Prevalence and characteristics of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in a southwestern American Indian communityR W Robin
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, MD USA
Am J Psychiatry 154:1582-8. 1997
..The authors investigated the relationship between both the frequency and type of traumatic events and the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a Southwestern American Indian tribe...
Use of the MMPI-2 in American Indians: I. Comparability of the MMPI-2 between two tribes and with the MMPI-2 normative groupRobert W Robin
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, P O Box 617, Sitka, Alaska 99835, USA
Psychol Assess 15:351-9. 2003
..It appears likely that the MMPI-2 differences of these 2 American Indian groups from the normative group may reflect their adverse historical, social, and economic conditions...
Validity of the SMAST in two American Indian tribal populationsRobert W Robin
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Subst Use Misuse 39:601-24. 2004
..The highly elevated and different thresholds required from one population to the next and from one gender to the next constitute a significant obstacle to the use of the instrument...
Evidence for genetic linkage to alcohol dependence on chromosomes 4 and 11 from an autosome-wide scan in an American Indian populationJ C Long
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 8110, USA jeff
Am J Med Genet 81:216-21. 1998
..8) on chromosome 4p, near the beta1 GABA receptor gene. Interestingly, three loci in the alcohol dehydrogenase gene cluster on chromosome 4q showed evidence for linkage with two-point analyses, but not multipoint analysis...
Interaction between a functional MAOA locus and childhood sexual abuse predicts alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder in adult womenF Ducci
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Mol Psychiatry 13:334-47. 2008
..Haplotype-based analysis of the MAOA gene appeared to strengthen the association, as compared to the MAOA-LPR locus alone. A MAOB haplotype was associated with alcoholism independently from ASPD...
Association of low-voltage alpha EEG with a subtype of alcohol use disordersM A Enoch
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 8110, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 23:1312-9. 1999
..e., the low-voltage alpha (LVA) trait, was associated with alcohol use disorders and anxiety disorders...
Linkage disequilibrium and association analysis of alpha-synuclein and alcohol and drug dependence in two American Indian populationsJordi Clarimon
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:546-54. 2007
..Recent studies, in humans and in rat and monkey models, have suggested that alpha-synuclein may play a role in the development and maintenance of certain addictive disorders...
Use of the MMPI-2 in American Indians: II. Empirical correlatesRoger L Greene
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Psychol Assess 15:360-9. 2003
..Thus, the differences reported by R. W. Robin et al. (2003), appear to reflect behaviors and symptoms that American Indians participants were experiencing rather than test bias...
Allelic variation at alcohol metabolism genes ( ADH1B, ADH1C, ALDH2) and alcohol dependence in an American Indian populationConnie J Mulligan
Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, PO Box 117305, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Hum Genet 113:325-36. 2003
..These data strengthen the support for ADH as a candidate locus for alcohol dependence and suggest further productive study...
Schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms in families of two American Indian tribesRobert W Robin
Hopi Guidance Center, Second Mesa, AZ 86043, USA
BMC Psychiatry 7:30. 2007
..These tribal groups were evaluated as part of a broader program of gene-environment investigations of alcoholism and other psychiatric disorders...
Naltrexone alone and with sertraline for the treatment of alcohol dependence in Alaska natives and non-natives residing in rural settings: a randomized controlled trialSTEPHANIE S O'MALLEY
Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, S202, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:1271-83. 2008
..An exploratory aim examined whether the Asn40Asp polymorphism of the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) predicted response to naltrexone, as had been reported in Caucasians...