Rogers Research Center
Rogers Behavioral Health is a private, nonprofit provider of behavioral health services. We are also nationally recognized for specialty psychiatry and addiction services. The Rogers Research Center builds on more than a century of experience in clinical practice.
With the overarching goal of advancing evidence-based practice and improving mental health outcomes through innovation and research, we’re striving to become the premier patient-centered mental health research organization in the world. To find gold-standard treatment for yourself, a loved one, or a patient, call 833.308.5887.
Rogers Research Center Annual Reports
Click the links below to read the research reports published by our team.
Rogers Behavioral Health Research Initiatives
Treatment Enhancement
Rogers is positioned to collaborate with leaders in the field to explore treatment enhancement with the addition of high-precision, non-invasive stimulation therapy provided by new and improved transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
Our research teams are exploring cognitive bias modification (CBM) applications in OCD and beyond. Other research foci include collaborative trialing of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) and the function and effects of sleep quality in recovery.
Predictive Analytics
Rogers’ growing data infrastructure uniquely positions us to use complex sets of variables to understand our patients at an individual level. Using the power of population-level datasets, we can derive impactful insights into mental health and addiction prediction and treatment strategies. Rogers has long had an interest in creating and employing algorithms to improve the delivery and efficacy of treatment and predict outcomes. Our internally developed suicide risk prediction algorithm helps us identify which patients are most at risk for suicide, allowing us to provide more targeted and effective care.
We continue to develop real-time models that refine clinical decision support and treatment response predictions. The Rogers Behavioral Health Research Center is currently exploring telehealth delivery and efficacy and looking to expand our scope of research.
Precision Medicine
Genetics research is an important path toward advanced diagnostics, risk prediction, personalized medicine, and treatment enhancement strategies. Rogers is creating a phenotype-enhanced behavioral health biobank. This dataset will be the first of its kind to include both genotype and phenotype via our item-level patient-reported outcomes data utilizing ROAS (Rogers Online Assessment System). Developed in 2012 specifically for Rogers, ROAS is utilized to assign, manage, and track self-reported clinical assessments.
Rogers’ Research Center Biobank will not only contribute critical data to advance research for the special populations it serves but also provide treatment teams with vital information about genetic and other molecular factors impacting treatment outcomes of individual patients.
Publications
Explore publications from the Rogers Research Center highlighting research designed to advance evidence-based behavioral healthcare and improve treatment outcomes. These peer-reviewed studies reflect the work of Rogers researchers and collaborators across a range of mental health and addiction topics.
| Title | Authors | Journal/Book | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinician perspectives on using exposure to treat "not just right" symptoms in obsessive-compulsive disorder | Schwartz RA, Hartig M, Franklin ME | Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy | 10/18/25 |
| Impact of a nurse-led in-hospital mobility intervention on older adult patient functional outcomes and perceptions | King B, Hook M, Brown R, Bodden-Hoenisch J, Wall EA, Brown CJ, Steege LM | Geriatric Nursing | 01/27/26 |
| Unveiling Food Avoidance Among Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Patterns and Pathways to Better Dietary Management | Wang Q, Zhou M, Li S, Zickgraf HF, Yang J, Lei Y, Lin Z | Journal of Nursing Management | 02/03/26 |
| Psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of the adult Nine Item ARFID screen (Persian – NIAS) | Biglari S, Zickgraf H, Feizi A, Heidari Z | Journal of Eating Disorders | 02/24/26 |
| Trauma-Related Compulsions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Functional Insights From Factor Analysis | Pinciotti CM, Thorsson M, Horvath G, Cervin M | Stress and Health | 03/06/26 |
| Mental health stigma in Latin American youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder | McCarty, R. J., Jensen, M., Cruz, E. P. J. S., Sagarnaga, M. N., Quiroz, P. C., Miño, T., Giusti-Rodriguez, P., Mallen, M. C. M., Moyano, M. B., Berrones, D., Anderberg, J. L., Frederick, R. M., Moore, H. C., Muñoz, J. S., Cruz, V. Z., Latin American Trans-ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO), Brazilian Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Working Group (GTTOC), Onyeka, O. C., Wiese, A. D., Crowley, J. J., … Storch, E. A. | Psychiatry Research | 03/22/26 |
| An Exploratory Study of an fMRI Reward-Learning Paradigm in Developing Adolescents | Yale S, Engelmann J, Loman M, Sanders DG, Maheshwari M, Mikhailov T | Children | 05/09/26 |
| Validation of a Short-Form Fear of Food Questionnaire in Patients With Functional Dyspepsia and Gastroparesis | Abber SR, Zickgraf H, Anand R, Singh E, Parkman HP, Burton-Murray H | Neurogastroenterology & Motility | 05/25/26 |
| Psychological Treatment for Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) and Avoidant Restrictive Feeding Intake Disorder (ARFID) | Lukens CT, Dempster RM, Eddy KT, Estrem H, Menzel JE, Noel RJ, Pederson JL, Ramirez AL, Romeo C, Sharp WG, Thomas JJ, Zucker NL, Zickgraf HF | International Journal of Eating Disorders | 05/24/26 |
| Prevalence and regional patterns of identity-related OCD across the United States: Findings from The National OCD Survey | Pinciotti CM, Foshee KL, Upshaw B, Spencer SD, Hershfield J, Park JM, Franklin ME, Storch EA | Psychiatry Research | 06/16/26 |
| Preferences for Justice-Based Exposure and Response Prevention Among Individuals With Identity-Related Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Pinciotti CM, Upshaw BM, Spencer SD, Park JM, Franklin ME, Wadsworth LP, Riemann BC, Goodman WK, & Storch EA | Behavior Therapy | 12/09/24 |
| Examining the Role of Homework Compliance in Acceptance-Enhanced Behavior Therapy for Trichotillomania | Barber KE, Woods DW, Twohig MP, Saunders SM, Compton SN, Franklin ME | Behavior Therapy | 01/16/25 |
| A Latent Class Analysis of Negative Emotional Eating in Bariatric Surgery Candidates | Dixit U, Love AA, Henderson RR, Ahlich EM, He j, Rigby A, Zickgraf HF | Appetite | 02/12/25 |
| Toward a Specific and Descriptive Definition of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Proposal for Updated Diagnostic Criteria. International Journal of Eating Disorders. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eat.24383 | Zickgraf HF, Cares SR, Schwartz RA, Breiner CE, Stettler NM | International Journal of Eating Disorders | 02/25/25 |
| Development and preliminary validation of the comprehensive emotional eating scale (CEES) | Hooper MA, Dixit U, Ahlich E, Zickgraf HF. | Appetite | 03/13/25 |
| A Rare Presentation of Hyperphagia and Parasomnias Associated With Chromosome 4q Deletion: A Case Report | Vaithilingam SL, Garrison SR, Mahajan A, Kranz JF, Diener JT | Case Reports in Psychiatry | 04/01/25 |
| Diagnostic Delays in Rare Genetic Disorders with Neuropsychiatric manifestations: A Systematic Review | Siegel IJ, Vaithilingam SL, Hartig MM, Patty EC, Mantsch LE, Garrison SR | European Journal of Medical Genetics | 04/17/25 |
| Screening for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Symptoms Among Autistic Adults: Measurement Invariance With a Comparison General Sample | Breiner CE, McQuaid GA, Wallace GL, Zickgraf HF | Autism Res. | 04/19/25 |
| Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Symptoms are Common and Impairing in Adults With Specific Phobia of Vomiting: An Exploratory Study in an Understudied Population. | Zickgraf HF, Murray HB, Rigby A. | Psychological Reports | 04/21/25 |
| P342: Utilization of pharmacogenomics in a child and adolescent autism spectrum disorder depression and anxiety program: A retrospective study | Garrison SR, Schweinert S, Vadapalli S, Schwartz R, Ramos A, Singh M, Hartig M | Genetics in Medicine Open | 03/17/25 |
| Treating disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Clinician perspectives in a survey study | Schwartz, R. A., Hartig, M., & Franklin, M. E. | Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders | 07/10/25 |
| Psychometric assessment of the pediatric quality of life enjoyment and satisfaction scale (PQLESQ) in a large sample of pediatric psychiatric patients: evidence of measurement invariance | Zickgraf HF, Engelmann JM, Garrison SR, Piacsek K, Schwartz RA, Franklin ME | Current Psychology | 07/16/25 |
| Characterizing emotional eating by valence, over-vs under-eating, and contextual factors: A latent profile analysis | Dixit U, Barnhart WR, Ahlich EM, Henderson RR, Love AA, He J, Zickgraf HF | Appetite | 07/16/25 |
| Bridging psychiatry and rare genetic diseases: a scoping review of therapeutic strategies and diagnostic delay paired with healthcare economic burden analysis | Garrison SR, Siegel IJ, Takala CR, Vaithilingam SL, Yang GW, Zoghbi AW, Hartig MM, Vadapalli S, Anderson ME | Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases | 08/01/25 |
| Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Farsi Version of the Nine-Item Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Screen (F-NIAS): Age, Sex, Weight, and Urbanization Group Differences in Disorder Risk Among Adolescents | Sahlan RN, Zickgraf H, D'Adamo, Saunders JF | Child Psychiatry & Human Development | 08/29/25 |
| Exploring longitudinal associations of appetitive traits with thinness-oriented eating disorder symptomatology in Chinese older adults | Xiao Y, Zickgraf HF, He J | Eating Disorders – The Journal of Treatment & Prevention | 08/28/25 |
| Benchmarking empirical severity for the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale – Second Edition | Pinciotti CM, Avery J, Zhang C, Muñoz JS, Berrones D, Cruz VZ, Wiese AD, Anderberg JL, Frederick RM, Miño T, Lanzagorta N, Restrepo JC, Ochoa-Panaifo ME, Latin American Trans-ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO), Brazilian Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Work Group (GTTOC), Goodman WK, Crowley JJ, Storch EA, & Cervin M | Journal of Affective Disorders | 12/01/25 |
| Trichotillomania and its treatment: an updated review and recommendations | DuBois MC, Feler BM, Flessner CA, Franklin ME | Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics | 09/10/25 |
| Transdiagnostic links of reward processing in obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression | Wagner, K. M., Cervin, M., Cheng, J. S. C., Arriaga, J., Cruz, V. Z., Berrones, D., Muñoz, J. S., Frederick, R. M., Anderberg, J. L., Núñez Bracho, B. E., Adorno, V. R., Fontenelle, L. F., Wiese, A. D., Latin American Trans-Ancestry Initiative for OCD genomics (LATINO), Brazilian Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorder Working Group (GTTOC), Crowley, J. J., & Storch, E. A. | Journal of Affective Disorders | 12/15/25 |
| 3.39 Impact of Diagnostic Delay on Treatable Rare Genetic Diseases With Associated Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: A Systematic Review | Garrison SR, Siegel IJ, Hartig MM, Vaithilingam SL | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 10/01/25 |
| Clinical Perspectives 90: Clinical Management of Multimodal Treatment in Pediatric OCD: Advantages and Challenges | Franklin ME | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 10/06/25 |
| Expanding the Scope of Open Weighing to Target Anxiety About the Consequences of Weight Gain in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders | Essayli JH, Hill KA, Zickgraf HF, Forrest LN, Levinson CA | International Journal of Eating Disorders | 10/16/25 |
| Predictive validity of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-4 and Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-II severity scale | Storch EA., McCarty RJ., Zehavi M., Ahmad M , Cruz, VZ., Berrones, D, Muñoz JS., Obando D, Rodriguez Barajas S, Frederick RM., Anderberg, JL., Moore, HC., Ochoa-Panaifo, ME., Martinez Mallen, MC., Onyeka, OC., Wiese, AD., Sagarnaga, MN., McGuire, JF., Ferrão, YA., Latin American Trans-Ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO), … Crowley JJ. | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 12/13/25 |
| Pharmacogenomic-Guided Prescribing and Polypharmacy Across Age Groups in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Retrospective Study | Garrison SR, Boyer MW, Zoghbi AW, Schwartz RA, Weisensel N, Franklin ME, Hartig MM, Singh M, Vadapalli S | BMC Psychiatry | 05/07/26 |
| P346: Undiagnosed rare genetic diseases when managing neuropsychiatric symptoms: A systematic review of case literature | Garrison SR, Siegel I, Vaithilingam S | Genetics in Medicine Open | 03/17/25 |
| CBT-AR Teletherapy for ARFID in a Gastroenterology Clinic Specializing in Celiac Disease: A Proof of Concept and Feasibility Case Series | Hooper MA, Zickgraf HF, Rbeiz KS, Perl J, Adams DW | Cognitive and Behavioral Practice | 08/12/25 |
| Current Status of the Identification, Differential Diagnosis, and Psychological Treatment of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder | Richson BN, Breiner CE, Zickgraf HF | Psychiatric Clinics of North America | 10/14/25 |
| Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders – Third Edition (Book) | Evans DL, Foa EB, Franklin ME, Gur RE, Kampman K, Moutier CY, Oquendo MA, Romer D, Rynn MA, Seligman MEP, Sysko R, Walsh T | Oxford University Press | 09/01/25 |
Our Areas of Strength
The Rogers Behavioral Health Research Center has built three areas of strength: research facilities, access to large-scale data, and an interdisciplinary research team.
Research Facilities
Rogers Behavioral Health Research Center is headquartered in the Ladish Co. Foundation Center on the Oconomowoc, WI, main campus. This area includes offices, labs, and shared space for an integrated and interdisciplinary research team.
Central departments include the Biobank, Neuroscience Lab, and Behavioral Lab:
Each department contributes to our efforts in predictive analytics and precision treatment.
Access to Large-Scale Data
Building on more than a century of experience in evidence-based clinical practice, Rogers Behavioral Health has been collecting data on patient outcomes using gold-standard self-assessments for more than 25 years. Rogers’s proprietary Online Assessment System (ROAS), the program used to assign, manage, and track self-report clinical assessments, is fully integrated into Rogers’s electronic medical record.
Currently, there are more than 1 billion discrete data points derived from 2.5 million patient assessments. Acquisition of this data continues electronically, as an average of 1,600 different patients are treated daily throughout the Rogers network of clinics and hospitals.
With the largest OCD and anxiety programs in the world, Rogers has a significant quantity of patient self-report and treatment outcomes data in these areas alone. Daily, Rogers treats more than 300 patients for OCD and anxiety.
Interdisciplinary Research Team
Rogers’ team of scientists and researchers has a broad range of experience spanning areas of neuroscience, data science, and psychology. In addition, our administrative and research support team brings decades of experience and wisdom from different areas of health care and research.
Ethics, Patient Safety, and Data Security
Rogers Research Center provides resources to investigators that foster the ethical conduct of research, ensure compliance with federal, state, sponsor, and agency requirements, and protect the safety and privacy of research participants.
Onboarding Researchers and Research Teams
All Rogers employees intending to conduct research must apply to become a Principal Investigator (PI) through the Research Center. Prior to conducting any research, the PI must attest to the Research Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) policy and disclose any potential conflicts of interest.
All research study team members must also disclose potential financial conflicts of interest and attest to the Research FCOI policy.
Human Subjects Research Protection—Institutional Review Board
The Rogers Institutional Review Board (Rogers IRB) ensures clinical research complies with the laws and policies designed to protect human research subjects and their identifiable data or medical records. Members of Rogers IRB are researchers, clinicians, other employees, and community representatives who have been trained to assess the safety and ethical standards of all research involving human subjects and their identifiable data.
Research Ethics and Integrity
Rogers Research Center maintains strict adherence to its Research Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) Policy.
Regulatory and feasibility reviews are conducted by Research Center staff prior to the submission of all funding proposals. The review assesses whether there are any issues relative to the FCOI policy; compliance with all appropriate Rogers policies, federal or state regulations, and sponsor/funder guidelines.
HIPAA compliance review and monitoring as appropriate within research is the responsibility of the IRB.
Financial compliance of all funded research is monitored by the Research Grant Specialist and the Grant Accountant, although the PI maintains overall responsibility and compliance for specific projects.
Research Safety
Rogers Research Center provides resources to investigators that foster the ethical conduct of research, ensure compliance with federal, state, sponsor, and agency requirements, and protect the safety and privacy of research participants.
Inclusivity in Research
No one is excluded from participating in research based on gender, age, ethnicity, race, or religion. Rogers takes pride in an inclusive healthcare environment that services patients from diverse backgrounds.
Patient and Family FAQs
No, research is always completely voluntary. A patient will never be required to participate as a condition of treatment or services.
Every research study conducted at any Rogers location is required to have a participant and confidentiality plan to protect a participant’s privacy. This plan is reviewed for completeness and effectiveness by an Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB is responsible for overseeing the maintenance of the privacy and security of those participating in research and their data.
Anyone may participate in a research study if study eligibility criteria are met.
Yes, there is often a need for community members to participate in research studies.
If you have an interest in finding out if you are eligible to serve as a study volunteer participant, please contact: research@rogersbh.org.
There is no cost to participate in a research study. Whenever possible, the person leading the study and their team members will seek to minimize the demand for participants’ time to participate in research. For some studies, additional time, visits, or transportation will be required.
Participants may leave a study at any time they wish. The person leading the study and their team members will work with the participant and, if applicable, with their care team to decide the best timing and manner of discontinuing their participation.
In order to improve our understanding of behavioral health issues and ways to improve treatment and outcomes in the field, as well as for our own patients, our goal is to publish and present the results of our research. We engage in robust, clinically relevant, high-quality research that is published in high-impact, peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented at nationally recognized professional conferences. Communication of research results never reveals information that identifies individual participants. All research participants, families, and community members are welcome to access the results published on our website.
Yes, Research Center staff work closely with Rogers Behavioral Health Foundation to help coordinate individual donations designated for research at Rogers. Visit the Donate page or contact Rogers Behavioral Health Foundation for more information.
For Partners and Collaborators
Rogers Research Center welcomes the opportunity to connect our scientists and researchers with industry partners for innovative collaborations. The Research Center has a team of engaged scientists focused on innovative approaches to behavioral health, and a dedicated staff supports our partners to streamline the negotiation process, identify additional partnership opportunities, and ensure a successful collaboration.
Partnerships
For Rogers colleagues interested in exploring potential internal collaborations, our research team is excited to work with you—meet our team to find out our specific areas of interest and research.
For external partners or those interested in exploring external partnerships with industry, academic, or other community-based organizations, please contact us at research@rogersbh.org. We can provide support in negotiating contracts, memoranda of understanding, and agreements, including data sharing.
Research Funding
Research funding generally comes from:
Multidisciplinary Collaborators
The Research Center is interested in exploring collaborative research ideas with researchers from other organizations and across academic disciplines. We continue to partner with community-based organizations to catalyze projects that have the potential to improve the lives of behavioral health patients.
For those interested in exploring these possibilities, please email research@rogersbh.org.
Extramural Recruiters of Rogers Patients
Rogers Behavioral Health works with external organizations that are interested in recruiting Rogers’ patients to participate in their research studies. Please email research@rogersbh.org to discuss your request.
Find Out More from Rogers Behavioral Health
We are constantly striving to improve outcomes through research and collaboration with leaders in the field. If you are interested in working with us or learning more about our research initiatives, please call us at 833.308.5887. Let’s work together to advance evidence-based practices and improve mental health outcomes for all.
