I. Nicol Ferrier

25.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

I. Nicol Ferrier is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, I. Nicol Ferrier has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 22 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 21 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in I. Nicol Ferrier's work include Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (37 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (20 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (18 papers). I. Nicol Ferrier is often cited by papers focused on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (37 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (20 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (18 papers). I. Nicol Ferrier collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. I. Nicol Ferrier's co-authors include Jan Scott, Timothy J. Crow, Allan H. Young, Peter Gallagher, Salma Ayis, A.J. Cross, R. Hamish McAllister‐Williams, Stuart Watson, Thomas P. Kelly and Biba Stanton and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, American Journal of Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

I. Nicol Ferrier

111 papers receiving 6.0k citations

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Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants: A revision of the 2008 British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
I. Nicol Ferrier United Kingdom	41	2.5k	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	931	112	6.3k
David Pickar United States	44	2.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.6×	852 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	859 0.9×	135	6.5k
Brigitta Bondy Germany	45	1.5k 0.6×	2.3k 1.8×	948 0.9×	859 0.9×	1.5k 1.6×	160	6.1k
Wolfgang Maier Germany	49	2.3k 0.9×	913 0.7×	612 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	172	7.1k
Manfred Ackenheil Germany	43	2.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	828 0.8×	720 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	168	6.3k
N.P.V. Nair Canada	40	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	759 0.7×	938 0.9×	903 1.0×	148	6.1k
James B. Lohr United States	50	2.6k 1.0×	911 0.7×	406 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	870 0.9×	139	7.1k
Daniël P. van Kammen United States	51	3.6k 1.4×	2.1k 1.6×	575 0.5×	1.7k 1.7×	1.4k 1.5×	218	7.6k
Wim J. Riedel Netherlands	47	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	2.2k 2.2×	665 0.7×	121	6.8k
Taro Kishi Japan	42	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	990 0.9×	781 0.8×	883 0.9×	233	5.5k
Romina Mizrahi Canada	45	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	898 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	155	6.8k

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O’Brien, John T., Peter Gallagher, Daniel Stow, et al.. (2016). A study of wrist-worn activity measurement as a potential real-world biomarker for late-life depression. Psychological Medicine. 47(1). 93–102. 56 indexed citations

McAllister‐Williams, R. Hamish, Eleanor Smith, Ian Anderson, et al.. (2013). Study protocol for the randomised controlled trial: Antiglucocorticoid augmentation of anti-Depressants in Depression (The ADD Study). BMC Psychiatry. 13(1). 205–205. 10 indexed citations

Robinson, Lucy J., Jill M. Thompson, Peter Gallagher, et al.. (2013). Performance monitoring and executive control of attention in euthymic bipolar disorder: Employing the CPT-AX paradigm. Psychiatry Research. 210(2). 457–464. 22 indexed citations

Thanacoody, Ruben, Ann K. Daly, J. Reilly, I. Nicol Ferrier, & Simon H. L. Thomas. (2007). Factors Affecting Drug Concentrations and QT Interval During Thioridazine Therapy. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 82(5). 555–565. 27 indexed citations

Mackin, Paul, D. Timothy Bishop, Helen Watkinson, Peter Gallagher, & I. Nicol Ferrier. (2007). Metabolic disease and cardiovascular risk in people treated with antipsychotics in the community. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 191(1). 23–29. 93 indexed citations

Thompson, Jill M., Colin Hamilton, John Gray, et al.. (2006). Executive and visuospatial sketchpad resources in euthymic bipolar disorder: Implications for visuospatial working memory architecture. Memory. 14(4). 437–451. 40 indexed citations

Watson, Stuart, Peter Gallagher, Margaret S. Smith, I. Nicol Ferrier, & Allan H. Young. (2006). The dex/CRH test—Is it better than the DST?. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 31(7). 889–894. 68 indexed citations

Thomas, Alan, et al.. (2004). Neuropathological Study of the Dorsal Raphe Nuclei in Late-Life Depression and Alzheimer’s Disease With and Without Depression. American Journal of Psychiatry. 161(6). 1096–1102. 93 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Rumana, I. Nicol Ferrier, & Jill M. Thompson. (2003). Cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 16(1). 7–12. 22 indexed citations

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Ferrier, I. Nicol, et al.. (2003). Cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 16(1). 7–12. 19 indexed citations

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Reilly, J., et al.. (2002). Thioridazine and sudden unexplained death in psychiatric in-patients. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 180(6). 515–522. 108 indexed citations

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Thomas, Alan, I. Nicol Ferrier, Rajesh N. Kalaria, et al.. (2000). Elevation in Late-Life Depression of Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 Expression in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. American Journal of Psychiatry. 157(10). 1682–1684. 85 indexed citations

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Ferrier, I. Nicol, Biba Stanton, Thomas P. Kelly, & Jan Scott. (1999). Neuropsychological function in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 175(3). 246–251. 353 indexed citations

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Brittlebank, Andrew, et al.. (1993). Autobiographical Memory in Depression: State or Trait Marker?. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 162(1). 118–121. 347 indexed citations

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Leake, A., Elaine K. Perry, Robert H. Perry, et al.. (1991). Neocortical concentrations of neuropeptides in senile dementia of the alzheimer and lewy body type: Comparison with parkinson's disease and severity correlations. Biological Psychiatry. 29(4). 357–364. 26 indexed citations

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Ferrier, I. Nicol & A. Leake. (1990). Peptides in the neocortex in Alzheimer's disease and ageing. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 15(2). 89–95. 12 indexed citations

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Charlton, Bruce G. & I. Nicol Ferrier. (1989). Hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis abnormalities in depression: a review and a model. Psychological Medicine. 19(2). 331–336. 43 indexed citations

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Cross, A.J., Timothy J. Crow, I. Nicol Ferrier, Julie A. Johnson, & Diane Markakis. (1984). Striatal dopamine receptors in Alzheimer-type dementia. Neuroscience Letters. 52(1-2). 1–6. 70 indexed citations

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Roberts, Gareth W., I. Nicol Ferrier, Ying Lee, et al.. (1983). Peptides, the limbic lobe and schizophrenia. Brain Research. 288(1-2). 199–211. 150 indexed citations

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Ferrier, I. Nicol, Gareth W. Roberts, Timothy J. Crow, et al.. (1983). Reduced cholecystokinin-like and somatostatin-like immunoreactivity in limbic lobe is associated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Life Sciences. 33(5). 475–482. 141 indexed citations

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