Colleen Loo

22.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
298 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Colleen Loo is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Colleen Loo has authored 298 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 159 papers in Neurology and 107 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Colleen Loo's work include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (159 papers), Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies (126 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (92 papers). Colleen Loo is often cited by papers focused on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (159 papers), Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies (126 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (92 papers). Colleen Loo collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Colleen Loo's co-authors include Donel Martin, Philip B. Mitchell, Angelo Alonzo, Perminder S. Sachdev, Verònica Gálvez, Stevan Nikolin, Janet L. Taylor, Kerrie-Anne Ho, Gin S. Malhi and Adriano H. Moffa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Colleen Loo

285 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Efficacy and Safety of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Acute Treatment of Major Depression: A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial

2007 1.3k citations John P. O’Reardon, H. Brent Solvason et al. profile →
Side-effects associated with ketamine use in depression: a systematic review

2017 384 citations Brooke Short, Verònica Gálvez et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colleen Loo Australia	58	7.9k	5.0k	4.6k	2.8k	1.6k	298	12.2k
Daniel M. Blumberger Canada	48	4.8k 0.6×	4.6k 0.9×	2.7k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	364	9.6k
André R. Brunoni Brazil	60	10.7k 1.4×	7.3k 1.5×	4.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	2.4k 1.5×	392	17.4k
William M. McDonald United States	52	3.9k 0.5×	3.3k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	161	11.7k
Mustafa M. Husain United States	55	3.6k 0.4×	2.5k 0.5×	4.5k 1.0×	3.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	179	10.5k
Ziad Nahas United States	64	8.5k 1.1×	5.8k 1.2×	2.8k 0.6×	984 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	186	12.7k
Zafiris J. Daskalakis Canada	84	15.7k 2.0×	14.3k 2.9×	5.4k 1.2×	2.3k 0.8×	2.5k 1.6×	492	24.5k
Jonathan Downar Canada	44	4.1k 0.5×	5.4k 1.1×	1.9k 0.4×	997 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	189	8.6k
Mark A. Demitrack United States	43	2.2k 0.3×	1.6k 0.3×	3.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	119	7.9k
Paul E. Holtzheimer United States	40	2.6k 0.3×	3.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.3×	918 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	111	8.1k
David A. Seminowicz United States	40	1.4k 0.2×	4.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.4×	2.5k 0.9×	836 0.5×	115	9.9k

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Martin, Donel, Adam Bayes, Michaela Flynn, et al.. (2025). Real-world clinical data on the long-term effectiveness and safety of generic racemic ketamine treatment. Journal of Affective Disorders. 392. 120192–120192. 1 indexed citations

Bayes, Adam, et al.. (2024). Safety outcomes of ketamine for treatment-resistant depression in clinical settings and development of the ketamine side effect tool-revised (KSET-R). Psychiatry Research. 344. 116334–116334. 3 indexed citations

Chye, Richard, Sungwon Chang, Adam Bayes, et al.. (2023). Subcutaneous ketamine infusion in palliative patients for major depressive disorder (SKIPMDD)—Phase II single-arm open-label feasibility study. PLoS ONE. 18(11). e0290876–e0290876. 5 indexed citations

Nikolin, Stevan, et al.. (2023). Change in Negative Affective Bias following a Single Ketamine Treatment for Treatment-Resistant Depression. Depression and Anxiety. 2023. 1–8. 2 indexed citations

Moffa, Adriano H., et al.. (2022). Neuromodulatory effects of theta burst stimulation to the prefrontal cortex. Scientific Data. 9(1). 8 indexed citations

Bayes, Adam, et al.. (2021). Ketamine treatment for depression: A model of care. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 55(12). 1134–1143. 7 indexed citations

Martin, Donel, Azam Ahmad Bakir, Feng Lin, et al.. (2021). Effects of modifying the electrode placement and pulse width on cognitive side effects with unilateral ECT: A pilot randomised controlled study with computational modelling. Brain stimulation. 14(6). 1489–1497. 10 indexed citations

Anderson, Ian, R. Hamish McAllister‐Williams, Darragh Downey, Rebecca Elliott, & Colleen Loo. (2020). Cognitive function after electroconvulsive therapy for depression: relationship to clinical response. Psychological Medicine. 51(10). 1647–1656. 17 indexed citations

Gálvez, Verònica, Susan Waite, Dušan Hadži-Pavlović, et al.. (2016). Health Related Quality of Life after ECT for depression: A study exploring the role of different electrode-placements and pulse-widths. Journal of Affective Disorders. 206. 268–272. 16 indexed citations

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Al-Ani, Ahmed, et al.. (2016). Predicting tDCS treatment outcomes of patients with major depressive disorder using automated EEG classification. Journal of Affective Disorders. 208. 597–603. 72 indexed citations

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Gálvez, Verònica, Kerrie-Anne Ho, Angelo Alonzo, et al.. (2015). Neuromodulation Therapies for Geriatric Depression. Current Psychiatry Reports. 17(7). 59–59. 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Ying, Maree L. Hackett, Gregory Carter, et al.. (2015). Effects of Low-Dose and Very Low-Dose Ketamine among Patients with Major Depression: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 19(4). pyv124–pyv124. 172 indexed citations

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Alonzo, Angelo, et al.. (2013). Augmenting Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation With D-Cycloserine for Depression. Journal of Ect. 29(3). 196–200. 4 indexed citations

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Kalu, Ukwuori G., Claire E. Sexton, Colleen Loo, & Klaus P. Ebmeier. (2012). Transcranial direct current stimulation in the treatment of major depression: a meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine. 42(9). 1791–1800. 222 indexed citations

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Loo, Colleen, Natalie Katalinic, Joshua B. B. Garfield, et al.. (2012). Neuropsychological and mood effects of ketamine in electroconvulsive therapy: A randomised controlled trial. Journal of Affective Disorders. 142(1-3). 233–240. 91 indexed citations

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Loo, Colleen, Natalie Katalinic, Philip B. Mitchell, & Benjamin D. Greenberg. (2010). Physical treatments for bipolar disorder: A review of electroconvulsive therapy, stereotactic surgery and other brain stimulation techniques. Journal of Affective Disorders. 132(1-2). 1–13. 46 indexed citations

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Loo, Colleen, et al.. (2010). Predictors of response to ultrabrief right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy. Journal of Affective Disorders. 130(1-2). 192–197. 39 indexed citations

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Janicak, Philip G., Ziad Nahas, Sarah H. Lisanby, et al.. (2010). Durability of clinical benefit with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the treatment of pharmacoresistant major depression: assessment of relapse during a 6-month, multisite, open-label study. Brain stimulation. 3(4). 187–199. 117 indexed citations

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Loo, Colleen, Philip B. Mitchell, Tara McFarquhar, Gin S. Malhi, & Perminder S. Sachdev. (2006). A sham-controlled trial of the efficacy and safety of twice-daily rTMS in major depression. Psychological Medicine. 37(3). 341–349. 103 indexed citations

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Loo, Colleen, et al.. (2005). Supraorbital Edema Induced by Electroconvulsive Therapy. Journal of Ect. 21(4). 249–250. 1 indexed citations

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