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Brief screening for family psychiatric history: the family history screenM M Weissman
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 57:675-82. 2000..Brief screens to collect lifetime family psychiatric history are useful in clinical practice and for identifying potential families for genetic studies...- A comparison of three scales for assessing social functioning in primary careM M Weissman
Division of Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 158:460-6. 2001..Although several scales for assessing functioning are widely used, they vary in coverage, and direct comparisons among them are rare. Comparative information is useful in guiding selection of appropriate scales for research applications... - Social functioning and the treatment of depressionM M Weissman
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 61:33-8. 2000.... - Potential panic disorder syndrome: clinical and genetic linkage evidenceM M Weissman
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Am J Med Genet 96:24-35. 2000..Am. J. Med. Genet.(Neuropsychiatr. Genet.) 96:24-35, 2000... - Maternal smoking during pregnancy and psychopathology in offspring followed to adulthoodM M Weissman
New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:892-9. 1999..To extend findings from several independent reports of an association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and substance abuse in the offspring... - Depressed adolescents grown upM M Weissman
Division of Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
JAMA 281:1707-13. 1999..Major depressive disorder (MDD) that arises in adolescence impairs functioning and is associated with suicide risk, but little is known about its continuity into adulthood... - Phenotype definitions: some hidden issues in psychiatryM M Weissman
Division of Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Am J Med Genet 105:45-7. 2001.... - Offspring of depressed parents. 10 Years laterM M Weissman
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 54:932-40. 1997..None have followed up the offspring into adulthood to obtain more precise estimates of risk... - Cross-national epidemiology of major depression and bipolar disorderM M Weissman
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, USA
JAMA 276:293-9. 1996..To estimate the rates and patterns of major depression and bipolar disorder based on cross-national epidemiologic surveys... - The cross-national epidemiology of panic disorderM M Weissman
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 54:305-9. 1997..Epidemiological data on panic disorder from community studies from 10 countries around the world are presented to determine the consistency of findings across diverse cultures... - Children with prepubertal-onset major depressive disorder and anxiety grown upM M Weissman
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:794-801. 1999..The continuity in adulthood of major depressive disorder (MDD) first arising before puberty is largely unknown. This information could guide early treatment and clarify the appropriateness of including children with MDD in genetic studies... - Psychopathology in children of parents with opiate dependence and/or major depressionE V Nunes
Department of Genetic Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 37:1142-51. 1998..To evaluate psychiatric disorders and impairment in school-age and adolescent children of opiate-dependent patients... - Ethnic and sex differences in suicide rates relative to major depression in the United StatesM A Oquendo
Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 158:1652-8. 2001..Some possibilities are that depression differs in form or severity or that unidentified factors protect against suicide in different subgroups... - Results of a genome-wide genetic screen for panic disorderJ A Knowles
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
Am J Med Genet 81:139-47. 1998..Analysis with SIBPAIR yielded P values equivalent to a lod score of 1.0 or greater (i.e., P < .016, one-sided, uncorrected for multiple tests) for 11 marker loci (2, 7p, 8p, 8q, 9p, 11q, 12q, 16p, 20p and 20q)... - Screening for depression in mothers bringing their offspring for evaluation or treatment of depressionT Ferro
Division of Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 157:375-9. 2000..However, little is known about rates of current depression in mothers who bring their offspring to outpatient clinics for evaluation and/or treatment of depression. This information might be useful in developing intervention strategies... - Panic and suicidal ideation in primary careR Goodwin
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, and The Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Depress Anxiety 14:244-6. 2001..4) or panic attacks (OR = 7.9). There is need for detection and possible treatment of patients with panic attacks or disorder in primary care, especially among those with co-occurring major depression... - False positive results: a challenge for psychiatric screening in primary careA C Leon
Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, NY 10021, USA
Am J Psychiatry 154:1462-4. 1997..The goal of this study was to characterize primary care patients with false positive results on screens for mental disorders... 
The role of fear and anxiety in the familial risk for major depression: a three-generation studyV Warner
Division of Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychol Med 38:1543-56. 2008..This study, using a longitudinal high-risk design, examined whether anxiety disorders associated with the emotions fear and anxiety mediate the association between parental and offspring depression...- Suicidal ideation in primary careM Olfson
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Gen Intern Med 11:447-53. 1996..CONCLUSIONS: In these primary care patients, suicidal ideation is strongly associated with mental disorder and mental health-related functional impairment, and can be detected with a single self-report "feeling suicidal" item... - Psychiatric disorders in the relatives of probands with prepubertal-onset or adolescent-onset major depressionP J Wickramaratne
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 39:1396-405. 2000..To determine whether the familial risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) varies with either onset, recurrence, or continuity of MDD in adulthood in prepubertal- compared with adolescent-onset probands... - Grandparents, parents, and grandchildren at high risk for depression: a three-generation studyV Warner
Division of Clinical Genetic Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:289-96. 1999..Using a high-risk design, this study examines the association of grandparent major depressive disorder (MDD) and parent MDD with psychopathology in grandchildren... 
Genome-wide association study of recurrent early-onset major depressive disorderJ Shi
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Mol Psychiatry 16:193-201. 2011..Larger samples will be required to confirm the hypothesis of association between MDD (and particularly the recurrent early-onset subtype) and common SNPs...- Familial aggregation of delusional depression: re-examination in a recent family studyR B Goldstein
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Depress Anxiety 8:160-5. 1998..In a new family study, we attempted to replicate these findings... - Religiosity and resilience in persons at high risk for major depressionS Kasen
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Psychol Med 42:509-19. 2012..Few studies have examined religiosity as a protective factor using a longitudinal design to predict resilience in persons at high risk for major depressive disorder (MDD)... - The NIMH Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (MECA) Study: background and methodologyB B Lahey
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 35:855-64. 1996..A collaborative study was conducted to develop methods for surveys of mental disorder and service utilization in unscreened population-based samples of children and adolescents... - Rates of lifetime suicide attempt and rates of lifetime major depression in different ethnic groups in the United StatesM A Oquendo
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 110:446-51. 2004..Rates of major depression and suicide vary across ethnic groups within the US. This also may be true of suicide attempts... - The association between childhood depression and adulthood body mass indexD S Pine
Division of Child Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Pediatrics 107:1049-56. 2001..However, there are limited data on the association between major depression in childhood and BMI in adulthood. The current study examines this association... - Drawbacks of GENEHUNTER for larger pedigrees: application to panic disorderR Goedken
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 1000, USA
Am J Med Genet 96:781-3. 2000..Careful consideration must be given when selecting linkage analysis programs. Am. J. Med. Genet. (Neuropsychiatr. Genet.) 96:781-783, 2000... - Psychiatric disorders and impairment in the children of opiate addicts: prevalances and distribution by ethnicityE V Nunes
Depression Evaluation Service, New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
Am J Addict 9:232-41. 2000..The results suggest children of patients in treatment for opiate dependence from diverse ethnic groups are at risk for psychopathology. Programs for early detection and intervention should be devised and evaluated... - No association or linkage between polymorphisms in the genes encoding cholecystokinin and the cholecystokinin B receptor and panic disorderS P Hamilton
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA
Mol Psychiatry 6:59-65. 2001..The results reported here provide little support for the role of these polymorphisms in panic disorder... - A comparison between screened NIMH and clinically interviewed control samples on neuroticism and extraversionA Talati
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Mol Psychiatry 13:122-30. 2008.... - Medically unexplained symptoms in an urban general medicine practiceA Feder
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Psychosomatics 42:261-8. 2001..These data suggest that patients with MMUS are as common in urban primary care clinics as in more affluent clinics and reinforce the need for PCPs to screen these patients for common and treatable psychiatric conditions... - Premorbid polysomnographic signs in depressed adolescents: a reanalysis of EEG sleep after longitudinal follow-up in adulthoodR R Goetz
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA
Biol Psychiatry 49:930-42. 2001..This adds to the body of literature that highlights the importance of the first 100 min of the sleep period in depression... - Brief screens for mental disorders in primary careA C Leon
Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Gen Intern Med 11:426-30. 1996..They detected previously unrecognized cases in this study and may prove to be valuable tools for psychiatric diagnosis in primary care... - Using family studies to understand comorbidityP J Wickramaratne
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 243:150-7. 1993..These methods are illustrated, by applying them to data from a recent family study to investigate the relationship and the cause of comorbidity between panic disorder and major depressive disorder...