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Internalizing and externalizing subtypes in female sexual assault survivors: implications for the understanding of complex PTSDMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Boston University, MA 02130, USA
Behav Ther 38:58-71. 2007....- Differential etiology of posttraumatic stress disorder with conduct disorder and major depression in male veteransQiang Fu
Department of Community Health, Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St Louis, Missouri 63104, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:1088-94. 2007..Epidemiologic studies reveal that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is highly comorbid with both conduct disorder and major depression in men. The genetic and environmental etiology of this comorbidity has not been examined... - The internalizing and externalizing structure of psychiatric comorbidity in combat veteransMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Trauma Stress 21:58-65. 2008..These findings shed new light on the structure of psychiatric comorbidity in a treatment-seeking sample characterized by high rates of PTSD... 
PTSD and conflict behavior between veterans and their intimate partnersMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, United States Electronic address
J Anxiety Disord 27:240-51. 2013....- Alcohol and drug abuse among u.s. Veterans: comparing associations with intimate partner substance abuse and veteran psychopathologyMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System and Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Trauma Stress 26:71-6. 2013..Findings shed new light on the influence of relationship factors on veteran alcohol and drug use and underscore the importance of couples-oriented approaches to treating veterans with comorbid PTSD and substance abuse... - Personality and the latent structure of PTSD comorbidityMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, USA
J Anxiety Disord 26:599-607. 2012..These results shed new light on the location of borderline personality disorder within the internalizing/externalizing model and clarify the relative influence of broad dimensions of personality on patterns of comorbidity... 
Structural equation modeling of associations among combat exposure, PTSD symptom factors, and Global Assessment of FunctioningMark W Miller
National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 45:359-69. 2008..However, only 17% of variance in GAF was accounted for by PTSD. The results raise concern about the use of the GAF score as a benchmark for quantifying combat PTSD-related functional impairment...- On comparing competing models of PTSD: response to SimmsMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Trauma Stress 23:642-4. 2010..The author concludes by underscoring the need for future research to place greater emphasis on examining the external correlates of alternative models of the factor structure of PTSD... - An evaluation of competing models for the structure of PTSD symptoms using external measures of comorbidityMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Trauma Stress 23:631-8. 2010..Findings raise questions about proposals to abandon the distinction between numbing and hyperarousal symptoms in favor of a dysphoria-based model... - Diurnal variation of the startle reflex in relation to HPA-axis activity in humansMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System and Department of Psychiatry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02130, USA
Psychophysiology 43:297-301. 2006.... - PTSD and substance-related problems: the mediating roles of disconstraint and negative emotionalityMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:369-79. 2006..These findings indicate distinct pathways to different forms of substance-related problems in PTSD and underscore the role of personality in mediating these relationships... - Hydrocortisone suppression of the fear-potentiated startle response and posttraumatic stress disorderMark W Miller
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, United States Boston University School of Medicine, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:970-80. 2011..This finding may have implications for understanding the role of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis function in vulnerability and resilience to traumatic stress... - Intimate partner and general aggression perpetration among combat veterans presenting to a posttraumatic stress disorder clinicCasey T Taft
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 79:461-8. 2009..Findings indicate a need for additional aggression screening and intervention development for this population, and highlight the targeting of heightened arousal and lack of behavioral control in aggression interventions... - Posttraumatic stress disorder: anxiety or traumatic stress disorder?Patricia A Resick
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Trauma Stress 22:384-90. 2009..The authors conclude with the recommendation that PTSD be included among a new category of traumatic stress disorders in DSM-V... - Affective imagery and the startle response: probing mechanisms of modulation during pleasant scenes, personal experiences, and discrete negative emotionsMark W Miller
Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA
Psychophysiology 39:519-29. 2002..The findings also indicate that fear and anger are differentiable in terms of affective report, cardiac mobilization, and expressive behavior, but not at the primary motivational level at which reflex priming occurs... - Externalizing and internalizing subtypes of combat-related PTSD: a replication and extension using the PSY-5 scalesMark W Miller
National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, 150 South Huntington Avenue 116B 2, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:636-45. 2004..These findings support the development of a personality-based typology of posttraumatic response designed to account for heterogeneity in the expression of PTSD and associated psychopathology... - Emotional-processing in posttraumatic stress disorder II: startle reflex modulation during picture processingMark W Miller
National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:451-63. 2004..These findings, along with augmented corrugator EMG reactivity during the same interval, suggest that trauma-related reexperiencing primes subsequent negative emotional responding in individuals with PTSD... - Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire profiles of veterans with traumatic combat exposure: externalizing and internalizing subtypesMark W Miller
National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Division of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, 150 South Huntington Avenue 116B 2, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Psychol Assess 15:205-15. 2003..These findings suggest that dispositions toward externalizing versus internalizing psychopathology may account for heterogeneity in the expression of posttraumatic responses, including patterns of comorbidity... - Emotional processing in PTSD: heightened negative emotionality to unpleasant photographic stimuliErika J Wolf
National Center for PTSD, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts 02130, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:419-26. 2009..Findings raise questions about the sensitivity of the International Affective Picture System rating protocol for the assessment of PTSD-related emotional numbing... - Posttraumatic stress disorder and the genetic structure of comorbidityErika J Wolf
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System and Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:320-30. 2010..Shared genetic variance across the 2 dimensions explained 67% of their phenotypic correlation (r = .52). These findings have implications for conceptualizations of the etiology of PTSD and its location in an empirically based nosology... - The MMPI-2 restructured clinical scales in the assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid disordersErika J Wolf
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Psychol Assess 20:327-40. 2008..The PK scale demonstrated incremental validity in the prediction of PTSD beyond that of the RCSs or CSs... - Military-related PTSD, current disability policies, and malingeringBrian P Marx
Am J Public Health 98:773-4; author reply 774-5. 2008
Research Grants
- The Genetics of Negative Conflict BehaviorMark W Miller; Fiscal Year: 2010..In the future, information about genes could be used to inform the selection of pharmacologic agents and guide efforts to match treatments to patients on the basis of their unique genetic architectures. ..
- Startle reflex amplitude and cortisol in PTSD.Mark Miller; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- The Genetics of Negative Conflict BehaviorMark Miller; Fiscal Year: 2007..In the future, information about genes could be used to inform the selection of pharmacologic agents and guide efforts to match treatments to patients on the basis of their unique genetic architectures. ..