S Sevy

Summary

Affiliation: Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Olanzapine vs. risperidone in patients with first-episode schizophrenia and a lifetime history of cannabis use disorders: 16-week clinical and substance use outcomes
    Serge Sevy
    The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
    Psychiatry Res 188:310-4. 2011
  2. ncbi Contingency valuation and preferences of health states associated with side effects of antipsychotic medications in schizophrenia
    S Sevy
    Department of Psychiatry, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    Schizophr Bull 27:643-51. 2001
  3. ncbi Are cannabis use disorders associated with an earlier age at onset of psychosis? A study in first episode schizophrenia
    Serge Sevy
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Psychiatry Research, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Schizophr Res 120:101-7. 2010
  4. ncbi Cerebral glucose metabolism and D2/D3 receptor availability in young adults with cannabis dependence measured with positron emission tomography
    Serge Sevy
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, NY 11004, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 197:549-56. 2008
  5. ncbi Relationship between costs and symptoms in schizophrenia patients treated with antipsychotic medication: a review
    Serge Sevy
    Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 65:756-65. 2004
  6. ncbi Iowa gambling task in schizophrenia: a review and new data in patients with schizophrenia and co-occurring cannabis use disorders
    Serge Sevy
    Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY, 11004, USA
    Schizophr Res 92:74-84. 2007
  7. ncbi Emotion-based decision-making in healthy subjects: short-term effects of reducing dopamine levels
    Serge Sevy
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, and Psychiatry Research Department, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 188:228-35. 2006
  8. ncbi Double-blind, placebo-controlled study of modafinil for fatigue and cognition in schizophrenia patients treated with psychotropic medications
    Serge Sevy
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 66:839-43. 2005
  9. ncbi Correlates of substance misuse in patients with first-episode schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder
    S Sevy
    Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Hillside Division, Leon Lowenstein Research Building, 266th Street @ 7th Avenue, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 104:367-74. 2001
  10. ncbi Brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism and volume of the hippocampal formation
    P R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
    Mol Psychiatry 10:631-6. 2005

Research Grants

  1. Addiction and Subsequent Schizophrenia: A Link?
    Serge Sevy; Fiscal Year: 2007

Detail Information

Publications22

  1. ncbi Olanzapine vs. risperidone in patients with first-episode schizophrenia and a lifetime history of cannabis use disorders: 16-week clinical and substance use outcomes
    Serge Sevy
    The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
    Psychiatry Res 188:310-4. 2011
    ..If clinicians are choosing between olanzapine versus risperidone treatment for this population, their decision should be based upon factors other than symptom response and short-term substance misuse...
  2. ncbi Contingency valuation and preferences of health states associated with side effects of antipsychotic medications in schizophrenia
    S Sevy
    Department of Psychiatry, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    Schizophr Bull 27:643-51. 2001
    ..Our results suggest that WTP has some construct validity in valuating and measuring preferences of health states associated with side effects of antipsychotics in schizophrenia...
  3. ncbi Are cannabis use disorders associated with an earlier age at onset of psychosis? A study in first episode schizophrenia
    Serge Sevy
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Psychiatry Research, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Schizophr Res 120:101-7. 2010
    ..The purpose of this study is to determine if an earlier age at onset of positive symptoms in schizophrenia is associated with cannabis use disorders (CUD)...
  4. ncbi Cerebral glucose metabolism and D2/D3 receptor availability in young adults with cannabis dependence measured with positron emission tomography
    Serge Sevy
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, NY 11004, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 197:549-56. 2008
    ....
  5. ncbi Relationship between costs and symptoms in schizophrenia patients treated with antipsychotic medication: a review
    Serge Sevy
    Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 65:756-65. 2004
    ..The purpose of this review is to understand how changes in costs of illness are related to the effects of antipsychotic medications on symptoms in schizophrenia patients...
  6. ncbi Iowa gambling task in schizophrenia: a review and new data in patients with schizophrenia and co-occurring cannabis use disorders
    Serge Sevy
    Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY, 11004, USA
    Schizophr Res 92:74-84. 2007
    ..To test this hypothesis, we compared schizophrenia patients with (SCZ((+))) or without (SCZ((-))) cannabis use disorders, to healthy subjects, on measures of cognition and IGT performance...
  7. ncbi Emotion-based decision-making in healthy subjects: short-term effects of reducing dopamine levels
    Serge Sevy
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, and Psychiatry Research Department, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 188:228-35. 2006
    ..So far, it is unclear what aspects of addictive behaviors are related to a dopaminergic dysfunction...
  8. ncbi Double-blind, placebo-controlled study of modafinil for fatigue and cognition in schizophrenia patients treated with psychotropic medications
    Serge Sevy
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 66:839-43. 2005
    ..To assess the effects of modafinil on fatigue, symptoms, attention, working memory, and executive functioning in schizophrenia patients treated with psychotropic medications...
  9. ncbi Correlates of substance misuse in patients with first-episode schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder
    S Sevy
    Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Hillside Division, Leon Lowenstein Research Building, 266th Street @ 7th Avenue, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 104:367-74. 2001
    ..CONCLUSION: First-episode patients with a history of substance misuse have higher intellectual functioning, which may be associated with higher premorbid socioeconomic status and cognitive functioning...
  10. ncbi Brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism and volume of the hippocampal formation
    P R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
    Mol Psychiatry 10:631-6. 2005
    ..These findings implicate genetic involvement of BDNF in variation of human hippocampal volume and suggest that this effect may be greater among patients compared to healthy volunteers...
  11. ncbi Cortical thinning in cingulate and occipital cortices in first episode schizophrenia
    Katherine L Narr
    Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 58:32-40. 2005
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  12. ncbi The relationship between insight and symptoms in schizophrenia
    Serge Sevy
    Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    Compr Psychiatry 45:16-9. 2004
    ..Treatment studies that measure insight could answer the question of whether these deficits in awareness improve along with positive and cognitive symptoms...
  13. ncbi Patterns of stress in schizophrenia
    Julia D Betensky
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Psychiatry Res 160:38-46. 2008
    ....
  14. ncbi Clinical and neuropsychological correlates of white matter abnormalities in recent onset schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 33:976-84. 2008
    ..These abnormalities have clinical and neuropsychological correlates, which may be useful in further characterizing structure-function relations in schizophrenia and constraining neurobiological models of the disorder...
  15. ncbi CSF sub-compartments in relation to plasma osmolality in healthy controls and in patients with first episode schizophrenia
    Handan Gunduz-Bruce
    Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Psychiatry Res 155:57-66. 2007
    ..These results suggest that plasma osmolality is related to ventricle size in healthy volunteers and that this physiological link is impaired in patients with first episode schizophrenia...
  16. ncbi DRD2 promoter region variation as a predictor of sustained response to antipsychotic medication in first-episode schizophrenia patients
    Todd Lencz
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 163:529-31. 2006
    ....
  17. ncbi Anterior cingulate grey-matter deficits and cannabis use in first-episode schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Zucker Hillside Hospital, Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Br J Psychiatry 190:230-6. 2007
    ..Despite the high prevalence of cannabis use in schizophrenia, few studies have examined the potential relationship between cannabis exposure and brain structural abnormalities in schizophrenia...
  18. ncbi White matter abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study
    Philip R Szeszko
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd St, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 162:602-5. 2005
    ..The goal of this study was to investigate brain white matter abnormalities by using diffusion tensor imaging in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder close to illness onset...
  19. ncbi Decision-making impairments in adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia
    Hana M Kester
    Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Schizophr Res 85:113-23. 2006
    ..These findings have potential implications for understanding the increased vulnerability for the development of substance abuse in adolescents with schizophrenia...
  20. ncbi The Insight-Adherence-Abstinence triad: an integrated treatment focus for cannabis-using first-episode schizophrenia patients
    Rachel Miller
    Research Department, The Zucker Hillside Hospital NSLIJ, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
    Bull Menninger Clin 69:220-36. 2005
    ..Interventions recognize the many needs of cannabis-using first-episode patients and therefore include supportive, cognitive-behavioral, behavioral, and motivational therapies, as well as skill building and psychoeducation...
  21. ncbi Effects of acute metabolic stress on the dopaminergic and pituitary-adrenal axis activity in patients with schizotypal personality disorder
    Vivian Mitropoulou
    Department of Psychiatry, Mt Sinai School of Medicine Clinical Reseach Center, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Schizophr Res 70:27-31. 2004
    ..We hypothesized that SPD patients would demonstrate comparable or lower DA and HPA responses after 2-DG to HV...
  22. ncbi Mapping cortical thickness and gray matter concentration in first episode schizophrenia
    Katherine L Narr
    Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769, USA
    Cereb Cortex 15:708-19. 2005
    ..Cortical thickness and gray matter concentration mapping produce similar results, although the concentration metric may be influenced by diagnostic differences in extra-cortical cerebrospinal fluid and surface curvature/complexity...

Research Grants2

  1. Addiction and Subsequent Schizophrenia: A Link?
    Serge Sevy; Fiscal Year: 2007
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