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Sibling similarity for MDD: evidence for shared familial factorsThomas M Olino
Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 2500, United States
J Affect Disord 94:211-8. 2006..Sibling designs have the potential to identify familial factors that are shared and unshared between siblings. Unfortunately, this methodology has rarely been applied to mood disorders...- Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a screening instrument for depression among community-residing older adultsP M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
Psychol Aging 12:277-87. 1997..This conclusion must be tempered by the fact that the sample did not include participants with the more disabling forms of cognitive or functional impairment and physical illness... - The prevalence and co-morbidity of subthreshold psychiatric conditionsPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, 1715 Franklin Blvd, Eugene, Oregon 97403 1983, USA
Psychol Med 34:613-22. 2004..The purpose was to examine rates of co-morbidity among subthreshold disorders and between subthreshold and full-syndrome disorders for the major non-psychotic classes of disorders from DSM-IV... - Gender differences in eating disorder symptoms in young adultsPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon 97403 1983, USA
Int J Eat Disord 32:426-40. 2002..The major goal of this study was to identify problematic eating behaviors and attitudes in young men and compare them with those of young women... 
Problematic eating and feeding behaviors of 36-month-old childrenPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
Int J Eat Disord 38:208-19. 2005..We incorporated selected items from several existing instruments to create a comprehensive multifactorial instrument to measure problematic eating behaviors in young children and to examine the prevalences and correlates of these behaviors...- Psychosocial impairment in offspring of depressed parentsPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR 97403 1983, USA
Psychol Med 35:1493-503. 2005..Offspring of depressed parents experience impairment in a number of domains of functioning. Few studies have examined the impact of both maternal and paternal depression and co-morbid psychopathology on offspring functioning... - The symptomatic expression of major depressive disorder in adolescents and young adultsPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:244-52. 2003..Age did not significantly influence the symptom picture. Stability of specific symptoms and episode severity across episodes was low. The results are discussed within the context of a stressor-symptom matching model... - Psychosocial functioning of young adults who have experienced and recovered from major depressive disorder during adolescencePeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:353-63. 2003..Accounting for levels of functioning in adolescence or for current depression at age 24 eliminated the remaining associations. The implications of these findings for efforts to prevent MDD in adolescence are discussed... - Family study of subthreshold depressive symptoms: risk factor for MDD?Peter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, 1715 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403 1983, USA
J Affect Disord 77:149-57. 2003..MDD): (a) is there an elevated rate of MDD in the relatives of probands with SubD? (b) does SubD aggregate in the families of probands with MDD and SubD? (c) is the relationship between SubD and familial psychopathology specific to MDD?.. - Comparability of self-report checklist and interview data in the assessment of stressful life events in young adultsPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
Psychol Rep 93:459-71. 2003..Contrary to expectation, stress scores from the interview assessment did not result in stronger associations with depression. Recommendations for assessment of stressful life events are offered... - Bipolar disorder in adolescence and young adulthoodPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, 1715 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403 1983, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 11:461-75, vii. 2002..Adolescent BD showed significant continuity across developmental periods and was associated with adverse outcomes during young adulthood. Subthreshold BD results provide partial support for a bipolar spectrum... - Separation anxiety disorder in childhood as a risk factor for future mental illnessPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:548-55. 2008..To ascertain the extent to which childhood separation anxiety disorder (SAD) confers risk for the development of psychopathology during young adulthood (ages 19-30)... - Depression-related psychosocial variables: are they specific to depression in adolescents?P M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 106:365-75. 1997..Implications of these findings for psychosocial theories of depression are discussed... - Gender differences in anxiety disorders and anxiety symptoms in adolescentsP M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 107:109-17. 1998..Psychosocial variables that were correlated with both anxiety and gender were identified. Statistically controlling for these variables did not eliminate the gender differences in prevalence or anxiety symptom means... - First onset versus recurrence of depression: differential processes of psychosocial riskP M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 108:483-9. 1999..The results provide support for the 3 hypotheses and suggest that distinct processes are involved in the onset of first and recurrent episodes of MDD... - Level of current and past adolescent cigarette smoking as predictors of future substance use disorders in young adulthoodP M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
Addiction 94:913-21. 1999..This study examined the impact of adolescent cigarette smoking (life-time use, recency, frequency and age of onset) on the occurrence of substance use disorders during young adulthood... - Clinical implications of "subthreshold" depressive symptomsP M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 109:345-51. 2000..Limitations of the present study are discussed... - Bipolar disorder during adolescence and young adulthood in a community sampleP M Lewinsohn
Oregon Reserch Institute, Eugene, 97403 1983, USA
Bipolar Disord 2:281-93. 2000.... - Gender differences in suicide attempts from adolescence to young adulthoodP M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, 1715 Franklin Blvd, Eugene, OR 97403 1983, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:427-34. 2001..To examine associations of age, gender, and psychosocial factors during adolescence with risk of suicide attempt between ages 19 and 23 years... - Evaluation of cognitive diathesis-stress models in predicting major depressive disorder in adolescentsP M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 110:203-15. 2001..For participants who scored either very high or very low on both dysfunctional attitudes and negative attributional style, nonsignificant findings were obtained... - Psychiatric disorders, familial factors, and cigarette smoking: III. Associations with cessation by young adulthood among daily smokersPaul Rohde
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR 97403 1983, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 6:509-22. 2004..The causal nature of the significant associations and the degree to which modification of these factors increases the probability of future smoking cessation deserve further attention... - Association of parental depression with psychiatric course from adolescence to young adulthood among formerly depressed individualsPaul Rohde
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:409-20. 2005..Recurrent paternal MDD was associated with depression recurrence in daughters but not sons. The impact of parental MDD on offspring could not be attributed to characteristics of the offspring's depression prior to age 19... - Psychosocial functioning of adults who experienced substance use disorders as adolescentsPaul Rohde
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR 97403 1983, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 21:155-64. 2007..Adolescent SUD is associated with numerous functioning difficulties at age 30, some of which appear to be related to recurrent SUD, comorbid adolescent disorders, or functioning problems already evident in adolescence... - Psychiatric disorders, familial factors, and cigarette smoking: II. Associations with progression to daily smokingPaul Rohde
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 6:119-32. 2004..Limitations of the present study and future research directions are noted... - Psychiatric disorders, familial factors and cigarette smoking: I. Associations with smoking initiationPaul Rohde
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR 97403 1983, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:85-98. 2003..Results underscore the potential importance of assessing and treating psychiatric disorders in smoking prevention and cessation efforts... - Family study of chronic depression in a community sample of young adultsDaniel N Klein
Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, NY 11794 2500, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:646-53. 2004..The validity of the distinctions between dysthymic disorder, chronic major depressive disorder, and episodic major depressive disorder was examined in a family study of a large community sample of young adults... - Mixed anxiety depression: taxometric exploration of the validity of a diagnostic category in youthNorman B Schmidt
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, United States
J Affect Disord 98:83-9. 2007..Mixed anxiety depression (MAD) is a provisional diagnosis in the DSM-IV. This study determined whether MAD represents a discrete category thereby evaluating the validity of MAD as a diagnostic entity... - Major depressive disorder in adolescence: the role of subthreshold symptomsKatholiki Georgiades
Offord Centre for Child Studies and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:936-44. 2006..Moreover, the presence of sad mood contributes additional unique variance to prediction and supports the centrality of depressed mood to MDD... - Characterizing major depression phenotypes by presence and type of psychomotor disturbance in adolescents and young adultsAdam M Leventhal
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Depress Anxiety 25:575-92. 2008..Retarded depression evidenced little stability or heritability. These findings offer partial support of the phenotypic status of agitated and agitated-retarded depression in youths... - Intergenerational transmission of internalizing problems: effects of parental and grandparental major depressive disorder on child behaviorJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 37:640-50. 2008..These effects were robust to statistical adjustments for status variables and parental relationship measures but not to adjustment for concurrent parental depressive symptoms... - Longitudinal associations between depressive and anxiety disorders: a comparison of two trait modelsThomas M Olino
Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 2500, USA
Psychol Med 38:353-63. 2008.... - Influence of parental and grandparental major depressive disorder on behavior problems in early childhood: a three-generation studyThomas M Olino
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY 11794 2500, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:53-60. 2008..This aim of this study was to examine the influence of grandparental (G1) and parental (G2) major depressive disorder (MDD) and other forms of psychopathology on behavior problems in very young offspring (G3)... 
Implications of the DSM's emphasis on sadness and anhedonia in major depressive disorderJulia D Buckner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32312 1270, USA
Psychiatry Res 159:25-30. 2008..Differential symptom expression could have important implications for the etiology, prevention, and treatment of MDD...- Prospective relations between melancholia and substance use disordersAdam M Leventhal
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA adam
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 34:259-67. 2008..Associations were robust when controlling for clinical severity/chronicity. Alcohol and cannabis use disorders were not robustly associated with melancholia... - Propagation of major depressive disorder: relationship between first episode symptoms and recurrenceJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Psychiatry Res 141:271-8. 2006..First episode depressed mood, increased appetite, and female gender may serve as specific risk factors for recurrence. The centrality of depressed mood to major depressive disorder is highlighted... - Substance use disorder characteristics and externalizing problems among inpatient adolescent smokersAna M Abrantes
Butler Hospital Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 37:391-9. 2005..The results of this study point to potentially important clinical implications such as tailoring prevention and intervention efforts according to type of externalizing symptomatology and gender... - Is major depressive disorder or dysthymia more strongly associated with bulimia nervosa?Marisol Perez
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 1270, USA
Int J Eat Disord 36:55-61. 2004..Few studies have investigated the specific associations of major depression versus dysthymia with eating disorders... - Respiratory symptoms and mental disorders among youth: results from a prospective, longitudinal studyRenee D Goodwin
Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University and the Oregon Research Institute, USA
Psychosom Med 66:943-9. 2004..To determine the relationship between respiratory symptoms and mental disorders among youth in the community, and to investigate possible mechanisms of these linkages... - Psychopathology in the adolescent and young adult offspring of a community sample of mothers and fathers with major depressionDaniel N Klein
Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 2500, USA
Psychol Med 35:353-65. 2005..There is a large literature indicating that the offspring of mothers with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) are at increased risk for depression. However, much less is known about the effects of paternal MDD on offspring psychopathology... - Cigarette smoking and panic attacks among young adults in the community: the role of parental smoking and anxiety disordersRenee D Goodwin
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:686-93. 2005..The goal of the current study is to examine the association between cigarette smoking and panic attacks and panic disorder among youth and to investigate parental anxiety disorders and parental cigarette smoking in these links... - Is pubertal timing associated with psychopathology in young adulthoodJulia A Graber
Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611 2250, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:718-26. 2004..This investigation tested whether the timing of puberty continued to be associated with experiences of psychopathology (symptoms and disorders) from mid-adolescence into young adulthood... - Psychosocial adjustment in young adulthood of women who experienced an eating disorder during adolescenceRuth H Striegel-Moore
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:587-93. 2003..These findings underscore the clinical significance of adolescent ED... - The core of loneliness: lack of pleasurable engagement--more so than painful disconnection--predicts social impairment, depression onset, and recovery from depressive disorders among adolescentsThomas E Joiner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306 1270, USA
J Pers Assess 79:472-91. 2002..We discuss theoretical and clinical implications... - Parents' reports of the body shape and feeding habits of 36-month-old children: an investigation of gender differencesJill M Holm-Denoma
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 1270, USA
Int J Eat Disord 38:228-35. 2005..The current study examined parental perception of offspring body shape, differential reporting of offspring eating behaviors by mothers and fathers, and gender-specific patterns of offspring feeding habits... - Specificity of social anxiety disorder as a risk factor for alcohol and cannabis dependenceJulia D Buckner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
J Psychiatr Res 42:230-9. 2008..Among the internalizing disorders, SAD appears to serve as a unique risk factor for the subsequent onset of cannabis and alcohol dependence... - Development and natural history of mood disordersE Jane Costello
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:529-42. 2002..A diverse program of multidisciplinary research is recommended to reduce the burden on children and families affected with these conditions... - Clinical features of major depressive disorder in adolescents and their relatives: impact on familial aggregation, implications for phenotype definition, and specificity of transmissionDaniel N Klein
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794 2500, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 111:98-106. 2002..Depression severity best distinguished the relatives of depressed adolescents from relatives of controls. Specific clinical features did not aggregate in families... - A cross-cultural investigation of cognitions and depressive symptoms in adolescentsSunita Mahtani Stewart
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75390 8589, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:248-57. 2004..There was some support for the hypothesis that self-efficacy is less salient in collective compared with individualistic cultures. These findings extend cognitive theories of depression to a non-Western culture... - A taxometric investigation of unipolar depression in a large community sampleAri Solomon
Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
Psychol Med 36:973-85. 2006..We therefore applied Meehl's taxometric method to a large, clinically heterogeneous sample, and examined the latent structure of depressive episodes using both self-report and structured clinical interview data...
Research Grants
- NATURAL HISTORY OF DEPRESSION IN ADOLESCENTSPeter Lewinsohn; Fiscal Year: 1993..Assuming that we can demonstrate high participation rate and can successfully pilot our procedures, we will request funding to compete the T(3) assessments with all eligible Ss (Years 03, 04, 05 and 06)...
- NATURAL HISTORY OF DEPRESSION IN ADOLESCENTSPeter Lewinsohn; Fiscal Year: 2001..The proposed study is entirely consistent with these recommendations. ..
- PARENTAL DEPRESSION AND INFANT DEVELOPMENTPeter Lewinsohn; Fiscal Year: 2002..This information is important for the design of preventative interventions intended to reduce the deleterious effects of parental depression on children. ..