Gail Bernstein

About

Gail A Bernstein is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Her research activity includes contributions towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals related to good health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, and peace, justice, and strong institutions. Her work encompasses a broad range of topics within child and adolescent mental health, including anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, school refusal, and psychopathology. Bernstein has been involved in multiple research projects focusing on telehealth innovations to improve access to behavioral health support for geographically-dispersed and highly mobile children and youth, as well as studies exploring the impact of creative arts interventions on adolescents with depression. Her research outputs include numerous articles, reviews, and editorials, with a focus on neuropsychiatric disorders, symptom rating scales, and mental health interventions. She has also contributed to the development of behavioral analysis tools for neuropsychiatric conditions like Tourette Syndrome and has been actively engaged in advancing mental health treatment approaches for pediatric populations.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Psychiatry
• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Mathematics
• Geography
• Medicine
• Internal medicine

Selected publications

• Clinical Management of Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome: Part II—Use of Immunomodulatory Therapies

  Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology · 2017-07-19 · 128 citations

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  Introduction: Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) is a clinically heterogeneous disorder with a number of different etiologies and disease mechanisms. Inflammatory and postinfectious autoimmune presentations of PANS occur frequently, with some clinical series documenting immune abnormalities in 75%-80% of patients. Thus, comprehensive treatment protocols must include immunological interventions, but their use should be reserved only for PANS cases in which the symptoms represe…

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• Critical Decision Points for Augmenting Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents: A Pilot Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial

  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2018-10-26 · 46 citations

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• Sub-graph entropy based network approaches for classifying adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder from resting-state functional MRI

  NeuroImage Clinical · 2020 · 19 citations

  This paper presents a novel approach for classifying obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in adolescents from resting-state fMRI data. Currently, the state-of-the-art for diagnosing OCD in youth involves interviews with adolescent patients and their parents by an experienced clinician, symptom rating scales based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and behavioral observation. Discovering signal processing and network-based biomarkers from functional magnetic resonance…

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• A systematic review of treatments targeting cognitive biases in socially anxious adolescents

  Journal of Affective Disorders · 2019-12-03 · 10 citations

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• Use of Computer Vision Tools to Identify Behavioral Markers of Pediatric Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: A Pilot Study

  Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology · 2016-11-10 · 8 citations

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  OBJECTIVES: The clinical presentation of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is heterogeneous, which is a stumbling block to understanding pathophysiology and to developing new treatments. A major shift in psychiatry, embodied in the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative of National Institute of Mental Health, recognizes the pitfalls of categorizing mental illnesses using diagnostic criteria. Instead, RDoC encourages researchers to use a dimensional approach, focusing on narrower…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R21MH101395

  NIH · $418k · 2017

• NIH Grant R21MH065369

  NIH · $542k · 2007

• NIH Grant R29MH046534

  NIH · $484k · 1999

Frequent coauthors

• CARRIE M. BORCHARDT

  Bundeswehrkrankenhaus

  22 shared

• Andrea M. Victor

  16 shared

• Amy R. Perwien

  14 shared

• Kathryn R. Cullen

  University of Minnesota Medical Center

  13 shared

• Ann E. Layne

  University of Minnesota Medical Center

  12 shared

• Ross D. Crosby

  11 shared

• Paul Thuras

  University of Minnesota

  9 shared

• Matt G. Kushner

  Twin Cities Orthopedics

  8 shared

Labs

• Gail Bernstein LabPI

Awards & honors

• Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Award for Scientific Achievemen…
• AACAP Distinguished Fellow
• Clinical Excellence Recognition, M Physicians
• Meaningful Difference Award, Department of Psychiatry and Be…
• 2022's Top Doctors, Minnesota Monthly Magazine

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