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Brent M. Kious
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Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD

Languages spoken: Spanish, English

Clinical Locations

Huntsman Mental Health Institute

Salt Lake City
801-583-2500
  • Brent Kious, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, practices inpatient adult psychiatry at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illness. His research focuses on ethical issues in psychiatry, new treatments for major depressive disorder, and suicide prevention programs.

    Board Certification

    American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)
  • Brent Kious, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, practices inpatient adult psychiatry at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illness. His research focuses on ethical issues in psychiatry, new treatments for major depressive disorder, and suicide prevention programs.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Psychiatry -Primary
    Internal Medicine -Adjunct
    Academic Divisions Adult Psychiatry
    General Medicine
    Board Certification
    American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)

    Education history

    Chief Resident Psychiatry - University of Utah Chief Resident
    Residency Psychiatry - University of Utah Resident
    Doctoral Training Philosophy - University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D.
    Professional Medical Medicine - University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine M.D.
    Undergraduate Biology/Science, Ethics and Society - California Institute of Technology B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Tharp D, Kious BM, Bakian A, Brewer S, Langenecker S, Schreiner M, Shabalin A, Coon H, Welsh RC, Medina RM (2024). Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth. Soc Sci Med, 361, 117369. ()
    2. Kious BM, Vick JB, Ubel PA, Sutton O, Blumenthal-Barby J, Cox CE, Ashana D (2024). Talking About Suffering in the Intensive Care Unit. AJOB Empir Bioeth, 1-8. ()
    3. Kious BM (2024). Disability, Offense, and the Expressivist Objection to Medical Aid in Dying. J Med Philos. ()
    4. Provenza NR, Reddy S, Allam AK, Rajesh SV, Diab N, Reyes G, Caston RM, Katlowitz KA, Gandhi AD, Bechtold RA, Dang HQ, Najera RA, Giridharan N, Kabotyanski KE, Momin F, Hasen M, Banks GP, Mickey BJ, Kious BM, Shofty B, Hayden BY, Herron JA, Storch EA, Patel AB, Goodman WK, Sheth SA (2024). Disruption of neural periodicity predicts clinical response after deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nat Med. ()
    5. Marks, M, Kious, B, Shachar, C, Cohen, IG (2023). Introducing psychedelics to end-of-life mental healthcare. Nat Ment Health.
    6. Kious BM (2023). Hard Choices: How Does Injustice Affect the Ethics of Medical Aid in Dying? Camb Q Healthc Ethics, 1-12. ()
    7. Opel DJ, Kious BM, Cohen IG (2023). AI as a Mental Health Therapist for Adolescents. JAMA Pediatr. ()
    8. Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). What does epistemic injustice add? A response to Grim and Aftab'. Psychol Med, 53(12), 5879-5881. ()
    9. Kious BM, Nelson RH (2023). Does It Matter Whether a Psychiatric Intervention Is "Palliative"? AMA J Ethics, 25(9), E655-660. ()
    10. Grespan MM, Broadbent M, Zhang X, Axford K, Kious BM, Imel Z, Srikumar V (2023). Logic-driven indirect supervision: An application to crisis counseling. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1, 11704-11722.
    11. Dorfman NJ, Blumenthal-Barby J, Ubel PA, Moore B, Nelson R, Kious BM (2023). What do psychiatrists think about caring for patients who have extremely treatment-refractory illness? AJOB Neurosci, 1-8. ()
    12. Kious BM, Pabst Peggy Battin M (2023). A focus group study of the views of persons with a history of psychiatric illness about psychiatric medical aid in dying. AJOB Empir Bioeth, 1-10. ()
    13. Kious B (2023). Rationality, Irrationality, and Depathologizing OCD. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 30(2), 151-153. ()
    14. Broadbent M, Medina Grespan M, Axford K, Zhang X, Srikumar V, Kious BM, Imel Z (2023). A machine learning approach to identifying suicide risk among text-based crisis counseling encounters. Front Psychiatry, 14, 1110527. ()
    15. Kious BM (2023). Suffering and the dilemmas of pediatric care: a response to Tyler Tate. Theor Med Bioeth. ()
    16. Karnaze MM, Kious BM, Feuerman LZ, Classen S, Robinson JO, Bloss CS, McGuire AL (2023). Public mental health during and after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Opportunities for intervention via emotional self-efficacy and resilience. Front Psychol, 14, 1016337. ()
    17. Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). Epistemic injustice and the psychiatrist. Psychol Med, 1-5. ()
    18. Dorfman NJ, Blumenthal-Barby J, Ubel PA, Moore B, Nelson R, Kious BM (2023). What Do Psychiatrists Think About Caring for Patients Who Have Extremely Treatment-Refractory Illness? AJOB Neurosci. ()
    19. Kious BM, Pabst Peggy Battin M (2023). A Focus Group Study of the Views of Persons with a History of Psychiatric Illness about Psychiatric Medical Aid in Dying. AJOB Empir Bioeth. ()
    20. Broadbent M, Medina Grespan M, Axford K, Zhang X, Srikumar V, Kious B, Imel Z (2023). A machine learning approach to identifying suicide risk among text-based crisis counseling encounters. Front Psychiatry, 14. ()
    21. Kious B, Schwartz Z, Lewis B (2022). Should we be leery of being Leary? Concerns about psychedelic use by psychedelic researchers. J Psychopharmacol, 37(1), 45-48. ()
    22. Kious BM, Hesse T, Baese PL (2022). Moral distress and involuntary COVID-19 vaccination of a mature minor receiving inpatient psychiatric treatment. J Clin Ethics, 33(3), 236-239. ()
    23. Kious B (2022). Burdening others. Hastings Cent Rep, 52(5), 15-23. ()
    24. Kious BM (2022). Three kinds of suffering and their relative moral significance. Bioethics, 36(6), 621-627. ()
    25. Kious BM, Battin MP (2022). Suffering and the completed life. Am J Bioeth, 22(2), 62-64. ()
    26. Docherty A, Kious B, Brown T, Francis L, Stark L, Keeshin B, Botkin J, DiBlasi E, Gray D, Coon H (2021). Ethical concerns relating to genetic risk scores for suicide. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 186(8), 433-444. ()
    27. Kious BM (2021). Evidence for doubting the evidence? Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 28(2), 129-131. ()
    28. Battin MPKious BM (2021). Ending one's life in advance. Hastings Cent Rep, 51(3), 37-47. ()
    29. Durns TA, OConnell PH, Shvartsur A, Grey JS, Kious BM (2021). Effects of temporary psychiatric holds on length of stay and readmission risk among persons admitted for psychotic disorders. Int J Law Psychiatry, 76, 101695. ()
    30. Kious BM, Docherty AR, Botkin JR, Brown TR, Francis LP, Gray DD, Keeshin BR, Stark LA, Witte B, Coon H (2020). Ethical and public health implications of genetic testing for suicide risk: family and survivor perspectives. Genet Med, 23(2), 289-297. ()
    31. OConnell PH, Durns T, Kious BM (2020). Risk of suicide after discharge from inpatient psychiatric care: a systematic review. Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract, 25, 1-11. ()
    32. Kious BM, Bakian AV (2020). Evidence of new-onset depression among persons with migraine after discontinuing antidepressants. Psychiatry Res, 288, 112990. ()
    33. Grey JS, Durns T, Kious BM (2020). Pseudologia fantastica: An elaborate tale of combat-related PTSD. J Psychiatr Pract, 26(3), 241-245. ()
    34. Kious BM, Dobias L, OConnell PH (2019). Effect of delays in civil commitment hearings on outcomes among psychiatric inpatients. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 47(4), 467-475. ()
    35. Kious BM, Battin MP (2019). Physician aid-in-dying and suicide prevention in psychiatry: A moral crisis? Am J Bioeth, 19(10), 29-39. ()
    36. Kious BM, Kondo DG, Renshaw PF (2019). Creatine for the treatment of depression. Biomolecules, 9(9). ()
    37. Sabic H, Kious B, Boxer D, Fitzgerald C, Riley C, Scholl L, McGlade E, Yurgelun-Todd D, Renshaw PF, Kondo DG (2019). Effect of altitude on veteran suicide rates. High Alt Med Biol, 20(2), 171-177. ()
    38. Shvartsur A, Kious BM (2019). Delirium and dysarthria after titration of clozapine. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord, 21(3). ()
    39. Kious BM, Bakian A, Zhao J, Mickey B, Guille C, Renshaw P, Sen S (2019). Altitude and risk of depression and anxiety: findings from the intern health study. Int Rev Psychiatry, 31(7-8), 637-645. ()
    40. Kious BM (2018). Boorse's theory of disease: (Why) Do values matter? J Med Philos, 43(4), 421-438. ()
    41. Kious BM, Kondo DG, Renshaw PF (2018). Living high and feeling low: Altitude, suicide, and depression. Harv Rev Psychiatry, 26(2), 43-56. ()
    42. Kious BM (2016). Respect for autonomy: deciding what is good for oneself. J Med Ethics, 42(12), 769-775. ()
    43. Kious BM (2015). Autonomy, judgment, and theories of the good. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 22(1), 21-24. ()
    44. Kious BM (2015). Autonomy and values: Why the conventional theory of autonomy is not value-neutral. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 22(1), 1-12. ()
    45. Kious B (2011). Response to MacGregor and McNamee: Risks, relativity, and wrongness. Theor Med Bioeth, 32(3), 209-210. ()

    Review

    1. Aftab A, Sadler JZ, Kious BM, Waterman GS (2024). Conceptual competence in psychiatric training: building a culture of conceptual inquiry. [Review]. BJPsych Bull, 1-6. ()
    2. Kious BM (2023). Medical assistance in dying in neurology. [Review]. Neurol Clin, 41(3), 443-454. ()

    Conference Proceedings

    1. Velupillai S, Mowery D, Conway M, Hurdle J, Kious B (2016). Vocabulary development to support information extraction of substance abuse from psychiatry notes. In Velupillai S|Mowery D|Conway M|Hurdle J|Kious B (Ed.), BioNLP 2016 - Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, 92-101. ()

    Commentary

    1. Kious BM (2021). Look for injustice and you'll probably find it: a commentary on Harcourt's 'epistemic injustice, children and mental illness'. J Med Ethics, 47(11), 736-737. ()

    Editorial

    1. Loughlin M, Bluhm R, Fuller J, Buetow S, Borgerson K, Lewis BR, Kious BM (2015). Diseases, patients and the epistemology of practice: mapping the borders of health, medicine and care. J Eval Clin Pract, 21(3), 357-64. ()

    Letter

    1. Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). What does epistemic injustice add? A response to Grim and Aftab [Letter to the editor]. Psychol Med. ()
    2. Kious B, Kondo D, Renshaw P (2020). Comment on: Effect of altitude on veteran suicide rates [Letter to the editor]. High Alt Med Biol, 21(2), 206-208. ()
    3. Kious BM, Battin MP (2019). Response to open peer commentaries on "Physician aid-in-dying and suicide prevention in psychiatry". [Letter to the editor]. Am J Bioeth, 19(10), W14-W17. ()
    4. Kious BM, Lewis BR (2018). Classifying psychiatric disorders as communicable diseases. [Letter to the editor]. Lancet Psychiatry, 6(1), 13-14. ()
    5. Kious B (2009). The philosophy of numbers [Letter to the editor]. Economist, 390(8615). ()