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Maternal exposure to herpes simplex virus and risk of psychosis among adult offspringStephen L Buka
Brown University Department of Community Health, Providence, Rhode Island 02806, USA
Biol Psychiatry 63:809-15. 2008..In this investigation, we tested a large and diverse population to assess the risk of psychoses among offspring of mothers with serological evidence of HSV-2 infection...
Future cases as present controls to adjust for exposure trend bias in case-only studiesShirley Wang
Department of Community Health Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Epidemiology 22:568-74. 2011..3-1.7) was reduced to 1.1 (0.9-1.3) when divided by the concurrent exposure trend odds ratio (1.4) in matched future cases. This applied example demonstrates how our approach can adjust for exposure trends observed across time axes...- Maternal smoking during pregnancy and neonatal behavior: a large-scale community studyLaura R Stroud
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Pediatrics 123:e842-8. 2009..To investigate the influence of prospectively measured smoking during pregnancy on aspects of neonatal behavior in a large community sample... - Long-term stability of maternal prenatal steroid hormones from the National Collaborative Perinatal Project: still valid after all these yearsLaura R Stroud
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, CORO West, Suite 500, 1 Hoppin Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:140-50. 2007..Stability of steroid hormones over decades suggests that stored samples from other longitudinal studies may also allow opportunities to investigate links between prenatal steroids and long-term offspring outcomes... - Cigarette smoking and the lifetime alcohol involvement continuumChristopher W Kahler
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 93:111-20. 2008.... - Intergenerational transmission of tobacco use and dependence: a transdisciplinary perspectiveEdmond D Shenassa
Brown Medical School, Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:S55-69. 2003..Research gaps that exist between scientific disciplines are highlighted, and some directions for future research are suggested... - Utility of indices of gun availability in the communityEdmond D Shenassa
Department of Community Health and Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:44-9. 2006..To estimate the degree to which the proportion of homicides and suicides committed with a gun is associated with reported availability of firearms across Chicago neighbourhoods... - How beliefs about substance use differ by socio-demographic characteristics, individual experiences, and neighborhood environments among urban adolescentsScott P Novak
Centers for Behaviroal and Preventive Medicine, Brown University, Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI 02903, USA
J Drug Educ 32:319-42. 2002..These findings illustrate the complex links between individual and contextual factors in the development of beliefs about the health risks associated with substance use... - Personality, psychiatric disorders, and smoking in middle-aged adultsChristopher W Kahler
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Box G S121 5, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:833-41. 2009..Likewise, prior studies have not addressed whether personality shows differential associations with smoking based on the presence or absence of lifetime psychiatric disorders... - Relationships of personality and psychiatric disorders to multiple domains of smoking motives and dependence in middle-aged adultsChristopher W Kahler
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Box G S121 5, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 12:381-9. 2010.... 
Children of parents with affective and nonaffective psychoses: a longitudinal study of behavior problemsJo Ann L Donatelli
Department of Psychiatry, Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:1331-8. 2010..g., schizophrenia, other nonaffective psychoses, and affective psychoses) have distinct forms of behavioral problems (i.e., internalizing and externalizing)...- The association between suicide and the socio-economic characteristics of geographical areas: a systematic reviewDavid H Rehkopf
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Psychol Med 36:145-57. 2006..Enhanced attention to size of region and measurement strategies provide a clearer picture of how suicide rates vary by region. Resources for suicide prevention should be targeted to high poverty/deprivation and high unemployment areas... - Estimating co-occurring behavioral trajectories within a neighborhood context: a case study of multivariate transition models for clustered dataMagdalena Cerda
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:1190-203. 2008..These models can prove instrumental in answering the persistent questions about possible sequential relations among problem behaviors... - Intellectual decline in schizophrenia: evidence from a prospective birth cohort 28 year follow-up studyLarry J Seidman
Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 28:225-42. 2006..Future research on this sample will evaluate the prospective roles of family history and perinatal complications on cognition, and assess the specificity of these findings... - Retail tobacco outlet density and youth cigarette smoking: a propensity-modeling approachScott P Novak
Substance Abuse Epidemiology, Prevention, and Risk Behavior, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Rd, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Am J Public Health 96:670-6. 2006..We examined whether retail tobacco outlet density was related to youth cigarette smoking after control for a diverse range of neighborhood characteristics... - Childhood cognitive performance and risk of generalized anxiety disorderLaurie T Martin
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:769-75. 2007..This study tests the hypothesis that individuals with higher cognitive skills are less likely to develop a lifetime diagnosis of GAD, and considers onset in three developmental periods: childhood, adolescence and adulthood... - Effects of neighborhood resources on aggressive and delinquent behaviors among urban youthsBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1086-93. 2008..We sought to identify neighborhood-level resources associated with lower levels of aggression and delinquency among youths aged 9-15 years at baseline after accounting for risk factors and other types of resources... - Neighborhood influences on the association between maternal age and birthweight: a multilevel investigation of age-related disparities in healthMagdalena Cerda
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 3632 SPH Tower, 109 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2029, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:2048-60. 2008..The findings support the hypothesis that the relationship between maternal age and birthweight varies between neighborhoods. Indicators of neighborhood disadvantage help to explain such differences... - Maternal smoking during pregnancy and children's cognitive and physical development: a causal risk factor?Stephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:522-31. 2008..The authors conclude that the hypothesized effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on these outcomes either are not present or are not distinguishable from a broader range of familial factors associated with maternal smoking... - Childhood respiratory disease and the risk of anxiety disorder and major depression in adulthoodRenee D Goodwin
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St, Room 1706, New York, NY 10032, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:774-80. 2008..To examine the association between early childhood respiratory disease and the risk of anxiety and depression in adulthood... - Violent behavior by girls reporting violent victimization: a prospective studyBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:731-9. 2005..To assess the relationships between individual victimization and neighborhood-level violence on subsequent violent perpetration by adolescent girls in a community-based sample... - A multilevel study of neighborhoods and parent-to-child physical aggression: results from the project on human development in Chicago neighborhoodsBeth E Molnar
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Child Maltreat 8:84-97. 2003..The article's conclusion is that neighborhood characteristics may influence the amount of PCPA used by families. Neighborhood intervention strategies hold promise... - Neighborhood predictors of concealed firearm carrying among children and adolescents: results from the project on human development in Chicago neighborhoodsBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:657-64. 2004..Previous studies of concealed firearm carrying among children and adolescents have focused on individual risk factors... - Family disruption in childhood and risk of adult depressionStephen E Gilman
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:939-46. 2003..The authors examined the risk that family disruption and low socioeconomic status in early childhood confer on the onset of major depression in adulthood... - Elevated risk of tobacco dependence among offspring of mothers who smoked during pregnancy: a 30-year prospective studyStephen L Buka
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:1978-84. 2003..Maternal smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor for subsequent nicotine dependence among offspring... - Social capital and neighborhood mortality rates in ChicagoKimberly A Lochner
Department of Health, Harvard Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:1797-805. 2003.... - Neighborhood support and the birth weight of urban infantsStephen L Buka
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, Chicago, IL, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:1-8. 2003..Results support the hypothesis that neighborhood-level factors are significantly associated with infant birth weight... - Disparities in health status and substance use: ethnicity and socioeconomic factorsStephen L Buka
Harvard University School of Public Health, Kresge Building, Room 602B, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Rep 117:S118-25. 2002..This article reviews the literature on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in morbidity and mortality, focusing on substance use and abuse... - Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring overt and covert conduct problems: a longitudinal studyMichael C Monuteaux
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 2696, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:883-90. 2006..We further investigated this association, attending to overt and covert CD symptom subtypes. Also, we tested whether gender and socioeconomic status (SES) modified this association... - Differences in onset and persistence of substance abuse and dependence among whites, blacks, and HispanicsSean F Reardon
Pennsylvania State University, 310F Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Public Health Rep 117:S51-9. 2002..This article describes patterns of onset, persistence, and cessation of substance abuse among whites, blacks, and Hispanics that are masked in cross-sectional prevalence data... - Diverging associations of maternal age with low birthweight for black and white mothersJanet W Rich-Edwards
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:83-90. 2003..The particularly steep increase in risk of low birthweight with increasing maternal age for black women is explained by the high prevalence of disadvantage in this population... - Relation of female gender and low socioeconomic status to internalizing symptoms among adolescents: a case of double jeopardy?Tamar Mendelson
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:1284-96. 2008.... - Behavioral problems and the effects of early intervention on eight-year-old children with learning disabilitiesJennifer W Yu
Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0936, USA
Matern Child Health J 10:329-38. 2006..2) To determine whether receipt of an early intervention modified the association between childhood behavior problems and learning disabilities (LD)... - Socioeconomic status in childhood and the lifetime risk of major depressionStephen E Gilman
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:359-67. 2002..In this study, we test the hypotheses that low childhood SES predicts an increased risk of adult depression and contributes to a higher risk of depression among females... - Social capital and young adolescents' perceived health in different sociocultural settingsMarjan Drukker
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Soc Sci Med 61:185-98. 2005..The results suggest that associations between the wider social environment and health outcomes vary across different populations and cross-national contexts... - The effect of working memory performance on functional MRI in schizophreniaHeidi W Thermenos
Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Schizophr Res 74:179-94. 2005..We report functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data comparing subjects with schizophrenia and healthy controls performing a 2-back working memory (WM) task, addressing the effects of task performance... - Early intervention in low birth weight premature infants: results at 18 years of age for the Infant Health and Development ProgramMarie C McCormick
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 117:771-80. 2006.... - Treatment outcomes for substance abuse among adolescents with learning disordersJennifer W Yu
Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St, Ste 265, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 33:275-86. 2006..This study is the first to consider outcomes of substance abuse treatment for adolescents with LD and contributes to the growing literature on comorbidity and substance abuse treatment... - What girls need: recommendations for preventing violence among urban girls in the USBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 60:2191-204. 2005..Violence prevention programs should focus on enhancing girls' relationships with mothers, older girls, and friends their age... - The retrospective measurement of prenatal and perinatal events: accuracy of maternal recallStephen L Buka
Department of Epidemiology, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Schizophr Res 71:417-26. 2004.... - Cognitive performance in childhood and early adult illness: a prospective cohort studyLaurie T Martin
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:674-9. 2004..To evaluate whether cognitive performance in childhood is an early determinant of adult illness... - Unsafe to play? Neighborhood disorder and lack of safety predict reduced physical activity among urban children and adolescentsBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:378-86. 2004..Associations between activity levels of urban youth and limited access to safe recreation areas in their neighborhoods of residence were investigated... - Educational attainment and cigarette smoking: a causal association?Stephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 37:615-24. 2008..Despite abundant evidence that lower education is associated with a higher risk of smoking, whether the association is causal has not been convincingly established...
Research Grants
- Social Inequalities in Depression Across the LifecourseStephen Buka; Fiscal Year: 2002..The prospective nature of this study, the comprehensive assessment of parental and childhood variables, and the rigorous measurement of psychiatric disorders in adulthood make this sample uniquely suited to addressing these aims. ..
- TRAINING IN PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY & BIOSTATISTICSStephen Buka; Fiscal Year: 2005..D.?s or Sc.D.?s with a solid training in epidemiology, biostatistics or a related field who wish to specialize in mental health. ..
- Neighborhood, Race and Alcohol Use /Abuse TrajectoriesStephen Buka; Fiscal Year: 2004..In addition, this study will also support the development of advanced statistical techniques needed to simultaneously estimate school and neighborhood contributions to race/ethnic disparities in alcohol use. ..
- TRAINING IN PSYCHIATRIC GENETICSStephen Buka; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- Pathways Linking Education/Health in Middle AdulthoodStephen Buka; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..