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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring IQNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:1047-53. 2005..Maternal smoking in pregnancy lowers birthweight. It is unclear, however, whether smoking during pregnancy lowers offspring IQ, and, if it does, whether it is through the smoking effect on fetal growth...- Intelligence and other predisposing factors in exposure to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder: a follow-up study at age 17 yearsNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1238-45. 2006..Prospective data on standardized measures of early predispositions would allow a strong test of hypotheses about suspected risk factors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and exposure to traumatic events... 
Influence of predispositions on post-traumatic stress disorder: does it vary by trauma severity?N Breslau
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Med 43:381-90. 2013....- Migraine headaches and suicide attemptNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Headache 52:723-31. 2012..Previous cross-sectional studies reported an increased risk of suicide attempt in persons with migraine headache, which was sustained when psychiatric comorbidity was statistically controlled... 
Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder: a study of youths in urban AmericaNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing 48824, USA
J Urban Health 81:530-44. 2004....- Estimating post-traumatic stress disorder in the community: lifetime perspective and the impact of typical traumatic eventsN Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, E Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Med 34:889-98. 2004..The 'worst event' method is efficient for identifying persons with PTSD, but may overestimate the conditional probability of PTSD associated with the entire range of PTSD-level traumas. In this report, we evaluate this potential bias... - Partial PTSD versus full PTSD: an empirical examination of associated impairmentNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Med 34:1205-14. 2004..We examined the extent to which partial PTSD is distinguishable from full DSM-PTSD with respect to level of impairment... - A second look at prior trauma and the posttraumatic stress disorder effects of subsequent trauma: a prospective epidemiological studyNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:431-7. 2008..The evidence comes chiefly from retrospective data on earlier events, obtained from trauma-exposed persons with and without PTSD. A generally overlooked major limitation is the failure to assess the PTSD response to the prior trauma... - The structure of posttraumatic stress disorder: latent class analysis in 2 community samplesNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:1343-51. 2005..Classification of persons exposed to traumatic events into clinically homogeneous groups would facilitate further etiologic and treatment research, as well as research on the relationship of trauma and PTSD with other disorders... - Gender differences in the sensitivity to posttraumatic stress disorder: An epidemiological study of urban young adultsNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:607-11. 2007..These findings suggest that assaultive violence elicits women's PTSD response directly and by sensitizing them to the effects of subsequent traumatic events of lesser magnitude... - Neurobiological research on sleep and stress hormones in epidemiological samplesNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1071:221-30. 2006..Methodological questions raised by discrepancies between biological findings from epidemiologic versus clinical and other selective samples are discussed... - The clinical significance criterion in DSM-IV post-traumatic stress disorderNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Med 37:1437-44. 2007..The impact of the clinical significance criterion on the lifetime prevalence of PTSD among civilian victims of traumatic events has not been evaluated... - The lingering academic deficits of low birth weight childrenNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Pediatrics 114:1035-40. 2004..To estimate the influence of low birth weight (LBW; < or =2500 g) on academic achievement in reading and mathematics in 12th grade in 2 socioeconomically and racially disparate, geographically defined communities... - Behavior problems at ages 6 and 11 and high school academic achievement: longitudinal latent variable modelingNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychiatry Res 185:433-7. 2011..Behavior problems at the start of school, independent of later behavior problems, exert lingering effects on achievement by impeding the acquisition of cognitive skills that are the foundation for later academic progress... - The 9/11 terrorist attack and posttraumatic stress disorder revisitedNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 198:539-43. 2010..3%. In the subset that endorsed only 9/11 indirect exposure (n = 3981), the PTSD risk was 0.3%. Of the total sample, 0.7% experienced PTSD in relation to indirect 9/11. Explanations for the lower estimates are discussed... - Assaultive violence and the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder following a subsequent traumaNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Behav Res Ther 48:1063-6. 2010..In contrast, prior PTSD increased considerably the PTSD risk of a subsequent trauma. The limitations in Cougle et al. (2009) and in this study and future research directions are discussed... - Commentary: Maternal smoking during pregnancy: hazard for what?Naomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:832-3. 2007 - Change in teachers' ratings of attention problems and subsequent change in academic achievement: a prospective analysisN Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Med 40:159-66. 2010..Little is known about the association of change in attention problems during the early school years with subsequent change in academic achievement... - Sleep in lifetime posttraumatic stress disorder: a community-based polysomnographic studyNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:508-16. 2004..Polysomnographic studies conducted on small samples of subjects with specific traumas have yielded conflicting results. We therefore evaluated polysomnographic sleep disturbances in PTSD... - Smoking and the risk of suicidal behavior: a prospective study of a community sampleNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology and Office of the Dean, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:328-34. 2005..Recent observations of lower monoamine oxidase activity (which may play a role in central nervous system serotonin metabolism) in current smokers but not ex-smokers might provide clues, but interpretations should proceed cautiously... - The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder: tests of invariance by gender and trauma typeH Chung
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
Psychol Med 38:563-73. 2008..Measurement invariance of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV) post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) criterion symptoms was tested by gender and trauma type, assaultive and non-assaultive... - The epidemiology of trauma, PTSD, and other posttrauma disordersNaomi Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, USA
Trauma Violence Abuse 10:198-210. 2009..Observed sex differences in anxiety, neuroticism, and depression, inducing effects of stressful experiences, might provide a theoretical context for further inquiry into the greater vulnerability of females to PTSD... - Daily smoking and the subsequent onset of psychiatric disordersN Breslau
Department of Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Med 34:323-33. 2004..Additionally, current smoking might serve as a marker for targeting interventions to prevent alcohol and drug disorders... - Stability of psychiatric outcomes of low birth weight: a longitudinal investigationKIPLING M BOHNERT
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, B645 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1080-6. 2008.... - Incidence of drug problems in young adults exposed to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder: do early life experiences and predispositions matter?Philip L Reed
Biomedical Research and Informatics Center, Michigan State University, 100 Conrad Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824 1327, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1435-42. 2007.... - Factors associated with women's perceptions of physical activity safety during pregnancyLanay M Mudd
Department of Kinesiology, College of Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Prev Med 49:194-9. 2009..Health benefits of physical activity (PA) during pregnancy have been noted, but women's perceptions of PA safety have been little studied... - Late-preterm birth and its association with cognitive and socioemotional outcomes at 6 years of ageNicole M Talge
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, B601 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Pediatrics 126:1124-31. 2010.... - Prenatal smoking exposure, low birth weight, and disruptive behavior disordersJoel T Nigg
Department of Psychology, Michifan State University, 115 Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:362-9. 2007..A key question concerns whether etiological contributors are shared across the broad range of disruptive psychopathology or are partially or largely distinct... - Sex differences in the pathway from low birth weight to inattention/hyperactivityMichelle M Martel
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 43 Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48823 1116, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:87-96. 2007..Sex differences in the associated features of attention symptoms may reflect partially distinct etiological pathways... - Prenatal care and delivery room staff attitudes toward research and the National Children's StudyLanay M Mudd
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, B601 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:684-91. 2008..This study assessed attitudes of prenatal clinic and delivery room (DR) staff toward facilitation of research, with a particular focus on the National Children's Study (NCS)... - Attitudes of pregnant women towards participation in perinatal epidemiological researchSarah Nechuta
Department of Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 23:424-30. 2009..Resistance to these research procedures was especially noted among more highly educated women. Planning for the National Children's Study will have to address potential resistance to research among pregnant women... - Reports of birthweight by adolescents and their mothers: comparing accuracy and identifying correlatesVictoria C Lucia
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:520-7. 2006..While maternal reports of offspring's birthweight are highly accurate across diverse subgroups of the population, adolescent self-reports of birthweight are unlikely to be useful in medical research... - Family cohesion and children's behavior problems: a longitudinal investigationVictoria C Lucia
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, 48824, USA
Psychiatry Res 141:141-9. 2006..The study highlights an important relationship between family cohesion and children's internalizing and attention problems... - Race differences in nicotine dependence in the Collaborative Genetic study of Nicotine Dependence (COGEND)Zhehui Luo
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, MI, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 10:1223-30. 2008..The data support the hypothesis that the relationship between CPD and nicotine dependence as reflected in relapse varies by race, and that Black smokers are dependent at lower levels of CPD than Whites... - Parental monitoring at age 11 and smoking initiation up to age 17 among Blacks and Whites: a prospective investigationKIPLING M BOHNERT
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:1474-8. 2009..Parental monitoring has been identified as a predictor of adolescent smoking initiation. However, it is uncertain if the association is uniform across different racial groups... - Gender differences in trauma and posttraumatic stress disorderNaomi Breslau
Department of Psychiatry, Henry Ford Health System, One Ford Place, 3A, Detroit, MI 48202 3450, USA
J Gend Specif Med 5:34-40. 2002..Research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has focused primarily on Vietnam War veterans. A handful of recent studies have been conducted on samples of the general population... - Saliva cortisol in posttraumatic stress disorder: a community epidemiologic studyElizabeth A Young
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Biol Psychiatry 56:205-9. 2004..To address this question, we collected saliva cortisol at home in a subsample of a longitudinal epidemiologic sample... - Cortisol and catecholamines in posttraumatic stress disorder: an epidemiologic community studyElizabeth A Young
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109 0720, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:394-401. 2004..Prior research has connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to increased levels of catecholamines. However, studies of cortisol levels have produced mixed results... - Psychiatric disorders and stages of smokingNaomi Breslau
Department of Psychiatry, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan 48202-3450, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:69-76. 2004.... - Epidemiologic studies of trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and other psychiatric disordersNaomi Breslau
Department of Psychiatry, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health System, One Ford Place, 3A, Detroit, MI 48202 3450, USA
Can J Psychiatry 47:923-9. 2002..Trauma victims who do not succumb to PTSD are not at an elevated risk for the subsequent onset of major depression or substance use disorders, compared with unexposed persons... - Posttraumatic stress disorder and the incidence of nicotine, alcohol, and other drug disorders in persons who have experienced traumaNaomi Breslau
Department of Psychiatry, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202 3450, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:289-94. 2003..We examine whether exposure to traumatic events increases the risk for nicotine dependence or alcohol or other drug use disorders, independent of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)... - Graphing survival curve estimates for time-dependent covariatesLonni R Schultz
Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health Systems, Detroit, MI, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 11:68-74. 2002..Examples of how the two methods can differ for time dependent covariates in Cox proportional hazards regression analysis are presented... - Low birth weight as a vulnerability marker for early drug useHoward D Chilcoat
Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 10:104-12. 2002..These findings suggest that LBW is a useful vulnerability marker for early drug use among boys, independent of the antecedents and sequelae of LBW... - Comorbidity of depression with levels of smoking: an exploration of the shared familial risk hypothesisEric O Johnson
Department of Psychiatry, Henry Ford Health Sciences Center, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 6:1029-38. 2004..The conflicting findings of the studies that have examined the relationship between smoking and depression may be attributable to differences in definition of the disorders and the methods used to analyze them... - Childhood antecedents of exposure to traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorderCarla L Storr
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:119-25. 2007..The authors prospectively examined childhood antecedents of exposure to traumatic events to estimate the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among those exposed to trauma... - The association of insomnia with anxiety disorders and depression: exploration of the direction of riskEric O Johnson
Behavioral Health Epidemiology Program, Triangle Institute International, PO Box 12194, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
J Psychiatr Res 40:700-8. 2006..Additionally insomnia may have independent, and potentially etiologically distinct, directional associations with anxiety disorders versus depression... - Troublesome memories: reflections on the futureAllan Young
McGill University, USA
J Anxiety Disord 21:230-2. 2007..Several papers in this collection direct readers' attention to this fundamental problem. We are pessimistic that their insight will lead to positive results... - Is the association of smoking and depression a recent phenomenon?Eric O Johnson
Division of Health, Social and Economic Research, Research Triangle Institute International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 2194, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 8:257-62. 2006.... - Psychiatric morbidity in adult survivors of childhood traumaNaomi Breslau
Department of Psychiatry, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202 3450, USA
Semin Clin Neuropsychiatry 7:80-8. 2002..However, the retrospective nature of data on child abuse, because of legal and ethical restraints on research on children, is a formidable obstacle to advancing knowledge in this field... - Test of measurement invariance of the FTND across demographic groups: assessment, effect size, and prediction of cessationEric O Johnson
Behavioral Health Epidemiology, Division of Health, Social, and Economic Research, Research Triangle Institute International, PO Box 12194, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 2194, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 93:260-70. 2008.... - Sex differences in the polysomnographic sleep of young adults: a community-based studyTimothy Roehrs
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Sleep Disorders and Research Center, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Sleep Med 7:49-53. 2006..Given the higher prevalence of sleep-related breathing disturbance in men, this study assessed sex differences in sleep in a large, non-clinical sample of adults and controlled for primary sleep disorders... - Post-traumatic stress disorderNaomi Breslau
N Engl J Med 346:1495-8; author reply 1495-8. 2002 - Persistence of cigarette smoking: familial liability and the role of nicotine dependenceEric O Johnson
Department of Psychiatry, Henry Ford Health Sciences Center, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Addiction 97:1063-70. 2002..We examined alternative ways that familial liability to persistence, nicotine dependence and smoking persistence may be related... - Novel genes identified in a high-density genome wide association study for nicotine dependenceLaura Jean Bierut
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid, Box 8134, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Hum Mol Genet 16:24-35. 2007..This work anticipates the future directions of large-scale genome wide association studies with state-of-the-art methodological approaches and sharing of data with the scientific community... - Does virtual trauma cause posttraumatic stress disorder?Richard J McNally
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Am Psychol 63:282-3; discussion 283-5. 2008 - Epidemiology of DSM-IV insomnia in adolescence: lifetime prevalence, chronicity, and an emergent gender differenceEric O Johnson
Substance Abuse Epi, Prevention, and Risk Behavior, Research Triangle Institute International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 2194, USA
Pediatrics 117:e247-56. 2006.... - Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor genes and nicotine dependence: evidence for association from a case-control studyArpana Agrawal
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Addiction 103:1027-38. 2008....