| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in developing countries: prevalence, management, and risk factors | Lancet Neurology, The | 2008 | 960 |
| 2 | Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology | Nature Genetics | 2021 | 629 |
| 3 | Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals: results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group | Molecular Psychiatry | 2018 | 522 |
| 4 | Mental health systems in countries: where are we now? | Lancet, The | 2007 | 445 |
| 5 | International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci | Nature Communications | 2019 | 363 |
| 6 | Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 2019 | 345 |
| 7 | The factor structure for the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) in recent-onset psychosis | Schizophrenia Research | 2003 | 329 |
| 8 | The nature of relapse in schizophrenia | BMC Psychiatry | 2013 | 323 |
| 9 | Obsessive-compulsive disorder | Lancet, The | 2002 | 321 |
| 10 | Cumulative effect of multiple trauma on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression in adolescents | Comprehensive Psychiatry | 2009 | 311 |
| 11 | Ethnicity and Treatment Response in Schizophrenia | Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | 2002 | 305 |
| 12 | Maternal Separation in Rats Leads to Anxiety-Like Behavior and a Blunted ACTH Response and Altered Neurotransmitter Levels in Response to a Subsequent Stressor | Metabolic Brain Disease | 2004 | 274 |
| 13 | Voxel-Based Meta-Analytical Evidence of Structural Disconnectivity in Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder | Biological Psychiatry | 2016 | 267 |
| 14 | DSM–IV personality disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2009 | 260 |
| 15 | Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of Ethyl-Eicosapentaenoic Acid as Supplemental Treatment in Schizophrenia | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2002 | 257 |
| 16 | Partitioning the Heritability of Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Reveals Differences in Genetic Architecture | PLoS Genetics | 2013 | 241 |
| 17 | Psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support in youth | Comprehensive Psychiatry | 2008 | 227 |
| 18 | Efficacy, safety and early response of paliperidone extended-release tablets (paliperidone ER): Results of a 6-week, randomized, placebo-controlled study | Schizophrenia Research | 2007 | 224 |
| 19 | HIV | Lancet, The | 2018 | 219 |
| 20 | The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa: relation to psychiatric status and forgiveness among survivors of human rights abuses | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2001 | 217 |
| 21 | Rethinking the duration requirement for generalized anxiety disorder: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Psychological Medicine | 2005 | 213 |
| 22 | Incidence, correlates and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder in the pregnancy after stillbirth | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2001 | 206 |
| 23 | Neurobiology of the obsessive–compulsive spectrum disorders | Biological Psychiatry | 2000 | 198 |
| 24 | Approaching the Prevalence of the Full Spectrum of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in a South African Population‐Based Study | Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research | 2013 | 198 |
| 25 | Trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress symptoms in urban African schools | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2004 | 194 |
| 26 | Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2018 | 189 |
| 27 | Risperidone in the Treatment of First-Episode Psychotic Patients: A Double-Blind Multicenter Study | Schizophrenia Bulletin | 1999 | 184 |
| 28 | The role of global traditional and complementary systems of medicine in the treatment of mental health disorders | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2015 | 184 |
| 29 | Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder), skin picking disorder, and stereotypic movement disorder: toward DSM-V | Depression and Anxiety | 2010 | 181 |
| 30 | Quality of Life in Anxiety Disorders: A Comparison of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Panic Disorder | Psychopathology | 2003 | 179 |
| 31 | Community attitudes toward and knowledge of mental illness in South Africa | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | 2003 | 177 |
| 32 | Should OCD be classified as an anxiety disorder in DSM-V? | Depression and Anxiety | 2010 | 172 |
| 33 | Pathological gambling behaviour: Emergence secondary to treatment of Parkinson's disease with dopaminergic agents | Depression and Anxiety | 2000 | 170 |
| 34 | Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) protein levels in anxiety disorders: systematic review and meta-regression analysis | Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience | 2013 | 166 |
| 35 | Gender differences in the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and in the development of pediatric PTSD | Archives of Women's Mental Health | 2004 | 158 |
| 36 | A comparison of the effects of quetiapine (‘Seroquel’) and haloperidol in schizophrenic patients with a history of and a demonstrated, partial response to conventional antipsychotic treatment | International Clinical Psychopharmacology | 2000 | 154 |
| 37 | Persistence of psychiatric disorders in a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa: A 6-month follow-up study | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2006 | 150 |
| 38 | Social isolation rearing induces mitochondrial, immunological, neurochemical and behavioural deficits in rats, and is reversed by clozapine or N-acetyl cysteine | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2013 | 150 |
| 39 | The Microbiota, Immunoregulation, and Mental Health: Implications for Public Health | Current Environmental Health Reports | 2016 | 150 |
| 40 | Citalopram 20 mg, 40 mg and 60 mg are all effective and well tolerated compared with placebo in obsessive-compulsive disorder | International Clinical Psychopharmacology | 2001 | 147 |
| 41 | Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis | The Cochrane Library | 2020 | 145 |
| 42 | Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex | Brain Imaging and Behavior | 2017 | 144 |
| 43 | Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3–90 years | Human Brain Mapping | 2022 | 143 |
| 44 | Post-traumatic stress disorder among recently diagnosed patients with HIV/AIDS in South Africa | AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV | 2005 | 142 |
| 45 | Multiple traumatic events and psychological distress: The South Africa stress and health study | Journal of Traumatic Stress | 2007 | 138 |
| 46 | Meta-analysis of pharmacotherapy trials for obsessive-compulsive disorder | International Clinical Psychopharmacology | 1995 | 137 |
| 47 | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Women | CNS Drugs | 2005 | 136 |
| 48 | Problematic internet use as an age-related multifaceted problem: Evidence from a two-site survey | Addictive Behaviors | 2018 | 136 |
| 49 | Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders | JAMA Psychiatry | 2021 | 136 |
| 50 | Serotonin transporter gene promoter polymorphism predicts SSRI response in generalized social anxiety disorder | Psychopharmacology | 2006 | 134 |
