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A cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptom manifestation: China and the United StatesS Yen
Department of Psychology, Duke University, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 68:993-9. 2000..S. groups (n = 198). These findings seem to suggest that the tendency toward somatic symptom reporting is not any greater among Chinese populations but may be a function of having a mental illness or of help seeking in China...
Recent life events preceding suicide attempts in a personality disorder sample: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders studyShirley Yen
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI 02906, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 73:99-105. 2005..Therefore, certain types of negative life events are unique risk factors for imminent suicide attempts among individuals with PDs...- Personality traits as prospective predictors of suicide attemptsS Yen
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 120:222-9. 2009..To examine higher order personality factors of negative affectivity (NA) and disinhibition (DIS), as well as lower order facets of impulsivity, as prospective predictors of suicide attempts in a predominantly personality disordered sample... - A 5-day dialectical behavior therapy partial hospital program for women with borderline personality disorder: predictors of outcome from a 3-month follow-up studyShirley Yen
Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
J Psychiatr Pract 15:173-82. 2009..We also examined individual BPD criteria as predictors of treatment response... - Axis I and axis II disorders as predictors of prospective suicide attempts: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders studyShirley Yen
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02906, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:375-81. 2003..Therefore, among individuals diagnosed with PDs. exacerbation of Axis I conditions, particularly MDD and substance use, heightens risk for a suicide attempt... 
Self-harm subscale of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP): predicting suicide attempts over 8 years of follow-upShirley Yen
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 72:1522-8. 2011..We examined the predictive power of the self-harm subscale of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP) to identify suicide attempters in the Collaborative Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders (CLPS)...- Recent developments in research of trauma and personality disordersS Yen
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, 700 Butler Drive, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 3:52-8. 2001..Treatment implications of this diagnostic differentiation are discussed... - Borderline personality disorder criteria associated with prospectively observed suicidal behaviorShirley Yen
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, 700 Butler Drive, Duncan Building, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1296-8. 2004..Since major depressive disorder did not significantly predict suicidal behaviors, the reactivity associated with affective instability (more so than negative mood states) appears to be a critical element in predicting suicidal behaviors... - State effects of major depression on the assessment of personality and personality disorderLeslie C Morey
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M, College Station, TX 77843 4235, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:528-35. 2010.... - Two-year prevalence and stability of individual DSM-IV criteria for schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders: toward a hybrid model of axis II disordersThomas H McGlashan
Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorder Study, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:883-9. 2005..This study tracked the individual criteria of four DSM-IV personality disorders-borderline, schizotypal, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders-and how they change over 2 years... - Clinical features and impairment in women with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), BPD without PTSD, and other personality disorders with PTSDCaron Zlotnick
Brown University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:706-13. 2003..Consistent with other research, the findings suggest that PTSD does not appear to alter the central features of BPD. The clinical implications of our findings are considered... - Associations in the course of personality disorders and Axis I disorders over timeM Tracie Shea
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University Medical School, Duncan Building, 700 Butler Drive, Providence, RI 20906, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:499-508. 2004..Two of the four personality disorders under examination (STPD and OCPD) showed little or no association with Axis I disorders... - The construct validity of rule-breaking and aggression in an adult clinical sampleChristopher J Hopwood
Department of Psychology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Psychiatr Res 43:803-8. 2009..Gender moderation effects were limited. It was concluded that AGG and RB represent separable components of antisocial behavior with differential and clinically meaningful correlates in an adult clinical sample... - Five-factor model personality traits associated with alcohol-related diagnoses in a clinical sampleChristopher J Hopwood
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4235, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:455-60. 2007..The purpose of this article was to examine the specificity of previously observed trait/alcohol relations and the temporal relations of trait elevations and alcohol problems... - Traumatic exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder in borderline, schizotypal, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders studyShirley Yen
Department of Psychiatry, Brown University Medical School, 700 Butler Drive, Providence, RI 02906, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 190:510-8. 2002..In addition, they support an association between severity of PD and severity of traumatic exposure, as indicated by earlier trauma onset, trauma of an assaultive and personal nature, and more types of traumatic events... - Childhood maltreatment associated with adult personality disorders: findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders StudyCynthia L Battle
Collaborative Longitudinal PDs Study CLPS, Brown University Medical School, USA
J Pers Disord 18:193-211. 2004..However, even when controlling for the effect of borderline PD, other PD diagnoses were associated with specific types of maltreatment... - Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in body dysmorphic disorderKatharine A Phillips
Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 66:717-25. 2005..Because suicidality in body dys-morphic disorder (BDD) has received little investigation, this study examined rates, correlates, predictors, and other aspects of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in this disorder... - Prospective investigation of a PTSD personality typology among individuals with personality disordersMeghan E McDevitt-Murphy
Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
Compr Psychiatry 53:441-50. 2012..quot; Using K-means cluster analysis, the results did not replicate previous work. Using Ward's method, the hypothesized 3-cluster structure was confirmed at baseline but did not demonstrate temporal stability at 6 months... - Stability as a distinction between Axis I and Axis II disordersM Tracie Shea
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University Medical School, Duncan Bldg, 700 Butler Drive, Providence, RI 02906, USA
J Pers Disord 17:373-86. 2003..The anxiety disorders had remarkably low recovery rates even beyond 5 years of prospective follow-up. Factors that may explain these findings, as well as implications for future conceptualization of DSM, are discussed... - Affect regulation in women with borderline personality disorder traitsShirley Yen
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University Medical School, 700 Butler Drive, Providence, Rhode Island 02906, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 190:693-6. 2002..These results, consistent with biosocial theory of BPD, suggest that persons with BPD experience emotions more intensely and have greater difficulty in controlling their affective responses... - Clarifying the convergence between obsessive compulsive personality disorder criteria and obsessive compulsive disorderJane L Eisen
Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Butler Hospital, Providence 02906, USA
J Pers Disord 20:294-305. 2006..Future efforts to explore the link between Axis I and Axis II disorders may be enriched by conducting analyses at the symptom level... - Stressful life events as predictors of functioning: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders studyM E Pagano
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 110:421-9. 2004..We examined the extent to which PD subjects differ in rates of life events and the extent to which life events impact psychosocial functioning... - Improvement in borderline personality disorder in relationship to ageM Tracie Shea
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 119:143-8. 2009..This study examined age-related change in borderline criteria and functional impairment, testing the hypothesis that older age would be associated with relatively more improvement than younger age... - Stability of functional impairment in patients with schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder over two yearsAndrew E Skodol
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychol Med 35:443-51. 2005.... - Plausibility and possible determinants of sudden "remissions" in borderline patientsJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Psychiatry 66:111-9. 2003..In conclusion, patients with BPD can make significant improvements that are rapid and of sufficient duration to be considered remissions. Determinants were identified that warrant further prospective evaluation... - The natural course of bulimia nervosa and eating disorder not otherwise specified is not influenced by personality disordersCarlos M Grilo
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06519, USA
Int J Eat Disord 34:319-30. 2003..To examine prospectively the natural course of bulimia nervosa (BN) and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) and to test the effects of personality disorder (PD) comorbidity on the outcomes... - Two-year stability and change of schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disordersCarlos M Grilo
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:767-75. 2004..Dimensionally, these findings suggest that PDs may be characterized by maladaptive trait constellations that are stable in their structure (individual differences) but can change in severity or expression over time... - Ethnicity and four personality disordersDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Compr Psychiatry 44:483-91. 2003..The factors contributing to these differences warrant further investigation... - Gender differences in borderline personality disorder: findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders StudyDawn M Johnson
Summa Health System, St Thomas Hospital, Akron, OH 44310, USA
Compr Psychiatry 44:284-92. 2003..For example, no difference was found in rates of major depressive disorder, a condition that is more prevalent in females. Thus, BPD pathology may be a prevailing characterization that can attenuate usual gender-based distinctions... - Overview of workshop on drug abuse and suicidal behaviorLynda Erinoff
Drug Alcohol Depend 76:S3-9. 2004 - Two-year prospective naturalistic study of remission from major depressive disorder as a function of personality disorder comorbidityCarlos M Grilo
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 73:78-85. 2005..These PDs emerged as robust predictors of slowed remission from MDD even when controlling for other negative prognostic predictors... - Predictors of 2-year outcome for patients with borderline personality disorderJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, 155 Mill St, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:822-6. 2006..The primary purpose of this report was to investigate whether characteristics of subjects with borderline personality disorder observed at baseline can predict variations in outcome at the 2-year follow-up... - Major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder revisited: longitudinal interactionsJohn G Gunderson
Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Boston, Mass 02478, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 65:1049-56. 2004..This report investigates the longitudinal association of changes in major depressive disorder (MDD) and borderline personality disorder... - The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS): overview and implicationsAndrew E Skodol
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY 10032, USA
J Pers Disord 19:487-504. 2005..Taken together, our results lead us to hypothesize that PDs may be reconceptualized as hybrids of stable personality traits and intermittently expressed symptomatic behaviors... - Effects of personality disorders on functioning and well-being in major depressive disorderAndrew E Skodol
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Psychiatr Pract 11:363-8. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Co-occurring PDs contribute significantly to impairment in social and emotional functioning and reduced well-being in patients with MDD... - Descriptive and longitudinal observations on the relationship of borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorderJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Belmont, MA
Am J Psychiatry 163:1173-8. 2006.... - Longitudinal diagnostic efficiency of DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder: a 2-year prospective studyCarlos M Grilo
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Can J Psychiatry 52:357-62. 2007..To examine the longitudinal diagnostic efficiency of the DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD)... - Ethnicity and mental health treatment utilization by patients with personality disordersDonna S Bender
Institute for Mental Health Research, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:992-9. 2007..Future studies need to assess specific barriers to adequate and appropriate treatments for minority individuals with PDs... - Positive childhood experiences: resilience and recovery from personality disorder in early adulthoodAndrew E Skodol
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 68:1102-8. 2007..The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the association between positive childhood experiences related to resiliency and remission from personality disorder... - Prospective assessment of treatment use by patients with personality disordersDonna S Bender
Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10032, USA
Psychiatr Serv 57:254-7. 2006.... - Childhood antecedents of avoidant personality disorder: a retrospective studyDavid C Rettew
Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:1122-30. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that early manifestations of AVPD are present in childhood but that various forms of abuse are not specific to the disorder... - Comparison of alternative models for personality disordersLeslie C Morey
Psychology Department, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4235, USA
Psychol Med 37:983-94. 2007..The categorical classification system for personality disorder (PD) has been frequently criticized and several alternative dimensional models have been proposed... - Combined dialectical behavior therapy and fluoxetine in the treatment of borderline personality disorderElizabeth B Simpson
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 65:379-85. 2004.... - Testing an APA practice guideline: symptom-targeted medication utilization for patients with borderline personality disorderJohn M Oldham
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
J Psychiatr Pract 10:156-61. 2004....
Research Grants
- Dispositional Affect, Family Environment, and Adolescent SuicidalityShirley Yen; Fiscal Year: 2007..The proposed study would address a significant gap in knowledge, as it would be the first prospective study to examine BPD traits as well as the first study to examine key predictor variables dynamically, in suicidal adolescents. ..