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| Theodore JacobSummaryAffiliation: Pacific Graduate School of Psychology Country: USA Publications
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Drinking trajectories from adolescence to the mid-forties among alcohol dependent malesTheodore Jacob
Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Road 151 J, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:745-55. 2005..The purpose of this study was to identify differences in developmental pathways of alcoholism from onset of drinking into middle adulthood...- Reliability of Lifetime Drinking History among alcohol dependent menTheodore Jacob
Research and Development, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 20:333-7. 2006..Limits on the generalizability of these findings and future research needs are discussed... - Genetic and environmental effects on offspring alcoholism: new insights using an offspring-of-twins designTheodore Jacob
Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:1265-72. 2003.... 
Drinking course through midlife based on diagnostic versus quantity-frequency indicesTheodore Jacob
Family Research Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California 94025 2539, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:477-89. 2012....- Effect of paternal alcohol and drug dependence on offspring conduct disorder: gene-environment interplayJON RANDOLPH HABER
Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, 795 Willow Road, MC151 J, Menlo Park, California 94025 2539, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:652-63. 2010..The current study examined the role of genetic and environmental influences in the relationship between paternal histories of drug dependence or alcohol dependence and offspring conduct disorder using an offspring-of-twins design... - Testing the equal environments assumption in the Children of Twins designLaura B Koenig
Family Research Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Behav Genet 40:533-41. 2010..The results of this study suggested that the COT design does not confound zygosity with differences in environmental risk exposure, findings that support the validity of the EEA within this research context... - Drinking trajectories from adolescence to the fifties among alcohol-dependent menTheodore Jacob
Family Research Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:859-69. 2009..Although it has been recognized that the course of alcoholism may differ across individuals, little work has characterized drinking trajectories from drinking onset to midlife... - Alcohol milestones, risk factors, and religion/spirituality in young adult womenJON RANDOLPH HABER
Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 73:34-43. 2012..Even so, the alcoholism-R/S relationship is little understood... - Alcoholism, personality, and religion/spirituality: an integrative reviewJON RANDOLPH HABER
VAPAHCS, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
Curr Drug Abuse Rev 4:250-60. 2011.... - Drinking course in alcohol-dependent men from adolescence to midlifeCarolyn E Sartor
Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Road, MC 151-J, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:712-9. 2003..Findings do not support a universal developmental model of alcoholism; notably, they provide counterevidence to the disease model concept of alcoholism course as progressive and chronic... - Paternal alcoholism and offspring conduct disorder: evidence for the 'common genes' hypothesisJon R Haber
Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, United States of America
Twin Res Hum Genet 8:120-31. 2005.... - Mediation of family alcoholism risk by religious affiliation typesJON RANDOLPH HABER
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:877-89. 2009..The first of two studies reported here provides a needed replication of our previous findings for childhood religious affiliation using a different sample, and the second study extends examination to current religious affiliation... - Validity of the lifetime drinking history: a comparison of retrospective and prospective quantity-frequency measuresLaura B Koenig
Family Research Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Road MC151J, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:296-303. 2009..The Lifetime Drinking History (LDH) has been used to examine alcohol use throughout the life span. Given its retrospective nature, it is important to examine the validity of the assessment... - Course of alcohol dependence among Vietnam combat veterans and nonveteran controlsTheodore Jacob
Family Research Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Road, MC151J, Menlo Park, California 94025 2539, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:629-39. 2010.... - Psychiatric morbidity is linked to problem drinking in midlife among alcohol-dependent men: a co-twin control studyDaniel M Blonigen
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 74:136-40. 2013..Using a prospective co-twin control design, we examined the extent to which a history of psychiatric symptoms exerts an environmental influence on problem drinking in midlife that is unconfounded by genetic underpinnings... - Alcoholism risk moderation by a socio-religious dimensionJON RANDOLPH HABER
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Road, MC 151J, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:912-22. 2007.... - Parental and sibling effects in adolescent outcomesRichard P Moser
Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Psychol Rep 91:463-79. 2002..Findings are discussed in terms of the larger literature on socialization on the different ways that siblings and parents influence adolescent outcomes... - Exposure to paternal alcoholism does not predict development of alcohol-use disorders in offspring: evidence from an offspring-of-twins studyAlexis E Duncan
Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4560 Clayton Avenue, Suite 1000, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:649-56. 2006..Cox proportional hazards models were fit to predict time to first symptom of abuse/dependence in offspring... - Shared genetic risk of major depression, alcohol dependence, and marijuana dependence: contribution of antisocial personality disorder in menQiang Fu
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center at Washington University, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 40 N Kingshighway Blvd, Suite 2, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:1125-32. 2002..We examined the contribution of genetic effects associated with ASPD to the comorbidity of MD and substance use disorders... - The role of childhood risk factors in initiation of alcohol use and progression to alcohol dependenceCarolyn E Sartor
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Addiction 102:216-25. 2007..To identify childhood risk factors that predict (a) age of first drink and (b) time from first use to alcohol dependence (AD) onset, using survival analysis... - Paternal alcohol dependence and offspring suicidal behaviors in a children-of-twins studyAnne L Glowinski
Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134, Washington University School of Medicine, 40 North Kingshighway, Suite One, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 76:S69-77. 2004..The children-of-twins (COT) design can be used to elucidate the association of a parental trait and an offspring outcome such as the association of parental alcoholism and offspring suicidality... - Maternal alcohol use disorder and offspring ADHD: disentangling genetic and environmental effects using a children-of-twins designValerie S Knopik
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Department of Community Health, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Psychol Med 36:1461-71. 2006.... - Accuracy of mothers' retrospective reports of smoking during pregnancy: comparison with twin sister informant ratingsAndrew C Heath
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Twin Res 6:297-301. 2003..We conclude that retrospective smoking data can safely be used to identify potential associations of later child outcomes with maternal smoking during pregnancy... - The association between cannabis abuse and dependence and childhood physical and sexual abuse: evidence from an offspring of twins designAlexis E Duncan
Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Addiction 103:990-7. 2008.... - Evidence for specificity of transmission of alcohol and nicotine dependence in an offspring of twins designHeather E Volk
Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 87:225-32. 2007..Despite the substantial genetic overlap between the two disorders, there is evidence for genetic effects specific for AD and ND... - Psychiatric and familial predictors of transition times between smoking stages: results from an offspring-of-twins studyCarolyn E Sartor
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Addict Behav 33:235-51. 2008..Findings characterize a rarely examined aspect of the course of ND development and highlight critical distinctions in risk profiles across stages of tobacco involvement... - Measurement of higher-order family dimensions across self-report and behavioral observational methodsMichael Windle
Emory University, USA
Psychol Rep 100:661-71. 2007..Findings are discussed in terms of limitations and directions for research...
Research Grants
- Offspring of Twins: G,E and GxE Risks for AlcoholismTheodore Jacob; Fiscal Year: 2009..The proposed study promises further elucidation of genetic precursors and environmental risk factors and their interaction thus advancing understanding of the development and treatment of alcoholism and related disorders. ..
- Alcoholism Course Throughout MidlifeTheodore Jacob; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- ADULT OFFSPRING OF ALCOHOLISM DISCORDANT TWINSTheodore Jacob; Fiscal Year: 2003....
- Alcoholism Course Throughout MidlifeTheodore Jacob; Fiscal Year: 2009....