Keith Laws
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Keith R. Laws is a professor of neuropsychology at the School of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. Professor Laws' research centres on how cognitive functions and processes relate to brain structure and function; notably for research on cognitive functioning in people suffering from neurological and psychiatric disorders. Laws, with his colleagues, created one of the first research groups to investigate impairment of everyday knowledge in patients with schizophrenia and to demonstrate worse cognitive outcomes in women suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Laws' work on the link between MDMA drug use and poor memory is the principal analysis of its kind to date, and has been broadly cited in both national and international media. In 2013 he published a study showing that women are better at multitasking than men. Laws completed a PhD at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is the author of over 100 papers and a recent book entitled 'Category-Specificity: Evidence for Modularity of Mind'. He is a Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society , Fellow of the Higher Education Academy , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and various academic organisations including the British Neuropsychological Society, British Neuropsychiatric Association, Experimental Psychology Society. and an editor at PLOS ONE.
Keith Laws's Published Works
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Published Works
- Cognitive-behavioural therapy for the symptoms of schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis with examination of potential bias. (2014) (425)
- Hypofrontality in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis of functional imaging studies (2004) (343)
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for major psychiatric disorder: does it really work? A meta-analytical review of well-controlled trials (2009) (306)
- The use of ketamine as an antidepressant: a systematic review and meta‐analysis (2015) (210)
- Greater cognitive deterioration in women than men with Alzheimer's disease: A meta analysis (2012) (207)
- Sex differences in cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease. (2016) (187)
- A meta-analytic review of Wisconsin Card Sort studies in schizophrenia: general intellectual deficit in disguise? (1999) (158)
- Sex differences in Alzheimer's disease (2018) (155)
- Semantic priming in schizophrenia: Systematic review and meta-analysis (2008) (138)
- Physical activity and mental health in a student population (2010) (121)
- Is executive impairment associated with schizophrenic syndromes? A meta-analysis (2008) (117)
- A ‘normal’ category-specific advantage for naming living things (1999) (114)
- Are women better than men at multi-tasking? (2013) (103)
- Testing for a deficit in single-case studies: Effects of departures from normality (2006) (100)
- Self-reported interoceptive deficits in eating disorders: A meta-analysis of studies using the eating disorder inventory. (2018) (87)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for schizophrenia - outcomes for functioning, distress and quality of life: a meta-analysis (2018) (86)
- The neuropsychology of the schizo-obsessive subtype of schizophrenia: a new analysis (2009) (83)
- “Illusions of Normality”: a Methodological Critique of Category-Specific Naming (2005) (82)
- ‘Normal’ semantic–phonemic fluency discrepancy in Alzheimer's disease? A meta-analytic study (2010) (81)
- Gender Affects Naming Latencies for Living and Nonliving Things: Implications for Familiarity (1999) (80)
- Stability of set-shifting and planning abilities in patients with schizophrenia (2004) (79)
- The neuropsychology of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: a new analysis (2015) (73)
- Object Recognition without Knowledge of Object Orientation (1995) (72)
- Category-Specific Naming Errors in Normal Subjects: The Influence of Evolution and Experience (2000) (70)
- Ecstasy (MDMA) and memory function: a meta‐analytic update (2007) (68)
- When is Category Specific in Alzheimer's Disease? (2005) (67)
- A meta-analytic review of category naming in Alzheimer's disease (2007) (64)
- Naming without knowing and appearance without associations: evidence for constructive processes in semantic memory? (1995) (60)
- False memory in schizophrenia patients with and without delusions (2010) (56)
- Category-Specific Naming and the ‘Visual’ Characteristics of Line Drawn Stimuli (2002) (56)
- Sex differences in lexical size across semantic categories (2004) (55)
- The impact of dementia, age and sex on category fluency: Greater deficits in women with Alzheimer's disease (2008) (53)
- The Hatfield Image Test (HIT): A new picture test and norms for experimental and clinical use (2009) (53)
- Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: a non-specific neuropsychological deficit? (2009) (51)
- False memories and delusional ideation in normal healthy subjects (2005) (51)
- 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. (2021) (51)
- Visual object processing in schizophrenia: evidence for an associative agnosic deficit (2003) (51)
- Probing sensory and associative semantics for animals and objects in normal subjects. (1995) (47)
- The impact of colour, spatial resolution, and presentation speed on category naming (2006) (46)
- Visual processing in Alzheimer's disease: Surface detail and colour fail to aid object identification (2009) (44)
- Awareness of everyday executive difficulties precede overt executive dysfunction in schizotypal subjects (2008) (43)
- LOSS OF STORED KNOWLEDGE OF OBJECT STRUCTURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR “CATEGORY-SPECIFIC” DEFICITS (2000) (43)
- Lexical knowledge degradation in schizophrenia (2000) (41)
- Superior face recognition in Body Dysmorphic Disorder (2012) (41)
- Is Ginkgo biloba a cognitive enhancer in healthy individuals? A meta‐analysis (2012) (40)
- Executive inhibition and semantic association in schizophrenia (2005) (36)
- On the distinction between access and store disorders in schizophrenia: a question of deficit severity? (1998) (36)
- NICE guidance on psychological treatments for bipolar disorder: searching for the evidence. (2016) (35)
- Negativland - a home for all findings in psychology (2013) (35)
- Psychology, replication & beyond (2016) (33)
- The Effect of ‘Masking’ on Picture Naming (2002) (33)
- A Receptive Language Deficit in Schizophrenic Thought Disorder: Evidence for Impaired Semantic Access and Monitoring (1999) (32)
- Visual Similarity is Greater for Line Drawings of Nonliving Than Living Things: The Importance of Musical Instruments and Body Parts (2002) (32)
- Cognitive function and social abilities in patients with schizophrenia: Relationship with atypical antipsychotics (2006) (31)
- Attention and executive function in people with schizophrenia: Relationship with social skills and quality of life (2008) (28)
- Category Deficits and Paradoxical Dissociations in Alzheimer's Disease and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis (2005) (27)
- A Longitudinal Analysis of Memory in Patients with Schizophrenia (2005) (26)
- From mind-pops to hallucinations? A study of involuntary semantic memories in schizophrenia (2012) (25)
- A set of high quality colour images with Spanish norms for seven relevant psycholinguistic variables: The Nombela naming test (2011) (22)
- An early marker for semantic memory impairment in patients with schizophrenia (2004) (21)
- An attenuation of the ‘normal’ category effect in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: A review and bootstrap analysis (2007) (21)
- The naming profile in Alzheimer patients parallels that of elderly controls (2009) (21)
- Category-Specific Naming and Modality-Specific Imagery (2002) (20)
- Formal thought disorder is characterised by impaired lexical access (2006) (20)
- CBT for schizophrenia: a critical viewpoint (2019) (20)
- Cognitive dysfunction in body dysmorphic disorder: new implications for nosological systems and neurobiological models (2016) (19)
- Crowded and sparse domains in object recognition: Consequences for categorization and naming (2006) (18)
- Intellectual Differences Between Schizophrenic Patients and Normal Controls Across the Adult Lifespan (2003) (17)
- A predominance of category deficits for living things in Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia (2007) (17)
- Inflated and contradictory category naming deficits in Alzheimer’s disease? (2003) (16)
- No category specificity in Alzheimer's disease: a normal aging effect. (2008) (16)
- What happens to semantic memory when formal thought disorder remits? Revisiting a case study (2005) (14)
- The influence of surface and edge-based visual similarity on object recognition (2003) (14)
- Delusions about people (1995) (14)
- To admit or not to admit? The effect of framing on risk assessment decision making in psychiatrists (2015) (14)
- The controversy about cognitive behavioural therapy for schizophrenia (2019) (13)
- Reconsidering the gospel according to group studies: a neuropsychological case study approach to schizophrenia. (1996) (12)
- WHY LEOPARDS NEVER CHANGE THEIR SPOTS: A REPLY TO MOSS, TYLER, AND JENNINGS. (1998) (11)
- Delusion-prone individuals: Stuck in their ways? (2011) (10)
- Domain‐specific deficits in schizophrenia (2006) (10)
- Sex differences in the association between childhood adversities and schizotypal personality traits (2018) (10)
- Category-specificity can emerge from bottom-up visual characteristics: Evidence from a modular neural network (2006) (9)
- Psychosocial treatments in bipolar disorder. (2016) (9)
- Endophenotypes of executive functions in obsessive compulsive disorder? A meta-analysis in unaffected relatives. (2019) (9)
- Psychotic symptoms and cognitive deficits: What relationship? (1997) (9)
- Storage and Access Procedures in Schizophrenia: Evidence for a Two Phase Model of Lexical Impairment (2005) (9)
- What is structural similarity and is it greater in living things? (2001) (8)
- A critique of narrative reviews of the evidence-base for ECT in depression (2022) (8)
- Cognitive therapy for patients with schizophrenia (2014) (8)
- Facing the “new normal”: How adjusting to the easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions exposes mental health inequalities (2021) (8)
- P.1.g.003 Cognitive and perceptual processing in body dysmorphic disorder (2010) (8)
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety in children and young people on the autism spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021) (8)
- Name relearning in elderly patients with schizophrenia: Episodic and temporary, not semantic and permanent (2006) (7)
- Formal Thought Disorder: Self-report in Non-clinical Populations (2015) (7)
- Do adjunctive art therapies reduce symptomatology in schizophrenia? A meta-analysis. (2019) (7)
- The Neurocognitive and Behavioural Impact of Comorbid Obsessive–Compulsive Syndrome in Schizophrenia (2015) (7)
- Methodological Biases in CBT Trial—Commentary: Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Affective Symptoms in Young Individuals at Ultra-High Risk of First Episode of Psychosis: Randomized Controlled Trial (2020) (7)
- Why are our Similarities so Different? A Reply to Humphreys and Riddoch (2002) (6)
- Increased frequency of involuntary semantic memories or mind-pops in schizophrenia: a diary study (2015) (6)
- Letter to the editor on ‘cognitive behavior therapy for health anxiety: systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical efficacy and health economic outcomes’ (2020) (6)
- The use of social robots with children and young people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022) (6)
- Basic-level visual similarity and category specificity (2003) (5)
- When is category specific in dementia of Alzheimer's type ? (2007) (5)
- Variability in cognitive deterioration in schizophrenia (1998) (5)
- Results of the PACE follow-up study are uninterpretable. (2016) (5)
- A domain-specific deficit for foodstuffs in patients with Alzheimer's disease (2002) (5)
- Commentary: Does Cognitive Behavior Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) show a sustainable effect on delusions? A meta-analysis (2016) (5)
- Memory in functional psychosis (2000) (5)
- Category-Specificity: Evidence for Modularity of Mind (2011) (4)
- Statistical errors and omissions in a trial of cognitive behavior techniques for psychosis: commentary on Turkington et al. (2014) (3)
- Are psychological therapies effective in treating schizophrenia and psychosis? (2015) (3)
- Concepts of mental disorders in the United Kingdom: Similarities and differences between the lay public and psychiatrists (2019) (3)
- Childhood trauma and schizotypy in non-clinical samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022) (3)
- Meta-analysis of cognitive behaviour therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the treatment of hypochondriasis: Implications for trial design. (2022) (3)
- Distress signals: Does cognitive behavioural therapy reduce or increase distress in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis? (2017) (3)
- Visual Form Perception in Schizophrenia: Further Evidence for a Disorder of Semantic Memory (1996) (3)
- Development of the Paranormal and Supernatural Beliefs Scale using classical and modern test theory (2021) (2)
- Individual obsessive-compulsive traits are associated with poorer adjustment to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions (2022) (2)
- Mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy and depression relapse—evaluating evidence through a meta‐analytic lens may indicate myopia (2021) (2)
- The longitudinal neurodegenerative impact of Alzheimer's disease on picture naming (2008) (2)
- Self-organising map representations of greyscale images reflect human similarity judgements (2004) (2)
- Are women better than men at multi-tasking? (2013) (2)
- Paranormal beliefs and cognitive function: A systematic review and assessment of study quality across four decades of research (2022) (2)
- Correcting errors in Turkington et al. (2014): taking criticism seriously. (2015) (2)
- Two decades of mindfulness-based interventions for binge eating: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2021) (2)
- EXPLORING COMORBID OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER AND ALCOHOL USE DISORDER USING NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TOOLS: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS (2016) (2)
- Evidence for an associative visual agnosia in schizophrenia (2002) (2)
- Category-specific semantics in Alzheimer's dementia and normal aging? (2011) (2)
- Prevalence and outcomes of chronic liver disease in patients receiving dialysis: systematic review and meta-analysis (2021) (2)
- Severe anomia in elderly schizophrenics: Does retraining improve naming ? (2002) (2)
- Negativland - a home for all findings in psychology (2013) (1)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: does CBT with exposure and response (ERP) prevention work? (2021) (1)
- 274 Visual object perception in schizophrenia: Further evidence for a selective impairment in semantic memory (1997) (1)
- Categories, Controls and Ceilings (2005) (1)
- Hypofrontality in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of resting and activation studies (2002) (1)
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical implications. (2022) (1)
- The role of executive function for intention formation in schizophrenia (1998) (1)
- Knowledge degradation in elderly schizophrenics (2000) (1)
- Incentive improves recall but not recognition memory performance in schizophrenia (1998) (1)
- Authors' reply (2014) (1)
- Why cognitive behavioural therapy should stop being offered to people with schizophrenia (2018) (1)
- Citation analysis reveals disproportionate emphasis on positive claims in study abstracts (2014) (1)
- Semantic memory associated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia (2012) (0)
- Investigating adjustment to the easing of pandemic (COVID-19) restrictions (2020) (0)
- Relapse prevention in schizophrenia. (2022) (0)
- The Inflating Impact of Waiting-List Controls on Effect Size Estimates (2022) (0)
- Authors' reply (2015) (0)
- 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):193-200 (1). (2022) (0)
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- Suppressing 'unwanted' thoughts enhances preoccupation with bodily symptoms in patients with schizophrenia (2002) (0)
- Superior face recognition in Body Dysmorphic Disorder Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (2015) (0)
- Frontal lobe volume in schizophrenia: A meta-analysis of magnetic resonance imaging studies (2000) (0)
- CATEGORIES, CONTROLS AND CEILINGS LAWS REPLY (2005) (0)
- Psychology, replication & beyond (2016) (0)
- examination of potential bias schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis with Cognitive-behavioural therapy for the symptoms of (2014) (0)
- Strange face illusions: A systematic review and quality analysis (2021) (0)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for schizophrenia - outcomes for functioning, distress and quality of life: a meta-analysis (2018) (0)
- Do women with Alzheimer's disease demonstrate greater cognitive deterioration? (2012) (0)
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of pre-operative interventions to support the maturation of arteriovenous fistulae in patients with advanced kidney disease. (2023) (0)
- Access and store memory disorders in schizophrenia reflect deficit severity (1998) (0)
- Risk of harm after psychological intervention (2008) (0)
- The relation of thought control strategies and thought suppression (2002) (0)
- P.1.g.008 Superior face recognition in body dysmorphic disorder (2011) (0)
- Gender, sexual orientation and body dissatisfaction: a meta-analysis covering four decades of research (2021) (0)
- Domain-specific Deficits in Schizophrenia Part I: Group Study Participants Analysis of Category Naming for Individual Cases Q4 Q5 8 (0)
- Meta-analysis fails to reveal evidence of activation hypofrontality in schizophrenia (2003) (0)
- Meta-analysis of semantic priming in schizophrenia (2003) (0)
- Semantic priming in schizophrenia: Semantic priming in schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis systematic review and meta-analysis (2008) (0)
- [A theoretical review of category-specific impairment, its entity and the methodological problems associated with its study]. (2007) (0)
- Semantic memory and symptomatology in schizophrenia : A review (2012) (0)
- Development of the Paranormal and Supernatural Beliefs Scale using classical and modern test theory (2021) (0)
- ECT is evidence-based – a commentary on depression: why drugs and electricity are not the answer (2022) (0)
- Did we really say that (2017) (0)
- Authors' reply (2014) (0)
- Executive functioning questionnaires : A critical review of factor analytic studies (2013) (0)
- Semantic memory in schizophrenia and alzheimer's disease: Evidence of category specificity? (2000) (0)
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety in children and young people on the autism spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021) (0)
- NICE; at risk of bias? (2017) (0)
- Schizophrenic Amnesia (2019) (0)
- Access and store characteristics of semantic memory deficits across illness duration in schizophrenia (2003) (0)
- Effects of exercise on obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2022) (0)
- F7. SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SELF-REPORTS OF CHILDHOOD ADVERSITIES AND SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY TRAITS (2018) (0)
- Nature of semantic memory deficit in schizophrenia (2000) (0)
- Category specific naming the visual properties of line drawn stimuli (2002) (0)
- Suppressing unwanted thoughts in schizophrenia: Its relation to thought control strategies and schizotypal traits (2003) (0)
- S003329172200085Xjxx 1416..1418 (2022) (0)
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