Susan McPherson

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Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi The effectiveness of psychological treatments for treatment-resistant depression: a systematic review
    S McPherson
    Psychotherapy Evaluation Research Unit, Tavistock Centre, London, UK
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 111:331-40. 2005
  2. ncbi Social determinants of diagnostic labels in depression
    Susan McPherson
    Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, Belsize Centre, 94 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5NE, UK
    Soc Sci Med 62:50-8. 2006
  3. ncbi Negotiating 'depression' in primary care: a qualitative study
    Susan McPherson
    University of Essex, Colchester, UK
    Soc Sci Med 69:1137-43. 2009
  4. ncbi General practitioner management of depression: a systematic review
    Susan McPherson
    School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
    Qual Health Res 22:1150-9. 2012
  5. ncbi Apathy and executive function in Alzheimer's disease
    Susan McPherson
    Alzheimer s Disease Center, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1769, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 8:373-81. 2002
  6. ncbi Sensitivity and specificity of finger tapping test scores for the detection of suspect effort
    Ginger Arnold
    Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90509, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 19:105-20. 2005

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Publications6

  1. ncbi The effectiveness of psychological treatments for treatment-resistant depression: a systematic review
    S McPherson
    Psychotherapy Evaluation Research Unit, Tavistock Centre, London, UK
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 111:331-40. 2005
    ..A systematic review of all studies (controlled and uncontrolled) to evaluate psychological interventions with treatment-resistant depression...
  2. ncbi Social determinants of diagnostic labels in depression
    Susan McPherson
    Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, Belsize Centre, 94 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5NE, UK
    Soc Sci Med 62:50-8. 2006
    ..Exploring the changing use of official and unofficial labels over time in this way provides a novel historical perspective on the concept of depression in the late twentieth-century...
  3. ncbi Negotiating 'depression' in primary care: a qualitative study
    Susan McPherson
    University of Essex, Colchester, UK
    Soc Sci Med 69:1137-43. 2009
    ..The implications of this process are discussed in relation to patients' subsequent access or lack of access to services and the way in which these findings highlight the processes by which medicine frames disease...
  4. ncbi General practitioner management of depression: a systematic review
    Susan McPherson
    School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
    Qual Health Res 22:1150-9. 2012
    ..The results of the analysis illuminate the complex dilemma faced by GPs in managing depression, which appears to be characterized by a sense of dissonance between the medicalization of depression and a sense of its social determinants...
  5. ncbi Apathy and executive function in Alzheimer's disease
    Susan McPherson
    Alzheimer s Disease Center, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1769, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 8:373-81. 2002
    ..Neuropsychological measures not dependent on executive functions were unrelated to apathy. Apathy is associated with executive dysfunction and not with other neuropsychological deficits. Apathy is distinct from dysphoria...
  6. ncbi Sensitivity and specificity of finger tapping test scores for the detection of suspect effort
    Ginger Arnold
    Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90509, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 19:105-20. 2005
    ..In conclusion, results indicate that when using finger tapping scores to detect noncredible performance: (a) Dominant hand performance is more sensitive, and (b) cutoffs should be selected based on gender and claimed diagnosis...