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  1. From lockdown to Liberation: How inflexible thinking, obsessive-compulsive and affective symptoms shape pandemic adjustment

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, July 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  2. The relationship between self-reported interoception and depression: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis

    Article • June 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Keith R Laws

  3. Do psychological therapies reduce hoarding related behaviours

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  4. The inflexible mind: A critical factor in understanding and addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, November 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  5. The relationship between cognitive phenotypes of compulsivity and impulsivity and clinical variables in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and Meta-analysis

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, August 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  6. The Relationship Between Cognitive Phenotypes of Compulsivity and Impulsivity and Clinical Variables in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Article • May 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Keith R Laws

  7. Strange face illusions: A systematic review and quality analysis

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, March 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  8. Systematic review and meta-analysis of preoperative interventions to support the maturation of arteriovenous fistulae in patients with advanced kidney disease

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, February 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith R Laws

  9. Effects of exercise on obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  10. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical implications

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, October 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  11. Meta-analysis of cognitive behaviour therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the treatment of hypochondriasis: Implications for trial design

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, October 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  12. Commentary on the article: “Maintenance of wellness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who discontinue medication after exposure/response prevention augmentation A randomized clinical trial” Foa EB et al., JAMA Psychiatry. 2022;79(3):193–20...

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, July 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  13. Childhood trauma and schizotypy in non-clinical samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • PLOS One, June 2022, PLOS

    Professor Keith R Laws

  14. The use of social robots with children and young people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • PLOS One, June 2022, PLOS

    Professor Keith R Laws

  15. The Inflating Impact of Waiting-List Controls on Effect Size Estimates

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, June 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Keith R Laws

  16. ECT is evidence-based – a commentary on depression: why drugs and electricity are not the answer

    Article • Psychological Medicine, June 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  17. Paranormal beliefs and cognitive function: A systematic review and assessment of study quality across four decades of research

    Article • PLOS One, May 2022, PLOS

    Professor Keith R Laws

  18. Individual obsessive-compulsive traits are associated with poorer adjustment to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, April 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  19. Relapse prevention in schizophrenia

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, April 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  20. A critique of narrative reviews of the evidence-base for ECT in depression

    Article • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  21. Prevalence and outcomes of chronic liver disease in patients receiving dialysis: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Clinical Kidney Journal, November 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith R Laws

  22. Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety in children and young people on the autism spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • BMC Psychology, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith R Laws

  23. Strange face illusions: A systematic review and quality analysis

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Keith R Laws

  24. Facing the “new normal”: How adjusting to the easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions exposes mental health inequalities

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  25. Development of the Paranormal and Supernatural Beliefs Scale using classical and modern test theory

    Article • BMC Psychology, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith R Laws

  26. Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  27. Gender, sexual orientation and body dissatisfaction: a meta-analysis covering four decades of research

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Keith R Laws

  28. Mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy and depression relapse—evaluating evidence through a meta‐analytic lens may indicate myopia

    Article • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Keith R Laws

  29. Letter to the editor on ‘cognitive behavior therapy for health anxiety: systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical efficacy and health economic outcomes’

    Article • Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  30. Do adjunctive art therapies reduce symptomatology in schizophrenia? A meta-analysis

    Article • World Journal of Psychiatry, December 2019, Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)

    Professor Keith R Laws

  31. Endophenotypes of executive functions in obsessive compulsive disorder? A meta-analysis in unaffected relatives

    Article • Psychiatric Genetics, December 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Keith R Laws

  32. Concepts of mental disorders in the United Kingdom: Similarities and differences between the lay public and psychiatrists

    Article • International Journal of Social Psychiatry, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Ben Butlin, Professor Keith R Laws

  33. The controversy about cognitive behavioural therapy for schizophrenia

    Article • World Psychiatry, May 2019, Wiley

    Professor Keith R Laws

  34. Sex differences in the association between childhood adversities and schizotypal personality traits

    Article • Psychiatry Research, November 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  35. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for schizophrenia - outcomes for functioning, distress and quality of life: a meta-analysis

    Article • BMC Psychology, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith R Laws

  36. Self-reported interoceptive deficits in eating disorders: A meta-analysis of studies using the eating disorder inventory

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, July 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  37. Cognitive dysfunction in body dysmorphic disorder: new implications for nosological systems and neurobiological models

    Article • CNS Spectrums, November 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Kiri Jefferies-Sewell, Professor Keith R Laws

  38. Psychology, replication & beyond

    Article • BMC Psychology, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith R Laws

  39. NICE guidance on psychological treatments for bipolar disorder: searching for the evidence

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  40. Commentary: Does Cognitive Behavior Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) show a sustainable effect on delusions? A meta-analysis

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Keith R Laws

  41. Results of the PACE follow-up study are uninterpretable

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  42. Sex differences in cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease

    Article • World Journal of Psychiatry, January 2016, Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)

    Professor Keith R Laws

  43. Selective reporting of results in guidelines

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, December 2015, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Keith R Laws

  44. Increased frequency of involuntary semantic memories or mind-pops in schizophrenia: a diary study

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  45. Authors' reply

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, September 2015, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Keith R Laws

  46. The use of ketamine as an antidepressant: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental, April 2015, Wiley

    Professor Keith R Laws

  47. Correcting Errors in Turkington et al. (2014)

    Article • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, April 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Keith R Laws

  48. The neuropsychology of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: a new analysis

    Article • CNS Spectrums, March 2015, Cambridge University Press

    naomi fineberg, Professor Keith R Laws

  49. Are psychological therapies effective in treating schizophrenia and psychosis?

    Article • Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Keith R Laws

  50. To admit or not to admit? The effect of framing on risk assessment decision making in psychiatrists

    Article • Journal of Mental Health, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  51. Cognitive therapy for patients with schizophrenia

    Article • The Lancet, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  52. Authors' reply

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, August 2014, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Keith R Laws

  53. Statistical Errors and Omissions in a Trial of Cognitive Behavior Techniques for Psychosis

    Article • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, July 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Keith R Laws

  54. Authors' reply

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, June 2014, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Keith R Laws

  55. Greater cognitive deterioration in women than men with Alzheimer's disease: A meta analysis

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  56. IsGinkgo bilobaa cognitive enhancer in healthy individuals? A meta-analysis

    Article • Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental, September 2012, Wiley

    Professor Keith R Laws

  57. Superior face recognition in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

    Article • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  58. From mind-pops to hallucinations? A study of involuntary semantic memories in schizophrenia

    Article • Psychiatry Research, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  59. A set of high quality colour images with Spanish norms for seven relevant psycholinguistic variables: The Nombela naming test

    Article • Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, May 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  60. Delusion-prone individuals: Stuck in their ways?

    Article • Psychiatry Research, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  61. Physical activity and mental health in a student population

    Article • Journal of Mental Health, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  62. False memory in schizophrenia patients with and without delusions

    Article • Psychiatry Research, July 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  63. ‘Normal’ semantic–phonemic fluency discrepancy in Alzheimer's disease? A meta-analytic study

    Article • Cortex, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  64. The neuropsychology of the schizo-obsessive subtype of schizophrenia: a new analysis

    Article • Psychological Medicine, October 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  65. Visual processing in Alzheimer's disease: Surface detail and colour fail to aid object identification

    Article • Neuropsychologia, October 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  66. Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: a non-specific neuropsychological deficit?

    Article • Psychological Medicine, September 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  67. The Hatfield Image Test (HIT): A new picture test and norms for experimental and clinical use

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  68. Cognitive behavioural therapy for major psychiatric disorder: does it really work? A meta-analytical review of well-controlled trials

    Article • Psychological Medicine, May 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  69. The impact of dementia, age and sex on category fluency: Greater deficits in women with Alzheimer's disease

    Article • Cortex, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  70. Awareness of everyday executive difficulties precede overt executive dysfunction in schizotypal subjects

    Article • Psychiatry Research, July 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  71. No category specificity in Alzheimer's disease: A normal aging effect.

    Article • Neuropsychology, July 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Keith R Laws

  72. Is executive impairment associated with schizophrenic syndromes? A meta-analysis

    Article • Psychological Medicine, June 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  73. Semantic priming in schizophrenia: Systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, February 2008, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Keith R Laws

  74. Attention and executive function in people with schizophrenia: Relationship with social skills and quality of life

    Article • International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  75. A predominance of category deficits for living things in Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia

    Article • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  76. An attenuation of the ‘normal’ category effect in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: A review and bootstrap analysis

    Article • Brain and Cognition, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  77. A meta-analytic review of category naming in Alzheimer's disease

    Article • Neuropsychologia, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  78. Ecstasy (MDMA) and memory function: a meta-analytic update

    Article • Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Keith R Laws

  79. Formal thought disorder is characterised by impaired lexical access

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, December 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  80. Domain‐specific deficits in schizophrenia

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  81. The impact of colour, spatial resolution, and presentation speed on category naming

    Article • Brain and Cognition, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  82. Category-specificity can emerge from bottom-up visual characteristics: Evidence from a modular neural network

    Article • Brain and Cognition, August 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  83. Cognitive function and social abilities in patients with schizophrenia: Relationship with atypical antipsychotics

    Article • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, August 2006, Wiley

    Professor Keith R Laws

  84. Crowded and sparse domains in object recognition: Consequences for categorization and naming

    Article • Brain and Cognition, March 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  85. Name relearning in elderly patients with schizophrenia: Episodic and temporary, not semantic and permanent

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  86. Testing for a deficit in single-case studies: Effects of departures from normality

    Article • Neuropsychologia, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  87. Category Deficits and Paradoxical Dissociations in Alzheimer's Disease and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, September 2005, The MIT Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  88. A Longitudinal Analysis of Memory in Patients with Schizophrenia

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, August 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  89. Storage and Access Procedures in Schizophrenia: Evidence for a Two Phase Model of Lexical Impairment

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, August 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  90. Executive inhibition and semantic association in schizophrenia

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, April 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  91. What happens to semantic memory when formal thought disorder remits? Revisiting a case study

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  92. Stability of set-shifting and planning abilities in patients with schizophrenia

    Article • Psychiatry Research, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  93. Hypofrontality in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of functional imaging studies

    Article • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, October 2004, Wiley

    Professor Keith R Laws

  94. An early marker for semantic memory impairment in patients with schizophrenia

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, May 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  95. Sex differences in lexical size across semantic categories

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  96. Intellectual Differences Between Schizophrenic Patients and Normal Controls Across the Adult Lifespan

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, December 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  97. Basic-level visual similarity and category specificity

    Article • Brain and Cognition, November 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  98. Visual object processing in schizophrenia: evidence for an associative agnosic deficit

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, February 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Keith R Laws

  99. A domain-specific deficit for foodstuffs in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    Article • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, November 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith R Laws

  100. LOSS OF STORED KNOWLEDGE OF OBJECT STRUCTURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR “CATEGORY-SPECIFIC” DEFICITS

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychology, June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws

  101. Reconsidering the Gospel According to Group Studies: A Neuropsychological Case Study Approach to Schizophrenia

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, November 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith R Laws