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Suicidal behavior in Latinos: focus on the youthAlvaro Guzman
University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Mood and Anxiety Program, 685 W Baltimore Street, Rm 502 MSTF, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Int J Adolesc Med Health 21:431-9. 2009..Research focused on identifying risk and mediating factors for suicidal behavior in young Latinos is particularly relevant, given the size and rapid growth of the Latino population in the United States of America...- Allergy: a risk factor for suicide?Teodor T Postolache
Teodor T Postolache, MD Mood and Anxiety Program MAP, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, MSTF Building Room 930, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Curr Treat Options Neurol 10:363-76. 2008.... - Changes in allergy symptoms and depression scores are positively correlated in patients with recurrent mood disorders exposed to seasonal peaks in aeroallergensTeodor T Postolache
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1968-77. 2007.... - Sports chronobiology consultation: from the lab to the arenaTeodor T Postolache
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Clin Sports Med 24:415-56, xiv. 2005..Short vignettes of actual cases are presented for edification, and references are made to appropriate reviews found elsewhere in this issue... - Circadian phase shifting, alerting, and antidepressant effects of bright light treatmentTeodor T Postolache
Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Clin Sports Med 24:381-413, xii. 2005..This article discusses the therapeutic use of bright light treatment, its side effects, and mechanisms of action... - Mood sensitivity to seasonal changes in African college students living in the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan areaAlvaro Guzman
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
ScientificWorldJournal 7:584-91. 2007..As Africans also had a greater rate of summer SAD, this argues against acclimatization to heat... - Improvement in depression scores after 1 hour of light therapy treatment in patients with seasonal affective disorderGloria M Reeves
Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 701 W Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 200:51-5. 2012..This is the first study, to our knowledge, to document an immediate improvement with light treatment using a placebo-controlled design with a clinical sample of depressed individuals... - Association of seropositivity for influenza and coronaviruses with history of mood disorders and suicide attemptsOlaoluwa Okusaga
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Affect Disord 130:220-5. 2011..Nevertheless, systematic studies on the association between these viruses and mood disorders are lacking... - Seasonal variations in mood and behavior in Romanian postgraduate studentsJoseph J Soriano
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
ScientificWorldJournal 7:870-9. 2007..Finding an increased rate of summer SAD in the minority of those with access to air conditioners was surprising and deserves replication... - Suicide and prescription rates of intranasal corticosteroids and nonsedating antihistamines for allergic rhinitis: an ecological studyJong Min Woo
Department of Psychiatry, Mood and Anxiety Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
J Clin Psychiatry 72:1423-8. 2011.... - Allergic rhinitis induces anxiety-like behavior and altered social interaction in rodentsLeonardo H Tonelli
Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroimmunology, Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 1549, USA
Brain Behav Immun 23:784-93. 2009..These studies provide experimental evidence that sensitized rodents experience neuroimmune-mediated anxiety and reduced social interaction associated with allergic rhinitis... - Seasonal spring peaks of suicide in victims with and without prior history of hospitalization for mood disordersTeodor T Postolache
Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Affect Disord 121:88-93. 2010..As the peak of suicide in spring could be a consequence of decompensation of mood disorders in spring, we hypothesized that prior history of mood disorders is predictively associated with suicide in spring... - Mood-worsening with high-pollen-counts and seasonality: a preliminary reportAlvaro Guzman
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Affect Disord 101:269-74. 2007..Since pollen is absent during winter, we specifically predicted that mood sensitivity to tree pollen will predict non-winter SAD but not winter SAD... - Disturbed sleep: linking allergic rhinitis, mood and suicidal behaviorBeverly J Fang
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street MSTF Building Room 930, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Front Biosci (Schol Ed) 2:30-46. 2010.... - Vitamin D: a potential role in reducing suicide risk?Muhammad M Tariq
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Int J Adolesc Med Health 23:157-65. 2011..Here, we briefly review the literature on vitamin D, its deficiency, and its reported association with certain risk factors for suicide... - Toxoplasma gondii antibody titers and history of suicide attempts in patients with recurrent mood disordersTimothy A Arling
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:905-8. 2009..Although preliminary and bearing replication, this is the first report, to our knowledge, of an association between attempting suicide and T. gondii... - Intranasal immune challenge induces sex-dependent depressive-like behavior and cytokine expression in the brainLeonardo H Tonelli
Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroimmunology, Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201 1549, MD, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:1038-48. 2008..These results further our understanding of the role that the immune system may play in the pathophysiology of depression... - A prospective longitudinal study of seasonality in African students living in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan areaAlvaro Guzman
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
ScientificWorldJournal 7:577-83. 2007..Benefiting from certain unique features of our cohorts allowing adjustment for order effects, this is the first study to identify a seasonal variation in body weight with a peak in winter using longitudinal monthly measurements... - Airborne inflammatory factors: "from the nose to the brain"Leonardo H Tonelli
Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroimmunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Front Biosci (Schol Ed) 2:135-52. 2010..This article discusses current evidence about these mechanisms and associations with neurological and mental diseases... - Sleep-wake and other biological rhythms: functional neuroanatomyJohn W Stiller
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Clin Sports Med 24:205-35, vii. 2005.... - Sleep architecture and behavioral abnormalities in children and adolescentsGloria Reeves
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Int J Adolesc Med Health 22:535-45. 2010.... - Toxoplasma gondii antibody titers and history of suicide attempts in patients with schizophreniaOlaoluwa Okusaga
Mood and Anxiety Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Schizophr Res 133:150-5. 2011..T. gondii serology might become, with interaction with vulnerability genes, a candidate biomarker for a subgroup of schizophrenia patients prone to attempting suicide... - Suicidality and montelukastPartam Manalai
Mood and Anxiety Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 685 West Baltimore Street, MSTF Building Room 930, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Expert Opin Drug Saf 8:273-82. 2009..Antiallergic medication could modulate or mediate these predictive associations. Recently, the FDA issued a warning raising concerns about the suicidality potential of montelukast and other leukotriene (LT) antagonists... - Depression after delivery: risk factors, diagnostic and therapeutic considerationsDebra A Scrandis
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, MSTF Building, Room 502, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
ScientificWorldJournal 7:1670-82. 2007.... - Tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-1 beta, interleukin-6 and major histocompatibility complex molecules in the normal brain and after peripheral immune challengeLeonardo H Tonelli
Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 1549, USA
Neurol Res 27:679-84. 2005..This review will discuss the importance of infections on basic neuronal processes owing to the alteration in the brain of the balance of cytokines involved in higher brain functions... - Precipitants of adolescent suicide: possible interaction between allergic inflammation and alcohol intakeGloria M Reeves
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division and Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Int J Adolesc Med Health 19:37-43. 2007..Considering the greater prevalence of allergy in adolescence when alcohol use starts, studies investigating the connection between allergy, alcohol, and suicide should be expanded to also include a focus on youth... - Transcranial direct current stimulation for major depression: a general system for quantifying transcranial electrotherapy dosageMarom Bikson
Teodor T Postolache, MD Mood and Anxiety Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore, MSTF Suite 930, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Curr Treat Options Neurol 10:377-85. 2008..As with any dosage guidelines, such a system does not supersede physician judgment on safety... - Seasonal changes in sleep duration in African American and African college students living in Washington, D.CJanna Volkov
District of Columbia Department of Mental Health and St Elizabeths Hospital, Residency Training Program, Washington, DC 20032, USA
ScientificWorldJournal 7:880-7. 2007.... - Seasonal allergy and seasonal decrements in athletic performanceHirsh D Komarow
Laboratory of Allergic Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Clin Sports Med 24:e35-50, xiii. 2005..Doping considerations grant additional complexity to this issue and underscore the need for a competent, skillful, informed, and ethical approach to treating seasonal allergy in the competitive athlete... - Inflammatory genes and neural activity: involvement of immune genes in synaptic function and behaviorLeonardo H Tonelli
Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4020, USA
Front Biosci 10:675-80. 2005..This review will discuss recent data indicating a role for immune genes in synaptic stability and will also discuss the implications for specific brain functions involving mood and cognition... - Seasonal variation in mood in African American college students in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan areaCharles O Agumadu
D.C. Department of Mental Health, Washington, D.C, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1084-9. 2004.... - A longer biological night in long sleepers than in short sleepersDaniel Aeschbach
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88:26-30. 2003..The persistence or inertia of an individual's circadian program, as was evident in constant conditions, may underlie the commonly experienced difficulty of changing habitual sleep duration willfully... - Patients with seasonal affective disorder have lower odor detection thresholds than control subjectsTeodor T Postolache
Section on Biological Rhythms, National Institute of Mental Health NIH, 10 Center Dr, Room 3S 231, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:1119-22. 2002..Because the olfactory system has a modulatory role in seasonal photoperiodic responses in certain species, we hypothesized that olfactory function may differ between patients with seasonal affective disorder and healthy control subjects...