Publications

Screening for underage drinking and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition alcohol use disorder in rural primary care practice Clark DB, Martin CS, Chung T, Gordon AJ, Fiorentino L, Tootell M and Rubio DM Journal of Pediatrics, 2016,173:214-220. A study led by Dr. Duncan Clark indicates that a single screening question about drinking frequency in the past year could help doctors identify...

Social Reward in Youth at Risk for Depression: A Preliminary Investigation of Subjective and Neural DifferencesOlino TM, Silk JS, Osterritter C and Forbes EE Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 2015 Nov;25(9):711-721 Offspring of depressed parents are at risk for developing depression at rates higher than the general population. One potential mechanism linking parent and offspring depression...

Toward the Definition of a Bipolar Prodrome: Dimensional Predictors of Bipolar SpectrumDisorder in At-Risk Youth Hafeman DM, Merranko J, Axelson D, Goldstein BI, Goldstein T, Monk K, Hickey MB, Sakolsky D, Rasim R, Iyengar S, Brent DA, Kupfer DJ and Birmaher B American Journal of Psychiatry, 2016, 173(7):695-704 A team of Department of Psychiatry investigators led by Drs. Danella Hafeman and Boris Birmaher have...

The Influence of Motherhood on Neural Systems for Reward Processing in Low Income, Minority, Young Women Moses-Kolko EL, Forbes EE, Stepp S, Fraser D, Keenan KE, Guyer AE, Chase HW, Phillips ML, Zevallos CR, Guo C and Hipwell AE Psychoneuroendocrinology. 66:130-137, 2016 Given the association between maternal caregiving behavior and heightened neural reward activity in experimental animal studies, Dr. Eydie Moses...

Trajectories of Vasomotor Symptoms and Carotid Intima Media Thickness in the Study of Women's Health across the Nation Thurston RC, El Khoudary SR, Tepper PG, Jackson EA, Joffe H, Chen Y-H and Matthews KA Stroke, Published Online Emerging work has linked menopausal vasomotor symptoms (VMS) to subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) among women. However, these studies typically examine VMS at one time point in...

Sleep Regulates Incubation of Cocaine Craving Chen B, Wang Y, Liu X, Liu Z, Dong Y and Huang Y Journal of Neuroscience, 35: 13300-13310, 2015 After withdrawal from cocaine, chronic cocaine users often experience persistent reduction in total sleep time, which is accompanied by increased sleep fragmentation resembling chronic insomnia. This and other sleep abnormalities have long been speculated to foster relapse...