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Developmental epidemiology seeks to apply developmental and epidemiological principles to the study of psychopathology. Within this overall framework, my main research interests relate to the study of depression, anxiety, and disruptive behavior disorders and their effects on service use in children and adolescents. Current activities include studies of (1) relationships among pubertal hormonal changes, morphological changes, life strain, and psychopathology; (2) the development of measures of psychopathology and their links with psychiatric nosology (at the levels of symptoms, diagnoses, and disability); (3) parental burden and service use resulting from child and adolescent psychopathology; (4) comorbidity among psychiatric disorders; (5) factors affecting mental health service use; and (7) psychological predictors of risk for cardiovascular disorders in adolescence.
Early Pubertal Timing and Testosterone Associated With Higher Levels of Adolescent Depression in Girls.
The Great Smoky Mountains Study: developmental epidemiology in the southeastern United States.
Developmental Epidemiology
Read Full TextPsychological and Psychosocial Impairment in Preschoolers With Selective Eating.
Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Alcohol Consumption Across Youth and Early Adulthood.
Increase in untreated cases of psychiatric disorders during the transition to adulthood.
Preschool anxiety disorders predict different patterns of amygdala-prefrontal connectivity at school-age.
Are children and adolescents with food allergies at increased risk for psychopathology?
Adult diagnostic and functional outcomes of DSM-5 disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
Sleep problems predict and are predicted by generalized anxiety/depression and oppositional defiant disorder.
Longitudinal patterns of anxiety from childhood to adulthood: the Great Smoky Mountains Study.
C-reactive protein and substance use disorders in adolescence and early adulthood: a prospective analysis.
Preschool anxiety disorders in pediatric primary care: prevalence and comorbidity.
Children with both asthma and depression are at risk for heightened inflammation.
Sex-differentiated changes in C-reactive protein from ages 9 to 21: the contributions of BMI and physical/sexual maturation.
Impact of bullying in childhood on adult health, wealth, crime, and social outcomes.
Irritable mood as a symptom of depression in youth: prevalence, developmental, and clinical correlates in the Great Smoky Mountains Study.
Diagnostic transitions from childhood to adolescence to early adulthood.
Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers.
Genes, environments, and developmental research: methods for a multi-site study of early substance abuse.
Adult psychiatric outcomes of bullying and being bullied by peers in childhood and adolescence.
Prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates of DSM-5 proposed disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
Generalized anxiety and C-reactive protein levels: a prospective, longitudinal analysis.
About 7% of 4-year-olds in Norway meet criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis
Read Full TextPredicting persistent alcohol problems: a prospective analysis from the Great Smoky Mountain Study.
Psychiatric diagnostic interviews for children and adolescents: a comparative study.
Cumulative depression episodes predict later C-reactive protein levels: a prospective analysis.
Child-, adolescent- and young adult-onset depressions: differential risk factors in development?
Trends in psychopathology across the adolescent years: what changes when children become adolescents, and when adolescents become adults?
The NIMH Child Emotional Faces Picture Set (NIMH-ChEFS): a new set of children's facial emotion stimuli.
Child μ-opioid receptor gene variant influences parent-child relations.
Distinct neural signatures of threat learning in adolescents and adults.
Cumulative prevalence of psychiatric disorders by young adulthood: a prospective cohort analysis from the Great Smoky Mountains Study.
The developmental epidemiology of anxiety disorders: Phenomenology, prevalence, and comorbidity
Read Full TextDevelopmental pathways in oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.
Psychiatric symptoms in bereaved versus nonbereaved youth and young adults: a longitudinal epidemiological study.
Outcomes of early pubertal timing in young women: a prospective population-based study.
Longitudinal dimensionality of adolescent psychopathology: testing the differentiation hypothesis.
Specifying criminogenic strains: Stress dynamics and conduct disorder trajectories
Read Full TextAssociation of family income supplements in adolescence with development of psychiatric and substance use disorders in adulthood among an American Indian population.
Developmental transitions to psychopathology: are there prodromes of substance use disorders?
Transitions into underage and problem drinking: Summary of developmental processes and mechanisms: Ages 10-15
Read Full TextMeasurement and design for life course studies of individual differences and development
Read Full TextChildhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders as predictors of young adult disorders.
Moving from ethnography to epidemiology: lessons learned in Appalachia.
Parent-reported attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptomatology and sleep problems in a preschool-age pediatric clinic sample.
Cultural and community determinants of subjective social status among Cherokee and White youth.
Transitions into underage and problem drinking: developmental processes and mechanisms between 10 and 15 years of age.
Specificity of putative psychosocial risk factors for psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.
Childhood psychiatric disorders and young adult crime: a prospective, population-based study.
Diagnostic specificity and nonspecificity in the dimensions of preschool psychopathology.
Prediction from low birth weight to female adolescent depression: a test of competing hypotheses.
Differences among children whose mothers have been in contact with the criminal justice system
Read Full TextPrevalence, clinical correlates, and longitudinal course of severe mood dysregulation in children.
Proximal psychiatric risk factors for suicidality in youth: the Great Smoky Mountains Study.
Test-Retest Reliability of the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA).
Common emotional and behavioral disorders in preschool children: presentation, nosology, and epidemiology.
The epidemiology and diagnostic issues in preschool attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder: A review
Read Full Text10-year research update review: the epidemiology of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders: II. Developmental epidemiology.
Application of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling to item-response theory modeling of multi-symptom genetic data.
The developmental epidemiology of anxiety disorders: phenomenology, prevalence, and comorbidity.
10-year research update review: the epidemiology of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders: I. Methods and public health burden.
Distant Trauma: A prospective study of the effects of september 11th on young adults in North Carolina
Read Full TextGenetic and environmental influences on the relative timing of pubertal change.
Effects of age at first substance use and psychiatric comorbidity on the development of substance use disorders.
Testosterone, antisocial behavior, and social dominance in boys: pubertal development and biosocial interaction.
Pathways to violence in the children of mothers who were depressed postpartum.
Relationships between poverty and psychopathology: a natural experiment.
Relations between Continuous Performance Test performance measures and ADHD behaviors.
Continuous performance test performance in a normative epidemiological sample.
Prevalence and development of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence.
Mental health assessments in juvenile justice: report on the consensus conference.
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk to boys' conduct disturbance: an examination of the causal hypothesis.
Puberty and depression
Read Full TextPathways into and through mental health services for children and adolescents.
Natural categories or fundamental dimensions: on carving nature at the joints and the rearticulation of psychopathology.
Psychiatric disorder, impairment, and service use in rural African American and white youth.
The prevalence of potentially traumatic events in childhood and adolescence.
The relationship between DSM-IV oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder: findings from the Great Smoky Mountains Study.
Use of mental health services by youth in contact with social services
Read Full TextExposure to violence against a family member and internalizing symptoms in Colombian adolescents: the protective effects of family support.
Poverty, race/ethnicity, and psychiatric disorder: a study of rural children.
Do high-threat life events really provoke the onset of psychiatric disorder in children?
Bayesian analyses of longitudinal binary data using Markov regression models of unknown order.
Multimodal treatment of ADHD in the MTA: an alternative outcome analysis.
Effectiveness of mental health services
Read Full TextImplications of early versus late onset of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms.
Epstein-Barr virus antibodies in whole blood spots: a minimally invasive method for assessing an aspect of cell-mediated immunity.
Effectiveness of nonresidential specialty mental health services for children and adolescents in the "real world".
Developmental psychopathology and public health: past, present, and future.
Developmental Trajectories of Aggressive and Non-Aggressive Conduct Problems
Read Full TextDevelopment of psychiatric comorbidity with substance abuse in adolescents: effects of timing and sex.
Somatic complaints and psychopathology in children and adolescents: stomach aches, musculoskeletal pains, and headaches.
Use, persistence, and intensity: patterns of care for children's mental health across one year.
Adolescent outcomes of childhood disorders: the consequences of severity and impairment.
Assessing Functional Impairment and Social Adaptation for Child Mental Health Services Research: A Review of Measures
Read Full TextLife events and post-traumatic stress: the development of a new measure for children and adolescents.
Optimal Bayesian two-phase designs
Read Full TextPerceived parental burden and service use for child and adolescent psychiatric disorders.
Puberty and depression: the roles of age, pubertal status and pubertal timing.
The relative diagnostic utility of child and parent reports of oppositional defiant behaviors
Read Full TextThe child and adolescent burden assessment (CABA): Measuring the family impact of emotional and behavioral problems
Read Full TextPsychiatric disorders among American Indian and white youth in Appalachia: the Great Smoky Mountains Study.
Development of substance use and psychiatric comorbidity in an epidemiologic study of white and American Indian young adolescents the Great Smoky Mountains Study.
Impact of Children's Mental Health Problems on Families: Relationships with Service Use
Read Full TextInsurance coverage and mental health services use by adolescents with serious emotional disturbance
Read Full TextDevelopment of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents: factor composition and structure across development
Read Full TextDevelopment of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents
Read Full TextThe Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Goals, design, methods, and the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders.
Precision, reliability and accuracy in the dating of symptom onsets in child and adolescent psychopathology.
Toward establishing an empirical basis for the diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder.
The Child and Adolescent Services Assessment (CASA): Description and Psychometrics
Read Full TextDisappearing Depression in a Population Sample of Boys
Read Full TextA test-retest reliability study of child-reported psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA-C).
Reliability of self-reported service use: Test-retest consistency of children's responses to the Child and Adolescent Services Assessment (CASA)
Read Full TextDepressive comorbidity in children and adolescents: empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues.
How can epidemiology improve mental health services for children and adolescents?
Puberty onset of gender differences in rates of depression: a developmental, epidemiologic and neuroendocrine perspective.
Toward a developmental epidemiology of the disruptive behavior disorders
Read Full TextEffects of age and pubertal status on depression in a large clinical sample
Read Full TextMood variability in adolescents: a study of depressed, nondepressed and comorbid patients.
The effects of age and sex on depression ratings in children and adolescents.
Scales to assess child and adolescent depression: checklists, screens, and nets.
Childhood and adolescent depression. II: Research in clinical populations.
Childhood and adolescent depression. I. Epidemiological and aetiological aspects.
Parent and child reports of depressive symptoms in children at low and high risk of depression.
Depressed parents and their children. General health, social, and psychiatric problems.
CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION
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