Publications

Elevated serum measures of lipid peroxidation and abnormal prefrontal white matter in euthymic bipolar adults: toward peripheral biomarkers of bipolar disorder.Versace A, Andreazza AC, Trevor Young L, Fournier JC, Almeida JRC, Stiffler RS, Lockovich JC, Aslam HA, Pollock MH, Park H, Nimgaonkar VL, Kupfer DJ, Phillips ML. It is estimated that bipolar disorder (BD), affects 2.6% of the US adult population. Studies...

Genome-Wide Association Studies of Alzheimer?s Disease Alzheimer?s disease is the most common cause of loss of memory and cognitive abilities in late life, and is currently estimated to affect more than five million Americans. That number is projected to more than double by 2050 unless a way to delay or prevent its onset can be identified. About 50% of individuals with Alzheimer?s disease also experience psychotic...

Adolescent Substance Use in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a Function of Childhood ADHD, Random Assignment to Childhood Treatments, and Subsequent Medication Molina BSG, Hinshaw SP, Arnold LE, Swanson JM, Pelham WE, Hechtman L, Hoza B, Epstein JN, Wigal T, Abikoff HB, Greenhill LL, Jensen PS, Wells KC, Vitiello B, Gibbons RD, Howard A, Houck PR, Hur K, Lu B...

Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Signaling and Subgenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex Dysfunction in Major Depressive DisorderTripp A, Oh H, Guilloux JP,Martinowich K, Lewis DA, Sibille E. Understanding the primary pathology in major depression remains elusive, and it is estimated that current treatments of the illness result in just 33% of patients achieving a complete recovery. A recent study conducted by Adam...

Predictors of Prospectively Examined Suicide Attempts among Youth with Bipolar Disorder Goldstein TR, Ha W, Axelson DA, Goldstein BI, Liao F, Gill MK, Ryan ND, Yen S, Hunt J, Hower H, Keller M, Strober M, Birmaher B. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2012 Nov;69(11):1113-22. Individuals with bipolar disorder are at high risk for suicide, and those who experience onset of their illness during childhood are at even...

Study by Volk et al. Reveals Transcriptional Regulator Deficits in Individuals with Schizophrenia Deficits in Transcriptional Regulators of Cortical Parvalbumin Neurons in SchizophreniaVolk DW, Matsubara T, Li S, Sengupta EJ, Georgiev D, Minabe Y, Sampson A, Hashimoto T, Lewis DA An investigation by Dr. David Volk, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and colleagues suggests that a deficit in a transcription factor...