan, H., Sawhney, I., Watkins, L., ... & Shankar, R. (2022). Epilepsy related multimorbidity, polypharmacy and risks in adults with intellectual disabilities: a national study. Journal of Neurology, 269(5), 2750-2760.

Toutountzidis, D., Gale, T. M., Irvine, K., Sharma, S., & Laws, K. R. (2022). Childhood trauma and schizotypy in non-clinical samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Plos one, 17(6), e0270494.

Tromans, S., Bhui, K., Sawhney, I., Odiyoor, M., Courtenay, K., Roy, A., ... & Shankar, R. (2023). The potential unintended consequences of Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales on people with intellectual disability and/or autism. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1-3.

Tromans, S. J., Deb, S., Mahmood, H., Triantafyllopoulou, P., Jamieson, T., Gookey, G., Bassett, P., Malak, Z., Sawhney, I., Korb, L., Adams, D., Sheehan, R., & Shankar, R. (2025). Psychiatrists and non-psychiatrists' attitudes to psychotropic optimisation for people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism: Cross-sectional comparison study. BJPsych Open, 11(6), e249. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10875

Van Ameringen, M., Patterson, B., Turna, J., Lethbridge, G., Bergmann, C. G., Lamberti, N., ... & Fineberg.,N. (2022). Obsessive-compulsive disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of psychiatric research, 149, 114.

Velani, B., Jobanputra, S., Ukachukwu, C., Osundina, A., Karunaratne, N., & Deb, T. (2022). Improving Efficiency and Quality of Handover in the Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT): A Focus on Achieving Team Buy-In. BJPsych Open, 8(S1), p115-115.

Velani, B., Sawhney, I., Alexander, R. T., Shardlow, S., & Zia, A. (2022). Implementing proposed reforms of the Mental Health Act for people with intellectual disability and autism: the perspective of multidisciplinary professionals in intellectual disability teams. BJPsych Open, 8(6), e197.

Vismara, M., Varinelli, A., Pellegrini, L., Enara, A., & Fineberg, N. A. (2022). New challenges in facing Cyberchondria during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 101156.

Wadey, E. (2026). How will the new Mental Health Act affect the care we provide? Mental Health Practice, 29(2), 5. https://10.7748/mhp.29.2.5.s1

Watkins, L. V., Henley, W., Sun, J. J., Perera, B., Angus-Leppan, H., Sawhney, I., ... & Shankar, R. (2022). Tackling increased risks in older adults with intellectual disability and epilepsy: Data from a national multicentre cohort study. Seizure, 101, 15-21.

Wilson, H., Irvine, K., Alexander, R. T., & Mengoni, S. E. (2026). Easy read health information for people with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review of the evidence. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities : JARID, 39(1), e70195. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.70195

Winterhalder, R., McCabe, J., Young, C., Lamb, K., Sawhney, I., Jory, C., ... & Shankar, R. (2022). Bone health, intellectual disability and epilepsy: An observational community‐based study. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 145(6), 753-761.