Michael Berk

Research interests

Publications

• Treatment‐resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions

  World Psychiatry · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21120

• The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2024: phenotypes around the world

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1005

• Major depressive disorder

  Nature Reviews Disease Primers · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-023-00454-1

• Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission

  The Lancet · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)02141-3

• Synthesizing the Evidence for Ketamine and Esketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: An International Expert Opinion on the Available Evidence and Implementation

  American Journal of Psychiatry · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20081251

• Ultraprocessed food and chronic noncommunicable diseases: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of 43 observational studies

  Obesity Reviews · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13146

• Diet and depression: exploring the biological mechanisms of action

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-00925-x

• Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments ( CANMAT ) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders ( ISBD ) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder

  Bipolar Disorders · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1111/bdi.12609

• Bipolar disorders

  Nature Reviews Disease Primers · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrdp.2018.8

• The new field of ‘precision psychiatry’

  BMC Medicine · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0849-x

• A randomised controlled trial of dietary improvement for adults with major depression (the ‘SMILES’ trial)

  BMC Medicine · 2017 · 10.1186/s12916-017-0791-y

• Gut Microbiota, Bacterial Translocation, and Interactions with Diet: Pathophysiological Links between Major Depressive Disorder and Non-Communicable Medical Comorbidities

  Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1159/000448957

• Guidelines for Developing and Reporting Machine Learning Predictive Models in Biomedical Research: A Multidisciplinary View

  Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2016 · 10.2196/jmir.5870

• Cause of Death and Predictors of All‐Cause Mortality in Anticoagulated Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: Data From ROCKET AF

  Journal of the American Heart Association · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1161/jaha.115.002197

• Bipolar disorder

  The Lancet · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(15)00241-x

• Relationship Between Diet and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

  American Journal of Public Health · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2014.302110

• The chemistry and biological activities of N-acetylcysteine

  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects · 2013 · 10.1016/j.bbagen.2013.04.016

• So depression is an inflammatory disease, but where does the inflammation come from?

  BMC Medicine · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-200

• The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Task Force Report on Antidepressant Use in Bipolar Disorders

  American Journal of Psychiatry · 2013 · 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13020185

• Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2013

  Bipolar Disorders · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1111/bdi.12025

• Depression and sickness behavior are Janus-faced responses to shared inflammatory pathways

  BMC Medicine · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-66

• Association of Western and Traditional Diets With Depression and Anxiety in Women

  American Journal of Psychiatry · 2010 · 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09060881

• A review on the oxidative and nitrosative stress (O&NS) pathways in major depression and their possible contribution to the (neuro)degenerative processes in that illness

  Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry · 2010 · 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2010.05.004

• Pathways underlying neuroprogression in bipolar disorder: Focus on inflammation, oxidative stress and neurotrophic factors

  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.10.001

• Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2009

  Bipolar Disorders · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-5618.2009.00672.x

• Oxidative stress in psychiatric disorders: evidence base and therapeutic implications

  The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2008 · 10.1017/s1461145707008401

• Intravascular ultrasound assessment of lumen size and wall morphology in normal subjects and patients with coronary artery disease.

  Circulation · 1991 · https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.84.3.1087

Current projects

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