Publications

Fronto-limbic Function in Unaffected Offspring at Familial Risk for Bipolar Disorder During an Emotional Working Memory Paradigm Ladouceur CD, Diwadkar VA, White R, Bass J, Birmaher B, Axelson DA, Phillips ML. Evidence from neuroimaging studies indicate that individuals with bipolar disorder exhibit altered functioning of the brain?s fronto-limbic systems implicated in voluntary emotion regulation. Few studies...

The Role of Emotion Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder Mazefsky CA, Herrington J, Siegel M, Scarpa A, Maddox BB, Scahill L, White SW Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by impairments in social communication, restricted behavior and repetitive actions, and is estimated to affect 1 in 88 in school age children. The impairments associated with ASD affect one?s emotion...

Sleep Disturbances as the Hallmark of PTSD Germain, A. The hypothesis that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep disturbances are the hallmark of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), proposed by Ross and colleagues in 1989, has stimulated a wealth of clinical, preclinical, and animal studies on the role of sleep in the pathophysiology of PTSD. A recent review article by Dr. Anne Germain revisits this influential...

Sleep Disturbances as the Hallmark of PTSD Germain, A. The hypothesis that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep disturbances are the hallmark of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), proposed by Ross and colleagues in 1989, has stimulated a wealth of clinical, preclinical, and animal studies on the role of sleep in the pathophysiology of PTSD. A recent review article by Dr. Anne Germain revisits this influential...

Late-life depression and risk of vascular dementia and Alzheimer?s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based cohort studies. Diniz BS, Butters MA, Albert SM, Dew MA, Reynolds CF Late-life depression is one of the most common psychiatric illnesses in older adults, affecting 15% of adults aged 65 or older in the United States (approximately 6 million people). Previous studies have shown an...

Cortisol Response to Social Stress in Parentally Bereaved Youth Dietz LJ, Stoyak S, Melham N, Porta G, Matthews KA, Walker M, Brent, DA. The death of a parent is one of the most stressful events that a child can experience, and is associated with increased risk for psychiatric illness and impairment. Less is known about the effects of parental bereavement on physiological systems that initiate and regulate...