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. & Tharian, R. (2023) Autism: identification, management and support. The Pharmaceutical Journal, 310. DOI:10.1211/PJ.2023.1.178355

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.

Apergis-Schoute AM, van der Flier FE, Ip SHY, Kanen JW, Vaghi MM, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Cardinal RN, Robbins TW. Perseveration and Shifting in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Function of Uncertainty, Punishment, and Serotonergic Medication. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci., 4(1):326-335. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.06.004. PMID: 38298803; PMCID: PMC10829647.

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.

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., Bunning, K., Tromans, S., Alexander, R., & Langdon, P. (2022). The Prevalence of Autism in the Criminal Justice System: A Systematic Review. BJPsych Open, 8(S1), 45-46.

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.

Georgiou, K., Winter, D., Davies, S., & Katsiana, A. (2022). Autism Multimodal Activism. Negotiating a Pallet of Identities on the YouTube Social Media. Psychology, 13(11), 1553-1572.

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.

Kazukauskiene, N., Fineberg, N. A., Bunevicius, A., Narvaez Linares, N. F., Poitras, M., Plamondon, H., ... & Burkauskas, J. (2022). Predictive value of baseline cognitive functioning on health-related quality of life in individuals with coronary artery disease: a 5-year longitudinal study. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 21(5), 473-482.

Kazukauskiene, N., Fineberg, N. A., Podlipskyte, A., Bunevicius, A., Narvaez Linares, N. F., Poitras, M., ... & Burkauskas, J. (2022). Contribution of obstructive sleep apnoea to cognitive functioning of males with coronary artery disease: a relationship with endocrine and inflammatory biomarkers. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 1076.

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.

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.

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 SR, Robbins TW, Baldwin DS, Fineberg NA. Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) at different cortical targets on cognition in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): an exploratory analysis. Int Clin Psychopharmacology. Accepted for publication March 2025. PMID: 40178114

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.

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.

Shah C, Kimpton B, Anstee L, Magon R, Zia A, Kelly B. (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.  DOI:10.1108/MHRJ-09-2024-0061

Shah, P., Shah, C., Umaru, N. (2022). Assessing the impact of a specialist mental health pharmacist in a primary care mental health service. PM Healthcare Journal, (2), 18-25.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Witter, K., Redding., R, Tomar, R., Gale, T. (2023). Benzodiazepine and z-drugs use in an older adult population with anxiety symptoms. Geriatric Medicine Journal, 52, 18-21.