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A conception-to-death cohortEzra Susser
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, USA
Lancet 361:797-8. 2003
Latent effects of prenatal malnutrition on adult health: the example of schizophreniaEzra Susser
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, Room 1508, New York, NY 10032, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1136:185-92. 2008..Thus we aim to draw attention to the need to look beyond the concurrent effects of malnutrition and consider also the effects that may become apparent decades later...- Eco-epidemiology: thinking outside the black boxEzra Susser
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York 10032, USA
Epidemiology 15:519-20; author reply 527-8. 2004 - Epidemiologic approaches to neurodevelopmental disordersE Susser
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 622 W. 168th Street, PH18-121, New York, NY 10032, USA
Mol Psychiatry 7:S2-3. 2002 - Invited commentary: The use of sibship studies to detect familial confoundingEzra Susser
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10038, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:537-9. 2010..Their study illustrates how valuable the design can be in this kind of scenario. It also illustrates the potential complexity of sibship studies and the challenges they present for appropriate interpretation... - The design of the prenatal determinants of schizophrenia studyE S Susser
Division of Epidemiology, Joseph L Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 10032, USA
Schizophr Bull 26:257-73. 2000..Data are presented that bear on the main sources of potential bias and are important to understanding the strengths and limitations of this unique data set... - Long-term course of acute brief psychosis in a developing country settingE Susser
Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA
Br J Psychiatry 173:226-30. 1998..This study in North India compared acute brief psychosis--defined by acute onset, brief duration and no early relapse--with other remitting psychoses, over a 12-year course and outcome... - Incidence and cumulative risk of treated schizophrenia in the prenatal determinants of schizophrenia studyM A Bresnahan
New York State Psychiatric Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Bull 26:297-308. 2000..Possible explanations for the apparently high rates of disorder include chance, design effects, and true variation in risk over time and place... - Further evidence of relation between prenatal famine and major affective disorderA S Brown
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Psychiatry 157:190-5. 2000.... - Trends of probable post-traumatic stress disorder in New York City after the September 11 terrorist attacksSandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029 5283, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:514-24. 2003..The psychological consequences of a large-scale disaster in a densely populated urban area may extend beyond persons directly affected by the disaster to persons in the general population... - Advancing paternal age and autismAbraham Reichenberg
Department of Psychiatry and Seaver Center for Autism Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1026-32. 2006..Maternal and paternal ages are associated with neurodevelopmental disorders... - Advancing paternal age and the risk of schizophreniaD Malaspina
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 58:361-7. 2001..A major source of new mutations in humans is the male germ line, with mutation rates monotonically increasing as father's age at conception advances, possibly because of accumulating replication errors in spermatogonial cell lines... 
Effect of socioeconomic status on exposures to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) among pregnant African-American womenLuisa N Borrell
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Arch Environ Health 59:250-5. 2004..Neither income nor education was associated with concentrations of DDE. The authors concluded that maternal socioeconomic indicators may influence the effects of exposure to PCBs among African-American pregnant women...- Paternal age and intelligence: implications for age-related genomic changes in male germ cellsDolores Malaspina
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychiatr Genet 15:117-25. 2005..There are also substantial genetic influences on intelligence, so de novo genetic events in male germ cells, which accompany advancing paternal age, may plausibly influence offspring intelligence... - Psychopathology among New York city public school children 6 months after September 11Christina W Hoven
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:545-52. 2005..The prevalence of child psychopathology, however, has not been assessed in a population-based sample exposed to different levels of mass trauma or across a range of disorders... - A randomized trial of a brief HIV risk reduction intervention for men with severe mental illnessAlan Berkman
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychiatr Serv 57:407-9. 2006..A six-session version of a longer, 15-session social skills intervention for reducing high-risk sexual behaviors among men with severe mental illness was assessed... - Invited commentary: taking the search for causes of schizophrenia to a different levelDana March
Department of Epidemiology, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Epidemiol 163:979-81. 2006..This work exemplifies an integrative, multilevel approach to epidemiologic research that employs principles central to eco-epidemiology and other, similar frameworks... - Prenatal famine and adult healthL H Lumey
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 32:237-62. 2011..Much progress can be made if current separate studies are further analyzed with comparable definitions of exposures and outcomes and using common analytic strategies... - Race and risk of schizophrenia in a US birth cohort: another example of health disparity?Michaeline Bresnahan
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:751-8. 2007..Here we compared rates of schizophrenia between whites and African Americans and evaluated whether the association was mediated by socioeconomic status (SES) of family of origin in a US birth cohort... - Belated concerns and latent effects: the example of schizophreniaMichaeline Bresnahan
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Epidemiology 18:583-4. 2007..By extending the causal time frame to include long-term latent effects we are confronted with a potential paradox: interventions beneficial in early life may have undetected adverse consequences in adulthood... - Incidence of schizophrenia among second-generation immigrants in the jerusalem perinatal cohortCheryl Corcoran
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Unit 2, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:596-602. 2009..Few contemporary studies have evaluated the risk of schizophrenia among second-generation immigrants in other parts of the world... - Effect of socioeconomic status and parents' education at birth on risk of schizophrenia in offspringCheryl Corcoran
Dept of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 2, New York, NY 10032, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 44:265-71. 2009..Instead, a modest increase in risk for schizophrenia was observed only for those born at the bottom of the social ladder... - The psychological impact of the SARS epidemic on hospital employees in China: exposure, risk perception, and altruistic acceptance of riskPing Wu
Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Can J Psychiatry 54:302-11. 2009..We examined the psychological impact of the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on hospital employees in Beijing, China... - The role of birth cohorts in studies of adult health: the New York women's birth cohortMary Beth Terry
Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 23:431-45. 2009..Understanding the factors that are associated with tracing and participation in these existing cohorts will help in interpreting the validity and generalisability of the findings from these invaluable cohorts... - Genomic DNA methylation among women in a multiethnic New York City birth cohortMary Beth Terry
Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2306-10. 2008..Larger studies and studies that measure within-individual changes in DNA methylation over time are a necessary next step... - Commentary: what can epidemiology accomplish?Sharon Schwartz
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:587-90; discussion 593-6. 2006 - Mental illness in an adult sample admitted to public hostels in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, Brazil--on Lovisi et alMichaeline Bresnahan
Dept. of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 38:499-501. 2003 - Psychosis and placeDana March
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Epidemiol Rev 30:84-100. 2008..They also propose a conceptual shift from studies of spatial variation in outcomes to research addressing the etiologic effect of exposures shaped by place as a reservoir of risk or resilience... - The concept of population prevention: application to schizophreniaRamin Mojtabai
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, USA
Schizophr Bull 29:791-801. 2003..The article concludes that population and high-risk prevention strategies can be complementary and that it may be feasible and appropriate to use them in combination... - Children of HIV-positive drug-using parentsDaniel J Pilowsky
Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:950-6. 2003..Associations between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status of injection drug users (IDUs) and their children's psychopathology and social functioning were examined... - Mental health needs in New York state following the September 11th attacksDaniel Herman
Department of Epidemiology of the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Urban Health 79:322-31. 2002..Estimates from this initial assessment will be refined over time as further data concerning the impact of the September 11th attacks become available... - Mortality risk among recent-onset injection drug users in five U.S. citiesDavid Vlahov
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Subst Use Misuse 43:413-28. 2008.... - A.E. Bennett Research Award. Prenatal rubella, premorbid abnormalities, and adult schizophreniaA S Brown
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA
Biol Psychiatry 49:473-86. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: These findings link a known prenatal exposure, a deviant neurodevelopmental trajectory in childhood and adolescence, and SSP in adulthood within the same individuals... - Ourselves, our bodies, our realities: an HIV prevention intervention for women with severe mental illnessP Y Collins
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
J Urban Health 78:162-75. 2001..Providing women with severe mental illness with choices of protective methods and the knowledge and skills to ensure proper use are among the many crucial ingredients in prevention of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome... - Senile degeneration and cognitive impairment in chronic schizophreniaA J Dwork
Department of Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:1536-43. 1998..This study was an investigation of the role of Alzheimer-type senile degenerative abnormalities in the cognitive impairment of chronic schizophrenia... - New York besieged: 11 September and afterSally Conover
Dept of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:2-3. 2002 - Epidemiology and course of anorexia nervosa in the communityAnna Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:1259-65. 2007..The authors sought to describe the onset and outcomes of anorexia nervosa in the general population... - Elevated prenatal homocysteine levels as a risk factor for schizophreniaAlan S Brown
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:31-9. 2007.... - Cohort profile: the Dutch Hunger Winter families studyL H Lumey
Department of Epidemiology Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:1196-204. 2007 - Use of VA aftercare following military discharge among patients with serious mental disordersRamin Mojtabai
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City 10463, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:383-8. 2003..This study examined the use of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) aftercare services among patients with serious mental disorders who were discharged from the military after a first admission to a Department of Defense (DoD) hospital... - Congenital anomalies and early functional impairments in a prospective birth cohort: risk of schizophrenia-spectrum disorder in adulthoodJohn L Waddington
Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St Stephen s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Br J Psychiatry 192:264-7. 2008..Adversities operating over intrauterine life have been associated with risk of schizophrenia, but the biology of resultant developmental perturbation is poorly understood... - Paternal age and risk of schizophrenia in adult offspringAlan S Brown
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:1528-33. 2002..The study examined the relation between paternal age at the time of birth and risk of schizophrenia in the adult offspring... - Relative risk for genetic associations: the case-parent triad as a variant of case-cohort designHabibul Ahsan
Department of Epidemiology, Joseph L Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:669-78. 2002..Also, by allowing the potential sources of selection bias to be revealed more easily the design is made more accessible both conceptually and practically to epidemiologists... - Maternal iron deficiency and the risk of schizophrenia in offspringBeverly J Insel
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 23, New York, NY 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1136-44. 2008..Adopting a life course perspective, we examined the effects of early iron deficiency on the risk of schizophrenia in adulthood... - In utero infection and adult schizophreniaAlan S Brown
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 8:51-7. 2002.... - No evidence of relation between maternal exposure to herpes simplex virus type 2 and risk of schizophrenia?Alan S Brown
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 23, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:2178-80. 2006..The authors examined whether maternal exposure to herpes virus type 2 is associated with risk for adult schizophrenia... - Tetrachloroethylene exposure and risk of schizophrenia: offspring of dry cleaners in a population birth cohort, preliminary findingsMary C Perrin
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10032, USA
Schizophr Res 90:251-4. 2007..We observed an increased incidence of schizophrenia in offspring of parents who were dry cleaners (RR=3.4, 95% CI, 1.3-9.2, p=0.01). Tetrachloroethylene exposure warrants further investigation as a risk factor for schizophrenia... - Commentary: the social pathology of the HIV/AIDS pandemicLandon Myer
Fogarty AIDS Information, Training and Research Program, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:189-92. 2003 - Social epidemiology in South AfricaLandon Myer
School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Epidemiol Rev 26:112-23. 2004 - Serologic evidence of prenatal influenza in the etiology of schizophreniaAlan S Brown
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:774-80. 2004..These studies used dates of influenza epidemics and maternal recall of infection to define influenza exposure, suggesting that discrepant findings may have resulted from exposure misclassification... - Maternal exposure to toxoplasmosis and risk of schizophrenia in adult offspringAlan S Brown
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 23, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:767-73. 2005..The authors examined the relationship between maternal antibody to toxoplasmosis and the risk of schizophrenia and other schizophrenia spectrum disorders in offspring. Toxoplasmosis is known to adversely affect fetal brain development... 
An approach to assessment of endocrine disruption in the National Children's StudyMatthew P Longnecker
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:1691-7. 2003..Nonetheless, if properly designed, the NCS could serve as an excellent resource for investigating future hypotheses regarding endocrine disruption...- Service use and outcomes of first-admission patients with psychotic disorders in the Suffolk County Mental Health ProjectRamin Mojtabai
Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, First Ave at 16th St, New York, NY 10010, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:1291-8. 2005.... - Maternal-fetal blood incompatibility and the risk of schizophrenia in offspringBeverly J Insel
Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University Epidemiology, 722 W 168 St, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Res 80:331-42. 2005..The relation between schizophrenia and maternal-fetal blood incompatibility, arising from the D antigen of the Rhesus (Rh) and the ABO blood group antigens, was examined in a cohort of live-births... - Fetal environment and schizophreniaMark G A Opler
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1239-42. 2005..Findings from prospectively collected birth cohorts are offered as examples of both innovations in methodology and opportunities for future generations of investigators... - Elevated maternal interleukin-8 levels and risk of schizophrenia in adult offspringAlan S Brown
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 2, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:889-95. 2004.... - Homocysteine and schizophrenia: from prenatal to adult lifeAlan S Brown
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 29:1175-80. 2005..Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings for future work on nutritional etiologies of schizophrenia... - Prenatal determinants of schizophrenia: what we have learned thus far?Michaeline Bresnahan
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 14:194-7. 2005..Here we describe a few key findings from the PDS with respect to prenatal infection, nutrition, and toxic exposures... - Does unwantedness of pregnancy predict schizophrenia in the offspring? Findings from a prospective birth cohort studyDaniel B Herman
New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:605-10. 2006..We sought to replicate (or refute) a previous report of an association between unwantedness of a pregnancy and the risk of schizophrenia in the offspring... - Prenatal lead exposure, delta-aminolevulinic acid, and schizophreniaMark G A Opler
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:548-52. 2004..43 (95% CI, 0.99-5.96; p = 0.051). This finding suggests that the effects of prenatal exposure to lead and/or elevated delta-ALA may extend into later life and must be further investigated as risk factors for adult psychiatric diseases... - Challenges for psychiatry in serving homeless people with psychiatric disordersHunter L McQuistion
Mt Sinai School of Medicine and Division of Mental Hygiene, City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 93 Worth Street, Room 413, New York, NY 10013, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:669-76. 2003..To be effective and credible in continuing to help solve the problems of homeless people with psychiatric disorders, psychiatry must adapt to these new challenges, using the roles it has developed... - The incidence of anorexia nervosa on CuraçaoHans W Hoek
Parnassia The Hague Psychiatric Institute, Mangostraat 15, 2552 KS The Hague, Netherlands
Am J Psychiatry 162:748-52. 2005..To examine whether anorexia nervosa emerges in societies undergoing socioeconomic transition, the authors studied the incidence of anorexia nervosa on the Caribbean island of Curaçao... - Prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and postnatal growth: a structural analysisMatthew R Lamb
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:779-85. 2006..Although limited by sample size, our results suggest that prenatal exposure to PCBs may affect growth, especially in girls, and that ortho-substitution is an important determinant of its effect on growth... - Clinical characteristics, 4-year course, and DSM-IV classification of patients with nonaffective acute remitting psychosisRamin Mojtabai
Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NewYork, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:2108-15. 2003.... - Birth weight and cognitive ability in childhood among siblings and nonsiblingsSeungmi Yang
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pediatrics 122:e350-8. 2008.... - Patients with ICD-10 acute transient psychotic disorder (ATPD)Ramin Mojtabai
Psychol Med 32:1483-4; author reply 1484-5. 2002
Research Grants
- SEXUAL RISK REDUCTION AMONG MEN WITH MENTAL ILLNESSEzra Susser; Fiscal Year: 2002..We will thoroughly examine the implications of the data for service provision and disseminate the results as appropriate. ..
- Early Determinants of Adult HealthEzra Susser; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..