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Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D.

Co-Director, Ethics and Policy Core

Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
Overview Publications Professional Background

PUBLICATIONS

(Selected publications in chronological order)

 

Appelbaum, P.S., & Roth, L.H. (1982). Competency to consent to research: A psychiatric overview. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 39, 951-958.

 

Appelbaum, P.S., Roth, L.H., & Lidz, C. (1982). The therapeutic misconception: Informed consent in psychiatric research. Int J Law Psychiatry, 5, 319-329.

 

Appelbaum, P.S., & Roth, L.H. (1983). The structure of informed consent in psychiatric research. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 1(4), 9 19.

 

Appelbaum, P.S., Roth, L.H., Lidz, C.W., Benson, P., & Winslade, W. (1987). False hopes and best data: Consent to research and the therapeutic misconception. Hastings Center Report,17(2), 20-24, 1987; Letter and reply 17(6), 41-42.

 

Appelbaum, P.S., & Grisso, T. (1988). Assessing patients' capacities to consent to treatment. N Engl J Med, 319,1635-638.

 

Benson, P.R., Roth, L.H., Appelbaum, P.S., Lidz, C.W., & Winslade, W.J. (1988). Information disclosure, subject understanding, and informed consent in psychiatric research. Law & Human Behavior, 12, 455-475.

 

Lidz, C.W., Appelbaum, P.S., & Meisel, A (1988). Two models of implementing informed consent. Arch Intern Med, 148,1385-1389.

 

Appelbaum, P.S. (1995). Consent and coercion: Research with the involuntarily treated person with mental illness or substance abuse. Accountability in Research, 4, 69-79.

 

Appelbaum, P.S., & Grisso, T. (1995). The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study, I, II, & III: Mental illness and competence to consent to treatment. Law and Human Behavior, 19, 105-174.

 

Grisso, T., & Appelbaum, P.S. (1995). A comparison of standards for assessing patients' capacities to make treatment decisions. Am J Psychiatry, 152,1033-1037.

 

Berg, J.W., Appelbaum, P.S., & Grisso, T. (1996). Constructing competence: Formulating standards of legal competence to make medical decisions. Rutgers Law Review, 48, 345-396.

 

Appelbaum, P.S., & Grisso, T. (1997). Capacities of hospitalized, medically ill patients to consent to treatment. Psychosomatics, 38, 119-125.

 

Grisso, T., Appelbaum, P.S., & Hill-Fotouhi, C. (1997). The MacCAT-T: A clinical tool to assess patients' capacities to make treatment decisions. Psychiatric Services, 48,1415-1419.

 

Appelbaum, P.S., Grisso, T., Frank, E., O'Donnell, S., & Kupfer, D. (1999). Competence of depressed patients for consent to research. Am J Psychiatry, 156, 1380-1384.

 

Carpenter, W.T., Gold, J.M., Lahti, A.C., Queern, C.A., Conley, R.R., Bartko, J,J., Kovnick, J., & Appelbaum, P.S. (2000). Decisional capacity for informed consent in schizophrenia research. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 57, 533-538.

 

Moser, D.J., Schultz, S.K., Arndt, S., Benjamin, M.L., Fleming, F.W., Brems, C.S., Paulsen, J.S., Appelbaum, P.S., & Andreasen, N.C. (2002). Capacity for research informed consent in schizophrenia and HIV. Am J Psychiatry, 159,1201-1207.

 

Carpenter, W., Appelbaum, P.S., & Levine, R. (2003). The Declaration of Helsinki and clinical trials: Focus on placebo-controlled trials in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry, 160, 356-262.

 

Stroup, S., & Appelbaum, P. (2003). The subject advocate: An innovation for research participants with the potential for fluctuating decisionmaking capacity. IRB: Ethics and Human Research, 25 (3), 9-11.

 

Appelbaum, P.S., Lidz, C.W., & Grisso, T. (2004). Therapeutic misconception in clinical research: Frequency and risk factors. IRB: Ethics and Human Research, 26(2),1-8.

 

Kim, S.Y.H., Appelbaum, P.S., Jeste, D.V., & Olin, J. (2004). Proxy and surrogate consent in geriatric neuropsychiatric research: Update and recommendations. Am J Psychiatry, 161, 797-806.

 

Lapid, M.I., Rummans, T.A., Pankratz, V.S., & Appelbaum, P.S. (2004). Decisional capacity of depressed elderly to consent to electroconvulsive therapy. J Geriatric Psychiatry Neurol, 17, 42-46.

 

Lidz, C.W., Appelbaum, P.S., Grisso, T., & Renaud, M. (2004). Therapeutic misconception and the appreciation of risks in clinical trials. Soc Sci Med, 58,1689-1697.

 

Palmer, B.W., Dunn, L.B., Appelbaum, P.S., & Jeste, D.V. (2004). Correlates of treatment-related decision making capacity among middle-aged and older patients with schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 61, 230-236.

 

Appelbaum, P.S. (2006). Decisional capacity of patients with schizophrenia to consent to research: Taking stock. Schizophr Bull, 32, 22-25.

 

Appelbaum, P. S. (2008). Ethics and forensic psychiatry: Translating principles into practice. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 36, 195-200.

 


Appelbaum, P. S., & Le Melle, S. (in press). Techniques used by assertive community treatment (ACT) teams to encourage adherence: patient and staff perceptions. Community Mental Health Journal.

 

 

Appelbaum, P. S., Lidz, C. W., & Klitzman, R. (in press). Voluntariness of consent to research: A conceptual model. Hastings Center Report.

 

Candilis, P. J., Fletcher, K. E., Geppert, C. M. A., Lidz, C. W., & Appelbaum, P. S. (2008). A direct comparison of research decision-making capacity: Schizophrenia/schizoaffective, medically ill, and non-ill subjects. Schizophrenia Research, 99, 350-358.

 

 

Jeste, D. V., Palmer, B. W., Golshan, S., Eyler, L. T., Dunn, L. B., Meeks, T., Glorioso, D., Fellows, I., Kraemer, H., & Appelbaum, P. S. (in press). Multimedia consent for research in people with schizophrenia and normal subjects: A randomized controlled trial. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

 

 

 

Karlawish, J., Bonnie, R. J., Appelbaum, P. S., Kane, R., Lyketsos, C., Karlan, P., James, B., Sabatino, C., Lawrence, T., & Knopman, D. (2008). Identifying the barriers and challenges to voting by residents in nursing homes and assisted living settings. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 20, 65-79.

 

Kim, S. Y. H., Kim, H. M., Langa, K. M., Karlawish, J. H. T., Knopman, D. S., & Appelbaum, P. S. (in press). Surrogate consent for dementia research: a national survey of older Americans. Neurology.
• Klitzman, R., Albala, I., Siragusa, J., Patel, J., & Appelbaum, P. S. (2008). Disclosure of information to potential subjects on research recruitment websites. IRB: Ethics and Human Research, 30, 15-20.
• Klitzman, R., Appelbaum, P. S., & Chung, W. (2008). Anticipating issues related to increasing preimplantation genetic diagnosis use: A research agenda. Reproductive Biomedicine, 17, 33- 42.
• Klitzman, R., Siragusa, J., Albala, I., & Appelbaum, P. (2007). The reporting of compensation and risks on research articles. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2, 61-67.
• Klitzman, R., Zolovska, B., Folberth, W., Sauer, M. V., Chung, W., & Appelbaum, P. (in press). Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) websites: presentations of risks, benefits and other information. Fertility and Sterility.
• Lui, V. W. C., Lam, L. C. W., Luk, D. N. Y., Wong, L. H. L., Tam, C. W. C., Chiu, H. F. K., & Appelbaum, P. S. (in press). Capacity to make treatment decisions in Chinese older persons with very mild dementia and mild Alzheimer’s disease. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
• Schwartz, V., & Appelbaum, P. S. (2008). Monitoring the informed consent process: Improving the quality of informed consent to research. IRB: Ethics and Human Research., 30, 19-20.
• Szmuckler, G., & Appelbaum, P. S. (2008). Treatment pressures, leverage, coercion, and compulsion in mental health care. Journal of Mental Health (UK), 17, 233-244.
• Appelbaum, P., & Lidz, C. (2008). The therapeutic misconception. In E. J. Emanuel, C. Grady, R. A. Crouch, R. K. Lie, F. G. Miller & D. Wendler (Eds.), The Oxford textbook of clinical research ethics (pp. 633-644). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Appelbaum, P. S. (in press). Adolescent bereavement and Amelia Gutierrez: an ethical dilemma. In J. W. Barnhill (Ed.), Approach to the Psychiatric Patient: Case-Based Essays. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
• Appelbaum, P. S. (in press). MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool—Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR). In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.
• Hoge, S. K., & Appelbaum, P. S. (2008). Ethical, legal, and social implications of psychiatric genetics and genetic counseling. In M. T. Tsuang, J. W. Smoller & B. Rosen-Sheidley (Eds.), Psychiatric genetics: Applications in clinical practice (pp. 255-276). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.

 

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Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D.

Co-Director, Ethics and Policy Core

Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry

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