Richard Kanaan

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
124 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Richard Kanaan is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Kanaan has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 38 papers in Clinical Psychology and 30 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Richard Kanaan's work include Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (58 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (30 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (22 papers). Richard Kanaan is often cited by papers focused on Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (58 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (30 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (22 papers). Richard Kanaan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Richard Kanaan's co-authors include Philip McGuire, Timothy R. Nicholson, Simon Wessely, Anthony S. David, Gareth J. Barker, Selma Aybek, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, David Armstrong, Marco Picchioni and Jon Stone and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Richard Kanaan

114 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Stressful life events and maltreatment in conversion (functional neurological) disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies

2018 291 citations Timothy R. Nicholson, Selma Aybek et al. profile →
Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

2023 70 citations Katherine B. Gibney, Richard Kanaan et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Kanaan Australia	32	2.1k	1.1k	1.0k	846	745	124	3.7k
Sonia Dollfus France	35	3.0k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	516 0.5×	721 0.9×	790 1.1×	187	4.6k
David G. C. Owens United Kingdom	37	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	706 0.7×	598 0.7×	470 0.6×	53	3.5k
Thomas Wobrock Germany	38	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	442 0.4×	862 1.0×	519 0.7×	125	4.9k
Xavier Chitnis United Kingdom	33	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.7×	1.3k 1.3×	465 0.5×	223 0.3×	67	4.1k
Warrick J. Brewer Australia	36	3.9k 1.9×	2.6k 2.3×	1.1k 1.1×	842 1.0×	986 1.3×	97	6.1k
Eduardo Caverzasi Italy	30	923 0.4×	720 0.6×	728 0.7×	557 0.7×	201 0.3×	77	3.3k
Raquelle I. Mesholam‐Gately United States	24	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	761 0.8×	508 0.6×	706 0.9×	64	3.7k
Markus Jäger Germany	37	2.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	459 0.5×	830 1.0×	561 0.8×	146	4.7k
Brian Toone United Kingdom	46	4.2k 2.0×	2.2k 2.0×	568 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	720 1.0×	125	6.8k
Mié Matsui Japan	33	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.1×	439 0.5×	170 0.2×	119	4.0k

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Williams, Gavin, et al.. (2025). Self‐Reported Motor and Non‐Motor Symptoms in People With Functional Gait Disorder: A Cross‐Sectional Study. Brain and Behavior. 15(2). e70208–e70208.

Kanaan, Richard, et al.. (2025). Biopsychosocial prognostic indicators in Functional Neurological Disorder: A systematic review. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 195. 112201–112201. 1 indexed citations

Duncan, Roderick, David J. Berlowitz, Saul A. Mullen, et al.. (2024). Breathing control training for functional seizures: A multi-site, open-label pilot study. Epilepsy & Behavior. 154. 109745–109745. 1 indexed citations

Oliver, Gretchen D., Trudie Chalder, Victoria Oliver, et al.. (2024). The challenges of living with Debilitating Symptom Complexes Attributed to Ticks (DSCATT) – A qualitative study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 48(4). 100163–100163. 2 indexed citations

Kanaan, Richard, Georgina Oliver, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, et al.. (2023). A multi-centre, double-blind, 12-week, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of adjunctive N-Acetylcysteine for treatment-resistant PTSD. Psychiatry Research. 327. 115398–115398. 6 indexed citations

Castro-de-Araujo, Luís Fernando Silva, et al.. (2023). Feedback-loop between psychotic symptoms and brain volume: A cross-lagged panel model study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 162. 150–155. 1 indexed citations

Connors, Michael H., Lena Quinto, Quinton Deeley, et al.. (2023). Hypnosis and suggestion as interventions for functional neurological disorder: A systematic review. General Hospital Psychiatry. 86. 92–102. 10 indexed citations

Adler, Nikki R., et al.. (2019). A Systematic Review of Psychological and Pharmacological Interventions for the Management of Trichotillomania in Children and Adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 29(4). 913–920. 1 indexed citations

Mullen, Saul A., et al.. (2018). The association of panic and hyperventilation with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Seizure. 59. 108–115. 26 indexed citations

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Kanaan, Richard, Marco Picchioni, Colm McDonald, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, & Philip McGuire. (2017). White matter deficits in schizophrenia are global and don’t progress with age. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 51(10). 1020–1031. 21 indexed citations

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Kanaan, Richard, et al.. (2016). Uncovering the etiology of conversion disorder: insights from functional neuroimaging. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 12. 143–143. 20 indexed citations

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Owen, Gareth, Benjamin Spencer, & Richard Kanaan. (2016). The legal and ethical framework for compulsory psychiatric treatment. Medicine. 44(12). 734–736. 1 indexed citations

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Bellomo, Rinaldo, et al.. (2016). Long-term outcomes after severe drug overdose. Critical Care and Resuscitation. 18(4). 247–e9. 6 indexed citations

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Kanaan, Richard. (2016). Freud's hysteria and its legacy. Handbook of clinical neurology. 139. 37–44. 35 indexed citations

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Prata, Diana, Richard Kanaan, Gareth J. Barker, et al.. (2012). Risk variant of oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 is associated with reduced white matter integrity. Human Brain Mapping. 34(9). 2025–2031. 16 indexed citations

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Aybek, Selma, Timothy R. Nicholson, Bogdan Draganski, et al.. (2012). Grey matter changes in motor conversion disorder. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 85(2). 236–238. 52 indexed citations

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Kanaan, Richard, David Armstrong, & Simon Wessely. (2009). Limits to truth-telling: Neurologists’ communication in conversion disorder. Patient Education and Counseling. 77(2). 296–301. 44 indexed citations

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Kyriakopoulos, Marinos, Rocío Pérez‐Iglesias, James B. Woolley, et al.. (2009). Effect of age at onset of schizophrenia on white matter abnormalities. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 195(4). 346–353. 60 indexed citations

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Aybek, Selma, Richard Kanaan, & Anthony S. David. (2008). The neuropsychiatry of conversion disorder. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 21(3). 275–280. 31 indexed citations

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Kanaan, Richard, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, Gareth J. Barker, et al.. (2005). Tract-specific anisotropy measurements in diffusion tensor imaging. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 146(1). 73–82. 141 indexed citations

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